Applainces used for Home Ecomomics in your School & Educational Institutions

[daveamkrayoguy]

Elementary School: The school kitchens I remember had a Frigidaire 30" or in some cases 40" range & single door refrigerator (resembling the 1959 Nat'l Geographic ad mostly featuring the newly-introduced wall ovens & built-in ranges) most likely from the late '50's when the city I lived in / school system was firmly established...

We had a similar fridge / 30" range set-up in my nursury school classroom for educational purposes until the school budget made way for GE (range was self-cleaning; fridge was top freezer frost free) & I was chatting w/ my nusrsury school teacher 'bout the app's "then & now", years & greades later when I was in 4th grade acknowledging "the change"...

Saw one kitch with a Whirlpool copper electric range & turquoise top-freezer Westinghouse fridge, at another elementary school...

Junior High: A barrage of Westinghouse Self-Cleaning Electric Ranges w/ Self-Cleaning Ovens & a couple "stripped-down" Caloric ranges w/ probably just the self-cleaning oven & no other "frills"... A couple top-freezer Westy refrigerators & even a stackable Westy washer & dryer combo... The teacher taught off of a GE pushbutton cooktop & built-in Frigidaire wall-oven w/ french doors...

High School: Same situation though there was a Westinghouse double-oven & cooktop (maybe even the 5 or 6 bu. set-up featuring the small 4" element) used by teach for educational purposes & a couple years after I graduated there were a discarded GE washer & dryer box replacing the Westy stack, which I noticed picking li'l sis up from after school... The science labs had a "MW TRU COLD Frostless Combination" top-freezer fridge (which I got to see inside of) & a yellow bottom freezer Frigidaire (that I DIDN'T get to see inside of) (used to keep, er--THINGS--in...)

I was pretty vague in my acknowledgement of appliances in the "later years" though, due to my "interests in other things" at the time...

There was also a Vocational Educational Institute where students would be bussed to & from to learn how to fix & repair applainces which I saw an "open house" of & let me say: There were enough vintage appliances there to keep all of you delighted & bedazzlingly happy! I only acknowledged a white GE Stratoliner 40" Range, a yellow Frigidaire bottom freezer fridge, and an avocado Mont. Ward Sig. Imperial washer; too many app's to root through!

What do you recollect from your "School Days" in Home Economics? Though I'd never even TOOK Home Ec', myself--I just remember peeking in the classrooms & worked as a "voluntary student office assistant"...

-- Dave

 

[hoover1100]

School appliances

My Nursery had an Electra 11500 (rebadged Creda), which I was allowed to sit and watch many a time.

They also had the ubiquitous Baby Belling oven, which seems to be found in about every school in the UK!

My primary school had a Hoover A3110 the matching D6096 dryer (what I wouldn't give for those now!) and a Beige (Cygnet didn't they call it?) on white Hoover Logic 1300, as well as, you guessed it, more Baby Bellings!

At secondary school we originally had a Hoover Logic 1100 (Beige on white) in the home economics room, but that was moved into the P.E. store room and a Hotpoint WM54 was installed after a year or so. The ovens were all Tricity Tiaras I think.

The science lab had an early 90s Zanussi Aquasave dishwasher for the glassware, and a Russell Hobbs K2 kettle (never saw it being used).

I moved to Germany in my teens and my school there had a matched domestic Miele set and a matched Miele little giant set *swoons* which I regularly got to see in use.

College had various modern(ish) Creda washers, a number of White Knight dryers, and one Tricity Bendix ecoshower. Science labs had a Whirlpool dishwasher and a Tricity Bendix dishwasher (late 90s I'd guess).

The university currently has a plethora of numatic vacuums, 2 AEG-electrolux washers and 2 white knight dryers that I am aware of.

Great idea for a thread!

Matt

 

[DADoES]

 
Happened to be in the Home Ec building on an occasion to check on something for the yearbook, noticed a TOL-ish GE 1970s-ish GE pair. Then, senior year another student and I were sent to Home Ec to run the NHS robes used for graduation through the dryer for freshening, so had an opportunity to use it.

 

[laundromat]

Junior High had all GE appliances including their P7 self cleaning oven ranges. There were 6 different kitchens set up 3 had Caloric 30" gas ranges and 3 had the GEs. There was also a Filter Flo washer with a matching dryer and a MobilMaid dishwasher (top load)
In Senior High,We had 8 kitchens.My first year,they had all GE appliances in 4 kitchens and the gas ranges in the other 4 were Hardwick.During my Junior year,they replaced all the older appliances with all new Frigidaire Imperial appliances in 4 kitchens and the gas ranges in the other 4 were Crown.We also got a Frigidaire convertible dishwasher and the Imperial washer and dryer.
Ms Jackovitz,our teacher,had no idea on how to operate the dishwasher. I had her for homeroom too. So, I loaded all the dishes and casseroles properly to show her how and she had me do it for all her classes. When she saw how much nicer everything was after being run through the sani cycle (I used Electrosol and Jet Dry),she decided we needed to use it instead of having us wash dishes by hand.

