celebrity appliances

[sdlee]

Does anyone know what kind of Range Lucy had in the apartment in New York? I realize that its electric and I love the way the knobs are slanted upwards.

You know who else had awesome kitchen appliances, Fred Sanford? Junky yes, cool yes

Love the stove on a Christmas Story too

Also was wondering if anyone knows how far back Lets Make deal goes in time. I swear I once saw a kitchen set that they said was pink. The show was black and white. Does anyone know? Thanks guys

 

[SactoTeddyBear]

Re: I Love Lucy's:

Range was a late 1940's or early to mid 1950's Westinghouse Electric Range. If you ever get to watch the special Scenes of the I Love Lucy Show, where they talk about buying RKO Studios and about their Sponser, it was Westinghouse. Lucy is also talking to the Sponser's Salesman, giving him an order of Appliances that she wanted to be put in her Dressing Room.

My Parent's had that exact same Range, that they got from my Mother's Sister {My Aunt Jane} when she Divorced our Uncle Jack. It had a Deep-Well on the Back-Left Burner, which means that the Burner Assembly had a special set of Handles that allowed you to turn the Assembly to the Left to loosen and set the Burner down into the Cabinet of the Range and you would pull up on the Assembly and turn the Handles to the Right to lock the Burner into place on the Surface. I've still got the Soup Pot that came with the Range. It has a Basket inside and a large Round White Handle in the Middle of the Lid. It has certainly made many Meals of Vegetable Beef Soup, as well as Boiling many times of Pasta's, especially Spaghetti and Macaroni Noodles.

Peace, Great Memories of the Past and a wonderful Westinghouse Range, Steve
SactoTeddyBear...

 

[laundromat]

After basicly ruining the Westinghouse 40 inch range(circa 1951)you'll see the later episodes had a gas Roper model to replace it.When they did the episode where Lucy and Ethel worked at the chocolate factory and the husbands stayed home and did the housework(Job Switching)they somehow placed a tube understage and used a plunger to force the cooked rice up through the pot on the range.If you never saw this episode,leave now!!! anyway,there was so much rice and starch built up in the works of that range that they had to replace it.

 

[turquoisedude]

Didn't Westinghouse even sponsor some ads for their appliances with the Ricardos and the Mertzes in them? They made mention of an automatic washer in the Ricardo apartment too; I think the only time one was ever shown was in an episode where Lucy sells her old machine to Ethel and then it breaks down. Can't remember what kind it was, though. I don't seem to think it was a "slant-front" Westinghouse...

 

[rp2813]

I believe our beloved AW site contains links to clips that include one with Lucy (and maybe Ethel) checking out the new Westy Laundromat washers in some sort of promo spot. More than likely you are correct about the washer in the Ricardo's apartment.

I wonder if being a similar model to Lucy's stove would be a selling point as I continue trying to find a new home for my mom's '49 Westy pictured here?

 

[turquoisedude]

Dunno... The Ricardo's range has a more 'upswept' control panel, but hey, a 'celebrity endorsement' never hurts! Your mom's range is a beaut! You should have no trouble selling it.

 

[rp2813]

Yeah Paul, you'd think so, but this stove hasn't generated any interest on this site or elsewhere. I suspect that when the time comes to have an estate sale somebody will grab it. At this point I'm ready to give the stove away as long as I'm sure it's not going to end up at the krusher. This will be the first holiday season in nearly 60 years where this stove will be sitting idle. It has been such a reliable performer over the decades that it deserves a better fate than the krusher.

Ralph

 

[turquoisedude]

Man, I hate it when that happens... A stove like this does deserve to be in a kitchen and keep on cooking!! Did you try posting on craigslist? I sold a turquoise range that I have been trying to move for 3 years now and it went to someone who will use and love it. Wish I had a hundred houses...
Say, maybe we should all get together and start a museum - something like a 'Smithsonian of Appliances'... Think it might fly, Ralph??

 

[bongobro]

"You can be SURE...that somebody has a Westinghouse ad!

First, the washing machine that conks out in the 1953 "I Love Lucy" episode looks like an early ABC-O-Matic or Kelvinator washer (the window in the lid and the dials on top give it away, and Westies were front-loaders back then)...

Now, here's a Westy ad from the "Lucy Goes to Mexico" installment of the "Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz" show (a/k/a "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour") from October 6, 1958--first Westinghouse-sponsored show in the series...

too bad Desi wasn't playin' his conga during the spot...

 

[sdlee]

Laundromat, thanks for the info. I did just see that episode just two nights ago. I loved it and didnt want anyone leaving the kitchen

RP2813 If I could take your moms stove i would. Cant afford to ship it tho. It reminds me of one my grandma had, whose house was recently up for sale but i didnt get that either. I did get to go in and it hasnt changed much in the twenty years absence except someone painted everything in site flat white.

Yeah, Yeah Tourquoise dude I would love to start an AW museum. I have museum exp and tourism esp to boot. What I dont have is the money to do it. Incidenatlly if anyone wants to know of something that kinda close to it theres a museum in Hastings Nebraska I think . The Harold Warp museum. It has a display of home intierors from the 20s on up to the 60s I beleieve. Farm homes that is. If anyone in that area knows what Im talking about and has been there please elaborate for me.Meanwhile thank you all for responding.

 

[turquoisedude]

Museum info

Hey! Thanks for the info about the Harold Warp museum - I just may have to head out there soon! There was one in the Montreal area about 25 years ago (I whined and badgered my parents into taking me) but it just seemed to vanish.
If I win that 30 million dollar lottery this week, consider me an invenstor!!

 

[appliguy]

Laundromat....where did you get your info about the Westingh

They did not switch ranges until Lucy and Ricky moved into Mr. and Mrs Bensons apartment after little Ricky was born. Up until that time Lucy had a all electric 1951 Westinghouse kitchen including he Westinghouse Foor Crafter and toaster on her kitchen counter. Where did you here this story about the rice????? Getting rid of a stove that was never plugged in in the first place because of starch from rice used in one episode sounds really far fetched to me??? Do you know someone who worked for Desilu????? Curiousity is kiling me.

 

[sdlee]

many thanks and yaeh what about the mystery

Again guys thanks. Talk about great info...

Tourquoisedude, WIN THAT LOTTERY and thanks for the offer and belief in me site unseen. It would be a great museum. I was really hoping some of our NE folk here would tell us more about THe Harold Warp Place

Laundress, yeah Im not that doubting Thomas Appliguy is but if you could reveal your sources for the crew here thatd be great. Im a dabbler in local show business myself and as a resualt have worked with some big world wide talant such as Cher and Niel Diamond but its very hard for people to believe.
oH well I have had some amazing times.

So did you know someone who worked for Desilu or as I suspect did YOU work for Desilu? Spill the beans lets have some fun hehe The Rice story is a great one and I for one thinks its of enough to be fully true