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Chambers.
Chambers.
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Proof positive that Americans don't know a good thing when they have it: the Clintons & Chambers Stoves:
Marilyn?
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Chambers
Ken,
This is absolutely fantastic. My Grandmother used to have a Chambers from about 1952. It had a deep well I remember. In the early 70's they sold it with their house. I wish I had that stove today.
Peter
Ken,
This is absolutely fantastic. My Grandmother used to have a Chambers from about 1952. It had a deep well I remember. In the early 70's they sold it with their house. I wish I had that stove today.
Peter
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CHAMBERS
I have a 1941 Chambers (so hot, it cooks with the gas off) it has the High back, lights on each side, 2 glass shelves and timer in the middle, it works great!! I have the split pot that goes into the rear burner chamber, its a great stove
Kim
Hi Peter, give me a call
I have a 1941 Chambers (so hot, it cooks with the gas off) it has the High back, lights on each side, 2 glass shelves and timer in the middle, it works great!! I have the split pot that goes into the rear burner chamber, its a great stove
Kim
Hi Peter, give me a call
Greatness, I've heard.
I'm glad someone finally brought up Chambers. I've never seen one in anybody's house personally. However, the cleaning lady at my old job spoke of saving for years for a Chambers range. She bought it decades earlier and still was in love with it. She said that Chambers only redesigned their products every 15 years or so. I suppose theoretically if you get the design right the first time - you don't have to change a good thing. Don't know if what she says is true.
To me, Chambers seems somewhat mysterious. Why have I never seen one in anyone's home in Chicago? I've only seen some rough samples in antique stores. I was brought up middle-class. Perhaps only the upper-class people had those units. I don't know the story of Chambers' demise. I assume that they compromised quality and died. Why do I think that? Well I was at the Salvation Army and came across a 1980's looking Chambers wall oven-microwave combination and it looked like a glorified Caloric with Sanyo microwave attached. Yecch. Maybe I am wrong. But what is the true story? I love to hear stories of companies that do NOT compromise quality and survive. Kirby is one example. The Rolls-Royce of vacuums. Who needs a $1500 vacuum? But people buy them every day and they work extremely well. You do something extremely well and people will want your product. So why cannot we enjoy Chambers today? I am eager to hear...the story of Chambers built-ins....
I'm glad someone finally brought up Chambers. I've never seen one in anybody's house personally. However, the cleaning lady at my old job spoke of saving for years for a Chambers range. She bought it decades earlier and still was in love with it. She said that Chambers only redesigned their products every 15 years or so. I suppose theoretically if you get the design right the first time - you don't have to change a good thing. Don't know if what she says is true.
To me, Chambers seems somewhat mysterious. Why have I never seen one in anyone's home in Chicago? I've only seen some rough samples in antique stores. I was brought up middle-class. Perhaps only the upper-class people had those units. I don't know the story of Chambers' demise. I assume that they compromised quality and died. Why do I think that? Well I was at the Salvation Army and came across a 1980's looking Chambers wall oven-microwave combination and it looked like a glorified Caloric with Sanyo microwave attached. Yecch. Maybe I am wrong. But what is the true story? I love to hear stories of companies that do NOT compromise quality and survive. Kirby is one example. The Rolls-Royce of vacuums. Who needs a $1500 vacuum? But people buy them every day and they work extremely well. You do something extremely well and people will want your product. So why cannot we enjoy Chambers today? I am eager to hear...the story of Chambers built-ins....
I'm slow.
Marilyn... Chambers....
I get the joke now. Dopey me.
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Marilyn... Chambers....
I get the joke now. Dopey me.
Hey MarilynMonroe; say HI to Elvis!
Chambers stoves and Crown stoves were the two High-End market gas stoves that wealthy New Yorkers had in their Co-ops in the days before Martha Stewart, fancified restaurant stoves, AGA cookers and Gaggenau. They were marketed extensively in New York City, so I assume they were built nearby, I don't know. I remember copper Chambers free-standing stoves and different stoves of every imaginable configuration so I believe, like Roper and Tappan in the thirties, if you were very wealthy, Chambers would custom configure and build a stove to fit your kitchen and desires. I would like to know a lot more about them to, only to my utter frustration because, like Caloric (which died at the greedy hands of Raytheon's bean counters) I imagine that Chambers was a family-owned/run company that did not survive the takeovers/reorganizations of the Seventies.
Hey folks
I have two friends that are Chambers crazy. One has a 1939 Chambers..it's very similar to the one Rachel Ray has on her cooking show. Another friend has a 1952 fire engine red Chambers. They are really cool appliances. the 1939 Chambers was purchased 4 years ago for 100.00...someone in one of the historic neighborhoods in Little Rock was "updating"...it looks great in my friends 1929 craftsman kitchen. It's my understanding part of Chamber's demise was their products were so good folks only had to buy one...forever..but that's just what I've heard.
