All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
from the gross to the sublime:

http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

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Greg

In article . net,
"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net wrote:

All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
from the gross to the sublime:

http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

Fun pictures, Greg. Thanks. One on the fifth page brought to mind a
friend who once did the food styling for a Land O'Lakes butter photo
shoot. She had something like 20 packages of frozen peas from which to
select the *perfect* ones for the pictures. One by one,
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http://www.jamlady.eboard.com, updated 2-11-2006, Sausage Roll Ups

"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net wrote:
All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
from the gross to the sublime:

http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
look in the not too distant future.

Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought it
in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled the
kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for good. I've
tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years, but no one
really understood what I was talking about.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?

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"wff_ng_7" wrote:
A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?

Just in case it's not obvious from the picture, the burner/cutting board
section slides in and out. When not in use, it slides back so the burners
are concealed, and the front of the cutting board is flush with the
remainder of the stove.

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On Sat 11 Feb 2006 09:16:01p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it wff_ng_7?

"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net wrote:
All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat
stuff, from the gross to the sublime:

http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
look in the not too distant future.

Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought
it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled
the kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for
good. I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years,
but no one really understood what I was talking about.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?


Actually, yes, this very stove. It appeared in some episodes of Bewitched.
Also, in the mid 1970s I met some new friends who had one in their home.
It had been immaculately cared for and looked like the day it was
installed. The double ovens were completely lined in polished stainless
steel. Quite a nice unit!

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

wff_ng_7 wrote:
"wff_ng_7" wrote:
A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?

Just in case it's not obvious from the picture, the burner/cutting
board section slides in and out. When not in use, it slides back so
the burners are concealed, and the front of the cutting board is
flush with the remainder of the stove.

I think it's a very cool design and too bad it's still not on the market
I can think of a lot of kitchens that could use a space-saver like that
(mine included!)

Jill

"wff_ng_7" wrote in message
news:5EyHf.1074$Lr.848@trnddc01...
"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net wrote:
All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
from the gross to the sublime:

http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
look in the not too distant future.

Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought
it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled the
kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for good.
I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years, but no
one really understood what I was talking about.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?

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Wow!! What an amazing range! I would kill for that (in working
condition...) right now!

--
Syssi

"Wayne Boatwright" wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com wrote in message
28.19...
On Sat 11 Feb 2006 09:16:01p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it wff_ng_7?

"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net wrote:
All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat
stuff, from the gross to the sublime:

http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
look in the not too distant future.

Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought
it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled
the kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for
good. I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years,
but no one really understood what I was talking about.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?


Actually, yes, this very stove. It appeared in some episodes of Bewitched.
Also, in the mid 1970s I met some new friends who had one in their home.
It had been immaculately cared for and looked like the day it was
installed. The double ovens were completely lined in polished stainless
steel. Quite a nice unit!

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
==========

Are you sure? I thought Bewitched's oven had the lift-top type open. A
neighbor of mine had one until just this past year. Again, oven envy just
about killed me.

--
Syssi

On Sun 12 Feb 2006 12:40:04p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Syssi?



"Wayne Boatwright" wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com wrote in message
28.19...
On Sat 11 Feb 2006 09:16:01p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
wff_ng_7?

"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net wrote:
All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat
stuff, from the gross to the sublime:

http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads
will look in the not too distant future.

Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they
bought it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents
remodeled the kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was
gone for good. I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over
the years, but no one really understood what I was talking about.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?


Actually, yes, this very stove. It appeared in some episodes of
Bewitched. Also, in the mid 1970s I met some new friends who had one in
their home. It had been immaculately cared for and looked like the day
it was installed. The double ovens were completely lined in polished
stainless steel. Quite a nice unit!

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
==========

Are you sure? I thought Bewitched's oven had the lift-top type open. A
neighbor of mine had one until just this past year. Again, oven envy
just about killed me.

Uh, yeah, I think you're right about Bewitched. My friends was definitely
like this one. Oven envy? Envy goes right out the window when I think of
manually cleaning an oven. g

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA

"Syssi" wrote:
Are you sure? I thought Bewitched's oven had the lift-top type open. A
neighbor of mine had one until just this past year. Again, oven envy just
about killed me.

