Chambers, another great, extinct American Brand
I live near the Thimble Islands on the Connecticut shoreline. One of these islands that is now owned by the State Parks department has a house on it that was built by a Yale architect in the very early Sixties.
The kitchen had the same Chambers ovens and cooktop as in this post but they had the copper finish. Island houses all had gas refrigerators so that was long gone. The stoves were not is as good condition as the ones here but, to be fair, being in a kitchen exposed to salty sea air couldn't have helped.
I knew a lot of families in the Sixties who owned gorgeous varieties of Chambers stoves and they were very happy with their performance. The common thread was, "once you get used to they way it cooks, it's wonderful'. The cooktops alone were distinctive for those "daisy" burners; users I knew thought the griddle/broiler was used so successfully and often that they also said they were hard to clean. Granted, the Sixties were a much different era than now in the world of home cooks. To me, Chambers stoves were the Jaguars of the appliance industry--classy, beautifully hand crafted, finicky and an expensive bitches to repair.
This sale looks like some sort of model home and somebody went to a lot of trouble to polish these things up and paid for a professional photographer to fetch the high price. I'm guessing a professional Stager was at work here. That said, they shouldn't have posted shots of the ovens' interiors...they tell a completely different story. I wonder if those "Cook with the Gas off" ovens hold in enough hot steam to do a number on the oven walls and racks over time.
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