 

[circlew]

The high school I attended was new for the '67-'68 school year, and I started 7th grade in the junior high section of this new building.

I was only in the HS home-ec classroom a few times, but remember it had a GE Filter-Flo washer and matching dryer. They both had lighted control panels, and I think were '67 models. There was a GE built-in single oven, cooktop and hood. These were all white. The refrigerators I'm thinking were Frigidaire. There were several 30" and 40" ranges in various colors. These were Frigidaire, as the local dealer had a program where the school would get new ranges every year, and the returns were sold at a good discount. Don't know if there was a dishwasher or not. Just remember the nice oversize Elkay stainless steel sinks.

 

[pierreandreply4]

appliance in my old school

i don't remember all the stoves that was in my home economic class in my old school but i do remember there was a belanger stove and a roy or ge stove including a danby stove with no window lid for the door oven an avocado white westinghouse washer dryer set(*home economic class) an old ge filter flo washer in an activaty class roome with ge dryer and i remember that in the school cafeteria there was an old hobart dishwasher for washing the cafeteria dishes. sorry no pictures

 

[thomasortega]

That's sad...

Here in Brazil schools don't teach Home Economics. Only a few (very few) very expensive private schools started to include it to their curriculum less than 5 years ago.
And those classes are more focused on nutrition, not economics at all and the teachers are usualy nutricionists and sometimes celebrity chefs.

Public educational system in Brazil is something that NEVER worked.

Well, not only the public system is a chaos.

If you want a good education, you must pay a private school (some elementary schools are more expensive than colleges) and students usually bully teachers and other employees because they are not students, but "consumers".
If a student fails on a test because he/she didn't study, some of their parents will sue the teachers and the school.
Well, that's not the only reason to sue the school or a teacher in Brazil. If a teacher ask the student to stop parallel talking during the class, it's considered bullying and he can be sued because affected the student's freedom of speech.

That's why my state, Parana, is also called "the state of the lawyers"

I miss my school days when I was afraid to look at the teacher's face and I'd never call him without using "mr." before his name. Interrupt a teacher during the explanation was unthinkable. a test fail was a real shame and all the other students would comment it for days. and my parents would almost kill me spanking me with a leather belt if a teacher complained about my behavior during the class.

Some schools tried to ban the use of cell phones during the class (who needs to call someone during the class?)... Guess what... most of them were sued by the parents, again the school is affecting the student's rights.

 

[stainfighter]

Middle School...

ours too had 'TOL" -ish GE Washer, Lighted Control panel, toggle switches, (speaking of where is our own 'Toggleswitch'???)Mini-basket, infinite water level; Lighted Dryer, Range, Disposall. No DW as that was part of the Home-Ec for us, proper washing, rinsing and drying of dishes, etc...

 

[supermaticjames]

What a good topic!

Preschool and National School had nothing as they were small schools.

Secondary School according to Mum had New Generation Hotpoints when she attended. I can only imagine that there might have been Liberators beforehand and when the school was built in 1964 there might have been a Twinny since most households had them. Maybe a Keymatic even!

James.

 

[ronhic]

Every group of 4....

...had one of these to cook with....

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www.westinghouse.com.au

 

[maytagbear]

My mother taught Home Economics...

The brand of appliances depended a great deal on the purchasing agent at the school board.

We did get our first self-defrosting refrigerator, a Frigidaire, from her lab, though we had to pay just like everyone else.

Ma's demonstration section was equipped with GE built-ins, a GE dishwasher, and a GE refrigerator.

The first laundry pair were Frigidaire rollermatics, and were replaced by a GE Filter-Flo set, which she disliked.

The one appliance I really coveted from her lab was a Caloric gas range. Lower oven was self-cleaning, upper oven was not. It would have meant a full remodeling of our kitchen, however, which is why it stayed at school.

She was not in my school district, but a neighbouring one. The high school home ec teacher in my district had a bitter professional rivalry with Ma, and so I never took home ec in high school. Ma, however, let me experiment in the kitchen pretty freely at home, however.

