The panel on the 57 appliances was not stainless, but aluminum and so soft that it will dent in you look at it cross eyed. The 1961 TOL Spacemaker 18.8 refrig-freezer had a full emobssed aluminum panel on the freezer door, but it could be removed and the regular door panel underneath was the same color as the rest of the cabinet.
The double oven Liberator was named after the big bomber that helped win WWII. 2 ovens liberated the cook. When the self-cleaning ovens came along, GE plastered all kinds of trim on the oven doors for a while to show the feature. There was a year when there were partial panels of dark glass on both of the ovens' doors from behind the handles to maybe a third of the way down. Maybe it was a way to reduce contact with the hot door surface. This was before they figured out how to have a window in the door so maybe it was a way to take away the plain look of a TOL range without an oven window. Did you ever notice how few Frigidaire TOL 40" ranges were sold with a window in the door of the main oven? Maybe it was because of the wider master oven doors that Westinghouse and GE made windows in doors look great, but a Frigidaire range with the two equal size door fronts looks somehow unbalanced with a window on the right aide. The 30 inch Frigidaire ranges looked OK with a window in the wide door and most of the wall ovens, too.
Is that Mainline Philadelphia range light blue or turquoise?
The double oven Liberator was named after the big bomber that helped win WWII. 2 ovens liberated the cook. When the self-cleaning ovens came along, GE plastered all kinds of trim on the oven doors for a while to show the feature. There was a year when there were partial panels of dark glass on both of the ovens' doors from behind the handles to maybe a third of the way down. Maybe it was a way to reduce contact with the hot door surface. This was before they figured out how to have a window in the door so maybe it was a way to take away the plain look of a TOL range without an oven window. Did you ever notice how few Frigidaire TOL 40" ranges were sold with a window in the door of the main oven? Maybe it was because of the wider master oven doors that Westinghouse and GE made windows in doors look great, but a Frigidaire range with the two equal size door fronts looks somehow unbalanced with a window on the right aide. The 30 inch Frigidaire ranges looked OK with a window in the wide door and most of the wall ovens, too.
Is that Mainline Philadelphia range light blue or turquoise?
