A very nice Leonard fridge

[twintubdexter]

Nice design. Interesting fold down (loading?) rack. Even the cold control (is it lighted?) with thermometer looks great. Like so many vintage refrigerators the seller in not giving it away. $600 in Denver area.

PS...what does "$600 or nest office" mean?

http://denver.craigslist.org/app/4686715404.html

 

[norgeway]

If you will notice!

The compressor is on top, like a Monitor Top, just enclosed..

 

[ovrphil]

Nest office

Nest is the thermostat you've probably seen. The company started with tables and chairs, open arrangement.



With $600 being the amount, what would a "nest office" refer to? Are they soliciting for a space that is physically similar to the Nest office?

That's one of the best looking Leonard refrigerators I've seen - most are beat up looking.

 

[rp2813]

Nest Office

Siri needs to get her hearing checked.

 

[twintubdexter]

Siri as in application?

So I take it this is a voice recognition app and "Best Offer" came out as "Next Office." Makes sense to me.

Since I started this thread then I can take liberties and steer it off course for a bit. Ralph, I like your profile pic...the old Penney's store in downtown San Jose with long-gone Roos Atkins across the street. That's the JCP that had a Thrifty Drug attached on the left that exploded from a gas leak many years ago.

 

[ovrphil]

Nest office, lol

Joe, that's more like it....Best Offer.

 

[rp2813]

Joe

I know, that picture has more of a downtown feeling than if you were to snap the same one today.  The building is still there, but it's offices now, and with a brick facade exterior.  The Roos Atkins building underwent a similar re-purposing.

 

As I recall, the boiler blew in Thrifty's basement, which was shared with Penney's.   I remember Penney's re-opened after extensive repairs, but long before Thrifty, which was where the bulk of the carnage took place.

 

Based on the VW bus, that photo was taken several years after the incident.

 

My Aunt worked in the First National Bank building directly across the street.  She had stories about the scene in the days following the blast.   Gee, now that I think of it, the FNB is the building that started it all with the facelifts on that corner in the very early '60s.  There's a Walgreens instead of a bank on the ground floor now.  Bank of the West bailed out of there quite some time ago, and S.J. State University bought the building.

 

 

 

[twintubdexter]

hanging a sharp left from the original thread...

Just one more reply to Ralph...Regardless of how much it's changed, I need to get back to SJ and check it out. My favorite Aunt passed away in January and a box of old photos was discovered in her basement including pictures of my mom, my dad and my mom's sisters. There are pics of my mother and her sisters as very small children which my family (including my mom) never knew existed. My grandparents died when the kids were very small and they were bounced around from various county-run institutions and treated like prison inmates. I now even have photos of my mom's parents. I never knew what they looked like and I know my mom always regreted not having a photo of them. Life during the early years of the Great Depression was less than ideal.

Check out this photo of my mom waltzing down First Street in downtown San Jose. I think that's the Bank of America building (formerly the Bank of Italy) behind her. The car under her right arm, already "antique," makes this photo seem older than it is.

A thousand pardons for getting way, way off subject.

 

[rp2813]

Hey Joe, it's Your thread!

And yes, I agree that's the B of A building and I'm pretty sure that Mission style tower in the background behind the lamp post on the left was the original building on the Roos Atkins corner.  Not because I ever saw it in person, but from other shots I've seen of the First & Santa Clara intersection.  I think it was gone before my time.

 

You may have steered things off topic, but you're batting 1.000 for maintaining the period.  The photo of your mom headed toward the theater district isn't all that much later vintage than the Leonard Fridge that launched this thread.