toploader55
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Not too sure how accurate this is...
http://www.msn.com/en-us/lifestyle/...-the-year-you-were-born/ss-AAmqetg?li=BBnb7Kz
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What your kitchen looked like the year you were born
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I have proof...
Of what the kitchen looked like the year I was born! My father insisted that I save the old family photos and albums - I found this relic and wanted to share it. I hope this won't be deemed offensive but the nekkid little dude on the table is indeed me!
That's a '57 GE refrigerator (white). Not shown - the '57 Frigidaire Super range. The picture has to have been taken in summer of 1963 at a house in Beaconsfield, Quebec that I do not remember. We moved from that house to Hudson later that year.
Of what the kitchen looked like the year I was born! My father insisted that I save the old family photos and albums - I found this relic and wanted to share it. I hope this won't be deemed offensive but the nekkid little dude on the table is indeed me!
That's a '57 GE refrigerator (white). Not shown - the '57 Frigidaire Super range. The picture has to have been taken in summer of 1963 at a house in Beaconsfield, Quebec that I do not remember. We moved from that house to Hudson later that year.
thespiritof76
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I dont want to know since I was born in 1988...=(...
But I will borrow my Mothers birth year, 1959, and post a pic of what my grand parents kitchen looked like! I love the GE fridge,that is really the highlight of the following photo for me.
But I will borrow my Mothers birth year, 1959, and post a pic of what my grand parents kitchen looked like! I love the GE fridge,that is really the highlight of the following photo for me.
vacerator
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I remeber what
the kitchen looked like from about 4 years of age because my mom gave me the third degree in it for wandering off up the alley to see my grandma without telling her.
Black and white checkerboard linoleum floor, watermelon color walls, a blue vinyl and chrome 50's dinette set with a grey and whitish laminate top, an older white Frigidaire with the bottom bin where bananas and potatoes were kept, an older white 36 inch Tappan stove with the gold embossed back console, and a white steel high boy cabinet. A year later before we left Pa., a neighbor gave my mom her first antique. A 6 ft. long walnut china cabinet. It only fit in the kitchen.
The neighbors moved to NY state and it didn't fit on the moving van, so they gave it to us. It has arched beveled glass doors, and a gate along the top. It was painted baby blue. Some years later, it finally got stripped and re stained. Still in the family.
Before my mom passed away, one shelf was filled with those Hall China Reagan tea pots. My sister has sold all but one.
the kitchen looked like from about 4 years of age because my mom gave me the third degree in it for wandering off up the alley to see my grandma without telling her.
Black and white checkerboard linoleum floor, watermelon color walls, a blue vinyl and chrome 50's dinette set with a grey and whitish laminate top, an older white Frigidaire with the bottom bin where bananas and potatoes were kept, an older white 36 inch Tappan stove with the gold embossed back console, and a white steel high boy cabinet. A year later before we left Pa., a neighbor gave my mom her first antique. A 6 ft. long walnut china cabinet. It only fit in the kitchen.
The neighbors moved to NY state and it didn't fit on the moving van, so they gave it to us. It has arched beveled glass doors, and a gate along the top. It was painted baby blue. Some years later, it finally got stripped and re stained. Still in the family.
Before my mom passed away, one shelf was filled with those Hall China Reagan tea pots. My sister has sold all but one.
Slide show pics --
#2 discusses the "the very roomy double sink" which has a dishwasher unit incorporated into the right side.
#11 discusses "1950: The Electric Range" but shows a gas cooktop.
I guess that goes back to Eddie's initial comment... Those slides and descriptions don't quite jibe. That dishwasher shown in image #2 is a really early model - perhaps a Walker??
Lets get back to Reply #1 and discuss those "absorbent balls", shall we?
lawrence
lawrence
toploader55
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Yes, I noticed that too about the Electric Range and Gas Cooktop.
#20 has got that Flair paired up with a KDS-15
Love the Dead Pheasant on the cutting board on #26.
#20 has got that Flair paired up with a KDS-15
Love the Dead Pheasant on the cutting board on #26.
maytag63
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Cute baby. I have a pic of myself in the same position. I guess it was the thing to take a pic of a naked baby in the 50's and 60's.
slide 11
FINALLY a photo that has the exact model O'Keefe & Merrit wall oven & 42" gas cooktop that was in coppertone in our brand new house in September 1961.
Anyone identify the dishwasher in slide 28?
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FINALLY a photo that has the exact model O'Keefe & Merrit wall oven & 42" gas cooktop that was in coppertone in our brand new house in September 1961.
Anyone identify the dishwasher in slide 28?
