Favorite Movie or TV Kitchen

[daveamkrayoguy]

The Huxtables' kitchen on THE COSBY SHOW, at this point (Aren't the appliances 1980's Whirlpools?)...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

Yep,

I think so Dave.

 

[vacerator]

Prince of Bel Air

kitchen had Thermador appliances, and Full House kitchen had an 80's GE side by side and Kitchen Aid or Hobart ISE D/W.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I thought in addition to Oliver and Lisa's kitchen on GREEN ACRES, there was a kitchen at a lady farmer's house that Oliver befriended that he was having breakfast in (oh, she was quite a dish, herself) making Lisa quite jealous...

Me, I think I was quite jealous seeing a top freezer fridge, in particular there, that I don't know the make of there, I would like to have in my kitchen...

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

Oh yeah,

they were pink. GE, or Frigidaire?
How about the kitchen in the Big Chill where they cooked Thanksgiving?
Steel Magnolias? Malin's kitchen was 70's or 80's contemporary, but it looked sort of home made by a do it your selfer.

 

[davey7]

I'm surprised that no one has mentioned the most fabulous TV kitchen ever, with it's self-refreshing champagne chiller array and fabulous renovations every season, darlings.

 

[johnb300m]

flat bottomed boat

Holy Crap!

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I REMEMBER as a very young kid, pre-school age maybe? Seeing that on TV, and the funky little vacuum cleaner with the pulsing bag. I remember that scene once it was posted when it was attacking her.
It was a riot!
Totally forgot about that till today. Amazing.

 

[norgeway]

Edith Bunkers stove

Was a late 50s Kenmore, her fridge was a sheer look Frigidaire, her mixer was a avocado green painted Dormeyer from the early 60s, Maudes kitchen had gas coppertone stuff, Magic Chef maybe???The Leave it toBeaver kitchen was first, a Roper DELUXE 40 inch range with a TOL Gas Servel fridge,Later they had GE,

 

[davey7]

Findley's Friendly Appliances

One would hope that Maude had floor models or "at cost" appliances from Walter's store or else God woulda got him!

 

[vacerator]

Unless Walter Findlay

was like some plumbers, etc. who were too busy to care about their own.

 

[davey7]

Can you imagine being married to Maude being able to not pay attention? Plus she was a realtor too, wasn't she? (though my realtor neighbor, bless her heart, doesn't seem to always get it either)

 

[vacerator]

No,

being married to Maude would demand 150% attention.
My dad was an appliance repair tech. We had one washer with no lid, that only spun on low speed, and an old Hamilton dryer with no console cover, only the timer knob showing. Short lived, until he got around to buying my mom new ones, after she had to nag him for a month.
My sister needed braces, so he picked them up in an alley. He won the daily three lottery and bought new ones a month later.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

My daughter's now a FULL HOUSE fan, (yes, she's begging us to take a trip to San Francisco, CA where the show takes place, anyway, and Nor. Cal. Is a place that I would LOVE to go back to and see more of, after my one visit in '96, anyhow) so that means acknowledging the 1980's kitchen featuring the still not-yet-perfectly-working ice & water dispensing GE side-by-side, and like the Brady's and the gals in GOLDEN GIRLS having such, I think they use the sink and glasses with ice in them, seem to get the ice off camera...

The kinds of cooking appliances my mind is reeling around for--somehow ranges/ovens don't specifically come to mind that I can post here, without, of course, seeing just another episode with her...

But I'll leave you with the White-Westinghouse washer and dryer peeking out of the laundry nook behind all this, and somehow despite all these people living here, it doesn't seem to be running or used, so that sure contributes to a lot of dirty clothes, not to mention those feeble appliances' longevity, but then again, this being TV, nobody seems to wear any one thing twice or more than once, anyway...!

Oh, and did I tell you: All this is in Almond?!

-- Dave

 

[spacedogb]

Not quite a TV kitchen, but I love Julia Child's kitchen.

 

[tolivac]

The Julia Child kitchen has got to be the best and most well equipped-So much kitchen equipment there!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Holy Clonakilty Cowboys!!!! (& with that gal, & all!)

I think I want to be in Noel Redding's kitchen:

-- Dave

 

[newvista58]

WHAT A DREAM....

The Parker's kitchen in "Pleasantville".  Those

awesome Double Western Holly Ovens and that 

Killer Foodarama.  Love the whole room.

 

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Look! A modern-day Americana Side by Side Fridge:

Does Jimmie Haskell's kitchen have that GE Profile? Or were these interviews done at the home of Dr. Richard Niles?

 

 

 

-- Dave

http://www.londonjazznews.com/2016/02/tribute-jimmie-haskell-1936-2016.html

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Okay, hopefully legally "trafficked" from Facebook--three generations of Goldsboros: Bobby, his son Danny, (from whose profile it's from) and Bobby's dad, of which"grandpa" passed away that year (2012)...

 

Other pictures, like this one, show more of that refrigerator, with an ice & water dispenser--relatively new & can't make out the make--but I just had to bring this one over here for that wall-oven, seen only here... (Presumably a double & I don't know what brand)

 

You can, also, looking very carefully, get a glimpse of that cool, green, tiled floor... Plenty of other pics there of it, making it more visible, and where else can you find an equally cool kitchen table & set of four chairs, with an equally-retro hanging light with a globe over it?

 

Yes, a lot old, and over there (I think in Florida) more--or most!--cared for...

 

 

 

-- Dave

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[daveamkrayoguy]

"On The Inside"

The laundry of PRISONER CELL BLOCK H although most of you guys probably wish that were a men's prison, or maybe all those wringers on McHALE'S NAVY of which among all the boxers, why couldn't someone sneak in some women's drawers (from that era, vs. the era depicted, World War II) when I was really after the theme song from...

