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DO NOT DISTURB...1965
Doris and O'Keefe & Merritt
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I'm surprised at the many knobs that are ABOVE the oven...
Aren't knobs for a GAS range usually NEAR the burners? Or maybe I don't see 'em...
-- Dave
Aren't knobs for a GAS range usually NEAR the burners? Or maybe I don't see 'em...
-- Dave
It is an electric range. Look closely and you will see the coils.
Gary
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It's not electric. There's a freaking gas flame at the bottom of the ad saying that Doris appeared in the ad because she has gas or an association with gas--PHEW. We have seen this picture before and stated all of the reasons this arrangement would not work. There are doors that are blocked when the burners are pulled out. How do you reach the spices around the corner from the stove? How do you live with that nightmare tile? What will you say when you best gay male friend walks in and sees this nightmare, "Go sit on the patio and let me bring you a drink, dear and we will both get out of this effing hot kitchen."
The knobs are up there on stoves with the pull out cooktop design because of the logistics of minimizing flexible gas tubing. It's probably safer to have the flexible tubing AFTER the valve than in front of it. Siss Boom Baah, the sound of an exploding sheep. You don't want things exploding in your kitchen. Another thing is that users of gas stoves expect the knobs above the oven to be warm so with this stove they can be still be warm. Actually in this stove the large oven is on the left and is for baking. The broiler compartment is on the right so if you are broiling something, those knobs will get nice and hot because the burner is at the top of the compartment. It was probably an ultra ray-type infra red burner.
That laugh on her face makes you think she's been inhaling gas or just found an animal behind the cupboard door, one that followed her home from the show.
Note the Tappan-made and rebadged O'K&M dishwasher.
The knobs are up there on stoves with the pull out cooktop design because of the logistics of minimizing flexible gas tubing. It's probably safer to have the flexible tubing AFTER the valve than in front of it. Siss Boom Baah, the sound of an exploding sheep. You don't want things exploding in your kitchen. Another thing is that users of gas stoves expect the knobs above the oven to be warm so with this stove they can be still be warm. Actually in this stove the large oven is on the left and is for baking. The broiler compartment is on the right so if you are broiling something, those knobs will get nice and hot because the burner is at the top of the compartment. It was probably an ultra ray-type infra red burner.
That laugh on her face makes you think she's been inhaling gas or just found an animal behind the cupboard door, one that followed her home from the show.
Note the Tappan-made and rebadged O'K&M dishwasher.
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I thought the same thing about the doors and drawers being blocked when the stove was pulled out. Why is there what appears to be a book stuck between the upper cabinet and the left side of the oven? If I had a "Malibu Beach house", I would be enjoying the view rather than having that heavy woven shade covering the window.
Cookbook shelf
There's a small shelf between the oven and cabinet. Would imagine there is a matching one on the right.
The blind is closed because theres probably a blank wall there, as this is most likely a simulation of her real kitchen - lets hope anyway.
There's a small shelf between the oven and cabinet. Would imagine there is a matching one on the right.
The blind is closed because theres probably a blank wall there, as this is most likely a simulation of her real kitchen - lets hope anyway.
The picture is shot from an angle and there is a small book shelf there where you can put cookbooks that might have suffered spills or otherwise gotten wet or damp. The heat that comes through the thin oven insulation will dry them out while your dish bakes. Ordinarily, you would not want to store books where they would be subject to heat like this.
The heavy curtain is pulled because the furniture company is in Goshen, as in "Land o' Goshen" Indiana and the view out the window is not what it would be in Malibu unless there had been a landslide or something.
The heavy curtain is pulled because the furniture company is in Goshen, as in "Land o' Goshen" Indiana and the view out the window is not what it would be in Malibu unless there had been a landslide or something.
Nno one has spied or commented on the clock/timer outlet panel built-in below Doris' arm. These were and still are neat. There is a whole condo complex in Palm Desert, CA that has these in every kitchen as well as a unique sink that has a blender built into the sink. Anyone have pictures of that?
Have a magazine (at storage so not accesable) that has an ad for the sink with built-in blender. Seems like it was for either Elkay or Just. Blender unit was NuTone.
Are you saying that the blender runs off the garbage disposer? That would be some nasty linkage.
I think that if you do a searcholator for kitchen appliance centers or something like that, you will find threads about these and maybe even this exact one. They were an economical way to add a lot of high amperage circuits to an older kitchen because only one 220 volt line had to be run to this thing which contained all of the individual circuits. The sort of sad thing is that the high wattage counter top appliances for which these were made sort of faded from view and use as people began to cook less. By the early 60s in my part of the country fast food joints began popping up and with burgers selling for 12 cents at Krystal and 15 cents at McDonalds and Booger King, it became more and more convenient to just pile the kinder in the car and feed them in the parking lot. BH&G, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, American Home, Redbook all used to feature recipes and tie them in with electric skillets, saucepans, fryers, rotisserie-broilers, griddles, thermostatically controlled burners etc., but it died away. People began to want the pour a can of slop over the meat and throw it in the oven or crock pot type recipes. Then families stopped eating together and then it was order a pizza.
