Vintage Frigidaire Flair – the all time favorite for a 60s kitchen?
Flickr friend Two-Bad provides these images of his (her?) Frigidaire Flair range, along with a vintage ad. Readers say that Samantha Stevens had one in Bewitched. While this model had many imitators – for some reason, the Frigidaire Flair seems to be everyone’s favorite. And look at how great the Danish Modern orange looks with the pink… and the gold… and are those popovers in the oven on the left? Many thanks, Two-Bad!
vintage frigidaire flair stove
vintage frigidaire flair cabinet
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Dreamy!
I remember this in Bewitched.
*starry*
This is also in the movie “Blast From the Past”, a movie that never fails to satisfy my retro cravings.
My grandparents, who would now be almost 100 years old, had a very cool/mod decor house in the 1960’s. They had this oven in their kitchen, it was all stainless and when it wasn’t in use, it slid back and the top covered the burners. They kitchen and bathroom were pink. They didn’t have light switches, but big round push buttons to turn on the lights!
Terri, those pushbutton light switches go for good money on the ‘bay these days if they’re the ones I’m thinking of. They were designed by Dreyfuss & Assoc if I recall, and featured clear, curved switch plates that allowed one to put any backing they liked inside. No unsightly screws, either!
I just got very familiar with one of these ovens……..;)
details to follow
That stove looks great in Two-Bad’s kitchen! Perfect spot.
Terri – those button switches sound amazing. We have spring-loaded switches in our house, they took a little bit to get used to!
Not that far past… I moved into a home in Alton in ‘84 and behold in the kitchen was one of these stoves! I had never seen anything like this before! Mine was the traditional brown with the dark brown sides and stainless steel. I have to say it worked like a dream!!
Hey there,
This house that I just went to see in San Diego has this still. It was gross and my Hubby could barely pull the stove part. I told him I loved it and he told me I was crazy!!! Ok, I am a bit
I am still trying to talk him into buying this house for me!
http://www.sdlookup.com/Pictures-080073797#7
GREAT stove!! I also loved the Stephen’s kitchen. Their Frigidaire stove and their bottom freezer fridge. Thanks for the great pics!
I have a Flair in my turquoise kitchen, and it’s the best oven I’ve ever had, both esthetically and functionally! Pam, I sent you some pictures a while back…
We just got re runs of bewitched then the tennis started!
I’ll look next time!
Great stove, my parents currently have one in their kitchen, it’s beautiful and works wonderfully. Such a good design, very easy to use. Stove height is great and the ovens are in easy view. The oven doors open up for easy access, and the stowing range is wonderful. Their’s is a mint green, surrounded by many feet of beautiful mint green St. Charles metal cabinetry.
Heather that house in San Diego sure has a great “feel” to it! Oh and if you’ll notice in later episodes of Bewitched she had a range top on the counter between the dining room and kitchen. Guess she remodeled!
I have two of the ovens. A single and a double. The single I have in a rent home. I love the one in my home, it looks identical to the on in the ad.
I have the same range and it’s slowly dying and I need to find a home for it. (For someone who can fix it). It’s been fabulous, but I need to upgrade. I have a photo from Bewitched with Sam and Darin next to it. So cool!
Sarah Ramsay – where are you located?
We had one when I was in Jr high and early high school. It came with the house. i LOVED that oven!!
My grandmother had the same style pullout stove, the oven portion was not exactly the same (hers was not a double opening one, and I’m having a hard time placing that it was all glass either). I love the pullout stove though, so many good kitchen memories attached to it.
perhaps my most beautiful memory of said former beau i wrote about in the fellow retrophiles as significant others thread was his fridigaire flair. the ‘light up’ effect inside the oven is such a beautiful picture. i wish i had taken photos of the oven baking some cupcakes! i have spec-ed my kitchen so that when i do find one, i will be ripping out the stove/microwave/exhaust-fan combo and a flair will be going in!
it was on bewitched and in the movie Blast from the past , we had the single one when I was growing up, it was amazing!
We just looked at a house in Visalia CA with one of thise stoves in the kitchen. Then we watche Wayne’s World and noticed one in Wayne’s kitchen at the start of the movie!