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firedome
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our 1950 kitchen:
brand new house: 1950 Frigidaire fridge, 1950 Magic Chef 40" range, weird Jackson Pollack-looking linoleum floor: Kelly green with random yellow, red,and white irregular splotches/spots, knotty pine cabinets, light green flax-pattern Formica with stainless edging, white porcelain double sink with Hudee ring, 4 shelf chrome wire storage rack in the corner, Early American Ethan Allen kitchen table for 6 with 6 matching chairs, swinging door to the DR... and unfortunately no d/w until 15 years later :-(
brand new house: 1950 Frigidaire fridge, 1950 Magic Chef 40" range, weird Jackson Pollack-looking linoleum floor: Kelly green with random yellow, red,and white irregular splotches/spots, knotty pine cabinets, light green flax-pattern Formica with stainless edging, white porcelain double sink with Hudee ring, 4 shelf chrome wire storage rack in the corner, Early American Ethan Allen kitchen table for 6 with 6 matching chairs, swinging door to the DR... and unfortunately no d/w until 15 years later :-(
I was born in 1951 and the earliest kitchen that I remember would be the house we moved into in 1952 and left in 1954. I can remember back to about 1953. The kitchen cabinets were painted what my Mom always called Forget Me Not Blue the walls were white. We had a 30 in., probably BOL O'Keeffe and Merritt gas stove and a small Servel gas refrigerator. The counter tops were black and white tile and the floor was red linoleum. The wooden kitchen table and chairs were also painted the same blue as the cabinets.
My Mom was very proud of her OKeeffe and Merritt stove, it was the first new appliance my parents bought since they were married in 1948. One Saturday morning my brother and I were up before our parents watching cartoons on TV. We went into the kitchen to get some thing to eat and saw a fly on Mom's new stove. Since we knew she wouldn't want that fly on the stove I took the nearest handy item I could find to kill it, which was unfortunately for me and the stove a hammer. I whacked the stove, missed the fly and left a permanent fly sized chip in the porcelain. This resulted in a spanking. Every time after that when I looked at the stove I saw that fly!
Eddie
My Mom was very proud of her OKeeffe and Merritt stove, it was the first new appliance my parents bought since they were married in 1948. One Saturday morning my brother and I were up before our parents watching cartoons on TV. We went into the kitchen to get some thing to eat and saw a fly on Mom's new stove. Since we knew she wouldn't want that fly on the stove I took the nearest handy item I could find to kill it, which was unfortunately for me and the stove a hammer. I whacked the stove, missed the fly and left a permanent fly sized chip in the porcelain. This resulted in a spanking. Every time after that when I looked at the stove I saw that fly!
Eddie
lordkenmore
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I also question the accuracy of things like this. One photo of a kitchen is supposed to define every kitchen in America...except it really doesn't.
I have no idea what our kitchen looked like...but I doubt that it was a kitchen shown in a fancy decorating magazine as "Today's Kitchen." Indeed, I doubt we ever had anything remotely resembling a current kitchen. The one kitchen I recall was the one in my last childhood home, where we moved in the mid-70s. It was a mix of eras--wood cabinets probably original to the 1950s house, newer linoleum that might have been someone in date when we moved in, etc. The only remodelling we did in 16 years was adding a wall (the original dining room/kitchen wall had been taken out, and my parents added that wall back). Otherwise, the only changes were things like paint colors, and my mother pretty much did what she felt like doing, and who cares what the decorating magazines say one is supposed to do?
I have no idea what our kitchen looked like...but I doubt that it was a kitchen shown in a fancy decorating magazine as "Today's Kitchen." Indeed, I doubt we ever had anything remotely resembling a current kitchen. The one kitchen I recall was the one in my last childhood home, where we moved in the mid-70s. It was a mix of eras--wood cabinets probably original to the 1950s house, newer linoleum that might have been someone in date when we moved in, etc. The only remodelling we did in 16 years was adding a wall (the original dining room/kitchen wall had been taken out, and my parents added that wall back). Otherwise, the only changes were things like paint colors, and my mother pretty much did what she felt like doing, and who cares what the decorating magazines say one is supposed to do?
I'll have to find some pictures of the kitchen in the first house I was born to. Nothing fancy, just typical of the time.. L shaped counters across the front and side wall. Stove was on the very left end over to a single sink in front of the window looking out towards the street, and then down the side was a few more feet of counters and the fridge on the end of that,, then the doorway to the hall. What it did have I wished I had a picture of was the 9x9 tile flooring,, in the center they were arranged to look somewhat star shaped. On the other wall was a much larger window overlooking the driveway where we had the usual for the time chrome kitchen set with the red crackled ice formica and matching chairs.
