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Note that the windshield wipers sweep towards the center of the divided windshield, a Chrysler Corp. trademark at the time, not to the outside as on the Hudson.

The Office of Price Administration was abolished effective May 29, 1947, according to Wikipedia. So, wow, this dates from before then!

Those are hilarious. Thanks, Ralph!

Catching up with the videos... You're right, as far as one can tell from a recording, it does sound like a good little compressor. Almost modern, not so much of the put-put sound you get from some of the antiques. (Although the put-put sound is charming!) I would not have thought of a...

Who else would have the knowhow not only to get this oddball working, but to re-engineer it to be better than new? Thanks for showing us, David.

The videos seem to have disappeared already. Was there a problem?

From memory, I recall seeing somewhere that range production at Appliance Park stopped in 1988, which jibes with what John L says above.

I have a problem of sorts collecting old magazines. It’s very relaxing to read them at bedtime, when it’s important to get offline so your brain can produce melatonin (or something like that.) But they do pile up and get in the way. Eggs are amazingly cheap now. It’s hard to see how anyone...

Aretha’s house is dignified and lovely.

From the frost on the freezing compartments, it's definitely working!

Crosley was selling Shelvadors in the early Thirties.

Thanks for the pic of the double-width ice cube tray, Eddie. The Kelvinator in the Consumers' Research test did have a full-width freezer compartment, though the picture isn't clear enough to give detail. Philco had the best operating cost in the CR test, by a fairly good margin, based on cost...

Ralph, I don’t know if this is helpful, but I have a copy of Consumers’ Research Bulletin for September 1950 which tests sixteen refrigerators. For the Kelvinator, the copy says “Plastic baffle, located about 1 in. below frozen-food compartment, on which moisture was collected and drained during...

Pretty sure Sparton was not a subsidiary of Magnavox. Sparton was in business until fairly recently making sonobuoys for the Navy. That doesn’t preclude them making similar-looking sets, of course.

An aunt and uncle built a new house in the early 1960s and for whatever reason had everything possible by Westinghouse -- wall oven, cooktop, fridge, washer, dryer, heat pump. If you ever asked them, they would say they'd always had good luck with Westinghouse. A few years ago, my aunt bought...

One of the fun things about this site over the years has been getting to read vintage appliance owners’ manuals. There was one for an electric skillet, maybe a Sunbeam, that had all kinds of unexpected (to me) uses, such as baking potatoes and even a pineapple upside down cake. Kind of mean to...

Trader Joe has a pretty good chicken pot pie, although I would not be tempted until colder weather comes. Right now I don't want to turn on the oven at all. Franks and beans are pretty easy to make without buying a frozen dinner, aren't they? Speaking of Joe, nice to see you back, twintubdexter!

As I recall, the "uh-oh" was often followed by a throaty chuckle. I wouldn't call it birdlike chirping. There's probably no connection, but the actress Barbara Pepper comes to mind. She was a hefty character actress who appeared on ILL and Perry Mason, among others. You may remember her from...

Just for fun (I have a strange idea of fun) I’ve been using a bit of 1968ish Tide XK to wash dishes. The XK was Tide’s first enzyme detergent, but I assume the enzymes are inactive after 50 years, so it shouldn’t be harder on hands than regular Tide of the day. Yes, the phosphates make...

It's a Gibson. They used that inane "Freez'r Locker" spelling. (Also, you can see "Gibson" on the door handle.)