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That is a beautiful shot, Twintubdexter! We used to have a second-plus hand '98 Ford Expedition for the winter beater back when we had a Mustang convertible for the rest of the year. Still miss that truck (except the gas mileage). Eventually it was just too scary to contemplate what was going...

I'm amazed At the number of people on this thread with positive memories of school lunches! Our program in the small Ohio town where I grew up (70s grade school, 80s jr high/high school) was pretty awful for the most part. Starting with, elementary schools got left overs from the previous...

Spent yesterday doing the Black Friday thing at the mall in Fort Wayne I lived at in high school. Did the fogey thing quite a bit. The LS Ayres tea room is now Macy's lingerie. Azar's Big Boy is long gone and the MCL Cafeteria is now a TGI Fridays. The food court is still big business but...

Mashed potatoes can be made ahead and rewarmed in a crockpot/slow cooker with excellent results and low stress. Also helpful as it is a dish that can be "assigned" for someone to bring!

We have a pretty nice Stop & Shop around the corner, and a second one (just average, on the border of East Hartford, which is more of a blue-collar town). We do most of our shopping at the one around the corner. Some of their people are really awesome, but they are slow to get new items that...

Mine thought he'd be helpful and ran the dishwasher once. He didn't know that the Finish tablet is supposed to be unwrapped before use. For the record, those wrappers are 100% waterproof!

Also try Also try Acme Appliance in New Britain, CT. Our neighbor raved about the repair they did on her early 60s Caloric. Parts for a GE should be no problem. http://www.acmeappliance.net

King and queen sheets do just fine in my LG front loader. I don't think I've ever had sheets ball up in the washer. Once in a while pillow cases will get rolled up in the fitted sheet in the dryer. I think the flat sheet got balled up maybe once in the dryer. Certain sheets seem more prone to...

Growing up in Ohio we had Shell and Sohio, Gulf, Mobil, Certified, Clark, Bonded and Marathon. We had a Sinclair when I was pretty small, then it became Arco, then a used car lot. We also had a Sunoco with the flashing neon arrow in the sign. That station eventually became a series of...

Wow! That's the exact model that we had for our first dishwasher when I was growing up. We got it sometime around 1980 (+/-) and it lasted through the early 2000's. It was also the portable/convertible, and my folks built it in after they moved to the 'new' house in the early 90's. Ours was...

I've heard (but do not have personal knowledge) that the steam dryers that started coming out a few years ago were prone to mold/mildew, but as others have said, never a regular dryer. Because it is dry. However...I learned this week that even leaving the door of my front loader open...

Hi Eugene-- My husband was also diagnosed as pre-diabetic several years ago, and has beat that back and gotten off all the meds through a combination of diet and exercise. He does CrossFit 4 days a week (not for everyone!) and tries to follow the Paleo diet (meat and veg, no grain, no dairy)...

Hey Tom From Van Wert, just north of your friend in Celina. I lived in Cincinnati for almost 20 years, too, before moving east.

Crown Hey Davey There sure does seem to be a resemblance between Crown and gas Universal. These pics are from a CL ad from Xenia, Ohio that my husband forwarded to me this morning (quite a coincidence!)

Wow, Crevicetool! Thanks, Rick--that's quite an education! Makes me wonder if the gas-fuled Universals could have been a sub-license of the name.

Well, I *was* going to say that Betty White was the mic drop, but your idea has a certain appeal, Joe.

Thanks, Norgeway! Confusing that Universal wasn't a 'universal' name. IIRC, one of the threads of vintage appliance adverts had an ad for a Universal range with the company address given as Lima, Ohio. (Lima is about 30 miles from where I grew up, so it caught my attention) I don't recall if...

Does anyone know if this is the same Universal as the Universal small appliances made by Landers, Frary & Clark of New Britain, CT until the mid-60s?

Update Got a text from my mom: she tried my way (a/k/a the correct way) of putting the Cascade tab in the main wash compartment instead of tossing it in the tub at the start as the repairman advised. Lo and Behold! Clean dishes, and a healthy distrust of advice given by the Sears repairman.

Electric dominated where I grew up--small town northwest Ohio. We had a Westinghouse Terrace Top range, our neighbors had a Frigidaire drop-in electric range. GE (and maybe some Hotpoint) was a big seller. I remember a TON of those pushbutton stoves and cooktops. My dad's mother had a...