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The first place I lived after "moving out" of my parents' home.
It was two floors up, to the apartment that was previously my grandmother's.
Glenwood, "gas and gas", I think they called it, as the left side is a heater that was the heat source for the apartment.

Barry

Edit:
Sorry it looks so dirty! These pictures were taken after the apartment had sat vacant for several years.
I kept it much cleaner when I was living there![this post was last edited: 7/28/2019-09:12]

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1999-2008 GE Trivection Ovens and Ranges

An amazing triumph of American engineering, 5 motors, 7 PCB boards, four heating elements [ in the oven ] reversing convection with its own element, and over 400 screws to assemble it, 

 

Built in the US, with at least a few imported parts.

 

John L.

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In the mid '80s I lived in a 1937 house that had its original Wedgewood range.  It was trash & gas, plus it had a separate heater.  The thermocouple on the heater burner was pristine; the heater had never been used.  I lit the pilot and used it.

 

The stainless 8" ducting to the flue ran across the back of the oven from behind the trash burner (narrow upper door on the left) and then into the wall.  I once had a good fire going in there and it was so hot that years of oil buildup on the ducting's exterior started to smoke and smell.  I toned it down after that.

 

Unlike other Wedgewood models from the same period that had black accent trim on the knobs, drawer and door handles, this one had orange.  I have pictures, but they're all snapshots that haven't been scanned.  It was very similar to this 1935 model with the black trim, and its cooktop cover had the same solid ivory finish.  Much more clean looking than the green square pattern that was so common on Wedgewoods from this period.

 

This model of Wedgewood could run rings around anything made today, with many of the conveniences we take for granted and countless times the durability of any "professional" type modern gas range.

 

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Well.....

Allow me to present my 1968 Kelvinator Tri-Leval! I got it late last year, I just wanted an upgrade. It has a built in Rotisserie, and several timers, two convenience outlets, surface light, Speed Heat burner, and the Pan.O.Matic burner! Which is just Kelvinatior's version of GE's SensiTemp.

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In my case, a turquoise range thread... LOL To be fair, I have also owned 2 white, 1 almond, 1 avocado, and 1 stainless range but hey, they're not turquoise, so...

In chronological order: 1962 McClary, 1964 Kelvinator, 1956 GE (part of the Wonder Kitchen), and the 1962 Frigidaire Flair. The GE and the Frigidaire are still around and in use at the houses in Ogden and St-Liboire respectively.

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John L.,

We have a 2007 model GE Profile slide in convection dual fuel range. Yes, a great performer aside from that burners will go out if one low when the oven fans are on, until they are hot enough.
Says "made in Canada" on model and serial number I.D. plate on lower oven frame.
So by CAMCO/GE in Hamilton. I have a replacement lockout gas valve replaced under warranty because we kept smelling gas. The part says "made in China".
 
Cool Versatronic Range

Where did you find this one Cory ? I have had about 6 of the hi-low oven versions this range but have never found this earlier single oven model.

 

Very neat, I have lots of ST elements for this range and some other parts as well. 

 

Are you going to use this range in your home?, once you learn the advantages of Micro-Thermal cooking you can never go back.

 

John L.
 
Cool Versatronic Range

Hi Cory, What do you think of these GE Versatronic microwave ranges that cook with 915MHZ power instead of the usual 2450MHZ ?

 

It is the only MWO I have ever seen that uses this much lower frequency It is just above the TV UHF frequency range.

 

I have had around 6 of these Versatronic Ranges and amazingly all have worked, I also have a lot of spare parts if you ever need anything for it.

 

John L.
 
Hey John,

This Versatronic came out of Michigan, I don't think it saw much use, but when the original house it was in sold, the new owners stashed it in their garage just long enough for mice to make a mess of it. The lower power supply area was especially bad. All cleaned up now. It also came with the vinyl binder full of recipes, registration punch card and the aluminum griddle.

I can see how using a combination heating element and MW would be intimidating at first. No window to check on progress, and opening the door (after activating the latch solenoid and unlocking) is a little cumbersome, plus it resets the MWO warmup timer. But I am looking forward to trying a couple recipes to see how it turns out.
 
