Nice vintage Monarch electric range

[polkanut]

If I were into electric ranges, I would snap this baby up in a heartbeat. This range is only about 20 miles west of Wausau. My Mom had the 30" gas version, and the oven temp was spot on. A very solid, and well built appliance.

http://wausau.craigslist.org/atq/1709662860.html

 

[tomturbomatic]

Monarch had the most diverse ranges in their lineup of any US manufacturer I have seen. They had ranges with wood or coal space heaters with a cast iron cooking surface over the heater as part of the range. They had electric ranges with a roaster oven built into the cooktop. It was concealed under a flat porcelain cover that was removed and replaced with a domed cover when you used the roaster. Just like with the roaster ovens of the time, the heat came from the sides and bottom. They had ranges with heated wells where a sauce pan could sit down inside the shallow well and the heat came from the bottom and sides. They offered ranges with 4 or 6 surface units. In the 60s, I remember ads in magazines for their stoves with a small fan in the center of the oven floor offering convection baking. Sadly, nobody except Monarch was even talking about convection ovens at the time. I remember loking at it and thinking WTH? They were not sold in any part of the South I knew of.

 

[polkanut]

I believe that their market was predominately Mid-Western. They were made in Beaver Dam, WI. My maternal grandmother had a 30" natural gas Monarch in shaded coppertone. It was bought in 1964, and had no backsplash. Grandma literally wore that stove out. One of my dad's aunts had the exact range in the CL ad. Dad sold it for $25 when she died. And one of the neighbor women on our block had the 40" natural gas range with the deep well cooker. So yes, they did have quite a selection to choose from.

 

[mixfinder]

Wild Wooley West

Monarch mixed fuel ranges where very popular on ranches throughout the West. Electricity wasn't always avaialble and in the winter you had the option of using the range as a heat source. I only saw 1 Monarch range that was not a combo unit. It was in the 60's, a doe skin collor and woefully unmodern.

 

[polkanut]

Thanks Kelly, for jogging my memory. My Mom's cousin, Stella, had a gas/wood combo in her basement kitchen which was used for canning, cooking, and baking for her family of 7. I don't know why she only had a 24" gas stove in her upstairs kitchen though. It definitely was a big enough room. Strange!

 

[gansky1]

Ooooh, that is a beautiful Monarch - I love those chrome rings!

This is a Tappan Doughboy electric range that I've been drooling over since I saw one on our CL here and missed it. I would never pay this price when I already have two others (in color) from GE and Frigidaire, but what a pretty range this is!

http://cgi.ebay.com/Antique-Tappan-...tem&pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item51908150e2

 

[tomturbomatic]

Well, Greg, that had to be the best kept secret in stove history. I never saw an ad for that style Tappan in electric. I do remember some from later in the 50s, including the beautiful model made in both gas and electric with the shadowbox control panel with a black background and the clock in the middle, but the 40" model had the surface unit controls on the front and that was like 1959 or so. I don't remember anything exciting from Tappan in the 60s. They sort of shot their wad with the Fabulous 400. I wonder if they were bought by SunRay. Their ranges began to look like SunRays. In the 60s, Caloric really was a style-setter for gas ranges for a while.

 

[polkanut]

Did anyine notice the access to the fuses next to the label in pic #3? I didn't know these took regular house-type fuses, or so it seems.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I replaced the fuse for the appliance outlet in a friend's ca.1970 GE range. The 115 volt parts of the range were often fuse protected and later circuit breakers were sometimes used. I knew someone who had a Canadian made electric range at a cabin and each element in it was fuse protected. The panel was below the oven.

 

[norgeway]

Monarch in the South!!

There was a Monarch dealer here in Mocksville and also in Lenoir N.C. my hometown,saw several as a kid but never a 30 inch,They were a heavy quality built product.

 

[mixfinder]

Way Too Modern

Here's another take on the Monarch range. What a selfish woman to want a newer range.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/app/1716130645.html

 

[mixfinder]

Nothing like the 50's

Maybe you'd like a nice 50's fridge to go with your Monarch range?

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/app/1715006031.html

 

[circlew]

50's?

That fridge is more like early 30's if not 20's. People were replacing ones like that WITH 50's models.

 

[norgeway]

belt drive!!!

and sulfur dioxide baby...let that leak and you will know it!

 

[mixfinder]

And so Tidy!

Since we're doing a retrograde renovation here's a dish system to go with the Monarch range and Frigidaire refrigerator.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/see/hsh/1716908036.html

 

[mixfinder]

Come quickly and don't use the headlights!

I wonder if some of what makes it to Craigslist is stolen.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/tac/app/1715338810.html

 

[mixguy]

Tappan Electric Doughboy

First time I see an elecric model and with a deep cooker well! One grandmother had an gas model which my mother has now in her kitchen and it still works! The only thing repaired was the oven thermostat about 25 yrs ago. It has 3 different sized burners! Most ranges have only two.