toploader55
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Wow.
Check this out.
Makes me want to run out and buy a House just for these.
Check this out.
Makes me want to run out and buy a House just for these.
Pank !!! In Massachusetts
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norgeway
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WHY!!!!
On EARTH would someone take these out????If you put some peoples brains in a hummingbird,it would fly backwards and kiss a mules A#$ for a morning glory!!
On EARTH would someone take these out????If you put some peoples brains in a hummingbird,it would fly backwards and kiss a mules A#$ for a morning glory!!
steve1-18
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Kenny - They're asking $500 but I'd make them an offer. The worst they can do is refuse. They might counter offer!
Steve
Steve
Hey Steve, remember when we took out a kool old GE kitchen like that? A pank sank is kool too.
beekeyknee
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Pink
I have never seen a cook surface with the controls built into the cabinet just below. Really cool. The control unit could probably be opened and cleaned, then lubricated with spray electrical lubricant. It would work like new. How cool for a retro kitchen. Techspray Blue Shower spray cleaner and then Caig electrical spray lubricant would work wonders. I've used it on electronic equipment(sound)and bigger equipment too. Should be blown out with compressed air and wiped down afterwards, but it works great. All the switches have to be operated during the cleaning and lubrication process. Caig makes different kinds of lubricant for different applications. Have to be careful with the Techspray. It can remove paint from old control panels, sometimes. The Techspray cleans and removes old oil and the Caig puts the oil back. I've done this on KitchenAid push-button switches before and it worked great. Caig.com and Techspray.com. Blue Shower spray removes oxidation and other junk. They also make cleaner in different size pourable bottles. If the part can be disconnected, it could be submersed during the cleaning process. I've never done this, but I'd try it if the possibility came up. Just some ideas for one to toss around in their head.
I have never seen a cook surface with the controls built into the cabinet just below. Really cool. The control unit could probably be opened and cleaned, then lubricated with spray electrical lubricant. It would work like new. How cool for a retro kitchen. Techspray Blue Shower spray cleaner and then Caig electrical spray lubricant would work wonders. I've used it on electronic equipment(sound)and bigger equipment too. Should be blown out with compressed air and wiped down afterwards, but it works great. All the switches have to be operated during the cleaning and lubrication process. Caig makes different kinds of lubricant for different applications. Have to be careful with the Techspray. It can remove paint from old control panels, sometimes. The Techspray cleans and removes old oil and the Caig puts the oil back. I've done this on KitchenAid push-button switches before and it worked great. Caig.com and Techspray.com. Blue Shower spray removes oxidation and other junk. They also make cleaner in different size pourable bottles. If the part can be disconnected, it could be submersed during the cleaning process. I've never done this, but I'd try it if the possibility came up. Just some ideas for one to toss around in their head.
Cooktop controls
My neighbors across the street have that cooktop in brushed chrome, with that type control panel mounted on the back wall to the right. It was installed in '65 when the new kitchen was added. They have a single wall oven also in BC. When the former residents both died in '05, the appliances still looked showroom new. Haven't been in house since, but doubt they've replaced anything.
Another neighbor has an oven like the pink one pictured, but in BC; it's from '55 or '56. I think the cooktop in that house has been replaced in the last few years.
I don't care for mounting the controls on the cabinet front, as it would be too easy to accidently turn it on, not to mention small children pushing the buttons. Really like the hood mounted controls best.
My neighbors across the street have that cooktop in brushed chrome, with that type control panel mounted on the back wall to the right. It was installed in '65 when the new kitchen was added. They have a single wall oven also in BC. When the former residents both died in '05, the appliances still looked showroom new. Haven't been in house since, but doubt they've replaced anything.
Another neighbor has an oven like the pink one pictured, but in BC; it's from '55 or '56. I think the cooktop in that house has been replaced in the last few years.
I don't care for mounting the controls on the cabinet front, as it would be too easy to accidently turn it on, not to mention small children pushing the buttons. Really like the hood mounted controls best.
beekeyknee
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Cooktop Controls
Good point, Circle. It would have to be a childless household and the adults would have to be careful.
