A BEAUTY!

[jetcone]

GOSH I wish I had the room! I love the styling on this baby!

Early Philco fridge with window door!!

http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/app/3275500766.html

 

[gansky1]

"our first air conditioner was this Philco refrigerator" LOL - great story, one shared by many a kid before a/c was the norm in most homes!

Love that windowed freezer door, see new things here every day!

 

[paulg]

Grandma's fridge

That is the same as my Grandma's fridge. It is funny that the owner of the pictured refrigerator taped the door handle together. My Grandma's was taped too. The plastic handle trim kept falling off.
The bottom compartment was a tilt-out unchilled "banana bin".
It was in use until 1974. It never broke but since my Dad worked for Hotpoint, he got them something larger. The Philco went to the garage. The house and all its contents is long gone now.
I just don't understand how they managed to pull off Christmas every year with the family with such a small fridge!

 

[magic_clean]

Paul wonders:

"I just don't understand how they managed to pull off Christmas every year with the family with such a small fridge!"

For us; the reknowned Buffalo NY winters were not all bad!

My folks used the attached garage during the holidays as extra refrigerator space. The closer you got to the overhead garage door it became the freezer. The basement was just the right temperature for wine too.

Something we miss on occasion in the south!

 

[fido]

Yes, you don't really need a big fridge at Christmas if you have somewhere unheated like a shed or garage. My mother had one of the old white enamel square bread bins and I recall that being left outside full of chilled food and a brick on the lid to keep the local cats out of it. Our fridge in those days was a late '50s gas one that had been converted to electricity when we moved in '67 to a rural location with no gas. It was presumably ammonia filled like the caravan fridges. When it did finally go wrong we had to chuck out all the food as it tasted strange.

 

[maytagbear]

At our house.........

we had an enclosed, insulated, but unheated front porch, and it was WONDERFUL in the winter...it never froze, and was usually right around 37-42F, which is refrigerator temperature. I miss it! If I ever own a house again, I am going to have something very like it again.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[norgeway]

Re Small fridge!

Its amazing, but you really can get a lot of food in those old boxes, the lack of a big freezer gives you more fresh food space...and they keep foodstuff so much better than a new fridge...

 

[polkanut]

My parents also use their insulated, unheated, enclosed front porch as extra fridge space durng the holidays.  I'm with Lawrence, it is wonderful to have.