Mass. Ranges for Sale

[toploader55]

Does this have the Warming Shelf ?

Fridge looks like a mid 80's Kenmore.

http://boston.craigslist.org/sob/app/3379465297.html

 

[toploader55]

Nice GE Range

Love these.

http://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/app/3379197335.html

 

[toploader55]

Magee Gas Range.

I remember these.

Does the Oven Handle look "Customized" ???

http://boston.craigslist.org/gbs/ppd/3305449569.html

 

[toploader55]

Nasty Looking Flair for only $600.00

Either Bad Pics or just plain Filthy

http://boston.craigslist.org/bmw/app/3364375819.html

 

[toploader55]

OMG

Mint Wall Oven, er... Stove for only $500.00

http://providence.craigslist.org/app/3286314227.html

 

[danemodsandy]

That GE Range:

Is a dream range for me, though not in Harvest Gold, and certainly not for $500.

I do love a 40-incher.

Make of that what you will.

 

[wayupnorth]

The first one looks like one Sears sold with a shelf to put a microwave oven on. The Magee has the side gas heater that pumped alot of heat but chewed alot of gas up. But they dont look bad at all for the age.

 

[gansky1]

I remember staring at those Tappan-made ranges in the Wards catalogs.  There's even an outlet on the top shelf.  Too bad it was only a middling performer overall, it sho was purty.

 

I'm with Sandy, size matters.  That 40" GE is a looker, I would even consider wheeling that into the kitchen for a while - coppertone would be a lovely color on this range

 

 

[danemodsandy]

Greg:

The appeal of that 40-incher is that it's both a GE 40-incher and P*7 self-cleaning. Even better, it's late enough to have continuously variable dial controls instead of pushbuttons. Pushbutton GE's are all very well, and I get along with them fine, but I have just enough of a control-freak streak to like the fact that I can nudge a dial a leeetle more this way or that.

And of course, GE's from '57 on have one feature I think highly of - that lip around the cooktop surface. I grew up with a '48/'49 Raymond Loewy-designed Frigidaire 40-incher with that damn "waterfall" front, and I still remember how often the front of the range had to be cleaned of drips. Here's an ad shot showing the exact range we had, though I don't recall anyone in our house ever wearing Dior's New Look to cook on it. And I don't think Mom would have had a Cory Dru coffeemaker in the house - hell, regular Mirro percolators baffled her.

For me, the white version of the GE would be tops. [this post was last edited: 11/2/2012-06:42]

 

[gansky1]

I've not seen a GE of this vintage, TOL anyway, around here.  Into this era the 40" range market was nearly petered out and cost was likely a huge factor when 30" ranges were so much less expensive.

 

[gansky1]

Oops, looks like we're missing a knob.

 

The controls are spread out across the panel:  Right Front -- two steps that-a-way!

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Hmmmmmm..., I read copper tone & white for this GE, as for me, it would be avocado as the color I would like it in...!

What's nice about 40" electrics is how simple they are & you can get at least one oven in a double oven model, self-cleaning (while cleaning the innards from the 2nd oven) though 1 oven would be enough for me, as I would appreciate the extra storage space, w/o "accidentally leaving stuff in the 2nd oven forgotten about when I turn it on to use"; I would love the large surface space & would want the cluster of burners on the left, as opposed to them separated, right & left w/ the preparation space in-between, as I often see...

A large gas range that big would not have a self-cleaning oven or oven'S, and while it would have a good 5 or 6 burners, I would dislike the broiling in the drawer under the oven (unless it has an in-oven Hi Broil unit)... But having 5 or 6 eyes for gas cooking on top would be fun!

(A 40" HYBRID gas cook top/electric oven/ovens, anyone?)

-- Dave

 

[danemodsandy]

Greg:

"Into this era the 40" range market was nearly petered out and cost was likely a huge factor when 30" ranges were so much less expensive."

The cost was the killer. In many '40s and '50s houses originally equipped with 40-inchers, including ours, housewives in need of replacement ranges took one look at the price 40-inchers had climbed to, and decided to make do with a 30-inch range. In addition, self-cleaners had become the most desirable ranges, and 40-inchers with self-cleaning were priced the very highest of any range.

Many a late-'60s/early '70s kitchen had a 30-inch range in a space designed for a 40-inch model, with whatever was handy filling in the extra ten-inch space. Ugly, but hey, Milady had a self-cleaning oven!

In our house, a TOL Lady Kenmore 30-inch smooth-top with self-cleaning replaced the 40-inch Frigidaire. I will never forget the ordeal of getting that all-porcelain Frigidaire to the curb at the end of our 200-foot driveway, without a dolly.

Yes, we would all kill for that Frigidaire today, but at the time, nobody cared. And pre-Internet, very, very few people would have been able to come up with the factory-NLA parts it needed.

 

[danemodsandy]

Here's....

....A schweet '65 GE I wouldn't mind having, pushbuttons and all.

P*7 self-cleaning large oven, conventional-clean side oven, two storage drawers, lighted control panel, temp probe, griddle, rotisserie and two convenience outlets - one timed.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

"Many '60s/'70s kitchens had 30" in space fo

In which case there was a trend to make refrigerators larger sizes & meet the need for more refrigerator/freezer space, and keeping in the kitchen, thereby making a separate freezer, located in a basement, garage, or other remote part of housing more of a necessity, than if more freezing space is still needed, despite still being outside of the kitchen...

Hence, while ranges got narrower, refrigerators were becoming wider!

-- Dave