This is not the TOL model--only one oven-- so the buttons do not light. It is such a shame that when homemakers did a lot of cooking and baking, the ovens were smaller. I guess the manufacturers had to balance economy and capacity. Kelvinator and Frigidaire were two of the earliest stove makers to push 30" ranges and they introduced the big wide oven, or at least Kelvinator laid claim to it. It's kind of rude for the guy posting the stove to criticize the aging owner's cleaning habits. Diminished sight, strength and mobility are just three factors that could have contributed to the stove's appearance. It could have been that a caretaker was doing the cooking for the aging owner, who knows? In most postings on Ebay, the "Evenizers" covering the often open coil bake elements are rusty after years of intense heat have destroyed the porcelain or aluminized steel finish. The intense heat under the Evenizer was not very kind to the porcelain surface on the oven floor either. When GE first went to a Calrod bake element, the element was not straight sided, parallel with the oven perimiters, but more of a squiggle from front to back under the dark porcelain Evenizer. The Evenizer held so much heat after the Calrod bake element cycled off that it caused overbrowning of baked foods. Range manufacturers thought that they needed to shield the food from the radiant heat produced by the bake element, but the Calrod and similar sealed elements, because they were so much more dense, had less surface area to radiate infra red heat as opposed to the radiant heat of the multiple runs of the open coils that were needed to heat ovens. I think the only wide oven with open coil heaters for baking that I remember was our neighbor's big mid 50s 40 inch Philco. The oven porcelain was gray and the Evenizer covered most of the bottom of the oven, but with an almost square opening in the middle. That stove also had a broiler element that was the open coils in a frame type. The frame could be pulled part way out of the oven and a heavy griddle could be placed over this. The oven door was kept open to the broil position and the oven control was set to Broil and we would grill hamburgers, at waist height, on it. It warmed the kitchen really effectively, too.