I think that if you do a searcholator for kitchen appliance centers or something like that, you will find threads about these and maybe even this exact one. They were an economical way to add a lot of high amperage circuits to an older kitchen because only one 220 volt line had to be run to this thing which contained all of the individual circuits. The sort of sad thing is that the high wattage counter top appliances for which these were made sort of faded from view and use as people began to cook less. By the early 60s in my part of the country fast food joints began popping up and with burgers selling for 12 cents at Krystal and 15 cents at McDonalds and Booger King, it became more and more convenient to just pile the kinder in the car and feed them in the parking lot. BH&G, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, American Home, Redbook all used to feature recipes and tie them in with electric skillets, saucepans, fryers, rotisserie-broilers, griddles, thermostatically controlled burners etc., but it died away. People began to want the pour a can of slop over the meat and throw it in the oven or crock pot type recipes. Then families stopped eating together and then it was order a pizza.
O'Keefe & Merritt!
Thanks for posting I have seen this ad a thousand times. I think it is the same as the Tappan roller jet? I would love to see specs on these models.
Thanks for posting I have seen this ad a thousand times. I think it is the same as the Tappan roller jet? I would love to see specs on these models.
OK, to me it looked like a gas range at first... I looked at the burners a lot better & they ARE electric coils, but "Tomturbomatic", you're comment is a, well,--GAS!!!! (Ha, ha!)
O'Keefe & Merritt, I thought, was a needlessly more expensive version of TAPPAN--and the ad's that said: "Years From Now You'll Be Glad You'd Bought O'Keefe & Merritt", probably should have said: "Years From Now, You'll Wish You'd Bought a CHEAPER TAPPAN--Same damn thing!!!!"
Seldom, if ever, had I seen an actual O/M (usually a home/kitchen remodeling book, or most-likely CONSUMER REPORTS testing the actual appliances, of which the prices were clearly much HIGHER than its competition)...
And might I leave you with: "And in front of the range, stood a girl, named Doris, and oh, that girl COOK nice!"
-- Dave
NP: Jim Croce "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
O'Keefe & Merritt, I thought, was a needlessly more expensive version of TAPPAN--and the ad's that said: "Years From Now You'll Be Glad You'd Bought O'Keefe & Merritt", probably should have said: "Years From Now, You'll Wish You'd Bought a CHEAPER TAPPAN--Same damn thing!!!!"
Seldom, if ever, had I seen an actual O/M (usually a home/kitchen remodeling book, or most-likely CONSUMER REPORTS testing the actual appliances, of which the prices were clearly much HIGHER than its competition)...
And might I leave you with: "And in front of the range, stood a girl, named Doris, and oh, that girl COOK nice!"
-- Dave
NP: Jim Croce "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown"
O'K&M were the same products as Tappan, but Tappan was sold in the Eastern United States and O'K&M in the West, which I believe someone here explained. They might have been more expensive in the West due to transportation charges. Ads in magazines from the late 40s into the 50s sometimes used to state prices for items and there would be a price and then a higher price preceded by "in the West"
I think what you are looking at are the black burner grates with the chrome burner bowls beneath them which gives the look associated with electric surface units.
In spite of what that ad says, I can't believe she would have such a poorly designed kitchen.
If you look at the small print after DO NOT DISTURB, you will see the name Melchor. I don't know the reason for the variation in spelling, but it was her son Terry Melcher who produced or had a hand in producing her movies and TV shows. He lived in the California music scene, dated Candice Bergen and was targeted for murder by the Manson family. All a very exciting life story. He rescued his mother from financial ruin and watched over her affairs. I guess he could not save her from this kitchen, if indeed it was hers, but he no doubt had a role in arranging the ad to make money for her.
I think what you are looking at are the black burner grates with the chrome burner bowls beneath them which gives the look associated with electric surface units.
In spite of what that ad says, I can't believe she would have such a poorly designed kitchen.
If you look at the small print after DO NOT DISTURB, you will see the name Melchor. I don't know the reason for the variation in spelling, but it was her son Terry Melcher who produced or had a hand in producing her movies and TV shows. He lived in the California music scene, dated Candice Bergen and was targeted for murder by the Manson family. All a very exciting life story. He rescued his mother from financial ruin and watched over her affairs. I guess he could not save her from this kitchen, if indeed it was hers, but he no doubt had a role in arranging the ad to make money for her.
hilovane
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Terry Melcher was also a record producer for Columbia Records in the mid-to-late '60s, as he produced for Paul Revere & the Raiders, and the Byrds.
Terry Melcher made a couple records of his own, too...
I think maybe the reason the blinds could be closed is that it might be way past sunset outside...
Just thinkin'...
-- Dave
I think maybe the reason the blinds could be closed is that it might be way past sunset outside...
Just thinkin'...
-- Dave
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