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What a sweet kitchen! The cabinets appear to be in really good condition - well cared for, just like the range. Definietly need to be kept together. Anyone in the market for a whole kitchen?

lawrence
 
OMG !!!

That is one of the most beautiful kitchens I've seen in a long time. It is just so cheery. Love that range and the cabinets just complement everything.

All it needs is a GE or Fridgidaire Fridge, and a KDS 15 or 16. (Of course in Sunny Yellow.)
 
What a beautiful kitchen and stove! It is so unusual to find one of this model stove in a 30" that would fit into almost any "new" or smaller kitchen, let alone in yellow!
 
A nice, blow-up pic would be nice! I'm curious about what the rest of the lettering on that brief shot of the control panel (showing "Frigidaire; Built & Backed by General Motors") says (beginning w/ Cook)...

I see that the 'eyes' contain the Heat Minder, but no Speed Heat, so this must be below the Imperial (or the 'Imp'?)...

-- Dave
 
Hey, it's my stove!

Except mine is in turquoise. Wonder if he'll come to his senses on pricing or just give up and scrap the works.

Dave, this one should have the Speed Heat and Heat Minder (of course both have probably been converted long ago). You can just barely make it out on the glass over the pointer scales.

Has anyone ever seen one of these with the rotisserie? Mine has the lettering for it but no provision for the spit, just a metal cap. -Cory
 
Left front unit with the aluminum ring in the center of the support is/was the speed heat unit. It is the TOL model. The French Doors were great space savers in narrow or small kitchens.

Typical beautiful St. Charles kitchen. A Frigidaire dealer in Ohio told us that Frigidaire gave them permission to sell KA DWs because many people putting in a nice kitchen would go with the Frigidaire Refrigerator and range products but wanted the KA DW. Note the special clock box above the sink with hook and recessed outlet.
 
I did notice the clock outlet!  There are three of them in my house, and I'm using the one in the kitchen for a real electric clock of +/- 1940 vintage, not some unreliable battery-powered type that can be heard ticking across the room.

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Dave, it's a Custom Imperial. It does have (or as Cory said, it's probably converted to a regular burner) but you can see the bright ring at the center identifying the left front burner as a "Speed Heat".  I can't see if the Heat Minder still has a sensor or not but it might have been removed or it just turned black. 
 
Btw, Canadian Custom Imperial ranges from this year on also lack the Speed Heat (on both the free standing models and on Flairs). 
 
I have the cheaper Deluxe version of this range (in white). It's the very first Frigidaire appliance that I got. A co-worker of mine gave it to me when I helped her moving. I had previously told her I really liked old Frigidaire appliances as I already collected ads and information about these!

Here are closer shots of the Cookmaster:





Here's a Canadian Custom Imperial control panel without the "Speed Heat"

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That's a Great Kitchen, why would they tear it out ?

Because...

They are probably going to do Granite CounterTops, Stainless Steel Appliances , Dark Cherry Cabinets, and a Tile or Hardwood Floor.

Just like every Remodel these days.
 
Sorry for the bad pic....

I had to crop it from one on this machine. Here's the US version with a little closer look at the control panel. I noticed the Canadian model only has a single indicator under the oven thermostat. How is broil indicated on those models? -Cory

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No matter... I have a good view of these ranges & a better understanding of available features along w/ the model! (And the hots for a Frigidaire Imp' as well!)

Thank you very much, CadMan and Phil R!

-- Dave
 
Cory, the Canadian version of the Custom Imperial also has two indicators for the ovens. Mine is a Deluxe, that's why it has only one. The Pink 40" Custom Imperial has two (for each oven).

Here's another picture of it.

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Here's a 1960 Custom Deluxe model. It's another Canadian range but I think the US model is the same. One light for the oven, no broiler grill but full glass control panel and burner controls similar to those the Flair ranges instead of radio dials like in the Custom Imperial free standing ranges.

The Custom Deluxe Flairs lack the Heat Minder burner but these have it.

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Those Cabinets....

....Bring back some memories! Those are the same C-Line St. Charles cabinets I had in my house in Morningside in Atlanta, in the same color, Pineapple.

I have missed that kitchen for over twenty years now - if you ever have steel cabinets, everything else is very much second-best.
 
