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I like the 1950 GE kitchen. The only things I'd change would be substituting a larger two door refrigerator, and a Hotpoint electric sink, for the ones shown. I probably would put the shelf somewhere other than above the range. I have an old camera that looks a lot like the 1934 Kodak shown. It...

My dad's cousin Mary lived in a house built in the early 1920's (maybe a Sears). In the kitchen there was a narrow door on one wall, and it was a built-in ironing board. It had an electric receptacle inside for the iron to plug in, and a holder for the iron. There was a wall switch with a red...

I had one of those for a while, but it started coming apart, so stopped plugging it in. Just used it as a regular pad for a while after that, but it finally got so bad that I threw it away last Spring. I did notice when I was using it, that if I left it on when in the bed, that I was more...

Cranberry Sauce I like the jellied type, but will eat the whole berry version at Cracker Barrel when it comes with my turkey dinner. Theirs is usually Ocean Spray, but a couple years ago, they had to sub another brand, and I didn't like it. I used to be able to find small cans of Ocean Spray...

The Coppertone GE is a nice range - basically the Americana without the upper oven. I don't like the placement of the pushbutton switches at the sides, as they might make skillet handles stick out to the front, in addition to being hard to clean.

To say that Schwan's has gone out of business is incorrect. The manufacturing division that makes Red Baron Pizza, Tony's Pizza, Mrs. Smith's Pies, etc. is still open.

I think it's a Hotpoint range to the right of the Coppertone GE refrigerator.

Cornbread Jiffy? Y'all must be Yankees! My mom used to buy that because my dad liked it, but she knew how to make real cornbread, being from Mississippi. Said the mix was too sweet, almost like yellow cake. The real thing has very little sugar. My Aunt Julie makes it with white cornmeal in...

Pete, much stainless steel is non-magnetic, such as Revere Ware. And of course anything aluminum is not. Stainless cookware needs to be the "tri-ply" (magnetic core encased in SS) for it to be compatible.

The range shown is a 1960's GE, which has very little in common with a Hotpoint from the early 50's. However, the model number given doesn't sound anything like Hotpoint models from that time - which begin with the letter "R". Check the date code again, as they reused them every so many years.

Kind of looks like it says Hotpoint on the left, and maybe deluxe on the right.

Our first front load washer was a Christmas gift to my mom from my dad in 1955. It was a Westinghouse Deluxe, and lasted until 1964. I remember it needing to be worked on several times during its life, and would get out of balance and walk rather often. Despite these flaws, my mom wanted another...

She thought I knew, and think she mentioned it a while back that it was possible. It was all contingent on her husband's PET scan result being good, which fortunately it was. He has had cancer of the throat and tongue, so she has had that on her mind since April. I couldn't go with them anyway...

There are some people who can not use an induction appliance due to it interfering with a medical device they use. Controls on the front of electric ranges were very common in the 1940's and earlier. They moved to the back to make them more difficult for small children to accidentally (or...

Well, I guess it's going to be Cracker Barrel this year. I talked to my sister a few minutes ago, and she said they, my nephew and his family in Deer Park, my nephew in Texas, and great niece from Wisconsin, are all going to Mexico for the week of Thanksgiving. Think I'll ask one of my buddies...

Don't know for sure. May go up to my sister's near Toledo, or to my nephew's in Deer Park, about 40 minutes from here. Usually if my sister has Thanksgiving at her house, Christmas will be at my nephew's, and I hope that's how it will be this year.

Whirlpool got into the vacuum cleaner business when they purchased the Birtman Electric Co. in 1957. Birtman was the manufacturer of the Bee-Vac line of vacs and other appliances such as irons, mixers, washing machines, etc. They were also a major supplier of vacuum cleaners and mixers to Sears...

That is very strange staining of the surround. I'm not sure of the type of material that Philco used, but my 1947 Frigidaire has strips of some kind of material that appears to be something like plastic laminate, such as Formica. That one looks almost like something (maybe refrigerant gas)...

That house - particularly the entry - reminds me of one around the corner from me. It belonged to distant relatives of my dad, and was built in 1954. It is one floor without a basement. I thought it was interesting that the closets of two bedrooms were adjacent with no wall between them. My...

Eddie, the reason Philco designed the shelf separate like that was because Crosley had a patent (Shelvador) on shelves attached to the inner door. No other manufacturer could have shelves on the door until the patent expired in the early 1950's.