Lets talk quality ranges!

[combo52]

1970s HARDWICK GAS Hi Low RANGE

Greg great ad for the Hardwick, but when you consider how much hair spray she has in her hair she shouldn't go anywhere near a gas range. That could all be gone faster than the Hindenburg.

 

[westingman123]

red cracked ice counters!

OMG! Where is that custom range? Those are the exact counters I seek! I found a totally outrageous outlet for the formica on line, but have yet to find someone to bind the edges in stainless. Those are some FINE ranges, yessir!

 

[gansky1]

Keith, those red counters were in a house that I saw at an estate sale last fall. Here are the other photos I took of the house.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gansky1/

 

[little-edie]

frigidaire range

the dashboard of that '59 is magnificent.

 

[elginkid]

Premier Stove Co.

Premier Stoves is an American company based in Illinois that still produces ranges domestically. From our limited research, they make high quality, but simple ranges. I picked up an 80s Premier for $20 for my 3rd floor apartment, and the girls that live there quite liked it. It's a 30" range with either 5 burners, or you can convert the center burner to a griddle, or just put a cover on and have a traditional 4 burner model. All premiers that I've seen, even the new ones have pull out broilers at the bottom, rather than a storage drawer. Menard's carried a lot of Premier ranges, at least the one I've been to in Decatur, IL.

Wes

 

[mattl]

Gansky, we have the same Frigidaire range! I've always loved that range, and while it's in the basement area now still use it from time to time.

Mine is lacking the heat minder, but I might scavenge one from a '65 cooktop I have, if it's compatible. Unfortunately my glass panel is cracked, Way back when in '59 when my mom got it we had a glass block window right above the stove. The cold transferred from the blocks caused the glass to break on more than one occasion. After the last time my mom just lived with it. It really only has 6 years of everyday use, in '65 we moved to a new home and it had a crappy 30" Hotpoint drop in range. At that point the monster was moved to the basement and hooked up a few years later. If I recall my folks paid about $600 of it in '59, think of that in 2010 $$$!

Modern kitchens are just not designed for 40" ranges, too bad.

 

[goatfarmer]

Brown Turquoise?

Or is it a Turquoise Brown? Either way, it's not a new color I invented!

 

[goatfarmer]

This turquoise color Brown is a 27" model, I think it started life in a trailer, or a manufactured home. Supposed to work, I haven't checked it.
Also, if anyone feels the need, I have the matching Admiral single door refrigerator. It works fine.

 

[westingman123]

how quickly I forget...

NOW I remember those from your first post. Sigh. To dream. Thanks for refreshing my old memory banks. I hope that kitchen is still intact.

 

[norgeway]

Brown!!

Is the only family owned range manufacturer left in the U S, Cleveland Tennessee, I have been by the factory,it looks old and run down,but still operating,The giant modern Hardwick plant in Cleveland is now Whirlpools range plant!

 

[goatfarmer]

Brown Stove Works

has a great website!

http://www.brownstoveworksinc.com/index.htm

 

[58limited]

Here is an ad I found for my Chambers Imperial, about mid-1930s:

 

[gansky1]

That Brown in turquoise is very cool. We had friends years ago that were living in a trailer while building their own log cabin home in the hills along the Missouri river in Iowa. They had this range and a matching refrigerator (can't recall the brand now) but theirs were yellow. They had a nice fan above the range - you could see the ground outside the spinning (knives) blades! (sorry, Peter, it is a range thread after all ;-)

 

[gansky1]

1959 Frigidaire RCI-75-59

This Frigidaire is a gorgeous range, just spectacular - like all turquoise usually is. I had this in the kitchen until a couple of weeks ago when I switched it out with the 57 pink GE. Change them like handbags for the season? Perhaps, but they are both too pretty to choose between them...

 

[gansky1]

Here is the 1957 GE. The kitchen remodel - woods, colors, etc. were pretty much planned and executed around this range.

 

[petek]

wow Greg your kitchen looks great. I love those cabinets and handles.

 

[peteski50]

40 inch ranges!

Greg your kitchen looks great with either the Frigidaire or GE range and I love the cabinets!
Peter

 

[peteski50]

Hardwick 1977!

This is a cool one

 

[peteski50]

Tappan 1977!

This one is cool but if the stove or the microwave breaks you are stuck with the other. They show 3 verisions 2 electrics and one gas with only continious cleaning in the gas.

 

[peteski50]

Tappanelectric1953

This looks like a nice 30 inch model for that era!

 

[peteski50]

Westinghouse!

I LOVE this Oven!

 

[peteski50]

Tappan1969!

This one looks to have a warmer on top with a continous cleaning oven! Nice styling! I also like the fact the broiler is in the oven. I never liked broiler drawers below!

 

[peteski50]

Crown!

We had this one in the 70's in a apartment in New Jersey
Nice the broiler was Above the oven and continous cleaning - nicely styled!

 

[peteski50]

Crown!

Updates!

 

[peteski50]

Crown!

Other model!

 

[peteski50]

Crown!

update!

 

[goatfarmer]

I always thought Crown ranges were built in Chicago. Guess not!

 

[norgeway]

Crown..

Was built in Chicago for many years,Gray and Dudley was an Off Brand as we say in the south,how they got control of Crown is a mystery to me as Crown was rather high end .

 

[spookiness]

Brown, "elderly/handicapped"

WRT the above posting about Brown ranges.
After perusing the online catalog, I can't discern the difference between their regular line and their "elderly/handicapped" offerings.

Anyone have any insight?

 

[peteski50]

Lets add some more!

Wards - Is this really Tappan?