Late 50s GE range in Michigan

[tomturbomatic]

Beautiful 40" double oven range in nice shape for sale for $85 on eBay

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-Gen...577?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item231bfa4bb9

 

[firedome]

Nice!

Probably an "Airliner" model MOL.
Why anyone buys a new range when you can get something like this, and so reasonably, is beyond me!

 

[maytagbear]

Maybe

they might not be interested in the fixed push button heat levels?

Maybe they might want P-7 oven cleaning?

That said, this looks like a well-maintained vintage range.

Just my dos centavos.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[twintubdexter]

does it say "insert here?"

I thought I'd post this ebay O'Keefe & Merrit (All Grief & No Merrit) range listing here. I'm not sure if I ever saw one of these come in as a trade-in amongst the many, many Flairs (Western Appliance was primarily a Frigidaire store)...but I think I would have remembered the high Grill-A-Vator. Kind of unusual, no?

if link doesn't work try ebay/collectibles/kitchen & home/large appliances

http://http:www.ebay.com/itm/Okeefe-and-Merrit-Gas-Contempo-Stove-i-think-its-1963-/270956832194?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f164925c2

 

[twintubdexter]

one broiled steak and you'd be cleaning that chrome for days

 

[circlew]

This may be later than the 50's. When my cousin Mary Frances got her first RN job after nursing school, she bought her mother a GE range that looked much like this. She graduated in either '63 or '64. I've seen ads for ranges with that control panel as late as the late 60's.

 

[hydralique]

Wow . . .

That O & M looks very much like the range some neighbors had when I was growing up. I know they had it by '67 when we moved to the neighborhood. I always thought it was a Whirlpool, but perhaps my memory is wrong. This kind of range is unusual in gas and I think very elegant.

 

The same neighbors had a nice if dusty pair of slant-front Westys that rarely ever got used as they owned three laundromats (as in self-service laundry); their own clothes usually got washed in one of the store machines being tested after a repair.

 

[firedome]

meh...never had a problem

with the 5 heat settings, as for P-7 it came in around 62 or so, so you can have a vintage range and eat it too!

 

[davey7]

Love the flair. I didn't realize that the Grillevator was available in the high/eye level oven.

Friends of mine have a GE (I think) push-button range (same age as one of them, his mom redid her kitchen while she was pregnant) - I think they even still light up. Will have to get pix.

 

[whirlaway]

GE Range

That is the exact one in my kitchen,except it is chrome inside.The lady I bought the house from said she bought it in late 58,They changed the knobs in the early sixties,but used the same style for years.Mine is actually quite heavy.Bobby