1940 GE Christmas Edition Refrigerator - $250 (covington)

[ovrphil]

I was expecting a lot more but ...this is it... (head bows). Dashing through the frost..never mind the 250 cost...anyways...wonder what was so special about Christmas 1940?

http://atlanta.craigslist.org/eat/atq/4454642840.html

 

[twintubdexter]

Someone's gonna need an awfully big bottle of Jubilee for that thing. I think you could find something in the scrap heap in better condition.

 

[classiccaprice]

There is one in Dayton, OH with a better cabinet. Perhaps someone could piece the two together?

http://dayton.craigslist.org/atq/4501186080.html

 

[ovrphil]

imagine - no shelving on the second unit and no idea what the rust-bucket might have inside..no telling what it has or doesn't have.

 

[tolivac]

Guess Christmas 1940 wasn't such a good one!!!Imagine Santa having to get goodies out of THAT after going down the chimney!They will have to PAY me $250 to take the GROSS thing!

 

[danemodsandy]

You Have to Wonder....

....What the trip was from someone's shiny, beautiful brand-new pride and joy -

To that.

 

[58limited]

I don't know the significance of the Christmas 1940 edition other than an advertising gimmick GE came up with at the end of the year. It looks like the same fridge as a regular 1940/41 GE. I have an emblem I pulled off of one that was in a field on its back with a small tree growing up through it. Would be a neat fridge to find in good shape though. The emblem specifically dates it and they are pretty uncommon.

 

[supersuds]

I've seen Frigidaire ads from the late Thirties encouraging people to buy a new fridge as a Christmas present and have a personalized engraving added to the badge. The suggested wording was something like "To Mother/ Christmas 1936." In other words, a sales gimmick they tried for several years.

It would have been a welcome present for someone still struggling with an icebox, for sure.