OOH, I remember Morningside in the early 70s when it was still slated for demolition for the Stone Mtn. Connector: E. Rock Springs, Morningside Dr., which became grander the closer it got to Piedmont, Pelham Rd, etc. I wonder if the Dunkin Doughnuts is still on Piedmont, or if the Aquarium is still in the nearby shopping center. I went into the Miele showroom once in the 90s when home, but I know it's gone. Large crowds for dinner at the Colonnade and much quieter and smaller dinner groups of "our crowd" at Mary Macs; such a flood of memories. Thanks. Have a best friend from 1970 who used to live on Amsterdam Ave, close to Monroe and is retired in Belmont, CA now. I would take N. Decatur Rd to E. Rock Springs Rd, on the way to Piedmont, past the apts where that friend used to live before moving to Amsterdam Ave. He lived there when he bought the Kenmores like the POD last week through the Sears catalog. The landlord let him put in connections & install them in the apt. There was a yellow frame home on E. Rock Springs, just before the merge with Morningside that looked like a fancy New England farmhouse and one wintery Sunday afternoon in the early 70s as I went past, a WP 33" combo was out at the curb. It was the deluxe one, maybe yellow. I had already had the BOL model and gotten rid of it and knew of their disadvantages, but I still wish I had had been able to grab it. My mother and brother could haul home any POS "antique" but my appliances were regarded with the distaste reserved for dog poop on a nice rug, something to which many of us can relate. I found out later that the house belonged to an Eastern Airlines pilot, a friend of a friend, and he died of AIDS early in the 80s. That area would have been a good place to find St. Charles Kitchens.
 
Tom:

My house was at 691 Yorkshire, which is one of three streets running off the east side of Monroe Drive just south of where Monroe crosses Piedmont. Those three streets are Sherwood, Cumberland and then Yorkshire.

In the '60s, you could pick up a house in Morningside for under $20K, making them perfect for older people and gay couples (remember, at that time, if you were detectably gay, your earning power often took a hit). In the '70s, when I moved into the area, pricing was still in the '30s. At that time, the area was a great mix of families, retired people, gay couples and young people.

Sadly, the '80s influx of yuppie trash ruined it. Property values and prices soared, and all sense of community died out in only a few years, when long-time community-minded residents were replaced by people who just had a lot of money. No one talked to anyone face-to-face any more - they were all too busy gabbling into their cell phones while finding some new way to park their Beemers illegally.

I got disgusted and left in '89. It was great while it lasted.

P.S.: For many years, the local St. Charles franchise was on Piedmont, in a small row of shops that were in front of the West Lumber Company property that bordered the tree trails in Piedmont Park. A great guy named Harry Hurt owned it. Later, he moved it to Northside Drive, in a shopping center at the corner of Northside and Paces Ferry. He did very well as long as St. Charles lasted, which was until Whirlpool got their hands on it. [this post was last edited: 11/3/2012-09:49]
 
What a nice cheerful kitchen, sad that they are going to remodel it. When they are done it will probably look like what everyone else has, not something different and nice. When I visit friends and relatives, all the kitchens look the same. Boring!
 
Sandy, an English professor of mine at GA State lived in a house sorta facing the intersection. I used to sometimes see him mowing his lawn on my way to fun places. I don't remember the St. Charles cabinet place, but know the location. The Fruit Jungle was in the little shopping strip between that and the gas station on the corner. We used to call it the Fruit Jungle Annex because the real Fruit Jungle was opposite the greenhouses in the park. Ansley Mall had what I dubbed the Cruise-O-Matic Automatic coin laundry and across Monroe was Ansley Forest Apartments. Behind the Awful Waffle was a new strip of stores that opened in the early 70s which contained a very nice gifty/antique store, a bookshop and that wonderful Westinghouse-equipped laundry with the FLS like in the POD for today, 11/4/12. They had 3 of the coinop WH drycleaners. I wonder what they did with the swaths of land that they cleared for the freeway? It was the first case of a highway being stopped in Atlanta. I remember one elderly woman being interviewed about the proposed demolition of her house. She asked, "How could they know the value of my house when they never were inside it? I could have Waterford doorknobs on every door."

