Vintage Avocado Green Gas Stove - $300 (South Austin )

[ovrphil]

another green one - what's up the all the green, Yoda?

http://austin.craigslist.org/app/4516861315.html

 

[alr2903]

Urban mythbuster

Phil, thank You for posting this stove.  36" inches wide and the upper oven.  This is the" McMillan & Wife" stove.    "Sally McMillan's" was  coppertone and the the upper oven was a conventional oven. I can not tell if this one is microwave or conventional.  Thanks again. Arthur

 

What is the little compartment for, to the left of the upper oven?

 

[ovrphil]

Hi Arthur -

I learn more about where these stoves were used in past shows that I watched...I love this stove, without knowing if that's a good idea or not. I haven't ever seen one in my searches. And thank you.

 

[bajaespuma]

This was the first generation of Pyrolytic(sp?) self-cleaning Caloric Gas Ranges. Apparently the ovens worked OK, but they had already dumbed-down the burners rendering them as lame as most domestic Gas stoves of the Seventies. I think by this time Raytheon had bought out the company and was initiating the brand's slow, tragic slide into crap.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

What's the little compartment for, left of the Upper?

Storage space, for utensils, or maybe for seasonings and spices...

-- Dave

 

[tomturbomatic]

An awful lot of crap got between the cooktop edges and the sides of the recess for it. Maybe the little cabinet was for the optional 8 track player. It would go so well with the avocado color. I think the upper oven is a gas thermal oven also from what I can read of the control.

Does anyone remember, or should I say is anyone old enough to remember the Dick Tracy cartoon strip? Vera Alldid's mother had an electric range with a TV in the control panel. In the 30s and 40s, there were ranges with radios in the backsplash.