Oh, woe! My heart aches for the house we didn’t buy in Van Nuys, CA, a perfect time capsule. That was where I first laid eyes on the Flair, turquoise and perfect. I went back after the new owners closed the sale, they were gutting the place and couldn’t tell me where it had gone.
I know no one is probably following my comments, but I have to post. The time capsule owner I mentioned above called me yesterday! I’m going to see the Flair on Friday. He has a matching Formica and chrome dinette set. I should buy it all, right???
We’re following you, Kiki. I thought they gutted the Flair etc.?
Pam, you have no idea how much I love your blog!
The story goes: Mr. Dulane and I looked at the house in late 2008, loved it, but a bad street. Instead we bought a 1951 ranch in Northridge, CA (in former Meadowlark Park, architect Edward H. Fickett). The house came with all the furniture, mostly from 1950s and 60s. The place had a wood-paneled study with built in starburst-type clock above the fireplace, original linoleum floors, a PINK bathroom, chrome and formica table, Frigidaire Flair, the works. In January, we went back to ask the new owner about the furniture, figuring he would give it all away. The contractor was there, gutting the place and I left him my card and said that we were interested in the furniture (and the Flair) if the new owner hadn’t gotten rid of it. We hadn’t heard so we thought it was all gone, and then he called 2 days ago! We’re going to check it out tomorrow. I do not need a stove, but how could I pass up the Flair?
Sorry for the long post!
no problem kiki! take pics. p.s. what does “need” have to do with it!
Dear Pam,
I LOVE your site ! We currently live in a new home but hope to retire in several years time and relocate. We have looked at two
homes we have considered buying…both wonderful homes from
the sixties. Your site has given me the encouragement to go for it !
I will continue to follow for the near future !
Thanks again !
Mary
Mary Ruvolo, how nice to hear from you! I am so happy you have decided to ‘go for it’. Take your time and wait for the right house to ‘find you.’ You might enjoy this post: http://retrorenovation.com/2009/04/20/shopping-for-a-midcentury-hom/
Have fun and keep up the Comments! It’s fun to hear from everyone!
Well, my Flair shopping was a bust. It was in good condition, but we didn’t trust that it was actually working. The guy said it was but he was kind of a jerk right off the bat. We offered $100, which is low, I know. But he scoffed at us, walked back into his house, and said he wanted $2000! Too much for a Flair in questionable shape in any market. And he had gotten rid of all of the other good stuff that used to be in the house. So my saga ends today and I won’t pine away for that Flair again.
Dear Pam, I TRULY love everything about your unique site…the pictures and stories about the Flair just bring me back to a very special time and place in my life. My mom still has a light blue (“Cadillac” blue!) Flair in her kitchen…it is still cooking!…such an icon for me! I watched Bewitched faithfully, and when I saw the first color episode in season 3, I was SO excited that Samantha had “our stove” in that “60’s kitchen” light yellow! Recently, I wrote a brief story about my mom’s “Frigidaire Kitchen” on GM Wiki, and I found your link. I’m thrilled!! I’m 54 and this is a great site to remember how my past looked! I’ll be checking in alot for your AMAZING retro pics and advertisement prints! Do you have any pics of the late 1950’s Frigidaire washer with the up and down “pump” instead of the “side to side” agitator? My grandmother had one…that washer ROCKED!!
Thank you so much for all the details and sharing your knowledge with us!
Kay
Hi Kay, that is SO nice of you to say! I would love to see a pic of your mom’s stove. Some day soon I’ll get to writing about all the vintage stoves, washers, dryers, etc. Nearly 2 years with the blog – and I simply “haven’t gotten” to it yet!
I’m shopping for a house, and actually saw a stove like this last night in a house I looked at. The owners had been foreclosed on, and had ripped out the kitchen sink and countertops. The realtor saw the ovens and thought that the stovetop had been ripped out as well, until I slid it out. She was stunned and asked how I knew those burners were there. I explained to her that I learned to cook on a stove very much like that one, except ours was a different brand, all stainless, and the burners were in a straight line, and there was a cutting board section in front that could be folded down. I’m not big on electric ranges, but that was a great stove!!
