3 classic vintage appliance ads- rare!

[mattl]

I was looking for a recipe the other day and found the backs of the clippings as interesting as the fronts. Found 3 that I have never read anything about here and thought I'd scan them and post them.

Here is the first, looks to be from mid '40s. It's quite ragged but the ad is for a Philco fridge with what struck me as a unique option the Conservador.

 

[mattl]

Next up is a Frigidaire unit

This one looks to be from '48

 

[mattl]

And finally...

Here is a range ad for a Kenmore 36" range from the early'60s. It has several unique features, the roaster-skillet and the unusual inner glass doors.

 

[jetcone]

Oh I bet that

roaster skillet was a beast to clean!

 

[henry200]

Wow, great ads!  Talk about a blast from the past, I remember seeing that Kenmore range at Sears and marveling at the ovens, especially the rotisserie and the inner glass door.  My mother commented on the copper-colored accents which she thought would look very nice with her copper bottomed Revereware and her copper topped son, me!   

The Frigidaire looks like a very souped-up version of mine!

 

[bugsyjones]

Great Ads

What I find slightly amusing is that the Frigidaire looks rather large compared to the woman and child. I don't think refrigerators were this big or wide in 1948.

Perhaps that's a motive to sell the product. I can recall late 50's ads for automobiles that make them appear a mile long when in actuality they were not.

~Tim J.

 

[mattl]

What I'm wondering is what is what does the foot release on the range used for?

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Matt

 

 I bet the foot pedal cracks the lower "handleless" storage drawer open a bit, for easy opening? 

 

[combo52]

KM ROSTER SKILLET

Hi Jon the RS lifted out and was completely immerseable for easy cleaning, some where I have one of those laying around.

 

[a440]

Great Ads!

<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">Thanks for posting these great ads!</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">I just love the Kenmore Range!  Does anyone know who built this range for Sears?</span>

<span style="font-family: georgia,palatino; font-size: medium;">Brent</span>

 

[tlee618]

Not sure Brett, but my guess would be Roper.

 

[a440]

Thanks Terry,

I just love it!

Brent

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The Kenmore w/ all those push-buttons, to me, looks like it could have been built by General Electric!

My late-mother had one--least from a picture of it I saw (though only a little corner of it, w/ at least the cursive "Kenmore" name) & my mom didn't remember a thing about the stove; we lived in that house for a very short time while my dad was w/ WT GRANTS and I was barely a year old & I don't even think my younger sister had yet arrived...

I'm sure it was a plain 30" w/o the center grilling unit & it might not have even had FUL-VU glass window inside the supposedly ONE oven, but if only my mother could have given me a better "summary"...

Very confused even w/ my little then-recent awareness then that Kenmore was made by Roper, a division of Whirlpool & yet I see a picture of a range "built for Sears by GE or Hotpoint"...

-- Dave

 

[combo52]

KENMORE ELECTRIC RANGE

Was built by Roper neither WP nor GE had anything to do with Roper till the late 1980s.