I have two friends that are Chambers crazy. One has a 1939 Chambers..it's very similar to the one Rachel Ray has on her cooking show. Another friend has a 1952 fire engine red Chambers. They are really cool appliances. the 1939 Chambers was purchased 4 years ago for 100.00...someone in one of the historic neighborhoods in Little Rock was "updating"...it looks great in my friends 1929 craftsman kitchen. It's my understanding part of Chamber's demise was their products were so good folks only had to buy one...forever..but that's just what I've heard.
CROWN
We inherited a CROWN range in 1966 when Gram died. My mother loved it over her Universal as the CROWN baked better (so she said). The CROWN was the basement stove.
The Universal went away when the parents sold their house. Sister got Grams CROWN range and I got Gram's Crosley Shelvador. Both units were made in 1954 and both still work to this day.
We inherited a CROWN range in 1966 when Gram died. My mother loved it over her Universal as the CROWN baked better (so she said). The CROWN was the basement stove.
The Universal went away when the parents sold their house. Sister got Grams CROWN range and I got Gram's Crosley Shelvador. Both units were made in 1954 and both still work to this day.
Chambers ranges had a unique gas flame on the burners, consisting of minic blue circle flames arraged in a circl (think of thei mini blue rings as wagons in a circle at camp). I believe KitchenAid acquired Chambers. Their earliest gas cooking appliances I believe had that unique chambers surface flame arangement.
Chambers weren't just for the upper class. There were two neighbors who had double-oven ranges bought in 1948 for their new post-WWI 2 bedroom/1 bath houses. They were both definitely middle-class and had young families then. They both loved their ranges. In fact, one of them belonged to the neighbor that moved out across the street to our "new house" in 1961. This is the lady that had the L100 Laundromat, the westy roll-out (replaced by a KDS16 still runnning) and yada. Last I haerd, she had sold that range to some friends of theirs who took it to the country outside of Houston. The other neighbor kept that range until they remodeled their kitchen in 1967 or 1968. Their son worked for Westinghouse, but they still got a Chambers gas cooktop and wall oven. Both were "quite the cooks" and swore by their old-faithful ranges.
Chambers weren't just for the upper class. There were two neighbors who had double-oven ranges bought in 1948 for their new post-WWI 2 bedroom/1 bath houses. They were both definitely middle-class and had young families then. They both loved their ranges. In fact, one of them belonged to the neighbor that moved out across the street to our "new house" in 1961. This is the lady that had the L100 Laundromat, the westy roll-out (replaced by a KDS16 still runnning) and yada. Last I haerd, she had sold that range to some friends of theirs who took it to the country outside of Houston. The other neighbor kept that range until they remodeled their kitchen in 1967 or 1968. Their son worked for Westinghouse, but they still got a Chambers gas cooktop and wall oven. Both were "quite the cooks" and swore by their old-faithful ranges.
Chambers ranges had a unique gas flame on the burners, consisting of minic blue circle flames arraged in a circl (think of thei mini blue rings as wagons in a circle at camp). I believe KitchenAid acquired Chambers. Their earliest gas cooking appliances I believe had that unique chambers surface flame arangement.
Chambers weren't just for the upper class. There were two neighbors who had double-oven ranges bought in 1948 for their new post-WWI 2 bedroom/1 bath houses. They both loved their ranges. In fact, one of them belonged to the neighbor that moved out across the street to our "new house" in 1961. This is the lady that had the L100 Laundromat, the westy roll-out (replaced by a KDS16 still runnning) and yada. Last I haerd, she had sold that range to some friends of theirs who took it to the country outside of Houston. The other neighbor kept that range until they remodeled their kitchen in 1967 or 1968. Their son worked for Westinghouse, but they still got a Chambers gas cooktop and wall oven. Both were "quite the cooks" and swore by their old-faithful ranges.
Chambers weren't just for the upper class. There were two neighbors who had double-oven ranges bought in 1948 for their new post-WWI 2 bedroom/1 bath houses. They both loved their ranges. In fact, one of them belonged to the neighbor that moved out across the street to our "new house" in 1961. This is the lady that had the L100 Laundromat, the westy roll-out (replaced by a KDS16 still runnning) and yada. Last I haerd, she had sold that range to some friends of theirs who took it to the country outside of Houston. The other neighbor kept that range until they remodeled their kitchen in 1967 or 1968. Their son worked for Westinghouse, but they still got a Chambers gas cooktop and wall oven. Both were "quite the cooks" and swore by their old-faithful ranges.
