On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:22:40 GMT, "wff_ng_7" >
wrote:

>"Mark Lloyd" > wrote:
>> The old electric stove my grandmother had had one burner that was
>> thermostatically controlled. The other burners didn't have knobs, but
>> rows of buttons (labeled something like "high", 'med-high", "medium",
>> "med-low", "low", "simmer", "warm", "off"). BTW, it also had a 120V
>> outlet on it. I guess people usually didn't have enough countertop
>> outlets then.
>
>I know I've lived on one or more houses as a kid that had the push button
>controls for the surface elements. The last one I remember my parents
>replaced in 1965, so the stove must have been from the 1950s or even late
>1940s. I think push button controls were gone by the mid 1960s.
>
>I do have a 120V outlet on my gas stove, circa 1973. It comes in handy since
>the nearest outlet on that side of the kitchen is six feet away. The house
>was built in 1963.

My grandmother got this stove in 1967, but it was used at the time.
I'm not sure exactly when it was made, but I'd guess around 1960.
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