TURQUOISE CALORIC!

[norgeway]

No gas stove on the market today even comes close to all these features.

http://columbus.craigslist.org/app/3655863862.html

 

[tomturbomatic]

After some friends' widowed father remarried, they bought a 40" TOL Caloric with the sorta V-shaped control panel. At least they got decent gas broiling with an Ultra Ray broiler.

The sellers sure have not kept this stove very clean.

 

[westingman123]

I would think for that kind of money they would have at least cleaned the oven doors.

Rotisserie, simmer burners, griddle--sure is an option-loaded range. I was considering, then I looked at the price. Nah, I'll stay with electric.

 

[polkanut]

A little Easy-Off and elbow grease on the sellers part would go a long way to making this stove more appealing.  Just my $0.02.

 

[hydralique]

That range needs to be in a house with a pair of turquoise early '60s Whirlpools . . . the consoles could have been designed by the same guy. For $800 the seller should hire a cleaning service to scrape the grime off the Caloric and let that turquoise beauty shine!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Hans is very correct; not only the features, but the construction is better than what you can buy new, with the exception of an SC oven. It looks like the oven will turn itself off, but not on and off, unless I don't understand the controls.

 

[firedome]

The V Shaped Caloric panel

was the ca. 1962 Heritage series... very cool

 

[retromania]

Oh My!

Be still my heart!!!

 

[autowasherfreak]

Nice--a griddle and a rotisserie!

 

[firedome]

I love it!!

and if they'd be realistic I'd go for it! Must have gas AND electric IMHO.

 

[whirlcool]

This range design actually reminds me of the 58' Frigidaire Control Tower washers more than anything else.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Wow I'm not much a fan of cooking with gas, but this stove is beautiful. For the archives here a few shots of it, with the images tuned and corrected.

 

[retromania]

Again....

Be still my heart. I love old vintage gas stoves.....

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Obviously the era Charles Klamkin was stuck in on recommending ranges, if these were the best-built!

(Though this reliable design did survive into the self-cleaning era if H_100_S is the genesis of that feature, yet the last of this breed; need to see it, really...)

-- Dave

 

[imperial70]

The clock unit looks like

an optional add on? Is it possible that you could purchase the same range without that clock attachment? Looks like a way to take a more basic (for lack of a better term) range and make it more expensive? Just a thought...

 

[retromania]

Clocks & Timers

The clocks and timers on all the stoves we ever had performed well. They never quit working no matter how long we kept the appliance. On all three stoves we had the time bake feature which my mother nor I ever used. I am a little surprised at myself that I never played with it. I had neighborhood friends that mothers would put one dish meals in the oven and use the time bake feature. We were just more basic at our house I guess.

 

[combo52]

Coloric 36" TOL Gas Range

I have a slightly earlier version of this range in white that is in good condition [ ours has the full width V shaped lighted panel.

Anyway it needs a new home, contact me if interested, I would sell it for 1/8 of the asking price of the stove on this thread.

 

[bajaespuma]

One of my all-time favorite stoves

IIRC the customer could choose between 3 different backsplash styles of any given width Caloric range (24", 30", 36" 40")and could still have all the real features i.e. 5th burner/griddle, Waist-high Ultra-Ray Broiler w/rotisserie or "Pastry Oven" or room heater or storage compartment, or stripped down to one oven and 4 conventional burners. I think you could place your order with your local Caloric dealer and your custom-configured stove would be assembled in Topton just as you wanted it. Sigh. BTW, they even came in Black back then.

 

[retromania]

I thought Caloric was always a lower priced appliance, but from these ads they obviously put out some high-end or fancy models.

 

[pulltostart]

OMG - that black Caloric is fabulous.

 

Where are my pearls???  I need something to clutch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

lawrence

 

[retromania]

It's stainless or chrome isn't it?!

 

[combo52]

Coloric 36" TOL Gas Range

WOW Ken that is the same range I am trying to get a new home for.

 

Coloric was always a very high quality range until they bought the Glenwood range company in S Carolina and started using the Glenwood ranges as thier cheap line [ and they were TRASH ] but the real Colorics were always pretty good ranges even if they were Gas. Coloric started making electric ranges around 1970 when they bought the electric range division of what was Philcos electric range design.

 

[retromania]

Ok

That's my orientation with Caloric. I became acquainted with caloric after they started manufacturing lower priced electric ranges and ovens. Nice to have the knowledge that they manuafacturered high quality gas ranges. And being from South Carolina, I have never heard of the brand Glenwood.

Thanks Combo for the information. Learn something new everyday.

 

[pulltostart]

John,

Do you by chance have any photos of that Caloric that you can share?  And details/info about it's condition?

 

lawrence

 

[firedome]

That's the Caloric

Heritage series, circa 1962... would die for one in a cool color. Calorics were a very high quality range at that time, but no challenge to a Chambers.

 

[westingman123]

Wow

I have no love of gas cooking, but that Caloric in white would make me consider it. I love a griddle at the ready! And so stylish...

 

[maytagbear]

Glenwood

ranges were the lowest of the low, mostly landlord trash.

I always wanted the avocado hi/low gas Caloric in Ma's food lab at school.....the lower oven was self-cleaning. Ma didn't hate it, but she didn't like it that much.

Lawrence/Maytagbear