I've had these slides for eons and finally I remembered to ask Phil to scan them into jpeg images for me! They are classic - it's so cool to be able to step back into time with them. The refrigerator is a 1957 GE 'Deluxe' and the range is a 1957 Canadian Frigidaire 'Super' model.
The photos were taken at my parent's apartment in Ile-Bizard, Québec - I believe they were taken at Thanksgiving (October here in Canada) but they could also have been taken at Christmas 1957. The woman in the photo is my maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Cann. My parents made great efforts to bring her over from her home in Mansfield, England regular so that us kids (myself and my estranged brother) would have a chance to get to know her.
The appliances moved from Ile-Bizard to Beaconsfield to Hudson to Pointe-Claire; they were replaced by a matched Harvest Gold Baycrest range and refrigerator in 1974 when we lived in our second house in Pointe-Claire. But I learned how to cook on that old Super range and I also learned how to do some basic repairs like replacing/rewiring Radiantubes!! The refrigerator became the bar refrigerator and the range was stored in the garage. In 1985, the range was moved to our country place in the Eastern Townships (the house was robbed and the thieves took the 1960s GE built-in oven and cook top along with the solid oak kitchen cabinets my parents had installed in 1980!). In 1989, when I bought my first house, I inherited the refrigerator and used it in my kitchen. I abandoned the fridge in 1994 when I moved in with Hubby and my house got rented out. The *%#$ tenants threw it out...
I wish I could have been there in person in these photos!
The photos were taken at my parent's apartment in Ile-Bizard, Québec - I believe they were taken at Thanksgiving (October here in Canada) but they could also have been taken at Christmas 1957. The woman in the photo is my maternal grandmother, Elizabeth Cann. My parents made great efforts to bring her over from her home in Mansfield, England regular so that us kids (myself and my estranged brother) would have a chance to get to know her.
The appliances moved from Ile-Bizard to Beaconsfield to Hudson to Pointe-Claire; they were replaced by a matched Harvest Gold Baycrest range and refrigerator in 1974 when we lived in our second house in Pointe-Claire. But I learned how to cook on that old Super range and I also learned how to do some basic repairs like replacing/rewiring Radiantubes!! The refrigerator became the bar refrigerator and the range was stored in the garage. In 1985, the range was moved to our country place in the Eastern Townships (the house was robbed and the thieves took the 1960s GE built-in oven and cook top along with the solid oak kitchen cabinets my parents had installed in 1980!). In 1989, when I bought my first house, I inherited the refrigerator and used it in my kitchen. I abandoned the fridge in 1994 when I moved in with Hubby and my house got rented out. The *%#$ tenants threw it out...
I wish I could have been there in person in these photos!
