GE Spacemaker Range

[fan-of-fans]

Looks very clean, I’m guessing these were made possibly into the 90s.

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[bajaespuma]

I always thought

You could put one of these next to another 30" range and end up with a dandy cooking center with 8 burners and two different ovens for nowhere near the price of a large 2 oven stove these days.

 

[combo52]

GE 21 inch Spacemaker range

This was the last great quality compact electric range made and sold in the US for sure.

Yes, it would be cool to put two of these next to each other and have a 42 inch range. You could do a lot of cooking on it.

We had a customer back in the Late 70s that did a kitchen and she bought a 20 inch brown electric range in harvest gold put a 24 inch work surface to the right of it and then she put a 24 inch brown electric range to the right she ordered the ranges with only three burners each Each of them had one thermostatic burner on them you could still order that and it made quite a nice little kitchen set up two ovens six burners

 

[jamiel]

They put these in my grandmother's CCRC which was built between 1992-3. Far better quality than anything you find today in this size (interestingly, her daughter (my aunt) moved into the same CCRC last year into a cottage (which were built 7-8 years after the place opened)....they put in a fresh kitchen with a 30" stove but only an 18" dishwasher.

 

[ea56]

There was a show on TV about 10-12 years ago called “The Beekman Boys” about two gay men in upstate New York that lived in an old house that they’d restored on a farm that they raised goats on. In their kitchen they had two 24” gas stoves side by side which I’d never seen done before and I thought that it was a very clever idea. Makes a lot more sense than spending thousands of dollars on one of those massive high end stoves in order to get two ovens and 8 burners.

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[circlew]

Some of the mid 50's GE ads for the 24" Spacemaker ranges showed two of them being used together.

 

[pulltostart]

I brought one of the 21" Spacemakers with me when I moved to Mobile.  I used it for a while as I tried out different ranges.  There was nothing wrong with the Spacemaker with one exception.  It had no storage space below the oven.  It would have been a more-valuable appliance if GE had engineered a storage drawer into the design.  Otherwise it was a fine range.

 

lawrence

 

[petek]

Ironically this pic showed up on FB the other day.

 

[tomturbomatic]

A friend's folks had that range. You had to pull it out and go in from the back to change the fluorescent tube over the cooktop.

 

[jamiel]

Probably that is how they stopped that 21 inch stove from being a rattly mess...keeping the bottom rigid.

 

[combo52]

GE spacemaker range no drawer

The drawer was left out because this is mostly a builder piece where cost was very important, it’s also such a narrow range that the drawer would be fairly useless. The effective width of the drawer would probably only be about 16 inches.

But this was a very solidly built range, there’s just simply no reason for a storage drawer in it when you consider their market was making a quality product and were trying to compete against the likes of companies, like Brown stove works and thankfully they didn’t cheapen the stove itself.

John

 

[circlew]

The earlier 24" models had a storage drawer.

I never knew of Samantha having two Frigidaire Twin 30 ranges. Was this a kitchen in another show Elizabeth Montgomery appeared in, or was it in her own home?

 

[steved]

Samantha

This was in her home kitchen. I read that somewhere.

 

[circlew]

Thanks for the info, Steve. The high school I attended had Frigidaire ranges that were like the lower portion of hers.