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Good Saturday Morning Everyone: I'm new to this site. I love all sorts of old vintage appliances big and small. I also love old vintage cars. Anyway, I knew MW put their label on a lot of stuff like sewing machines because I have sewing machine fetish. Also blenders, electric fry pans, but you get the drift. I NEVER knew they had a line of washing machines until I was in the gallery on this site called Vintage Neat Stuff. I guess they were marketing like Sears. Does anyone know who came first? Sears or Ward? I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS WEBSITE. I have been stuck on ever since I signed up two days ago. I really need to get some other stuff done, but can't tear myself away!!!!!
 
Welcome Retromania!

I have quite a fetish for the small appliances as well, fry pans, blenders, percolators, toasters, waffle irons here, with a smattering of steam irons thrown in. I love vintage major appliances as well, and aspire to turn my kitchen into GE or Frigidaire, circa 1958 through 1965 someday. I have a thing for vintage stereo consoles and components too.

 

Montgomery Ward was founded in 1872, and Sears Roebuck founded in 1886, just to keep it simple for the moment. One of my prized posessions is the Fall and Winter 1959 Montgomery Wards catalogue. I hope you will enjoy this site as much as the rest of us do!

(kitchen appliances courtesy of Stix, Baer, & Fuller, St. Louis 1959)

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Don't know too much about mw, but I'm like you in that I love vintage appliances. My kitchen has a 1958 ge wall oven in pink, 1942 o'keefe and merrit gas stove in white, 1949 hotpoint refrigerator that was just recently painted pink, 1955 hotpoint dishwasher that is in pink, 1948 Youngstown Kitchen vent hood(is original to the house) that was just repainted in pink, and then the washer and dryere is a 1963 Lady Kenmore set in turquoise. Also have other appliances that are in storage. Not to mention all the small appliances displayed on the top of the cabinets (stuff like blenders, mixers, roasters, and percoluators). Also have a thing for the tube style radios and televisions. Have about 150 radios and about 50 televisions.

Oh and welcome to the club. :)
 
Welcome!

I am a hoover kid, but I have just about everything. Mainly vacuum cleaners, but have 2 mixers, old blender, telephones, fans, and musical instruments.

I have a montgomery Wards vacuum cleaner from the late 50s. Its a Eureka in 2 tone green. Very cool. My profile picture is of it.
 
Country Ford: You are making me soooo jealous. A pinkt wall oven & an O'Keefe gas stove. One of my fantasies!!!!! O'Keefe gas stoves cook as good as they look. They weight a ton. How ever did you get it in your house or were lucky and it was already there?! You are the lucky one. What make is your wall oven??? Is it that wonderful sort of Pepto Bismol shade of pink. I also love vintage turquois appliances and someone on this site and I can't remember who it is has a vintage fully restored matching set wahser and dryer in Lady Kenmore. All of a sudden I can't remember how to spell Kenmore. I think that's right. I know: Thirty licks with the belt, right?! Or expulsion from this website. Anyway, I like 112561 want to put in a vintage kitchen some day from the same time period.
 
My 1961 house we moved into on 11-25-61 (!) started with a brand new '62 I guess white Frigidaire refrigerator, not frost free but had a separate door to the freezer, had it shipped in the crate from Lynchburg, VA and an apartment sized white Norge stove, from probably the mid '50s. Kitchen was white cabinets with white Formica with gold flecks and threads in it. Walls were sandalwood color, just a very lackluster look. So, for the look I want will encompass late '50s to possible mid '60s. Wish I could have grabbed the wall oven the neighbor threw out a few years back.

 

My kitchen appliances are less than twelve years old at present, the floor and counters have been updated within the last thirty years. It needs a complete makeover, and will get one in the near future, at least paintwise. This Ebay picture is not my cooktop.

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Hey 112561, that cooktop looks like the one that we had in our circa-1965 split level. Ours was brown, and IIRC it was mirror reversed from that one -- the controls were on the right. The GE logo lights up red when a burner is on.
 
This is NOT my kitchen

A house around the corner from here has or had that GE cooktop, and wall oven, and like I say, the pic was ripped from eBay, I am surprised that it seemed to have been offered with left or right pushbuttons. Another configuration I'd like in a GE kitchen would be the buttons on the front of the cabinet under the top, or on the front edge of the vent hood. Where to find such things in my area?

(River Park real estate photo)

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Hate to have left a wrong impression about my kitchen

My vintage kitchen is in the middle of chaos right now, needs paint and a total makeover, I am sorry to say. The pics I posted in the last posts are Ebay pics, and this house no longer has the gold threaded counters, but here's a shot of some mixers.

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I have a big fine Kitchenaid stand mixer that I love, but when I am beating certain thnigs like certain icings I still use my mother's old chrome early 1960's Sunbeam Mixmaster. It's on it very last leg.
 

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