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International Harvester 'fridge
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If I am not mistaken.......
This is the same fridge that Ann Ramono had in her kitchen during the early years of One Day at Time and also I think I ahve seen this model in one of the kitchens on Friends.....PAT COFFEY
This is the same fridge that Ann Ramono had in her kitchen during the early years of One Day at Time and also I think I ahve seen this model in one of the kitchens on Friends.....PAT COFFEY
scott55405
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Looks really nice and well featured for the time. I wonder who made these.
polkanut
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My parochial school had one of these in the science room. The teacher's mainly used it to keep soda, and whatever else cold.
Who made those?
I wondered that one too.
International Harvester had offices in Illinois and (as Whirlcool can attest to) had a test farm at County-Line road and I-55.
They marketed appliances to farm-folk as they already had their attention with the farm tools. Since they needed freezers, fridges and the like - they marketed those too... for a while (Approx 1950 - 1960).
Their home-ec goddess was "Irma Harding". Get it? "I" "H". I wonder how long it took them to find a home-ec expert whose initials were same as the company? "I'm sorry, you've got great credentials but the emblems on your luggage don't match our brand name. Buh-Bye!"
Beyond that I cannot locate any good info on who made them. I presume that International Harvester "farmed" out production (sorrrry about the bad joke). Who knows - maybe they bought a fridge plant of their own.
Refrigerator plants in Illinois included Hotpoint (Cicero), Admiral (Galesburg).
Irma's address was at 180 North Michigan Ave, Chicago. She probably cooked delicious food overlooking lovely Lake Michigan.
I have two International Harvester Freezer cookbooks. I actually ran into one of their freezers at an estate sale. Although it looked really fancy, it was so gross due to neglect I wouldn't put a dead rat in it... But then again there probably was....
I wondered that one too.
International Harvester had offices in Illinois and (as Whirlcool can attest to) had a test farm at County-Line road and I-55.
They marketed appliances to farm-folk as they already had their attention with the farm tools. Since they needed freezers, fridges and the like - they marketed those too... for a while (Approx 1950 - 1960).
Their home-ec goddess was "Irma Harding". Get it? "I" "H". I wonder how long it took them to find a home-ec expert whose initials were same as the company? "I'm sorry, you've got great credentials but the emblems on your luggage don't match our brand name. Buh-Bye!"
Beyond that I cannot locate any good info on who made them. I presume that International Harvester "farmed" out production (sorrrry about the bad joke). Who knows - maybe they bought a fridge plant of their own.
Refrigerator plants in Illinois included Hotpoint (Cicero), Admiral (Galesburg).
Irma's address was at 180 North Michigan Ave, Chicago. She probably cooked delicious food overlooking lovely Lake Michigan.
I have two International Harvester Freezer cookbooks. I actually ran into one of their freezers at an estate sale. Although it looked really fancy, it was so gross due to neglect I wouldn't put a dead rat in it... But then again there probably was....
Looking at the cabinet construction and door shape, it resembles a Sears Coldspot from the era.
Ken D.
Ken D.
