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The flip design is left over from the days of cast iron stoves. Every once in a while I hear a story about my grandmother slaving over one of those big coal burning stoves well into the 1970's. The waffle makers for those fit into one of the grates, and flipped around to cook each side.

Reply to RP2813: It takes getting used to. It kind of repeats you like an echo. I won't go into detail, but I have the original full wave type. The support is all over the place. You can add and subtract water to adjust the firmness to an extent. It's fun though you can bottom out and hit the...

I think everybody should at least try a waterbed. For me, it's the greatest sleep on the planet. On the rare occasion I have to sleep somewhere else, I wake up feeling like I got ran over by a dump truck. Doesn't matter what the mattress is. They even make them now where they don't have waves...

I use Renova blue toilet paper. My bathroom is from the late 60's. Everything except the ceiling is baby blue.

I had a fridge with one of the first icemakers. It was an rca whirlpool bottom freezer. 1966.

Reply: #11 I have a clock very much like that in my 70's kitchen. It's fallen off the wall a few times a week for as long as I can remember. Look at it funny and it'll go flying across the room. Somehow it still keeps time and hasn't cracked yet.

I have a 1960's era Magic chef gas range. I have always been aware of a "combustion" type smell when it is in use. I have grown accustomed to it. However if I go on vacation or something and am not around it for a while, when I come back home I notice it again. It is kind of like "dry air" its...

Also if you could find a source for the gasket underneath those two screws, I would replace it. You may be able to cut your own. One adjustment you can make to your burner if you wanted a bigger maximum flame: The part that you can fit a wrench on right behind the valve adjusts the flame, I...

My 60's era Magic Chef has the same type of valve. I have taken them apart before when the knobs were getting hard to turn. It does unscrew, but it is brass and easily marred. Be careful and put a cloth between PLIARS not vicegrips and unscrew it. It is easily bent out of shape, do not use...

That floor is in unbelievable shape for the age. I had a very similar floor that was in my kitchen from 1973 until about two years ago. Near the end it had so many holes and tears. It was curling up in multiple spots and needed replaced. I would have bought something like it if they still sold...

I have very hard water from 100 year old galvanized pipes. My house is completely carpeted in 1970s green shag. It is probably not clean, but I do shampoo it frequently. I do use a gas dryer, although for whites I use a clothesline. My bed sheets are very white since I started using bluing. I...

Agreed. I see gold the most, followed by white.

I don't have 3 favorites. I have only one favorite. The Betty Crocker picture cookbook. It's what my mom used when I was little, so it has a special magic to it. It has many good ways to make cheap meats into something spectacular. My copy is one of the early ones from 1950, the later years...

I was planning on a follow up. I don't do a lot of whites, so it has taken a while. Here are a few socks, the whitest I can get them. They are to me noticibly better, though there is much room for improvement. I used hot water, and poured in a few pans of boiling water while the washer was...

I send a big thanks to Goatfarmer, who not only has helped me find vintage appliances multiple times, but he gave me this one. The dryer is a DG-608 in harvest gold. Perfect to match my 806-S. When I first got it home, the motor was completely locked up. The drum couldn't be turned at all...

I am not 100% sure that it is 60 amps. It is a metal box built into the wall original to the house. The innards could have been replaced at some point, I really don't know. It has 8 fuses. To the right of that is a smaller box made by Square-D with a throw switch on the side. The smaller box has...

I sent you an email about the dryer. I saw that set too, and mentioned it. I only need the dryer. I have the HA-806s washing machine that I bought from you.

Thanks Goatfarmer.

Due to electric code, to legally make any changes to my electric, all of the wiring has to be replaced. Not to mention the fuse box would need to be replaced with breakers, and the service upgraded. I have been quoted $15,000 and a bunch of holes left in the plaster walls. I'd rather find a gas...

I Am looking for a center dial Maytag gas dryer Within 100 miles give or take from Indianapolis, Indiana. Any color. Any model. Halo, or stream of heat. Pretty much any center dial gas dryer to go with my 806-s.