What's Wrong With This Picture?

[danemodsandy]

Mad Men, Season One, which depicts 1960.

 

[danemodsandy]

Not Seeing It Yet?

* evil chuckle *

 

[appnut]

Something to do with his suit or the fridge?

 

[danemodsandy]

LORD....

But I'm enjoying this....

MUAH-HA-HA-HA-HA-HA.

 

[appnut]

there's obviously some little detail I'm missing, can;'t see the picture too clearly, most of the shot is too dark for me. 

 

[danemodsandy]

Hint:

It is not a little detail.

 

[beekeyknee]

Is it something with the window? Or is the refrigerator door on backwards? That handle on the tilt out drawer on the bottom of the fridge looks fishy.

 

[danemodsandy]

I'll Tell....

....That's a 1948 Servel.

Which is a gas refrigerator - a damned unusual thing to install in a garage. Especially against a long outside wall close to the door, and on a concrete floor. I mean, where's the gas run?

I'll bet the prop guys had conniptions when they jackassed that thing into place, unless it had been gutted of its works.

 

[beekeyknee]

Those handle bars seem to be floating in the air in front of that dark green spot behind the handle bars. It's like the picture has been retouched.

 

[appnut]

Ahh.  Couldn't tell what the brand was.  Now if there had been a blue flame insignia .... 

 

[beekeyknee]

OK. I thought the fridge looked odd but I couldn't quite figure it out. The badge on the front of the fridge at the middle top looked different but I couldn't see it well enough to tell.

 

[danemodsandy]

Bob:

Here's a shot of the same logo - it's just too far away from the camera to "read" in the Mad Men frame:

 

[lamont]

Easy Explanation.

The missus got a newfangled electric fridge and the hubby and the boys just herced it to the garage incase the newfangled fridge died. That way they would have a replacement.

Or the Sears delivery guys did not offer free removal in the 60's....

 

[danemodsandy]

lamont:

Don gets a beer from it at one point, so it's supposedly working in the show.

However, there was no way to know that from the photo I posted, so you get points.

 

[warmsecondrinse]

DAMN! You guys are good. I only got as far as, "If it's 1960, that's not a new refrigerator."

Jim

 

[neptunebob]

I thought maybe because Jon Hamm was wearing Dockers and they didn't come along until 1986.

 

[hydralique]

I wouldn’t find it odd to see an old Servel installed in a garage. Heaters, water heaters and dryers were commonly installed in garages; running a new gas line from one of them to the refrigerator would have cost very little. Servels were famously long-lived and reliable refrigerators, my great aunt and uncle had one for well over 40 years. I suspect most of them were replaced not due to failures but rather due to the desire for a larger refrigerator with more modern features. In that circumstance it would have made good sense to keep the old Servel around if a garage refrigerator was desired.

 

[polkanut]

It's not surprising to see gas service in a garage around here every once in a great while.  The neighbors who live through the alley from my late paternal grandparents home have a natural gas line into their garage, and a wall furnace in there as well.  Mr. Fenske used to do light mechanic work, and wanted to not have to fiddle with wood heat.  Makes sense to me.

 

[turquoisedude]

HA!  I thought the refrigerator was a Norge with the clock in the door...  Shame on me.  

 

BUT also in that first series, and I did write to the producers about it, Betty Draper's Mixmaster on the counter is one of the 'MM' series that were only introduced in 1965.    Just sayin....