Good point, Circle. It would have to be a childless household and the adults would have to be careful.
The panel for the pushbuttons could be mounted on the wall beside or behind the cooktop also. One thing about having the buttons mounted so that they faced OUT instead of UP was that they did not accumulate as much dust and dirt. This installation, mounted so far below the cooktop, probably mostly has lint inside from clothing that brushed against the buttons. The surface units look a little tired after close to 60 years. Anyone who considers buying these appliances should be sure to check the oven liner. Some of these GE ovens had a porcelain flaw at the seam at the top of the oven and tended to rust out at that point.
Where Is Mamie Van Doren?
All one needs is a pair of "cha-cha" heels and perhaps a frilly apron.... *LOL*
Quite honestly cannot understand who would want to get rid of such items. Even if not for the main kitchen, would be wonderful in a small second kitchen or butler's pantry.
GE's concept of mounting those small fridges and a freezer on the wall, indeed the entire scheme would be great today for small studio apartments, and other areas where space is confined.
IIRC, Mrs. Louis Armstrong had a similar "metal" kitchen at their home in Queens, NY, though the colour is blue.
All one needs is a pair of "cha-cha" heels and perhaps a frilly apron.... *LOL*
Quite honestly cannot understand who would want to get rid of such items. Even if not for the main kitchen, would be wonderful in a small second kitchen or butler's pantry.
GE's concept of mounting those small fridges and a freezer on the wall, indeed the entire scheme would be great today for small studio apartments, and other areas where space is confined.
IIRC, Mrs. Louis Armstrong had a similar "metal" kitchen at their home in Queens, NY, though the colour is blue.
I had an aunt and uncle who built a home in late summer 1960, and they had this cooktop/control setup and I have always thought it was sooo cool! Although my aunt had white appliances, the kitchen, dining room and living room were all painted pink. This is a wonderful "survivor" of a kitchen. I hope someone gets it an appreciates what it really is.
Lawrence
Lawrence
My childhood home from 59 to 1968, had the same cook top, and oven. in brushed chrome. They were beautiful. The red GE emblem in script in the center of General Electric lights up to indicate surface units are on. I do not remember them ever havings a repair call. Thanks Eddy. arthur
Devil's advocate
Although I'm with all of you, people like my parents wouldn't think twice about trashing all of these. In the first place, they wouldn't consider trying to repair/restore any of this and in the second place, they would look at all of that pink porcelain, chuckle, make some comment about the era and that would be that. The second, and IMHO, more onerous group are the "Debbie and Bobs" who have so much Bush/Cheney money that they wouldn't consider having a kitchen that wasn't filled with stainless VIKING/SUB-ZERO units to show their friends that they're rich and have lots of good taste.
I would have bid on these except, as some of you know, I would have wanted all those units just about two years younger, so I could have had my pink plastisol dishwasher, and my oven with the rotisserie. I hope somebody preserves these they're too nice a set to lose.
Although I'm with all of you, people like my parents wouldn't think twice about trashing all of these. In the first place, they wouldn't consider trying to repair/restore any of this and in the second place, they would look at all of that pink porcelain, chuckle, make some comment about the era and that would be that. The second, and IMHO, more onerous group are the "Debbie and Bobs" who have so much Bush/Cheney money that they wouldn't consider having a kitchen that wasn't filled with stainless VIKING/SUB-ZERO units to show their friends that they're rich and have lots of good taste.
I would have bid on these except, as some of you know, I would have wanted all those units just about two years younger, so I could have had my pink plastisol dishwasher, and my oven with the rotisserie. I hope somebody preserves these they're too nice a set to lose.
Sweet!
If anyone from the board does get this, I have the installation instructions for the wall-mount refrigerator. My, but that pink GE pull-out dishwasher would look grand displayed next to my pink Frigidaire Deluxe one...
If anyone from the board does get this, I have the installation instructions for the wall-mount refrigerator. My, but that pink GE pull-out dishwasher would look grand displayed next to my pink Frigidaire Deluxe one...
