Who knew General Electric used that marketing term back in the 1950's?
http://newhaven.craigslist.org/app/2335147867.html
http://newhaven.craigslist.org/app/2335147867.html
"Vintage" GE Spacemaker Range
- Thread starter launderess
- Start date
Help Support :
My late friend Andy bought his wife a pink one of those for Christmas one year, and put a teakettle on it. The kettle had a $100 bill taped to the bottom. She found the money before she made tea! She did leave him on Father's Day one year, and took their son, ran off with one of his "good" friends. The range was mint, I think he found it in a motel efficiency sale or something.
This model was made before GE switched to offering 30" and 40" ranges as their standard sizes in 1957 when they went to the squared cabinet corners. Before the switch there were 21", 24" (like this), 36" and 40" ranges. This range has the full size master oven in it which means that the insulation probably was not super great. In ads for this range, GE used to state that for a large kitchen, two of these only took up 48 inches of space yet offered two full sized ovens and 8 surface units. I think Robert in Southern MD has one in Cadet blue or turquoise. I have one from '54, I think, with the light and clock mounted above the backsplash and it is one of the most beautiful ranges in my collection. A very nice man was selling it on ebay for $19.00 for a friend of his who was getting married and the fiance said she would have to have a newer stove in the kitchen. The stove is like new. The marriage sounds troubled from the start.
I had one of these for a short time in a small apartment. It was dandy, worked well, burners were hot and fast and the oven, while I didn't use it a whole lot, seemed to work perfectly. Didn't GE put two of these together side by side at some point and market them as a 48" wide "superstove" with 8 burners and two big ovens?
GE!
I think one may be it!
I think one may be it!
