Phil, what a score! Those are some sharp appliances in some sharp colors. I agree with Fred, hold out for the backglass, a complete panel is bound to turn up sooner or later. -C
It was supposed to be a rainy day here but the sun just came back!
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The styling of that fridge is so over the top - I'm not sure that I've ever really seen or really paid much attention to the styling of the '59 model year fridges. It's definitely taking me some getting used to, as it's such a departure from what a fridge generally looks like. Frigidaire sure didn't skimp on the "lacework styling" in 1959. My favorite fridge style by Frigidaire is the one with the square handle, with FRIGIDAIRE spelled out in the little circles across the door - 1960; if we found a bottom freezer model in Turquoise, with the pedal to open the freezer, that would be "sheer" (pun intended) perfection.
Again - great finds, I'm sure there can't be many of these beasts still in existance.
Again - great finds, I'm sure there can't be many of these beasts still in existance.
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I think I'm going to keep it. Strangely, the top part of the refrigerator and the drawer of the range have white panels instead of yellow ones. I guess they were replaced and they couldn't find some in the correct color.
Roger, Frigidaire didn't have decorated freezer doors and that was the only year for panels like this on the refrigerator door (the 1960 also had a much smaller panel but still on the upper door.
I still wish I could find a 1958 Frost Proof refrigerator as I prefer it's styling but the 1959 is the closest thing to it and it matches with my favorite range.
Fred, I also like the 1960 a lot (and the similar 1961 and 1962). A friend of mine had a 1960 in her basement (at her parent's place) in the late 1990s. I know someone who still has a 1960 Frost-Proof freezer.
There was something in a newspaper from Ontario about someone who liked his 1960 Frigidaire refrigerator a few years ago. I saved the picture.
Roger, Frigidaire didn't have decorated freezer doors and that was the only year for panels like this on the refrigerator door (the 1960 also had a much smaller panel but still on the upper door.
I still wish I could find a 1958 Frost Proof refrigerator as I prefer it's styling but the 1959 is the closest thing to it and it matches with my favorite range.
Fred, I also like the 1960 a lot (and the similar 1961 and 1962). A friend of mine had a 1960 in her basement (at her parent's place) in the late 1990s. I know someone who still has a 1960 Frost-Proof freezer.
There was something in a newspaper from Ontario about someone who liked his 1960 Frigidaire refrigerator a few years ago. I saved the picture.
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