Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-two

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Vintage appliance advertisements up to 1989. Refrigerators, Freezers, Washing Machines, Clothes Dryers, Dishwashers, Television, Radio, Phonographs (electric and wind-up), Fans, Air Conditioners, Vacuums, Clocks, small kitchen appliances. Please feel free to post any pertaining ads. Please make sure any image you post does not contain any watermarks or copyrights from any individuals or websites.

For all other home goods, please visit the "Modern Living" series. For everything related to vintage telephones, please visit the "Number PULEAZE!" series.

Enjoy!

Part One

Part Two

Part Three

Part Four

Part Five

Part Six

Part Seven

Part Eight

Part Nine

Part Ten

Part Eleven

Part Twelve

Part Thirteen

Part Fourteen

Part Fifteen

Part Sixteen

Part Seventeen

Part Eighteen

Part Nineteen

Part Twenty

Part Twenty-one

Part Twenty-two

Part Twenty-three

Part Twenty-four

Part Twenty-five

Part Twenty-six

Part Twenty-seven

Part Twenty-eight

Part Twenty-nine

Part Thirty

Part Thirty-one

 

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Blackstone 1975

 

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Frigidaire 1963

 

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Proctor 1945

 

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Speed Queen 1974

 

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JC Penny 1979

 

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Citation Imperial II 1978

 

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Hoover 1974

 

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Frigidaire 1964

 

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General Electric 1968

 

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Hamilton Beach 1933

 

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Hoover 1967

 

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International Harvester 1954

 

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Kelvinator 1927

 

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KitchenAid 1964

 

[vacerator]

Re; Frigidaire Flair range. I've always admired it for style. We visited Cavalcade last month. It's Kevin 313's private collection museum. He told us that his Flair was the most expensive stove he has because it was in the house he bought up in Crosswell Mi. He said he'd never cook on one because you have to reach over hot burners to get anything out of the oven. If you slide the hot cooktop underneath the ovens, you have nothing to set what was in the oven on.

 

[phillymatt53]

Re; Frigidaire Flair range. I've always admired it for style. We visited Cavalcade last month. It's Kevin 313's private collection museum. He told us that his Flair was the most expensive stove he has because it was in the house he bought up in Crosswell Mi. He said he'd never cook on one because you have to reach over hot burners to get anything out of the oven. If you slide the hot cooktop underneath the ovens, you have nothing to set what was in the oven on.

I agree there!
I once cooked a whole Thanksgiving dinner at a friend's house, who had that goofy stove.
Very difficult to maneuver things around with that damned appliance!

I once saw it in Samantha's kitchen in "Bewitched".

 

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Proctor 1945
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That Proctor Roast-or-Grille look like it was probably made by Westinghouse. The lid and handles are exactly the same.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

I agree there!
I once cooked a whole Thanksgiving dinner at a friend's house, who had that goofy stove.
Very difficult to maneuver things around with that damned appliance!

I once saw it in Samantha's kitchen in "Bewitched".

Might be the same with a family who had a Tappan Fabulous 400 that I knew, but that range stuck around until the new owners who moved in after they moved out wore it out...

So that family might have loved it, despite the awkwardness & a brief fire the girl who lived there I still keep in touch told me it had & got put out...

 

[phillymatt53]

Here's an early 1960s GE offering.
A coffee table with a radio and phono in it.
Now tell me, what brainy designer at GE dreamt that goofy idea up?

I wonder how many people got up off the sofa and tripped over the power cord which likely ran under the sofa.
Smart!...... real Smart!

 

[vacerator]

Matt, I like that GE coffee table stereo. I guess you could place an area rug runner in front of the sofa to cover the cord. The Canadian brand Electrohome made several styles tool

 

[phillymatt53]

Matt, I like that GE coffee table stereo. I guess you could place an area rug runner in front of the sofa to cover the cord. The Canadian brand Electrohome made several styles tool

Mike, I still don't care for that type of design, sorry.
Besides, a boozed-up slob can spill their drinks and wind up with a real mess there.
Or ashes from cigs or cigars landing on the records... nah, not my idea of good design.
But I guess they'll advertize anything in hopes that it would sell.
I tend to consider "what if" about some things.

 

[circlew]

Mike, I still don't care for that type of design, sorry.
Besides, a boozed-up slob can spill their drinks and wind up with a real mess there.
Or ashes from cigs or cigars landing on the records... nah, not my idea of good design.
But I guess they'll advertize anything in hopes that it would sell.
I tend to consider "what if" about some things.

The proper way to provide power to such an item is to install a floor receptacle, which is best done when building or doing major renovations. These are commonly used in libraries, offices, and such places.

Running a cord under a rug is not recommended, and is a well known cause of fires. My dad's uncle owned a building where the tenants of one apartment had run an extension cord under a carpet in the living room. After being walked over frequently, and overheating from being covered, the insulation wore down, and shorted out the cord, which set the rug on fire one night. Contributing to this was that they had replaced the 15 amp fuse with a 30 amp. Fortunately the residents were still awake, and closed the doors to adjoining rooms before leaving. By the time the fire department extinguished the blaze, the entire room was incinerated, and the remainder of that apartment, and one other, had minor smoke damage. A business below had to replace the ceiling due to water ruining it.

 

[phillymatt53]

The proper way to provide power to such an item is to install a floor receptacle, which is best done when building or doing major renovations. These are commonly used in libraries, offices, and such places.

Running a cord under a rug is not recommended, and is a well known cause of fires. My dad's uncle owned a building where the tenants of one apartment had run an extension cord under a carpet in the living room. After being walked over frequently, and overheating from being covered, the insulation wore down, and shorted out the cord, which set the rug on fire one night. Contributing to this was that they had replaced the 15 amp fuse with a 30 amp. Fortunately the residents were still awake, and closed the doors to adjoining rooms before leaving. By the time the fire department extinguished the blaze, the entire room was incinerated, and the remainder of that apartment, and one other, had minor smoke damage. A business below had to replace the ceiling due to water ruining it.

Ya know, Tom, I was going to post the potential dangers of running wires under carpeting too, but I just thought about it instead.
I'm glad that you did though.
As for installing a floor receptacle for something like that coffee table stereo, yes, it would insure a safer installation.
I would think that a more than sufficient circuit breaker of low amp rating would suffice, because I'm certain that GE would only draw about 1 amp, if even that much.

However, it would also create a permanent and unsightly spot on the floor, if re-arranging furniture was to be done, not to mention if the floor was wall-to-wall carpeted
Additionally, if the owner decided to eventually get a traditional "real" stereo system, and change of furniture, this goofy GE system would have to be replaced by a regular coffee table that hid the old floor receptacle.

So I stick to my previous mention that this oddly designed "table" by GE wasn't thought out with the best/future interests in mind. - more like a dumb novelty.

 

[DADoES]

Sister had a floor outlet added to mom's family room during the renovation before they moved in w/her.