justjunque
Well-known member
Hi all,
While visiting my mom yesterday, we were going through some old pictures, and I found this one.
I was thinking about making this my profile picture, since I don't think I have any that show me with the washer and dryer.
This is me, circa 1972. It's possible that it was the first day of school, since it was taken in September, and I'm definitely stylin'.
I chose the category of "refrigerators" for this post, but there are actually a few kitchen appliances visible.
Most obvious is the Frigidaire refrigerator.
If you look at the far right of the picture, there's a brown (or coppertone?) Frigidaire electric stove.
On the countertop, there's an electric frying pan. I don't remember the brand.
Underneath that cool, 1970s looking cover, there's a Toastmaster toaster.
And, to the left of that, barely visible, and also under a matching cover, is either an Osterizer blender, or a chrome Sunbeam Mixmaster.
I liked appliances even then, and used to occasionally break out some cleaning products and shine them up.
If anyone can identify models and years of the stove and refrigerator, that would be cool.
Sorry you can't see the stove better.
I believe they got rid of it because one of the burners went rogue one day.
They used to leave a coffee pot on a back burner, just on the lowest setting, to keep it hot.
We had gone out somewhere, and they left it on. I find it hard to believe that they did that on a regular basis, but they might have.
When we got home, the burner had apparently gotten hotter than what it was set for, burned the bottom out of the coffee pot, and the house was full of smoke.
After that, I don't think they ever left a burner on when nobody was home.
And I believe their next stove was a gold, natural gas, Magic Chef.
Barry
While visiting my mom yesterday, we were going through some old pictures, and I found this one.
I was thinking about making this my profile picture, since I don't think I have any that show me with the washer and dryer.
This is me, circa 1972. It's possible that it was the first day of school, since it was taken in September, and I'm definitely stylin'.
I chose the category of "refrigerators" for this post, but there are actually a few kitchen appliances visible.
Most obvious is the Frigidaire refrigerator.
If you look at the far right of the picture, there's a brown (or coppertone?) Frigidaire electric stove.
On the countertop, there's an electric frying pan. I don't remember the brand.
Underneath that cool, 1970s looking cover, there's a Toastmaster toaster.
And, to the left of that, barely visible, and also under a matching cover, is either an Osterizer blender, or a chrome Sunbeam Mixmaster.
I liked appliances even then, and used to occasionally break out some cleaning products and shine them up.
If anyone can identify models and years of the stove and refrigerator, that would be cool.
Sorry you can't see the stove better.
I believe they got rid of it because one of the burners went rogue one day.
They used to leave a coffee pot on a back burner, just on the lowest setting, to keep it hot.
We had gone out somewhere, and they left it on. I find it hard to believe that they did that on a regular basis, but they might have.
When we got home, the burner had apparently gotten hotter than what it was set for, burned the bottom out of the coffee pot, and the house was full of smoke.
After that, I don't think they ever left a burner on when nobody was home.
And I believe their next stove was a gold, natural gas, Magic Chef.
Barry
