vintagekitchen
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As a teenager I attended a local methodist church, out in the middle of nowhere. It was a large church for the time and the area, and well outfitted for when it was rebuilt in the late 1950s following a fire in the original building.
In the church kitchen, they had a vintage BOL frigidaire electric range. 30 inches, no storage drawer, no clock, but 2 tone color, white and a bluish gray. The body of the stove was white, the back splash and the bottom panel (where a storage drawer would normally be located) were the funny gray color. In one of the kitchen drawers they still had all the paperwork from the purchase in the early 60s, including a brochure that showed all the other models available, concentrating heavily on frigidaire flair ranges.
The stove was immaculate, not a mark on it, and worked perfectly, as it was only used a few times a year for church dinners. I stopped attending for about a year when I turned 18. When I went back, some idiot had redone their kitchen and donated their newer POS roper stove to the church, and the Frigidaire had been hauled to the scrap yard.
I was gutted. I would have paid them for the stove to have saved it. Does anyone have any photos of BOL frigidaire ranges from that era? I have searched high and low, and have never seen another like it, not in real life or in photos.
In the church kitchen, they had a vintage BOL frigidaire electric range. 30 inches, no storage drawer, no clock, but 2 tone color, white and a bluish gray. The body of the stove was white, the back splash and the bottom panel (where a storage drawer would normally be located) were the funny gray color. In one of the kitchen drawers they still had all the paperwork from the purchase in the early 60s, including a brochure that showed all the other models available, concentrating heavily on frigidaire flair ranges.
The stove was immaculate, not a mark on it, and worked perfectly, as it was only used a few times a year for church dinners. I stopped attending for about a year when I turned 18. When I went back, some idiot had redone their kitchen and donated their newer POS roper stove to the church, and the Frigidaire had been hauled to the scrap yard.
I was gutted. I would have paid them for the stove to have saved it. Does anyone have any photos of BOL frigidaire ranges from that era? I have searched high and low, and have never seen another like it, not in real life or in photos.
