Frigidaire inheritance, and other things!!!!

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norgeway

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Well, Don and I went to my hometown of Lenoir today,Thru the generosity of my late neighbors Sister,I got lots of great things, First up...a 1975 Avocado green Frigidaire Imperial! It has been turned off for about three months so it needs a good scrubbing!

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And Matching Range!

A little background, Bertha Reavis was out neighbor from 1939 until she passed away at the age of 101 last month, as I was growing up,it was always a great part of my day to stop at her house on my way in from school, she more often than not had a hot homemade biscuit for me, I remember the day she got these appliances, I was 10! Before these she had a 1939 Frigidaire fridge, that is still running at her neices house, and a 1952 Thrifty Thirty Frigidaire range!She was truly as important to me as either of my Grandmothers.

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A Set of Club!

She got with Green Stamps to match the avocado appliances, which she almost NEVER used!They hung on a pegboard over the stove.

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Betty Crocker.

Mixer bowls, her daughter who passed away several years ago had a General Mills mixer which died years ago, so now I have spare bowls.

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Circulair Fan.

Berthas Husband Raymond Reavis, 1910-1977, was over the normal draft age when WW2 broke out, so he went to the Norfolk Va Navy Yard to work during the war, they rented a small , upstairs apartment which was very hot! Fans were in short supply then, and this is the only one they could find! 1942, runs like a top!

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last...

I know some may say, "Why did he not throw that old black pan away!" well, it probably has more sentimental value to me than anything else,it is the pan she always baked her biscuits in...ever since she started housekeeping, they were married in 1935! I can see me as a 7 or 8 year old kid waiting for one of her wonderful biscuits! She would pull them out of the old Thrifty Thirty oven and fix me one with whatever homemade jelly or jam she had,No I wouldnt take anything for this old black pan.

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Thanks for sharing Hans.  That fridge is one handsome, great looking fridge.  All Frigidasire!!!  I assume yoiu will be installing both of these in your kitchen? 
 
Nice score there. Memories that are tied with them is certainly "icing on the cake." I imagine looking at these appliances and other goodies is like stepping back into time.
 
Hans, I can understand how that old black pan would be the most precious of all the items you received.  I hope you enjoy many years of making biscuits with it!
 
Hans

thats exactly like the gold stove u and i picked up
pretty sure the ice maker will fit from my poppy Frigidaire yours if u want it
 
Neat Fan

They are like the fans they used in banks,so they wouldnt blow papers away.Great for a desk.They are cute it should have oil ports on it.Keepem oiled and they last forever.Right now Im sitting in front of a 1914 pullman green GE fan that still runs like a top,but I keep those oil cups full of oil. Good luck!
 
My grandparents purchased the same model fridge about 1974 in harvest gold, and my sister is still using it as her daily driver.  We also have the Cycla-Matic version in white as our basement fridge.  They are so quiet you almost have to put your ear up to them to hear them running.  Is yours a frost-free model?  Ours aren't.  Did you get her pancake griddle too?
 
Pancake Griddle...

Her Sisters kids kept the cast iron, but I can tell you about it, it was a round cast iron griddle that had been her Mothers, She fixt me a birthday breakfast of pancakes on it for many years , My biorthday was in September and Hers in August, so she would call it our birthday breakfast,she always melted a big lump of butter on the griddle and poured the excess into the batter, and I remember she used Bisquick.
 
Fridge..

It IS a frost proof model...I would give ANYTHING if it was just a Cycla Matic, I despise Frost Free fridges overall, I have never seen one yet that would keep food as well as a standard model!
 
We wouldn't trade our Cycla-Matics for the world!  They're very easy on the electric bill too.

Are you going to initiate the Club cookware, or is it only going to be for display purposes at your house also?

 

 

<span style="font-family: times new roman,times; font-size: large;">CONGRATS HANS!!!!!!</span>

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Hans - these look wonderful! I love the avacado color!! My mom had that same stove except it was coppertone and had a Corningware top - it was a real workhorse. Enjoy!
 
My former neighbor Edith had a Frigidaire range much like your new one; think she got it around '72 or so. It replaced a '51 30" Frigidaire like the one Kevin in Detroit just got. She kept in until sometime in the 90's when she got a smoothtop Frigidaire she didn't like.

Glad you were able to get these; always means more when they have good memories associated with them.
 
I Had the privelige!

Of growing up on a dead end street, My Grandparents built the house I grew up in , and moved in March 1927, My Mother was born in that house, our next door neighbors moved in in 1932, they were My Grandmothers neice and her husband, later in 58 her mother, my Grandmothers sister came to live with them, the third house was Bertha and Raymond Reavis who I inherited all this from, they are all gone now, but I loved them all just as if they were Grandparents, These things might not have much monetary value, but to me are priceless, they take me back to my childhood.
 
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