Moms "busy" 70's kitchen

[petek]

The fridge was a Maytag frost free I believe. I never actually lived in that house (when they bought it)  since they moved there  about a year or so after I moved out on my own. We had a single door GE auto defrost prior with those revolving shelves which became the basement fridge. I found a letter dad wrote to Maytag complaining about the noise it made and I also remember him telling me about it, like why couldn't they make it quieter.. He was very particular about things like that.. I didn't find it noisy at all. just the hum pretty much all frost free's make. Their reply was that it was normal and that it was so well built that foods would stay fresher longer blah blah blah..  I'm pretty sure I kept the letter but where it is among the hundreds of other things mom never threw out.. It will show up one day and I'll post it.   

 

[philr]

The fridge in that picture is a Frigidaire from the mid-1960s. Hard to see the exact model in that picture, looks like an Imperial 14 cu-ft.

 

In the US, this style was made from 1963 to 1965, in Canada, they were made much longer. If you find another shot on which we see the handles or the door trim better, I could be more precise.

 

Unlike the US models, they didn't all have the Frigidaire rotary compressors, some also had the Tecumseh AE.

 

Some of those with the different types of Frigidaire compressors are noisy, the Tecumseh had a different sound, not so noisy.. The thin chrome trim on the side looks like from a 1965 or later model (the 2nd picture shows the larger chrome trim on the edge of the 1963 cabinet). 

 

Pictures 1-2 show a 1963,

picture 3 shows a 1964,

picture 4 shows a 1965,

pictures 5-6-7 show a 1966.

 

[delaneymeegan]

Instant Hot water in the U.S., I use Sunbeam "hot shot" counter top dispenser. I get boiling water, great for hot cocoa, in about a minute.

 

[ovrphil]

The flowered enamel cookware on the fridge

Reminds me of a 70's Sanko Ware pot I bought recently...looks very similar if it's not actually Sanko ware.