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Thanks! Looks like they used an older model for the '88 picture. No wonder I couldnt find it.

I came across this picture from an old Sunset magazine article, dated 1988. Appears to show a KitchenAid DW with either round or square pushbuttons. Don’t recall seeing one of these before. Doing a Google image search for 1988 KAs turns up several washers from AW members, but none with these...

Done! Well I did it, and even have the picture to prove it. The ham steaks turned out looking like the recipe photo, and they tasted just as good as the picture. Thanks for everyone’s input. Total prep time was about 25 minutes, and total cooking time was 65 minutes (45 initially, then baste...

Eddie, thanks for the info! I'll try that. I checked the box and they are pitted.

Ham Steaks I decided to do something different this year and try ham steaks, using a recipe I found on one of the “Vintage Foods Advertisements” posts. It’s a Reynolds Wrap ad recipe from the late 50s/early 60s timeframe. One thing I found interesting this past week is that no one has 1-inch...

Get em while you can If those are for sale, grab them. That Kenmore stove we had lasted 45 years. Don’t make them like that now. Looks to be in mint condition from the pic. And the fridge, sink, and cabinets too.

They're Whirlpools. The stove looks almost exactly like the (Whirlpool builit) Sears stove we had, just with a different control panel. And the fridge is a Coldspot clone.

Soviet Alarm Clock You can wire a radio directly to an antenna without problems. In Soviet times, the Russian government gave people a radio that had a special two-prong plug for plugging into a wall socket connected to their apartment building’s antenna. You could set something up like that...

Oil Burning Fridge Never heard of that one before and had to look it up. Found an old British film that explains the process. It's from 1939, and I'm surprised to see compressors weren't being used there when the US had them in the '20s.

All Tempa-Cheer Cheer colorguard liquid. Why? For starters, we always had Cheer powder at home growning up. I tried Tide liqud years ago, but it didn't seem to get clothes as clean as Cheer.

Dishwasher AND clotheswasher in one Hard now to believe anyone thought that was a good idea.

I could live a 1920s lifestyle, but 1900 is a bit of a stretch. Having an electric refrigerator, a car, telephone, maybe even one of those newfangled GE electric sinks with a dishwasher. By the mid-20s people already had many of the things we have today, just in a simpler form. But with a...

Gossip benches I remember seeing these or some variant of same everywhere growing up. More common than telephone nooks, even in old houses. Most dated from the late '40s/50s era.

Shredmore? Was this one of the infamous Shredmore versions?

Schlage Door Knobs I remember some of those 50s models surviving well into the 90s. Always liked the brass starburst escutcheons.

Impalas, Kingswood Estates, and Town & Country wagons for driver's ed!? Wow, that's something I never would have imagined, especially the Impalas. Had a '96 with the LT-1 engine package. The size and big V-8s in those with 14-year olds behind the wheel would scare the crap out of me as an...

Peerless Wall Heaters Yep, very common in Mid-century bathrooms. Could put a whole thread on these in the Super forum. Still see them in houses from that time working today. Probably not as safe as a NuTone heater though.

Looking at the Maytag coin-op ad got me to wondering. Did anyone here ever own/run a self-service laundry in the 1960s-1980s time frame, and if so what were the most popular brands of top-loading washers actually used, and how profitable were they? Thanks.

We had a Sears and Montgomery Ward store in town, along with GE, Whirlpool, and Frigidaire dealers back in the 70s-80s in Arkansas. Also had a Western Auto store, but I don't remember seeing a Wizard appliance in anyone's house. Wizard tools were another matter. My grandma on Mom's side had a...

Odd Oven I've only seen that sort of insert-type oven once before, in an early 70s house. I guess that was a thing for some builders back then. Honestly, you're going to have to have some serious carpentry work done to fix this. And the counter top too. Cut the whole thing out and install a...