Museum-to-Go...only 250k...

[charbee]

SUCH a deal I wouldn't give my grandmuthuh...but I wish I had a spare 250k!

Quite a gaggle of very nice vintage kitchen goodies, plus an old wringer or two...great eye candy for retro-lovers everywhere nonetheless.

This combined with some of the W/D collections around here, and a true "20th Century Appliance Museum" could be a reality.

Pardon Our Interruption...

 

[qsd-dan]

You could probably piece that entire collection together for half that asking price using craigslist.

Lots of nice stuff if you have the room and $$!

 

[athanasius80]

Maybe, but you'd be spending a lot of time finding a double door Frigidaire with all the accessories. Maybe we should have a collection and buy the lot for the general use of AW people.

 

[charbee]

In my perfect dream of a world, a stash like this would be the beginning of a real Museum dedicated to the "obsolete" technology we all love, a regular "Smithsonian" of 20th Century Appliances and Mid-Century Design, housed in some mega-warehouse destined for roadside attraction mecca status: besides the Kitchen wing, there would be the Washer/Dryer wing, the Small Appliance wing, the Vaccuum wing, the Vintage Radio and Tube Stereo wing, the Outrageous 50's Lamp wing...

Don't hurt t'dream, ya know!

 

[athanasius80]

Would there be a Typewriter room? How about mimeographs? MUUUAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH

 

[hooverwheelaway]

Dang.

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Nope, that's all I can come up with.

Dang.

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Ugh! That Tappan Range is truly fabulous!

 

[charbee]

Mimeographs....ack!

Weird, damp, purpley ink, and mostly unreadable! As a "labbie" I used to type the mimeograph stencils for the science teachers in our high school, and what a pain! So yeah, not ALL old tech was "better" but maybe we could squeeze an old stinky mimeograph machine in there somewhere ;-)

 

[tomturbomatic]

Those Kelvinator surface unit switches were 5 heats and the settings were lighted. If the dial were turned in one direction, the larger pattern was heated. Turned in the opposite direction, the switch heated the inner loop for smaller pans.