I thought it was "somewhat" accurate, some pictures moreso than others.
The house I lived in as a baby (July 1955-August 1957) was built in 1903 - a large colonial revival style that had been divided into 3 apartments. We were on the first floor, with the Johnstons on the 2nd., and Ertels on the 3rd. My parents had the kitchen renovated sometime in 1953 after my dad returned from the Korean War. They put in new Youngstown cabinets, with a double porcelain enamel 66" sinktop. The other countertops were Gray pearl design Formica. The refrigerator was a new Westinghouse, as was the range (which I still have). The kitchen table had a wood frame with a Blue linen-look Formica top, and the chairs had Blue upholstery. The doors and other woodwork remained original to the house. The floor was some type of linoleum or tile; I can't remember.
Picture #8 (1939) is very accurate. That kitchen reminds me a lot of my Dad's Aunt & Uncle's kitchen, and their house was built in 1936. Their cabinets were made by Whitehead Metal Products, and had Monel tops.
The house I lived in as a baby (July 1955-August 1957) was built in 1903 - a large colonial revival style that had been divided into 3 apartments. We were on the first floor, with the Johnstons on the 2nd., and Ertels on the 3rd. My parents had the kitchen renovated sometime in 1953 after my dad returned from the Korean War. They put in new Youngstown cabinets, with a double porcelain enamel 66" sinktop. The other countertops were Gray pearl design Formica. The refrigerator was a new Westinghouse, as was the range (which I still have). The kitchen table had a wood frame with a Blue linen-look Formica top, and the chairs had Blue upholstery. The doors and other woodwork remained original to the house. The floor was some type of linoleum or tile; I can't remember.
Picture #8 (1939) is very accurate. That kitchen reminds me a lot of my Dad's Aunt & Uncle's kitchen, and their house was built in 1936. Their cabinets were made by Whitehead Metal Products, and had Monel tops.
norgeway
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Plain white
Wooden cabinets, red Irish Linen countertops ,Red brick Armstrong Linoleum floor,some wild green and gold flecked wallpaper, a 54 Hotpoint 30 inch range and a 50 Westinghouse fridge, a 1940 something Sunbeam waffle iron a Dormeyer Dormey Portable mixer and a Dormeyer Mixwell stand mixer and in the pantry a 1952 GE 815 Swivel Top, I was born in September of 1965....Oh yeah a Ugly American maple table and some UGLY maple chairs,I have a life long hatred for Early American because my Mother and Aunt LOVED it.
Wooden cabinets, red Irish Linen countertops ,Red brick Armstrong Linoleum floor,some wild green and gold flecked wallpaper, a 54 Hotpoint 30 inch range and a 50 Westinghouse fridge, a 1940 something Sunbeam waffle iron a Dormeyer Dormey Portable mixer and a Dormeyer Mixwell stand mixer and in the pantry a 1952 GE 815 Swivel Top, I was born in September of 1965....Oh yeah a Ugly American maple table and some UGLY maple chairs,I have a life long hatred for Early American because my Mother and Aunt LOVED it.
Our 1904 Home was rough & lacking most conveniences.The kitchen had a plain counter about 8ft long with a sink,plain stove and a Norge fridge.Also a formica table & metal legged padded chairs.We were poor in 1969 ,when I was 9,Except for my mom's mother who owned a successful carpet company.
One day after school I walked into a semi smokey kitchen & panicked,called my father at work yelling THE STOVE'S ON FIRE HELP.He calls the neighbors who try and turn the oven off but the door won't open and the red light is on.You guessed it.My grandmother bought us a new self cleaning stove which scared everyone including the neighbors who had never seen one either.
One day after school I walked into a semi smokey kitchen & panicked,called my father at work yelling THE STOVE'S ON FIRE HELP.He calls the neighbors who try and turn the oven off but the door won't open and the red light is on.You guessed it.My grandmother bought us a new self cleaning stove which scared everyone including the neighbors who had never seen one either.
#28 Looks like a Thermador/Waste King
My parents' year 1968 built kitchen, in 1971 had a 40 inch Frigidaire coppertone range with matching hood, a double coppertone sink, and Frigidaire refrigerator also in coppertone. In 1974 a Kitchenaid Superba in coppertone was added. The cabinets were a neutral stained oak with almost white countertops and the floor through the whole house except for the bedrooms was this poured stuff with colored flecks sprinkled in it, was very popular in our area at the time. They later covered that poured floor around 1976 or '77 with seamless vinyl in beautiful gold, red, brown, and yellow/orange.