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

The cartoon THE LOUD HOUSE, where in the laundry room, I could imagine the old front-loader washer and dryer set being a Philco-Bendix, while the kitchen had an ice and water dispensing refrigerator side by side and 40” double-oven gas stove...

— Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Here’s Neil Young making himself some tea on a Frigidaire Compact 30…

How many Buffalo Springfield records had to be sold to get at least that, and all the bric-a-brac, not to mention the place he lived in?

Or is this a recording studio’s or record executive’s kitchen?

 

[phillymatt53]

That looks like a GE clock in the Nelson kitchen.

I believe that GE was one of the sponsors of the show.
So naturally, there's be some GE appliances as props.
I know that the dining room had a GE console stereo in there.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Ozzie and Harriet:

Suffered as the boys aged. They were the main draw during the late '50s/early '60s, gorgeous as hell. Rick's music didn't hurt.

As they got older and got married, they had to leave the Nelson "nest." That altered the family dynamic of the show, and it didn't help that neither of the boys' wives was all that passable as an actress. Rick's wife, Kristin Nelson, was especially histrionically-challenged, to say it with political correctness.

There was also a little bad publicity in those years; David's first wife, June Blair, was a former Playboy Playmate of the Month (Miss January, 1957), which made her pure-young-matron act on the show a bit hard to swallow, even if Playboy wasn't frontal in those days. And David - a young lawyer on the show - couldn't pass his bar exams in real life (I hasten to add that David Nelson was an extraordinarily fine human being; I had the pleasure of talking with him years ago, and he was the most thoughtful and informed of political liberals). So, a few cracks were opening up in Fantasyland.

Things have a season, and that lifespan is not necessarily connected to TV seasons.

P.S.: Kristin Nelson is actor Mark Harmon's sister. Talent ran in the family, just not in all directions.

Speaking of things running in the family, I have always wondered whether Ozwald's or Harriet's genes contributed to the boys extreme hairiness.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I believe that GE was one of the sponsors of the show.
So naturally, there's be some GE appliances as props.
I know that the dining room had a GE console stereo in there.

Hotpoint was an early sponsor of the show. Magazine ads for Hotpoint appliances featured Harriet and, sometimes, Ozzie.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Dave - CHA apartments (most of them), aka the Projects, mostly had block walls (don't know if Cabrini Green - which is actually just west of the Gold Coast, had been a ghetto since at least 1920 or so, which is where Good Times was set, had block walls inside, since they had brick exteriors). Although, in reality, the Evans' would have probably lived in a two-flat or maybe even a bungalow (working families had mostly fled the big projects in Chicago by the mid-70's, it was always a very New York show to me in that regard). Always wondered how Florida commuted to Tuckahoe from Cabrini, I don't think Metra connects with Metro North....

Doris always managed to have those massive kitchens on her working girl salary in New York, didn't she? I always suspected Jan Morrow got around a bit - with all those gentlemen admirers... There is a French and Saunders parody of her with a nice kitchen too. Down With Love had some kitchens inspired by the Doris-Rock movies too.

Didn't Ma & Pa Kettle have some ultra-modern kitchen once they hit it big, or am I thinking something way off here?

I remember Pa Kettle turning on the sun lamp in the bathroom and emerging from shaving with a sunburn.

 

[tomturbomatic]

We're Forgetting a Great One....

....The kitchen from Roseanne. It wasn't the most beautiful kitchen, and it wasn't the fanciest, but the Conner family managed to do a whole lot of living in it. The producers of the show gave this set a lot of attention, working to collect just the right middle-American touches for it. A viewer found placemats that matched the potholders she'd seen on the show, sent them in - and they were put on the set, just as Roseanne Conner would have if she'd found them.

The Conner kitchen was nothing anyone aspired to, but it was much more familiar to many people than they probably wanted to admit, LOL.[this post was last edited: 12/22/2012-05:29]

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It did have that bol Tappan electric range. I have often wondered how they kept the plumbing on that back porch with the laundry from freezing in Midwestern winters.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Grandma Walton?

Was that Ellen Corby in the middle of that scene? She was only on for a second but it sure sounded like her.

She also played one of the town gossips in Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte a fabulous film of revenge on many levels.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Norma Shearer's Destination:

Was a "dude ranch" operated for the express purpose of allowing women from other states to establish Nevada residency for the purpose of gaining a divorce. In the 1930s. divorces were not handed out like Kleenex, the way they are today - you really, really had to jump through some hoops to get one.

In many instances, a woman had to claim and prove infidelity on the part of her husband to obtain a divorce. That created a cottage industry of "professional correspondents," women who would, for a fee, be photographed in a hotel room bed (clothed in nightwear; there were limits) with the husband, thus "proving" infidelity to the satisfaction of a court. Husbands had to be gentlemanly and play along with this charade, though being "caught" in this situation did nothing much to a man's reputation. Again, this was all a farce to satisfy laws of the time; usually, no actual infidelity took place.

The Women specifically and accurately names Reno, NV as the divorce capital of America at that time. Nevada divorce law was pretty much the most liberal in the nation then, so wealthy women flocked there when they wanted out of a marriage, first establishing residency and then petitioning the courts there for the desired divorce. Reno dude ranches, resorts and residential hotels all catered to this trade, and divorce lawyers there did a brisk business.

They termed the process, "being Renovated."

 

[phillymatt53]

Hotpoint was an early sponsor of the show. Magazine ads for Hotpoint appliances featured Harriet and, sometimes, Ozzie.

Yes, correct.
I remember Harriet's commercials with appliances and cameras.