ok, i am rested and refreshed from that hectic trip to grand rapids mich. last week and my work weekend is over so now i can relax and start 2 days off. first thing on the agenda is to finish my post of the pics i took while visiting matt (everythingold) at his appliance shop/home. after i finish this post i have to find creative places to put all the machines i brought back. matt told me i should turn my home into a dishwasher museum and i think i am about there now! with every new machine i bring home another peice of conventional furniture goes to either my barn in the back yard or to st vincent de paul! i've even got an idea to take out my bathroom lavatory cabinet and install my sink bowl in the top of an old dishwasher, trouble is i don't have the heart to cut into any of my beloved machines, especially the kitchenaids! think i'll keep an eye out for some old portable with a wood top that i won't mind cutting into. i won't be a kitchenaid i can tell you that!
i got that idea from a sink in matt's bathroom that he made out of an old singer sewing machine cabinet. he mounted a decorative bowl ( most probably a flower pot bowl) on the top, drilled it out and installed a drain and ran a copper tube up and over to supply the water! and the most unique thing about it is it is turned on and off by a water solonoid from a washing machine using the foot pedal that origionally operated the singer sewing machine! now that is clever! it looked great and here are some pics!
immediately taken back to my childhood and all the loving memories of my aunt and uncle who raised me! they had this exact frig in our kitchen! and our kitchen was on the 2nd floor too!
it is the shelves that i'll never forget. those wonderful "lazy susan" type rotating shelves! and that chrome pole in the center they attach to!
oh well, who gives a sh*t! i like it better with the frost!
i remember what fun it was when i was a kid and i got to defrost our frig!!! i had a great time doing it. stick boiling water in it and scrape a little and watch it all melt!
it's classier this way anyway, more nostalgic! i would love to see people today with their cell phones, i pods, blackberrys, big screen tvs, video games, and overly electronic lives have to spend a sunday nite defrosting the frig!
on this machine, i remember seeing it in my local appliance store when i would window shop and dream as a teen! when the rest of the kids were out thinkin of ways to get in trouble i was thinking of ways to afford a kitchenaid! who would have thought that i would have 17 of them now!
great old refrigerator! the name plate on the front! what class! i remember G.E. used to be something when i was a kid! now i would not own anything g.e. except a litebulb! personal opinion ofcourse for all you g.e. fans, we all have our favorites don't we!
on the age of this one? maybe i'm wrong, i'm not that knowledgable on stoves but that control panel screams the 60's to me! correct me if i'm wrong here.
matt offered it to me but i didn't think i had room on the truck and more importantly i knew i had no room in my kitchen what with 6 dishwashers, a stove, a trash compactor and one very big frig!
besides, i'm waiting for a frigidaire "flair" double wall oven to come my way to replace the one i stupidly let get thrown to the trash when i sold my old house 2 years ago! what an idiot i was! i could kick myself but alas, i had not heard of automaticwasher.org nor had i come out of the closet yet about my interest in old appliance collecting. i had only one dishwasher then too!
matt says he knows of a flair oven nearby and hopefully i can buy it from him at a later date! there is also a beautiful frigidaire flair stove with the double oven for sale in indiana, they want $400.00 for it if anyone is interested. i saw it on this site!