You are indeed correct. I was intrigued so I went looking on the net for
pictures of the studio set for Bewitched. I found some good pictures and the
stove in Bewitched is not the Tappan one from the advertisements that I
mentioned being the exact same as my parents' stove. It is similar though.
It is one with lift up oven doors rather than swing open oven doors. Also,
the burner configuration is different. On my parents' stove, the four
burners were all in a straight row, with a cutting board in front. The
burners are completely concealed when the section is pushed in and the
cutting board remains exposed. The Bewitched stove has the two end burners
to the back, and the two center burners toward the front, with no cutting
board.

Bewitched Kitchen and Stove: http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Funny how I watched every episode of Bewitched when I was a kid, but never
remembered the stove. I guess I wasn't interested in such things. On the
other hand, I remember my parents' stove very well, even though I only saw
it a few times while visiting. My mother, who actually used it daily, has no
memory of its configuration at this point.

I get the feeling things such as kitchen stoves were a lot more varied 40-50
years ago then they are now, with a lot of interesting features. Now even
with the professional style stoves, the variation isn't as great as it once
was. Needless to say, there are dramatically fewer stove manufacturers today
than there were 50 years ago, in spite of a lot of the brand names still
being around for marketing reasons.

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jmcquown wrote:

wff_ng_7 wrote:
"wff_ng_7" wrote:
A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?

Just in case it's not obvious from the picture, the burner/cutting
board section slides in and out. When not in use, it slides back so
the burners are concealed, and the front of the cutting board is
flush with the remainder of the stove.

I think it's a very cool design and too bad it's still not on the market
I can think of a lot of kitchens that could use a space-saver like that
(mine included!)


Yup, it's a very neat design Jill...I could use it my own kitchen.

It's interesting that while many other consumer goods have radically
changed in the last 50 years, kitchen appliances are still pretty
"mundane", e.g. the basic ones at least are the same kinds of white
boxes that they always have been. There have been technological
improvements (self - defrost fridges, microwaves, much better energry
effeciency...) but someone transported from 1955 to the Magical Space
Age Future 'o 2005 would I think be fairly underwhelmed by modern
kitchen appliances...

--
Best
Greg

Syssi wrote:

"wff_ng_7" wrote in message
news:5EyHf.1074$Lr.848@trnddc01...
"Gregory Morrow"
gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net wrote:
All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
from the gross to the sublime:

http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
look in the not too distant future.

Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought
it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled the
kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for good.
I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years, but no
one really understood what I was talking about.

A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?

--
( #wff_ng_7# at #verizon# period #net# ) ===============

Wow!! What an amazing range! I would kill for that (in working
condition...) right now!


Ebay is your friend :-)

--
Best
Greg

On 12 Feb 2006 15:48:03 -0800, Gregory Morrow wrote:


jmcquown wrote:

wff_ng_7 wrote:
"wff_ng_7" wrote:
A picture is worth a thousand words:

http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?

Just in case it's not obvious from the picture, the burner/cutting
board section slides in and out. When not in use, it slides back so
the burners are concealed, and the front of the cutting board is
flush with the remainder of the stove.

I think it's a very cool design and too bad it's still not on the market
I can think of a lot of kitchens that could use a space-saver like that
(mine included!)


Yup, it's a very neat design Jill...I could use it my own kitchen.

I don't need a space saver, but I'd love one of those in my kitchen
too.... in fact one apartment my family rented around '67 had one and
I loved it then. The design was perfect for us because my brother was
a toddler at the time, so we didn't worry about hot coils. Mom loved
the two ovens because she could do a turkey in the big one and rolls
in the small one. It was very convenient!
--

Practice safe eating. Always use condiments.

wff_ng_7 wrote:

Bewitched Kitchen and Stove: http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

I love seeing the older appliances and gadgets!! One shot showed the
glass pyrex coffee pot my mother used for ages. She routinely broke one
piece or another and was always having to buy replacement parts, but
they were common place then. I recall she had to use a wire heat
diffuser thingie between the burner and the glass pot. Did anyone else
use those coffee pots?
Goomba

On Sun 12 Feb 2006 08:24:55p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Goomba38?

wff_ng_7 wrote:

Bewitched Kitchen and Stove: http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

I love seeing the older appliances and gadgets!! One shot showed the
glass pyrex coffee pot my mother used for ages. She routinely broke one
piece or another and was always having to buy replacement parts, but
they were common place then. I recall she had to use a wire heat
diffuser thingie between the burner and the glass pot. Did anyone else
use those coffee pots?
Goomba


Was this a Pyrex percolator or a vacuum pot? I collect the glass vacuum pots
and several made by Pyrex. I often use them to brew coffee.

--
Wayne Boatwright o¿o
____________________

BIOYA