Lets talk quality ranges!

[luxflairguy]

There's lot's more!

I have over 100 pages of Frigidaire, Caloric and other salesman's pages. I don't want this thread to end! I'm going to start scanning and like Gansky, post a few at a time. And then of course, there are all the vacuum pages...! Greg

 

[gansky1]

Woohoo! More scans - yay! I've only scratched the surface of my "library" as well, time is fleeting and it seems there is never enough to scan everything I want to share. I'm working on some stuff for Labor Day weekend now, but I should pull out some of the range stuff too. I wonder if we should start another thread now and then (part 2, 3, etc.) as this one might be getting a bit long in the download time for some.

What do you range-admirers think?

 

[peteski50]

Thank you!

For keeping this thread going. I am Happy I started this.
Lets keep it going.
Peter

 

[tlee618]

Love this thread guys!! I do think part II is a great idea as it is starting to take a short bit to download for me. Greg, is that beautiful Americana coming home to live at your house??

 

[norgeway]

GUESS WHAT IS COMING TO OUR HOUSE!!!

A Yellow 1957 GE Stratoliner range with the matching bottom freezer fridge!!!

 

[tlee618]

Santa is coming early!

Yay Hans, I bet you are really excited. Be sure and keep us posted!!

 

[norgeway]

Americana

Greg, I knew a family in Lenoir who owned Home Electric Co.,which was an Electrical cotractor as well as a GE appliance dealer, their house had every thing original still in it in the 90s, I dont know if the current owners left anything original, but they had Woodtone brown GE appliances,and the range was the first generation Americana,with a narrow glass at the front that you looked into to look in the oven,they had the roll out DW,a bottom freezer fridge,and every NuTONE built in ever thought of, I was last in that house at their estate sale,so I dont know how it looks now,but always liked that model range.

 

[mixfinder]

Stratolounger

You can cook and nap at the same time! These are among the best ever made. The fridge will have the cool turn table shelves and there should be some metal detailing on the freezer door. Amazing! Do you plan to put them into service in your present kitchen?

 

[norgeway]

Oh yeah!!

I have a good running fridge,but it looks terrible, a 63 Hotpoint,so the GE set is going in the kitchen,im using a Norge 30 range now,but it ,like all the other Norges ive had has oven rust issues,so im going to put in the yellow set, and probably paint the kitchen a contrasting color, maybe pink or turquoise! The GE fridge does have the rotating anodized shelves, and says Combination on the door, the whole kickplate is a chrome step pedal that opens the door. I also have a nice vintage NUTONE hood to install,it also has pushbuttons!

 

[dynaflow]

cant wait to visit again

Hans and Donald cant wait to see these installed, im trying now to get all my vintage pink kitchen stuff together to match my 61 mayfair pink Frigidaire thax again

 

[swestoyz]

Hans - did the family in Lenoir have a GE Americana that looked like this?

A 1963 model; she came from somewhere in the Twin Cities, and had very little use. I've rarely used it - in fact, when Don came to visit, he used it more that weekend than I have have still to this day!

They are quite the beauties. Nothing beats a GE Calrod!

Ben

 

[tomturbomatic]

That Murray range was made by the same Murray Corp that owned Easy.

 

[fltcoils]

RV70 frigidaire range re:reply 134

I grew up with that range.

The deep well
The fryer pan
The double oven.

I have the manual still.

 

[norgeway]

YES YES YES!

Thats it,and now as I think of it, it was coppertone and not Woodtone brown.

 

[norgeway]

That house!!

Was built in 63, they had a Nutone built in STEREO , the turntable folded out of the wall!!!They also had a Filtex built in vacuum,Nutone kitchen center and a fallout shelter!!! I often wonder what happened to that stuff, There estate sale was about 10 years ago, and the appliances were not for sale,but even the dishwasher looked new.