1958 Westinghouse Range PGH Craigslist

[moparwash]

Aren't there too many zeros in the price?

http://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/atq/2379684219.html

 

[appnut]

That surface unit knobs remind me of the timer dial on the TOL Laundromat for that year!!

 

[xraytech]

That is a neat looking stove Jerry, but awfully pricey, I could see that price if it were unused, but not like that, I'd pay maybe $75

 

[arbilab]

Wanna see our old Westy from when I was a kid, it's on I Love Lucy. The fridge too.

"Worth $4000 restored"? Yeah, and restoration costs $2500 to have it done. Max value as it stands, $1500, he's at twice that and if he really wanted to sell it he'd be at $750 OBO with emphasis on the BO.

Wanna bet the clock doesn't work?

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Yes, the Westinghouse range on I LOVE LUCY can bake a real LOOOOOONNNNGGGG Loaf Of Bread, too!!!!!!

-- Dave

(Best ranges regardless of price: (Electric) Westinghouse -- Charles Klamkin) (Let's see some pics!!!!)

 

[arbilab]

OT, but Desilu was product-placing Westinghouse who sponsored their final 'playhouse' series. Dad worked for Westinghouse and met Desi on an air trip. Told him I was a huge fan, and when they landed I got a phonecall from Desi Arnaz at the airport. I was ~9yo, pretty much speechless. I have a reverence for Desi to this day. Mira que tiene cosa!

 

[tomturbomatic]

I have never cooked on a "grittle." That stove was in the 1993 Hume Cronin, Jessica Tandy film "To Dance With the White Dog" a good movie filmed in Georgia with a lot of the action in the kitchen so you get to see the stove a lot. I like a good movie with nice appliances.

 

[westingman123]

"I like a good movie with nice appliances" x2! Check out "The Secret Life of Bees." I had to watch it repeatedly because I kept getting distracted.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks, Keith, will do.
While we are on the topic, has anyone determined the brand of DW in M'Lynn Eatenton's kitchen in that Christmas cooking scene in Steel Magnolias? It's difficult to get a good look at it. Sometimes it looks like maybe a KA Custom when they went to the black control panel; other times more like some D&M-built thing, but in that nice a kitchen, that is had to figure.

 

[runematic]

<span style="background-color: #ffffff;">I'm a packrat, but that stove isn't worth much.  Impossible to sell.  It would be worth about $15-20 scrap & that's what I'd do if it were a pickup on a</span> new/used stove delivery.

 

[westingman123]

It's sure not as pretty as the early 50's models, I have to say.

 

[whirlcool]

The control panel on the range is reminiscent of the control panel on the Frigidaire 1962 Custom Imperial washers.

 

[tomturbomatic]

No, it's not worth 3 grand, but it is worth more than scrap. The stove is iconic in that it was the first straightline design for Westinghouse. They were a year behind GE and Frigidaire in squaring off their porcelain coated appliances. New porcelaining techniques and formulas emabled porcelain to cope with the stresses of squared-off corners instead of the rounded ones needed previously and the V-shaped control panel would be echoed in the Frididaire laundry apliances beginning a couple of years later. It is also the first Westinghouse range with the wide master oven and full height narrow companion oven which is an interesting term for the small oven. The seller calls it a bread oven. The word companion comes from the Latin "cum" = with and "pan" = bread meaning one with whom you share bread, a friend of sorts. Actually in previous years, the wide oven would have been the bread oven when the weekly or twice weekly bread baking took place. I always thought it so unfortunate that ovens grew in size just when heavy baking became less necessary in households. This range still has lighted controls with different colors for each heat and, like so many WH ranges, when you rotated a surface unit switch out of the OFF position the full width fluorescent light came on and we all know fluorescent lights seemed to bring appliances to life, like they woke up in your presence or at your touch. It is also the model for the Westinghouse recipe box often seen on ebay. This was the year their deepwell disappeared and their 40" ranges went to a divided cooktop. So there's lots of neat stuff about the range, but not $3000.00 worth.

In the 70s sometime, I went into a second hand store in Decatur and found about 5 1957 TOL Westinghouse 40" ranges. It looked like a small apartment house had changed them out because I could not figure how else this many identical ranges in pretty good shape would appear unless from a school, maybe. I wanted one so bad, but had nowhere to put it. Brenda Bendix, my Duomatic was all bundled up & living under my parent's basement stairs and seemed to be a real thorn in their sides and I did not have money to get a truck to have it moved since I was still in school, I think. When I got my first house, my brother and his partner came up that first summer and two things my parents sent in the van were the piano and the Bendix.

 

[arbilab]

Lotta times I could use a bread oven, just for brown N serves while the main is busy at the wrong temp or broiling.

I've had 2 griddle stoves, both gas, and lemme tellya nothing makes pancakes like a griddle.