Todays value village find!!!

[compwhiz128]

Hello peoples!!!

today i found a awesome popcorn popper at VV today for $8 it originaly sells for over $20 i tested it and it WORKS!!!

 

[rickr]

popcorn popper

Is that an "air" popper?

 

[DADoES]

Presto Popcorn Now

Yes, we had one. There's a butter dispenser on top, it's supposed to melt and dribble on the popcorn as it passes through the chute, didn't work very well. It's supposed to be continuous-feed -- keep feeding more corn into the hopper as it pops. I guess it popped OK, but I never liked the corn it produced. Dry, cardboard, off-kilter taste. It would even burn old maids, the air got quite hot. Maybe we just had bad corn.

 

[westytoploader]

Interesting, but I wouldn't have paid more than $4 for it. We had a hot-air popper back in the early 90's...what it didn't burn tasted extremely dry. All hot-air poppers are notorious for scorching which is why I was never interested in them.

I prefer the WhirlyPop stovetop popper for making popcorn; makes a very delicious, large batch, and it's fun to use! Doesn't taste dry either like most.

 

[gansky1]

I had an older model Presto hot-air popper that I used for a long time, before I found the Whirly-Pop. I liked the popcorn well enough, without butter though, it was like munching on styro packing peanuts. I see hot air poppers at a sales all the time.

 

[rickr]

Counter tops

Hey Compwhiz,are those the original counter tops in your parents kitchen? The pattern on them looks like it could be from the 1950's. What year was you house built,and what style is it?

Thanks,
Rick

 

[pdub]

Congratulations on your find...

Value Village is a cool place to find great bargains. I remember seeing a top of the line Electrolux vacuum with all the attachments for $20 once. I thought about it and went back to get it and it was too late. Already gone.

 

[compwhiz128]

Yeah

I also saw a 50's zenith tv it was round and stuff they wanted $100.00 for it looked awesome

Rick the counter tops i think are the original sadly the old home owner died a few years ago so we havent any info but i know this house was probably built around the mid 60's but for some odd reson our toilet in the big bathroom is from 1952

But I dont understand what you mean by "what style is it?" well there is not much style here except in the big bathroom

Plz note the tiles are new

 

[westie2]

Countertops

Looks like the kitchen countertop and backsplash is the Glacier Gray Boomarang and the bathroom countertop is the gray cracked ice. Wonderful retro. Owned a home in New Orleans built in early 40's that had the cracked ice for kitchen counter. The hall bath was in all bright pink fixtures and white tile with picnk splashes in it. The master bath had this same green with green and white tile. The kitchen counter had the metal ribbed edge instead of the drop down formica.

 

[retromom]

Love Value Village!

Sounds like a cool place with great finds. Who knows, maybe there is an Amana Radarange just waiting for the right owner! ;-)

 

[rickr]

Bathroom

Compwhiz I love those green bathroom fixtures! Those sure look to be from the 1950's. It looks like perhaps the vanity was made to order,just so the sink could be used with it. The floor is very nice too.My parents home was built in 1956. The bathroom fixtures were pink,and the floor was black and grey tile.I always thought it was kewl!
I am posting a pix of my bathroom. The fixtures are original to my house,c.1887.They only had white back then.
What I was referring to when I asked the "style" of your home, was the type of structure it was,not the interior decor. (ranch type, two story,tri-level,etc.) If you want to know,take a picture of the outside and post it and we can tell you appx. when your style was constructed,and what the proper style name of your house is.

Rick

 

[kenmore1978]

1887 fixtures

Rick, I would've thought the original toilet tank would been the kind that hung way up near the ceiling with the long chain to flush it. But I have no timielineon the style of toilets, maybe the two styles overlapped.

On another subject, have you ever thought of restoring a couple of the downstairwall lights to work on gas again? That would (pardon the pun) "blow people away", since most people have never seen working gas lights. I've only seen one, and that was years ago in a friend's 1905 house here in L.A. Combo gas/electric wall lights. And something else I had never seen before, his wiring (knob & tube, of course) didn't use the screw-in Edison base fuses, but had little strips of wires that would melt, much like the "fusible links" modern cars use in their wiring, in the fuse panel.

 

[kenmore1978]

air poppers

I never liked air poppers, either. Like everybody says, popcorn comes out too dry. I'll stick with my West Bend Stir Crazy

 

[david]

Commentaries

Rickr- Love that bath of yours-Like the colors and the old fixtures.

Jaune-I like those stir-crazy poppers myself. I see them again in the stores, but missed them for a few years.

Compwhiz-We had green fixtures in the second house we lived in built in the mid 50's. Were not quite that bright of shade. I remember the knobs on your cabinets in the bath vanity were quite common.

 

[rickr]

Gas lights

Thanks David! I will try to post better pix of it another time.

Jaune,you have asked me a few times about the gas light lines in my house,so I have a few pix for you of the lines exposed during a kitchen remodel 3 years ago.The ceiling had to be removed to replace the lead water pipes. The first pix is of the line the kitchen light hangs on. The wood lath that it was anchored to was removed prior to this pix.The pipe connects above the dining room,and there is a three way joint at the dining room central gas line.

 

[rickr]

pix 2

Close up of gas line. Note the new lumber attached to the old wood here. That was because the ceiling had sagged two inches in the center. The reason for that was the kitchen ceiling was damaged when the house was moved in 1930. A new plaster ceiling was added on top of the damaged ceiling without removing the old damaged plaster. The weight of the double ceiling,combined with a cast iron bath tub and marble stone hallway floor on the upper level caused the floor joists to sag that much over the next 70+ years. The contractor jacked the joists up and added the supports.

 

[rickr]

second floor gas line

This line also comes up from the basement,like the first floor gas feeder line does. This second floor feeder line runs through the kitchen wall,then up through the second floor and into the attic,where it splits off to feed the other gas lines that had provided the natural gas to the lights on the second floor

 

[rickr]

close up

This shows the original heating duct work to the bathroom,as well as my new duct work for my vented range hood for the new kitchen. They had just enough room to run the duct without removing the unused gas feeder line. I told the contractor to "leave them for the next guy". Meaning whoever lives here when the kitchen is remodeled again. I can tell you who it WON'T be.... And that is me!

 

[rickr]

Knob and tube wiring

The electric lights all still run on the original wiring,and that if fine. This type of wiring is very safe,as long as nobody taps into it for electrical outlets. This house like many it's age had no electrical outlets. I added the outlets,and used romex (SP??) or modern wiring for them.