Finally got my great shape 30 inch Flair so far things wor !

works even light . timer and clock. what a find. its even has the alum ex shape griddle. but Il. not use prob unless I could line it with ss or glass. Alum toxicity. Im concerned about. Im a Visionware user. or SS .. LOL
anybody on here that called from California (the seller told my Hubby)about my Flair Thursday nite....that I bought from Cincinnati> ????
Hubby went after it. Wouldn't let me go with him... Prob cause he knew I wanted to visit " Habitat restores" shops there too... LOL You know how us women wanna shop those places ... even with too much stuff now and a very much senior lady. LOL
Hubby took out the older slide in black door chrome top GE bought off Craigs List in Louisville sev yrs ago.. Oven too hot. otherwise its okay..... It out in the garage now. It will me my summer( too hot to heat up house )stove.... Cause the old 40 in Flair thats there now detached big (garage) only the small oven works and it has no cab base..
Hubby, he took it out our vehicle ;;;;;heavy sucker.... We had to be careful and not drop it... Had to find stuff to keep it from sliding out and down on garage floor... Use a rubber industrial chef type rubber floor
mat.whew.
He changed out the olD original cord to a 4 prong newer one NEW RANGE OUTLET that he put out in the garage sev yrs ago.
wanted to pUt BACK the org 3 prong back on cause the kitchen here outlet is a 3 wired application...
But he loves the nice heavy spade tips. But the whole cord is stiff and cracked all over. boo hoo. SO A NEWER GRAY FLEX CORD WE WILL USE.
HE IS EATING LAT BREAKFAST NOW . It hot and dry again today Then Flair will come in house. I hope he doesn't hurt himself. getting it up into house.
thanks all

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nice all esp turquoisedude

Paul and others aren't y'all concerned about alum Toxicity.. I gave away most of my many many Club aluminum both yellow and orange. cookware Lots I had bought new...even My nordiware stovetop waffle irons. I may have one I have tied to CL sale..... Just a saying y'all thanks for all yalll help and info
 
My 1960's Magic Chef Consept Series. Its fully loaded and is about as fully automatic as a gas range can get. It is a fantastic stove.
I never uderstood, what is the original purpouse of convinence outlets? Only thing i could ever think of was an electric perkolator.

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Convenience outlets made sense in the days when homes had fewer outlets in the kitchen. They made even more sense though with an electric range, because you would have essentially an extra circuit in your kitchen, in that the convenience outlet drew power from the 220V range circuit.

Since most gas ranges plugged into the 120V kitchen small appliance circuit with the rest of the counter top outlets, they didn't really add any extra current capacity like an electric range would. But I guess it was still convenient to have an extra outlet regardless.
 
Re Aluminum

Aluminum is still the best metal to cook in, I believe nothing any so called authorities tell me about it, Its a proven fact you get more aluminum from anti perspirant or a Tums than you get from cooking high acid foods in aluminum .
 
RE-Oliger about the Conveince outlets.

In addition to the reply by FanOfFans about needing extra outlets in a kitchen, which just for the record, I do agree with. I just also wanted to ad that, convenience outlets were also handy when mashing potatoes, and you just want to do so in the pan that they were boiled in. Or, when making certain kinds of frosting, and you need to beat it, while it is still over the heat.

In the case of my Kelvinator Tri-Leval that I posted previously, one of the outlets is timed via the timers. So thus you can time your coffee to go in the morning. While that is still possible with a regular outlet timer, its just one more feature of the illustrious TOL package. Just my two cents.
 
Yes, a mixer! those are the kind of ideas I am looking for. And yes, my house was built in 1910. Although the kitchen was redone in 1972, there is still only 3 outlets, and one is for the refrigerator/ washing machine. So only 2 useable outlets.
 
As classic as I could make, let alone, have:

"Rainbow Pasta (Regular, Tomato & Spinach) in the big pot, Cauliflower in the small pot (cut off the stalk, of course) and a Self-Cleaning Cycle in the oven...!

-- o-&#92 ' ▾ ' /-o&#92______ CLEAN --->"

-- Dave

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My mother always plugged the electric skillet or the fry daddy into the plug-in on her 1966 40 inch coppertone Frigidaire electric range. 

I wish I could find a picture of my grandmother's old crosley electric range from the 50's (I think).  I think I remember it had coiled wire elements in the oven and a deep well on top.
 
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