Antique Doric Apartment Stove $150 (SF Haight)

[rp2813]

I wish I had room for this cutie on my patio, but I need to hold out for a shallow 3-across type.

 

Pre-quake flats and apartment buildings in the San Francisco/Oakland/Berkeley areas are still full of ancient stoves.  The Haight in particular.

 

 

http://https//sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/app/6122150297.html

 

[washdaddy]

very interesting stove. Bet those burners could produce some heat since they are laid out as they are. Only problem I see that could be a P.I.A. is lighting and maintaining the oven at a correct temp since it looks like the valve for the oven is down on the side of the stove.

 

[rp2813]

I noticed that oven valve way down there in the back.  That makes no sense at all, even on an oven that's not thermostatically controlled, but maybe I'm failing to see some sort of safety logic.

 

A friend of mine who, as it happens, lives in the Haight, for years had an old stove with non-thermostatically controlled oven.  It did at least have a round thermometer on the front of the oven door.  From a precise angle, he could look through a tiny opening at the bottom of the oven door and view part of the flame, and knew exactly where to adjust it to maintain a given temperature.  A PITA, but it can be done.  Not so much with this Doric, which doesn't even have a thermometer.

 

I just really like the top surface on the Doric.  This cute little stove would survive in a covered outdoor location (at least in these parts) just fine for 100 more years.