Blue Ribbon Appliances?

[dalangdon]

Speaking of campy, I saw a very mod standing freezer today that had very "Sheer look" lines, and a very cool handle that was inscribed with the message "The Key to Modern Living" (Or something like that)

It had a badge that said "Blue Ribbon" on it in the upper left hand corner of the door, and "18" in a badge on the bottom left.

I've never heard of that brand. Does it ring a bell with anyone?

 

[redcarpetdrew]

Possibly...

I've encountered a few brands like that one, 'Ben Hur' (with a chariot pulled by horses on the front) or 'Rich Plan', etc, etc. Seems to me that once upon a time meat companies or larger butcher shops would sell you a plan where you bought meat and/or frozen food every month and they would supply a freezer to keep it in. They didn't MAKE the unit but would put their name on it... Rich Plan still exists but now I think as part of the plan they cover repairs on yours and provide lender freezers if yours has to go for repairs...

RCD

 

[appnut]

Well, we know beer can't be frozen in glass bottles so it wasn''t on the Pabst plan lol.

 

[Hometechdoc]

Blue Ribbon

I think Blue Ribbon models were used by one of the freezer planss popular in the 60's. These plans had consumers sign up to buy the freezer over time and the consumer could have frozen food delivered regularly as the supply was depleted. If you signed up for enough food, you got the freezer for free. Many state consumer affairs departments ultimatly cracked down on these "freezer plans" as ripping consumers off with high interest charges and other penalties and fees.

 

[rp2813]

We had a freezer my partner's parents got in the 50's through a meat deal. It was called a Mini Max and had images of, we presumed, Mini and Max incorporated into the badge. It was huge. I'm 6' tall and it was taller.

Can't remember where that freezer ended up but I'll bet it's still plugging away somewhere.

 

[angus]

I only saw one Blue Ribbon refrigerator in my life. It was in my neighbor's house (the ones with the Philco Miss America washer and the Westinghouse square window door dryer).

I recall that the freezer was on the bottom and there was a large chrome handle for both the refrigerator and freezer. The refrigerator handle said "Hager Freezer" and the freezer said "Zero Zone"

 

[launderess]

Am Almost Certain

The Frigidare fridge/bottom freezer we had during my youth had a "Blue Ribbon" medal on it somewhere. Thing was huge and coppertone in colour. While we did belong to a "freezer plan", we also had a huge freezer in the basement, and the plan was from Macys/Bamberger's.

Thread reminds one of the "I Love Lucy" episode when Mrs. Ricardo orders many sides of beef on a plan for the new walk in freezer installed in the basement of the Mertz's building. Lucy asked Ethel how big was a side of beef, and Ethel not knowing (which was surprising for a girl who at times during the program hints about growing up on a farm, or at least in the country), says about so big, which was the size of a small pig. Of course things get interesting, as always when the delivery shows up and all that beef starts coming down stairs.

Amercian beef was good and cheap back then. Still mostly grass fed as well. Which of course accounts for all the heart problems many Americans had and or have, with so much cheap red meat easily available.

L.

 

[dirtybuck]

Launderess...

Did you hear how much Lucy offers that round steak to her potential "customer"? SEVENTY NINE CENTS A POUND!!!

Now those were the good old days.

 

[stevet]

Yes the good old days!

My parents and my Aunt and Uncle had the Macy's Plan too. All the frozen veggies came from Surburban Farms and the meats were always top shelf cuts and neither of us ever had a bad cut. Once my Mom complained to them that a Leg of Lamb had shrunken so much after cooking that she was embarassed to serve it and within 2 days, they delivered an even larger one to us free of charge and refunded the money on the first one!

They provided us with a 21 Cu.Ft MARQUETTE brand refrigerator freezer in 1963 which was still running like a champ in 1997 when they sold the house we lived in. Would you beleive the current draw on that unit was less than 3 amps!
I dont know if there is anything out there today that could touch that! That unit never broke down once in all those years and had no exposed coils or blower motors underneath. It ran the condenser lines thru the cabinet walls and mullions to cool itself.
The other big name for freezer plans in our area was NATPAC which was headquartered on Cross Bay Blvd in Ozone Park too

Yes, the good old days!