Bloated Nothingness
I was a kid in the fifties and totally appliance addicted.
I watched the introduction of the Streamlined Sheer look roll out and instantly hated all the fat, shapeless appliances holding out in kitchens everywhere.
I was spellbound as Frigidaire introduced amazing and beautiful design innovations year after year.
I love and live to cook. It has been my hobby, avocation and source of income my entire life.
I used nothing but Frigidaire, in my own home and reveled in the magnifinence of design, dependibility and consistent performance.
As I moved more into presenting finished baked goods for critical testing and photo work, NOTHING has ever compared to ease, grace and dependablilty of a Frigidaire range made by GM.
I walked into an appliance store in December of 1979 to buy appliances for a new house. I looked in horror and disbelief to see what had happened to my trusted and beloved Frigidaire brand. I was shell shocked. If there had been a naming of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome in 1979, I am convinced I would have fit the diagnosis.
I am sickened by the "new" rounded design of appliances so reminiscent of those from the forties, being pushed today by all the American manufacturers.
Big, fat, hollow, bloated nothingness. It is a horrible thing to witness the death of an era. It is even more horrifying to watch the public lap it up with round glazed eyes and be so very, very pleased with the newest and best.
I guess, for me, this is what Memorial day is about. Grieving the trivialization of the works of Master's and the death of quality.
Kelly
I was a kid in the fifties and totally appliance addicted.
I watched the introduction of the Streamlined Sheer look roll out and instantly hated all the fat, shapeless appliances holding out in kitchens everywhere.
I was spellbound as Frigidaire introduced amazing and beautiful design innovations year after year.
I love and live to cook. It has been my hobby, avocation and source of income my entire life.
I used nothing but Frigidaire, in my own home and reveled in the magnifinence of design, dependibility and consistent performance.
As I moved more into presenting finished baked goods for critical testing and photo work, NOTHING has ever compared to ease, grace and dependablilty of a Frigidaire range made by GM.
I walked into an appliance store in December of 1979 to buy appliances for a new house. I looked in horror and disbelief to see what had happened to my trusted and beloved Frigidaire brand. I was shell shocked. If there had been a naming of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome in 1979, I am convinced I would have fit the diagnosis.
I am sickened by the "new" rounded design of appliances so reminiscent of those from the forties, being pushed today by all the American manufacturers.
Big, fat, hollow, bloated nothingness. It is a horrible thing to witness the death of an era. It is even more horrifying to watch the public lap it up with round glazed eyes and be so very, very pleased with the newest and best.
I guess, for me, this is what Memorial day is about. Grieving the trivialization of the works of Master's and the death of quality.
Kelly