The very first time I was in that neighborhood was when I made a trip to Dutch Apple Valley way in 1969 for a part for my Duomatic. There was a place in that strip of businesses beyond The Cove that was the Bendix or Philco parts distributor. I think at that time, I took Ponce de Leon to Monroe to get there. Do you remember the BIG vacuum parts warehouse on the corner of Ponce de Leon & Monroe? I used to note that place through many years of my childhood when we made trips to the Ponce de Leon Aquarium; each trip topped off by a visit to the old Krispy Kreme Doughnut place that was across from Druid Hills Presbyterian Church, I think.

Thanks for expanding my knowledge of the area.[this post was last edited: 11/4/2012-10:56]
 
Tom:

Ah, yes - the Fruit Jungle! That brings back some memories.

For non-Atlantans, the Fruit Jungle was an older convenience store on Piedmont Avenue, open 24 hours when that was rare. It was not a "nice" place - in fact, it was pretty seedy and run-down. But everyone in Atlanta turned up there sooner or later, even local politicians and celebrities, because everyone needs something in the dead of night eventually, if only cigarettes. It was also very cruisy, according to those who liked their trade a bit scruffy (which wasn't and isn't me). The Fruit Jungle's secret was that it had everything; if you poked around long enough, you'd find mouthwash, sewing kits, toys, socks, screwdrivers and pots and pans in addition to the usual convenience-store snacky stuff and minor groceries.

I remember the vacuum place you mention; they were where I used to get parts for our Compact C-4 while I still lived at home.

I remember Ansley Forest quite well, as I should - I lived there about three different times between houses. I never lived at Monroe Manor - and anyone who doesn't know why I am denying that so vehemently is not a real Atlantan, LOL.
 
Back in the "old days" the only other thing open 24 hours a day was the Plaza Drug Store on Ponce de Leon at N. Highland in what some call Atlanta's first strip mall, Briarcliff Plaza. It was across Highland from an Atlanta institution, Druid Hills Baptist where Mrs. Asa Griggs (Coca Cola) Candler worshiped and across Ponce from the Hotel Clairemont. Some quite well off friends of my parents lived there when they first moved to Atlanta in the late 40s or early 50s. That always seemed strange to us seeing what it looked like in the 60s and later. Did it become a condo or was it demolished?

I don't remember Monroe Manor, unless that was the name of the complex that went up in the seventies on the left hand side of Monroe as you were driving from Piedmont toward Ponce. A waiter from the Prince George told us he lived there. He made the mistake of putting large sealed containers of colored water in the west facing window and had some burst, drenching his white curtains with about a Jeroboam's worth of purple water.
 
St Charles....

There are three houses in my hometown that have ST Charles Cabinets , they are this color, but the finish is textured, there is a long story behind them, as most people had Youngstown kitchens, the Lady who saw them at a trade show was the owner of a large furniture gallery, she showed them to her neighbor who owned Blowing Rock Furniture Co, so in the end, they both ended up with them, and the son of the man who owned Blowing Rock Furn got a set too, i have been in all three houses, and all of them have one piece stainless steel tops, really great looking stuff...if I had 1800 to spare I would jump on these!!
 
Tom and Hans:

Tom:

The Clairmont was converted to a senior residence, last I knew. But I've been away three years, and as you know, a lot can change in Atlanta in three years.

Yes, Monroe Manor was the apartment complex you described. It was a hugely notorious place. If you moved there, you weren't just coming out - you were ripping down the closet door and doing the boogaloo on it.

Hans:

My St. Charles cabinets were the textured finish, too; C-Line cabinets were all textured by then (1981) unless you special-ordered smooth fronts. I didn't think it mattered enough to put in a special order, and OY, how I regretted that decision! As everyone now knows, a textured finish does exactly what it's supposed to do - hide fingerprints. But it also allows finger schmutz to build up in the texture, where it's a witch to clean out. If I ever have St. Charles again (not likely, but hey, I can dream), I'd want the smooth fronts.

I made another mammoth mistake on that kitchen - white Formica countertops and backsplashes that extended all the way up to the bottoms of the wall cabinets. Yellow cabinets and white countertops sounds light and bright and clean - and they were. But there were thirty-three front feet of countertop, and keeping all that pristine was a lot - a lot - of work.
 

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