Ma mostly taught cooking, budgeting, and child development. She could teach sewing, but disliked to teach sewing. She was the department chair, and could get away with such tactics.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[washerlover]

I graduated from a very small high school (my class had 40 students!) in affluent Marin County, California, in 1982. This is western Marin County, dairy/cow country. And no, I was not from an affluent family. But our "Consumer Survival" class was held in the home ec room, an elaborate, high-end classroom full of coppertone Lady Kenmore stoves, refrigerators, washers and dryers. I soooo wanted to play in there, but still being in the "appliance closet," I didn't dare! But, oh, how lovely that home ec room was!

 

[mixfinder]

Killinstad Bros vs Harold Shultz

The lower yakima valley schools got new Frigidaire 30 inch ranges, single door fridges, washers and condensor dryers.  They used Sunbeam smalls.  Each kitchen had a different color depending on the style of the day.  Upper valley schools where serviced by Harold H Shultz who sold GE.  Some of the Yakima schools had 40 inch ranges.  Every summer the year old appliances were offered at a discount. I took Home Ec in High School and placed second in the national Better Crocker Junior Homemaker contest which also included sewing questions.  Males were not allowed to win so I got an honorable mention pin, letter and the home ec teacher spoke about it at an awards assembly in the Gym calling me to the podium for the pin and letter.  I was a sophmore, had no idea this was going to happen and it greatly added to the daily teasing and abuse.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I had the most wonderful experience a guy could have at my high school, where guys could not take home ec. Our high school was grades 8-12. The chairman of the Vocational Division and Head of the Home Ec Department was, for the first and only time, a Homeroom teacher when I entered 8th grade. She was asked to do it as a temporary favor by the principal and he sorta forgot about her doing that. She was my friend from the end of August in 1963 until she died in 1992. Her being my home room teacher was another gift from Heaven in my life.

There were two labs with sewing machines along the window wall in both of them. Each lab had three kitchens. One had three 40" Frigidaire ranges, all a regular single oven model. The main lab had three Westinghouse ranges, two standard 40" single oven models and one TOL double oven model. That lab also had the WH washer and dryer. When I first started, it was a pair of slant fronts. The appliances were changed on contract every 3 years. The WH appliances came from the Georgia Power Company and the Frigidiare ranges came from a local Frigidaire dealer.

Twice while I was there, the appliances were changed out. Sometime in 64, they put in the new side-swing door washer and dryer along with really neat WH ranges. The knobs were on the top of the panel, like where GE had the push buttons, but on the two top models, there was a little oval window on the front edge under each knob. When the surface unit was turned on to HIGH, the little window was filled with red and as the heat was turned down, the red marking sank lower in the window, under a band of white. There was a switch for the operation of the platform light. The default position was like WH ranges had for years: when the surface units were turned on, so was the light. The light illuminated each of the indicators quite well. I managed to find a 30" version of the next to the TOL model a few years ago. For 1965, it was advanced in the wattage of the surface units: 2600 watt 8" and 1600 watt 6".

 

[tomturbomatic]

From an apron:

I don't care if your name is Betty Crocker; get your buns off the table.

 

[keymatic]

...Crumbs flash back, I remember in the two Home Economic rooms there were AEG Lavamat auto washers/dryers 2040 and both had redundant Servis Supertwins 100. I was always trying to get them plugged in.

In the Textile rooms there were Hotpoint Supermatic's 1450, which hadn't been used for years. About 10years after leaving school i tried to go back and see if i could have got one, but all the old machines had been chucked by that time.

Happy memories !!
Keith

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Thank You for the Very kind words & keeping the topic loaded w/ your sharing your interesting experiences!

A few PostScripts on my earlier post: The "stripped-down Caloric" ranges were Gas models--to introduce each type of fuel for cooking, perhaps--... The single door Frigidaire in my elementary school went into the school nurses office... (which formerly had a newer Compact Refrigerator all the time I went to school there; don't know how I saw it years after I graduated Grade School, period!) A single door turquoise Westinghouse refrigerator was in the library office in high school, while the administration staff had a white Kelvinator which was the same model & year as my grandmother & grandfather's Kelvy...

And as for the Vocational School: It's South East Oakland (county) Vocational Educational Club, better known as you see, SEOVEC... Where students go to learn appliance repairs as well as countless other trades, but somehow I never went to "Voc" as a few of my other fellow classmates did, other than attending Open House--and the institute not only repairs, but I believe sells or at least SOLD apps', too...

All for now...

-- Dave

 

[mixfinder]

ICU

Betty Crocker and Katie Winters are sharing a room in ICU.  Betty sat on the oven and burned her buns and Katie has frozen armpits!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Thanks

Kelly, I had not heard that one. The one I remember was, "Have you heard that Katie Winters died? Frozen armpits killed her."