Hmmmm today at an antiquey mall I saw this GE square monitor top and found it had shelves on the door which I always though was a Crosley Shelvador patent from the 40's or 50's?
First fridge with shelves on the door? Not Crosley Shelvador
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Strange
I've never seen a Monitor Top like that before. The top is a different shape. It doesn't look like a "Square Top" replacement unit because the front is bowed out (intentionally) and the top looks too tall.
The handle looks different and the door has an unusual bump-out in the middle.
Could this fridge be an experimental unit?
Very curious,
Dave
I've never seen a Monitor Top like that before. The top is a different shape. It doesn't look like a "Square Top" replacement unit because the front is bowed out (intentionally) and the top looks too tall.
The handle looks different and the door has an unusual bump-out in the middle.
Could this fridge be an experimental unit?
Very curious,
Dave
Now that you mention it.. it does look a bit outta place, even the scripting of the logo looks a bit too modern for the rest of the fridge?
58limited
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I've got one that is similar - same top but no door shelves. The legs are Queen Anne style, not art deco. I believe it is from about 1932. There was one like mine on the TV series Nash Bridges in Nash's apartment. Mine is in pretty rough shape, I use it as a storage cabinet in the garage but it might be fixable.
danemodsandy
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I Wonder...
...If Crosley's claim to fame was the shelves themselves, or the name "Shelvador?"
There have been certain brand names that are so perfect that they stick in the public's mind forever, and make competing companies wish to Heaven they'd thought of them first. Chrysler's "Town and Country" name for woodie convertibles and wagons was one. The management of the Pennsylvania Railroad had one of the finest trains in the world, running between New York and Chicago, called the Broadway Limited. Unfortunately for the Pennsy, rival New York Central called their train the Twentieth Century Limited, a name so good that Pennsy execs blamed it for the Broadway's perpetual red ink.
Does anyone know if Crosley actually had a patent on door shelves, or if the name was so memorable that people got it into their heads that the only way to get the feature was to buy a Crosley?
...If Crosley's claim to fame was the shelves themselves, or the name "Shelvador?"
There have been certain brand names that are so perfect that they stick in the public's mind forever, and make competing companies wish to Heaven they'd thought of them first. Chrysler's "Town and Country" name for woodie convertibles and wagons was one. The management of the Pennsylvania Railroad had one of the finest trains in the world, running between New York and Chicago, called the Broadway Limited. Unfortunately for the Pennsy, rival New York Central called their train the Twentieth Century Limited, a name so good that Pennsy execs blamed it for the Broadway's perpetual red ink.
Does anyone know if Crosley actually had a patent on door shelves, or if the name was so memorable that people got it into their heads that the only way to get the feature was to buy a Crosley?
whirlaway
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Freezer!?!
The unit on top looks huge compared to the rest of the unit.I have a flat-top and its not that big.I wonder if it could be an early freezer.Id like a good frontal top shot and one of the unit inside,its a strange one and the door hinges are not as heavy looking. Bobby
The unit on top looks huge compared to the rest of the unit.I have a flat-top and its not that big.I wonder if it could be an early freezer.Id like a good frontal top shot and one of the unit inside,its a strange one and the door hinges are not as heavy looking. Bobby
athanasius80
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Its one of the Canadian GE's! I looked at that cabinet for a second, and I recognized the legs from the Canadian service manual that shows up on Ebay very occasionally...
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I'm not completely sure about it, but I saw a Westinghouse refrigerator commercial, I think starring the I Love Lucy cast...they mention that Westinghouse uses a new kind of refrigeration so that you can store milk on the door without it spoiling.
That sparked my curiosity. Were the doors not the best spot for fresh foods like milk, because the 'cool' couldn't get to them easily?
I'm sure that Westinghouse commercial was in the mid-late fifites. I've seen other earlier refrigerators, such as the Kelvinator Foodarama with milk stored on the door.
What's up with that? Why did the milk spoil if you stored it on the door shelf?
I am not a refrigerator expert, so I can't be sure about it.
I hope this didn't send the thread on too much of a tangent, but it does have something to do with door shelves!
~Tim
That sparked my curiosity. Were the doors not the best spot for fresh foods like milk, because the 'cool' couldn't get to them easily?
I'm sure that Westinghouse commercial was in the mid-late fifites. I've seen other earlier refrigerators, such as the Kelvinator Foodarama with milk stored on the door.
What's up with that? Why did the milk spoil if you stored it on the door shelf?
I am not a refrigerator expert, so I can't be sure about it.
I hope this didn't send the thread on too much of a tangent, but it does have something to do with door shelves!
~Tim
The door shelves are too warm in many old refrigerators and many new. The last two units I've had I made sure they had a special cold shelf in the door to keep milk cold. The Amana I bought 10 or 12 years ago had a completely enclosed milk keeper in the door with a sliding plastic door that kept the chilled air that was piped into it in there. My current Whirlpool also has a special vent that directs cold air into the door and baffles that distribute it over the shelf where milk is stored.
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Bugsy the Westinghouse Commercial you saw
talked about the Westinghouse Cold Injector system. Basically all it was was a fan in the back wall of the fridge that ran when the door was closed and blew the air through out the fridge, like a convection range only you might call this a conventicton fridge. My family had a 1960 Westinghouse fridge with that feature at our summer cottage at Deep Creek Lake MD. for many years and if memory serves it worked very well. How I would love to find a copy of the one we had again.....PAT COFFEY
talked about the Westinghouse Cold Injector system. Basically all it was was a fan in the back wall of the fridge that ran when the door was closed and blew the air through out the fridge, like a convection range only you might call this a conventicton fridge. My family had a 1960 Westinghouse fridge with that feature at our summer cottage at Deep Creek Lake MD. for many years and if memory serves it worked very well. How I would love to find a copy of the one we had again.....PAT COFFEY
Bugsy the Westinghouse Commercial you saw
talked about the WEstinghouse Cold Injector system. Basically all it was was a fan in the back wall of the fridge that ran when the door was closed and blew the air through out the fridge, like a convection range only you might call this a conventicton fridge. My family had a 1960 Westinghouse fridge with that feature at our summer cottage at Deep Creek Lake MD. for many years and if memory serves it worked very well. How I would love to find a copy of the one we had again.....PAT COFFEY
talked about the WEstinghouse Cold Injector system. Basically all it was was a fan in the back wall of the fridge that ran when the door was closed and blew the air through out the fridge, like a convection range only you might call this a conventicton fridge. My family had a 1960 Westinghouse fridge with that feature at our summer cottage at Deep Creek Lake MD. for many years and if memory serves it worked very well. How I would love to find a copy of the one we had again.....PAT COFFEY