Love your site
Thank you, Bob!
HOW DID YOU GET A PIC OF MY KITCHEN!?! I have this stove and it still works. and the the big push buttons to turn on the lights. with yellow tile half way up the walls.
Is there a market for these types of old ranges? I recently showed clients a home built in 1912 that had one of these. It was a single width type. I had no idea what it was, but just pushed the button that said “Release” and out slid the electric burners, then slid the door up on the oven. So cool!
I’m thinking about trying to buy this one. What are they worth?
I’m buying a house and it has the single flair in it. I’m torn between keeping it or updating with a newer range. It seemed to still work like new when we were going through with the home inspection.
Wow, just this morning I read an ad in our newspaper “1950’s Frigidaire Flair” $700, 308-284-1092. I knew I read about this stove somewhere lately, and it was here! So, if anyone really wants one and wants to travel to western Nebraska, that’s where this one is!
I just found a single oven Flair for $200 and I’m picking it up tomorrow.
I’ve been wanting one of these stoves for so long, but now that I’m going to own one I’m really nervous about it. I think I’ve been so pampered with my current stove that I’m afraid the Flair won’t do everything I want. I’m being silly, I know. I’m not this worried about my Kelvinator fridge.
Great site! Ive been snooping around here for about a week trying to get ideas on tranforming our 2000’s house into something a little older looking.
Ive found one of these stoves locally as well, and it surely seems like a great retro piece, but it looks like the cabinet is a separate piece? The pics Ive seen of the one for sale, dont appear to have the base cabinet. If this cabinet isnt there, are these available? If not, any other ideas for installing the stove?
Awesome site!! I just got a Frigidaire Flair double oven with the base cabinet off craigslist.. FREEEEEE!!!
The thing is it needs a good cleaning and the pullout drawer for the burners is so sticky as if coated with grease..It doesn’t glide easily..
Does anyone have any suggestions for cleaning this thing?
I want to make sure I don’t use anything that might damage the finish..
CIndyE, I’ve started getting some folks to suggest reco’s — but I’m not approving these comments. My advice for people with these old stoves is to do their own homework. For example, I have been told there may be asbestos in the insulation. Please, all readers do their own homework, consult with professionals, etc.
I HAVE A FRIGIDAIRE 40″ 1961 SOLID PINK ELECTRIC RANGE AND WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT ANY INFORMATION AND OR VALUE ON IT. MODEL # RD-20-61. THANKS!!!!
Hi Steve, we don’t really do that here. One company that I think will do valuations is antiqueappliances.com, for a fee. Good luck.
My Aunt has one, but 3 of the stove-top burners will not heat. Anyone know where I can get parts for this?
My mom has one of these ranges and she LOVES it. It has a few problems. She lives on the Washington coast, Hoquiam to be exact. Know of anyone qualified to refurbish her love, the range that is! HELP!
January, 2010 – believe it or not we still have a working Frigidair Flair range. One burner and no longer works, but everything else works great – use it every day. Really will hate it when this one hits the dust. The two ovens have been extremely valuable for Holiday cooking.
Wow….My parents had a very similiar range. Bought new in 1963, a single top oven with controls on the side for the four buners below. The storage area open via a small pedel towards the lower right bottom on a large steel door with semi circular shelves in the inside of the door. The oven door glass looked a lot like the photo. I’m not sure of the brand. We used to try and hide in there playing hide n’ seek…..Pretty Cool!
I have this very same Frigidaire Flair Electric Range/Double Oven!
Love it to death! The stove top is like a drawer and you can push it back in– very nice if you have company coming and don’t have time to clean it! I also have one front burner that no longer works, have been trying to figure out how to fix it~to no avail. Stumbled on this site looking for any info on how to fix it.
Any ideas would be appreciated. Will be extremely sad when the whole unit dies!
Caryn, I have a post on this, I’ve just made sure I tagged it correctly and now it is in the FAQs: http://retrorenovation.com/new-start-here/
Pam, thanks so much!