When was the last upper/lower oven range?

[daveamkrayoguy]

Yes, a thought that occurs right at the busiest cooking event-time of them all: THANKSGIVING!

 

Flashback to my mom needing to replace her stove--a Tappan electric w/ conventional lower oven & a microwave on top...

 

This was around 1994, where we'd just resigned ourselves to a Mont. Ward electric dubbed DESIGNER SERIES by Tappan featuring just the lower conventional oven...

 

But during my search for replacing a range with the EXACT one we had--a quest, in fact!--I saw a General Elecrtric Americana-ish beast of a stove, albeit just a "GE", but w/ two conventional ovens, top & bottom--and a real off the assembly-line, no chance of it being just a "restored" artifact...

 

Just wonder if it was that particular year, or a mere year before it or after, that this was the end of a favorite era, leading to my hopes rising to Pluto when I see ranges displayed w/ microwaves over them, at the Best Buy, just to be disappointed, when I find they are separate units...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

More Visualizing a Range from the Past:

'Reconditioned!'--Yes, now that is the word I was looking for...

 

Thanksgiving 1994 was the year we'd shopped at Ward's for what was that new range more than 20-years-ago, there, too...

 

I swear this was an Americana classic in 1990's garb! The clock/timer for the oven had to have been digital-backlit LED, but the last sporting actual knobs for such...

 

Just trying to recollect/recall what it was I saw--maybe it had a microwave on top... Oh, I dunno...!

 

But definitely a 'last'...

 

 

-- Dave

 

[fan-of-fans]

Here is a thread with a photo of one of those GE ranges with a microwave on top. I would guess it's late 80s or perhaps early 90s.

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?44879_5

I'm not sure which brand or what year was the last, but 1994 would be very close. It's possible the ones you saw could have been old stock that hadn't sold yet.

I will say this, my 1992 Sears catalog shows two over/under ranges, one electric and one gas called Kenmore Classics. But, my 1993 catalog does not have them, so 92 must have been the last year for Kenmores at least. Those were made by Roper.

This thread also has a Caloric gas upper/lower, that looks early 90s era to me, so they had them around then also.

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[daveamkrayoguy]

Well, that last post you put there made me go in & look!

And find it was very recent...  The range that you speak of is none-other-than:

 

<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">Post# 851269, Reply# 23;   11/12/2015 at 8:14pm by own li'l StricklyBoJack (author of that thread)
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: small;">-- Dave</span></span>

 

[vacosaurus]

My Tappan double oven

When I bought my house ( built in 1967 ) in 1984 it had the original 1967 Tappan electric double oven stove. It was Coppertone. We used it till 2001 It still worked good although I had to keep repairing the wires that went to the heating elements in ovens and range elements. The terminal ends that attached to the elements were heat fatigued and the wires kept breaking off there. We have a good appliance store here in Cleveland Ohio called B & B appliance. I went there for something un related and noticed they had new Tappan double ovens in natural gas and electric models. They had white and almond and I think mabey black. They were priced at about $1500.00 if memory serves me right. I talked to my wife and we considered buying it then but we got side tracked and it was put off. That was in 2000. I was in the store again in 2001. for something else and in the front they had the Tappan conventional double oven ranges on sale for $889.00 for the electric model the natural gas model was a liitle bit more $. The salesman said Tappan discontinued making the double oven model in 2000 and they were selling out their store stock.This was one time it paid me to procastranate. I bought a Almond colored electric conventional double oven Tappan. It cost me $962.00 tax included delivered to my house. It was the same good quality as the 1967 model only it was updated with self cleaning feature and a digital clock /timer. It works well but over the years I have had to replace oven and range elements as it gets a lot of use. It is a model TEO356BHDR Regards Bill,