Frigidaire Refrigerator - Montreal and Vintage Red Frigidaire Double Oven (Philadelphia)

[ovrphil]

1) Vintage Red Frigidaire Double Oven (Philadelphia) - http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/app/5018068515.html

2) For the Canadian crowd: Réfrigérateur Roy ( frigidaire, frigo ) vintage rétro - $300 (montreal) - http://montreal.en.craigslist.ca/app/5034164709.html

(not sure if 2 is of interest in terms of age or rarity)...

http://philadelphia.craigslist.org/app/5018068515.html

 

[gansky1]

That refrigerator is beautiful!

Have not seen the brand Roy (?) come up before.

 

[philr]

They were made by Hupp Canada and are Gibson clones. It was listed once on Craigslist but was relisted daily on Kijiji with the price going down about $10 a day! I should have an interest in these as they were made close to my hometown and I know some former workers of this factory. But, I just don't like these much.

 

I guess it was sold but I kept the larger pics from the Kijiji ads on my computer.  I was wondering if this fridge really came with stainless doors and so did Paul! Roy wasn't known for making very high end stuff!

 

One of the pics shows the "Frost Clear" badge that Roy used on it's fridges and I think Gibson used that name too.

 

[firedome]

the ROY fridge

almost looks like it was painted with high gloss gray metallic paint. It's a bit darker than stainless, and the finish looks darn near perfect, not likely after 55 years!

 

[combo52]

Gibson Refrigerator

These were pretty crappy refs, just seeing this brings back all kinds of bad memory's about fixing these poor excuses of a refrigerator.

 

The freezers were never cold enough while the ref section always liked to freeze things.

 

[ovrphil]

Frozen Roy Boy

Reminds me of our last refrigerator this apartment complex just replaced - the refrigerator would freeze things in the back, on the first shelves. You had to keep food forward and leave a space, making many cu.ft. less available.

 

[philr]

That often happens with tired refrigerators which run almost constantly. Their freezer can't get cold enough and the temperature in the refrigerator section tends to balance with the freezer temp (because of the long running time) and be too cold.

 

[ovrphil]

As it turned out, PhilR...after many months of this happening, a service call revealed there was a sheet of ice to remove. It had built up below the freezer bottom compartment and the top, inner panel(where the light is mounted). Bizarre. This was a frost-free refrigerator, too! The sheet of ice that covered the entire area of between aforementioned panels was thick. We have a small, but better Whirlpool.