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One of these days I will get around to vintage stoves – my first retro love. So much retro, so little time! Meanwhile feast your eyes on this beauty – a 60s Frigidaire Flair, in Ohio, very shiny! — courtesy Magbot. Thank you, Maggie!
A reader wrote to ask how to bring the luster back to her vintage laminate countertops. Paste wax, maybe? To get the answer, I turned to expert Grace Jeffers. She is the writer, design historian and materials expert responsible for restoration of the Ralph Sr. and Sunny Wilson House – including its gorgeous Mondrian-style kitchen, [...]
As follow up to my post yesterday – with a round up of all the laminates for bathroom counters that are on my radar today – I also recently found this great little history of laminate in the 1950s, from Wilsonart. 2011 update, Wilsonart has taken story down, but here are a few highlights: Laminate [...]
I just got off the phone with George from New York Metals – purveyors of the stainless steel edging to true to 40s 50s and 60s kitchen countertops. The recent question on the table has been: How to bend my preferred “Snap-On Molding” (in photo above) for rounded edges – be they quarter-round cubbies or [...]
Seems like I’m starting the week off with the spotlight on RESOURCES! I was checking out Formica’s site recently – and saw these two new laminates. They both have a nice retro groove, underscored by their names, Atomic Orange and Atomic Turf. Back in the postwar era, there were a number of laminates that had [...]
I’ve written before about mixing countertop surfaces in your 40s 50s or 60s kitchen. But I recently came across these great photos and thought they would be very helpful. The photos show: How to lower cabinetry to create a place to roll out your pie dough (of course). Put a slab of marble here — [...]
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Vintage Frigidaire Flair – the all time favorite for a 60s kitchen? 
Magbot shows us her awesome all-formica dinette 
Vintage GE Americana refrigerator and range – Palm Spring Stephan spots our ebay pick of the day 
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You’re welcome! I actually get goosebumps every time I look at it.
Pam, I laughed out loud when I saw you’d added “Colonial butter churn magazine holders” to your voter survey.
I really MUST get a scanner. I have several boxes of 1945-65 ‘House Beautful’ and ‘Better Homes & Gardens’ issues. Many treasures there.
I have a particular interest in (and collection of print ads for) that brief fad for refrigerators that were mounted at upper-cabinet height. They looked like the “Pantryette” cabinets? Must not have been a big success, as I’ve never yet seen one in person or for sale. But I’ve got the advertisements to prove they did exist.
…maggie
We had a stove similar to this growing up!!! I love it!!!
Wow — it wound up selling for only $330. What a deal. Especially since those guys at antiqueappliances.com are getting thousands for stoves not nearly as wonderful.
The same stove in white is on ebay now and is located in Santa Clare UT. In case the link doesn’t work, the item # is: 250272782872
http://cgi.ebay.com/frigidaire-antique-oven-stove_W0QQitemZ250272782872QQihZ015QQcategoryZ71251QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
We just aquired the 2 oven version of this stove from a friend of ours after our 1 oven version started breaking down. The one we already have in our house has been in our house for over 50 years and we are still cooking on it. The newly aquired stove(with 2 ovens) will take some remodeling to get it in the kitchen. It has only been used a few times and has been sitting in storage for over 30 years. Any idea of what this thing is worth?