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Surprise, it does not have a full width oven, but rather the same oven used on the 39 inch ranges, and a small compartment called a Crisper Stor, next to it.

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This is the same kind of stove!!!

That I first cooked on....at three years old!!! No I did NOT make that up, One Saturday morning I wanted bacon for breakfast, my Mother got out the iron skillet and the bacon, but then was distracted, If I remember the phone rang, so when my GRANDMOTHER CAME IN THE KITCHEN SHE WAS horrified TO FIND i HAD CLIMBED UP ON THE CABINET via A CHAIR AND WAS SITTING THERE BESIDE THE STOVE CALMLY FRYING THE BACON......My mother said:" Leave him alone Mother, what other three year old do you know that can cook his own breakfast!"But he will get burned!!! was Grandmothers reply!! Mother then said, Oh well, he will learn if he does!!! So you see I just had to have this one!!

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Hans, that is wonderful! It is so hard to find the 30" ranges from the 1950s, most all are the 40" or even occassionaly the 36". And that has just the right amount of bling and fabulous features... and some great memories! Congratulations!
 
Score!

She's real purty, Hans. I've got to come a-hunting down there with you. You've really got the vintage radar.
 
Hans!

I am SO GLAD you got this stove!! Even if it wasn't a copy of the one you grew up with, this is a beauty! But I especially love the connection to your childhood - these are the kinds of things that make "collecting" so much fun!

I know once you get this baby all shined up and looking its best it will be "The Pride of Mocksville!"

There's something about all those big stove features in a 30 inch model that really make this special- congrats!!!
 
Crisper Stor:

"Guess the "Crisper Stor" is for crackers, etc."

And I'm betting it was very useful indeed in the South before air-conditioning. A lot of things took special measures to keep crisp back then. I remember my great-grandmother toasting crackers a bit before serving them.

And Lay's potato chips, before the invention of today's Mylar packaging, used to come with a little thing inside the bag called a "Fresh-Pak." It was a small packet, made of perforated cellophane, that contained a bit of silica gel, to absorb moisture, and a bit of activated charcoal, to absorb the slightly "off" odor that chips used to get while stored before they got loaded up with enough preservatives to mummify Tutankhamen all over again.
 
Nifty!

Quite a clever design in one respect: unlike many other deluxe ranges of the period, this one put the chrome and bling up high rather than behind the burners where it was likely to catch lots of grease.
 
Crisper Stor

My Mother and Grandmother always kept crackers in the Crisper Stor, because, like has been mentioned, in the days before AC everything in the South was damp, salt and sugar had to be sealed up tight or it would lump terribly, Dons Mother still keeps her salt in those shakers with the spring loaded tops to keep them sealed, they dont have ac, so it is almost a necessity.
 
Deep Hole on the back left.

That hole is the deep well and it should have a big pan that fits in it.  It was like a crock pot now.  Could be used to deep fry too.

 

 
 
I have the pot,

It is a 6 quart aluminum kettle with a trivet that can be adjusted to two positions,what I dont have is the deep well fryer attachment, if you will notice there is a receptacle above the cooker on the backsplash, Hotpoint made an immersion unit that was thermostatically controlled just for deep frying.
 
That is

So cool! Hans: Did your parents buy their stove thru Duke Power? We had Hotpoint in our house until one by one the appliances were replaced with Frigidaire. The Hotpoints were are bought thru Duke Power Company.
 
No But..

My Dads Mom did, she had a 63 Hotpoint 40 inch, My Moms parents bought everything for there 1953-54 house remodel from Lowes Hardware in Wilkesboro, before it was a huge chain, Wilkesboro is about 30 miles away and Grandaddy had a 1 ton 49 Dodge truck, so they hauled it on that, The reason we ended up living there is, in 1956 My parents moved in with my Grandparents to save money while they built there new house, meanwhile Grandaddy got sick in the spring of 57 and died in November from cancer at age 57,so Grandmother would not be alone they stayed and never built there house, I still have the plans, the Hotpoint turned out to be a good stove, but not for my cleanliness obsessed Grandmother who kept the buttons messed up by washing them, thereby causing them to stick, My Mom got rid of her appliances which were 1950 Frigidaires, mainly because Grandmothers fridge was bigger, it was a 50 Westinghouse,and her stove was 4 years newer.
 
BF Goodrich

I was at friend Peggie's mother's house in Laurens, SC and she has a BF Goodrich freezer on her back porch. It's old, but still kicking. Peggie says the only draw back is that it has to be manually defrosted. It's a stand up freezer.
 
manual defrost

Tell her that manual defrost "ain't" a draw back! Well, it can be a bit of a pain, but to me it's worth the effort. Try baking a cake and freezing it in one of those new-fangled frostless freezers with the fan. It's been my experience those freezers dry everything out way too fast.

Grandma used to bake cakes for the county fair way in advance (well, weeks) and they were prize winners every time. Then, she got a new deep freezer... Well, it didn't take her long to find an older one!
 
Well

Miss Adeline is elderly and lets the freezer go so long between defrostings that it is a solid chunk of ice by the time Peggie or her sister tackle it. Says everything pretty much has to be thrown out. We had an old Hotpoint on our back porch when I was growing up. It too was a manual defrost. My mother was OCD about things in the freezer. Freezer paper. Freezer tape. Black marking pencil. Routinely rotated things to the front by date so it would be used. Anderson County where I grew up and live now was mostly rural and in the summer there were vegetable stands everywhere. My mother would buy veggies and we would spend time shelling, blanching and freezing. She never canned. Was afraid of pressure cookers. And I love them. I have canned in mine. Also I cook a mean pot roast in mine.
 
We

Put rice in our salt shakers. Crackers and such were stored in metal canisters that had a glass knob on top with moisture absorbing crystals in it. When the blue crystals turned pink you put it in a hot oven to dry it out. Mom usually never waited unti it was totally pink. That became one of my domestic duties. I would say 'Can I put the knob in the oven and dry it out? Speaking of growing up in the sultry South, we had floor fans. I wish I still had them. They were beautiful and really a work of art design-wise. One in particular had wooden housing with sides that looked like shutters. I was a pine color and heeeeavy. It was really old and by the time I came along is was in a closet in the basement. It didn't work. I used to go down there. Pull it out. Plug it in and flip flip flip the switch and nothing! The basement closet was one of two in the laundry room. I divided my time between pulling that old fan out and holding down the button on the washer to watch the agitator go up and down. Yes. I did have some childhood friends by the way! LOLLL.
 
this stove...

Will probable end up in storage, I really wanted it because it was like the one we had, it is solid, but not nice enough for the kitchen, so for now the Frigidaire stays .
 
Hans:

I know your Frigidaire has lots of special memories, and I can certainly understand why you're keeping it where it is.

But I would also bet a solid gold locomotive that if anyone could make that Hotpoint nice enough for any kitchen, that someone would be you!
 
I'm sorry

You don't think it will be nice enough to go to the kitchen, but you'll have fun cleaning it up and playing with it. That's the way I am with stuff I get at Good Will and sales. I have fun cleaning them up and trying them out. :)
 
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