Your chance to own celebrity ice boxes

[twintubdexter]

General Electric refrigerators from Keely Smith's Palm Springs home. Interesting but other than the color I don't see anything unusual about them, especially at $1,200. I once talked to her in a store in Downtown Palm Springs. I never thought to ask her about her appliances. I think it would be more appropriate to paint them "That Ol' Black Magic" black.

http://palmsprings.craigslist.org/app/6006540624.html

 

[goatfarmer]

Love Louis, and Keely!

 

[rp2813]

Just the size I'm looking for, but I only need the one on the right, and the orange (looks red to me) is a little too much.  The price is way too much, regardless of provenance.  Maybe if they were Lucy's . . .

 

If those were side-by-side when they were in the kitchen, it would bug the hell out of me that GE switched only the handles and not the badges on left-hinged models.

 

[gansky1]

1961

Beautiful - glad to see they offered the red (it is very orange) in a refrigerator as well.

 

[circlew]

It appears in the pic with the door open that the cabinet is white, with only the doors painted red. This would indicate she had them painted; perhaps she owned the red GE range, and wanted them to match. I'm thinking GE made only the range in red for some type of special short time promotion.

 

[rp2813]

I agree Tom.  Unless they were recessed to appear built-in, the red doors with everything else white would make them look like clown fridges.  If I were to even consider one or both, I'd want to investigate options for removing the red paint.  But again, the point is moot considering what they're asking for them.

 

[gansky1]

That would make sense, I was always under the impression that only the range came in red. It is a very orange-y red.