1959 GE Range

[pulltostart]

Paging Kevin!

 

Beautiful 40" GE range in Denver.

 

Lawrence

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-GE-Stove-/260909876353?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3cbf70c481

 

[firedome]

Hurry...

somebody grab it! These TOL 40" GE double oven ranges are great, and getting rare, we have a '58! They eliminated the chrome door edge trim and the colored Piano Key burner light indicators for '59, and it looks like it doesn't have the plug-in for the Automatic Grill or the Automatic CalRod LF burner, but it has the door window the '58 doesn't have, and still has the awesome Floating Panel with lower glass insert! These are well built ranges with few issues, and parts are still available!

 

[petek]

$500 starting bid? It's nice but not that nice.

 

[kevin313]

What makes this stove especially nice is the pink tile all around it! It's a beauty!

 

[pulltostart]

Roger,

I could be wrong, but I think this range includes all of the features you mention as missing.  The left front eye appears to be configured for a 4, 6, or 8-inch size and have the Sensi-Temp center.  The knob on the far left end of the backsplash is probably the thermostat for this eye (same set-up as my 1961).  I know on my range the griddle does not actually plug-in, but spans the left eyes and uses the Sensi-Temp thermostat to control it.  The push button controls for this configuration offers "Off", "4-Inch", "6-inch", "8-inch", and "Grille" (which simultaneously controls front and back eyes).  And the "piano key" controls do feature different colors when depressed, with a different color for each temperature choice.

 

It needs a home!

 

Lawrence

 

[gansky1]

I have the 1957 double oven GE - love it! I found a pink '59 at a local shop here for $50 that I stripped for parts.

 

[firedome]

Lawrence

I've never seen a '61... do the '59s and later have the chrome plated inner oven doors? It appears to lack the chrome strips on the door outer edges, and I've even seen some '58s with a stainless or aluminum panel covering the small oven door, but ours lacks that, as well as a window. This white one in Denver seems to have 4 rows of push-buttons instead of the 3 mine has, which I why I thought it might not have the SensiTemp (later name for Automatic Calrod). When we got ours from John Jowers in GA he had a turquoise '59 (I wanted that one too! but...) that looked like the TOL model but it had no lights for the push-buttons, there must have been various permutaions?

 

[firedome]

gansky1 ...I LOVE that '57

in PANK!! I like our yellow OK, but really want one in Coppertone!

 

[pulltostart]

Roger,

As far as I know, on 1957 featured the stainless steel/brushed aluminum panel on the companion oven.  The window-in-the-door was introduced either '58 or '59.  My '61 does have the stainless steel door liners.  I think GE changed the controls for the Sensi-Temp after '58, which could explain the difference you noted.  I've included a pic of my 1961.  BTW, my '61 came from John Jowers, too.

 

Lawrence

 

[pulltostart]

One more shot of my 1961.

 

L

 

[gansky1]

The Automatic Calrod switch was changed for 59 - there are four buttons on the panel switch and the temperature is controlled by the black knob below that button set. It's been a while since I've stared at the control buttons on my 59 panel, but I think there was a button for OFF, 8", 6", and griddle. The griddle selection tied the front and rear burners to one (automatic) control, temp was regulated by the front element sensor. The 57 & 58 "plug in" griddle was merely a switch that did the same as the new button selector on the 59. No current flowed through the griddle.

 

[firedome]

That's one beautiful 1961

that looks really pristine, Lawrence! Did they have the turquoise '59 there at the time? That one and mine were on their website for several years.

Mine has a few small cracks/chips on the top panel right around 2 of the burners due to thermal expansion, and one at the base of the left panel support, due to mechanical stress probably. I hope to send it out for re-porcelaining sometime, there is an outfit in the MidWest that a number of folks on the vintage Chambers website have used that does excellent work at a reasonable price, a 40" top is around $300, not too bad really.

 

[pulltostart]

I moved into this house almost exactly 5 years ago, and I bought the '61 as a "housewarming" gift to myself.  So that would have made it probably early 2007.  I do remember the turquoise 1961 and the yellow 1958 that stayed on their website for quite a while.  This one did not require any restoration on their part, only some cleaning and then it was for sale.  Everything works and I do have the griddle and the meat probe.  I must have lead a sheltered life, there are only one or two very small chips in the porcelain and both have been repaired.  It definitely lives a sheltered life here as all it's called upon to do is boil water for coffee and heat frozen pizzas.

 

L