Finishing up my Youngstown Kitchens 1957 mini-series, here is their Monterey line. The unique selling proposition of this line: Sandalwood-colored steel base cabinets and doors…. with wall cabinets with Sandalwood-stained wooden doors on steel bases. Reading through this marketing material I see: Industry concern about color fatigue, oh no! “Give us a color we can live with for years” and “that goes with everything,” consumers asked, Youngstown explained. Again…as we’ve discussed before…the move away from enamel-painted steel, which was difficult to repaint (and likely getting more expensive), to wood cabinetry (which was easier to re-paint and also had the “furniture look” of adjoining spaces”, was under way.
At the same time we get a new beige color, we get a bunch of other neat-o features approved by all these folks.
I really like these angled slider cabinets that use the space between the countertops and the wall cabinets. I wonder why they never caught on… perhaps a kitchen can be jammed with *too much* storage… cabinets everywhere? Truth be told: The more storage space you have, the more stuff you accumulate, and stuff can become oppressive.
Here’s more detail on the slider cabinets.
Oven cabinet, dishwasher, garbage disposal. Those Youngstown dishwashers were really something.
Different cabinet combinations possible…
Lovely graphics.
And the complete front page. Love the coppertone brown oven. And dig the black lacquer Early American dining set. We haven’t talked about that. Yet. 
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Wow, beer steins! I guess by 1957 a reference to German culture had lost its wartime subtext. Love those slider cabinets!
my sister has these exact cabinets in her (1958) house. sadly, it appears the kitchen had a facelift in the 70s. the cabinets are painted to look like wood and all the original handles are replaced. the original linoleum is under some vinyl sheet, and it’s a really cool grey/white/pink that i bet looked awesome with the original taupe colored cabinets!!
I wonder if splash wasn’t a problem with the slider cabinets.
I love the angled & slider cabinets! You just don’t see enough of them. I’d be willing to forgo a bit of storage for them, but like my husband says, I’m definitely “form over function!”
And Pam, I completely get what you’re saying about having too much. I use that very term, “oppressive.” We’re in the process of purging, sorting, and packing, and I can’t believe how much we’ve accumulated in 11 short years of marriage! I don’t want to be burdened by anything I don’t love or use, so we’re paring down and it’s lightening the burden!
I love the little knitting stand in the corner, with the balls of yarn and needles sticking out!
I would guess those angled slider cabinets died out because they were awful….I’ve used those slider cabinets….when they slide. They doors to get stuck on the track (kitchens, grease, dust) , or things fall inside the cabinet and block the door. Plus they don’t actually give you any more storage space despite the extra visual space they take up by widening out at the top. Perhaps if the bottom was deeper than the top they’d have been a little more useful.
hi, I grew up in Youngstown but was too young to remember this, however, was in Hollywood recently in a diner and they had someof the original ads for Youngstown kitchens on the diner walls, very interesting, makes sense since Youngstown produced steel