Over on the Forum, EmbraceEphemeral spotted and posted this vintage sauna for sale. You know — the old fashioned kind where you get locked in like you’re in a refrigerator, but your head is sticking out. It’s on craiglist in Indianapolis, $95. Hilarious! I’ve started to categorize various “wonderful oddities” — “woddities” — that together we have spotted. I have more work to do, going back through my archives, but you can see the growing list of Retro Renovation woddities here.
Vintage Sauna by American
Posted by: • June 7, 2011
Fiesta kitchen sink by American Standard, introduced in 1966 or earlier 
A mid century bathroom featuring vintage decorative tiles from American Olean 
A special faucet for vintage American Brand kitchen drainboard sinks – still available 
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At least you can scream for help. Remember the cartoon where someone got stuck in one of these and their head stayed normal, but their whole body shrunk down? LOL
yes, these are actually quite frightening!
It would be a strange sensation to sit in this thing, getting all steamy, and have an ice cold towel on my head….Hmm….
I would definitely buy that just for the sheer hilariousness!
Oh my. I’m hyperventilating from the claustrophobia just looking at it. Ack!
Same here. Certainly not my idea of relaxing.
It reminds me of an “I Love Lucy” episode!
Is it just me, or does this type of sauna remind everyone of Captain Pike’s wheelchair from original Star Trek?
Oh right, it’s just me.
OMGsh..you’re right!! It’s not just you.
Uh, no, it’s not just you.
yes, yes yes-this is definitely a cartoon appliance!
I’m actually a big fan of saunas, but this just looks comically scary.
The item I long for is a vintage “spot reducing machine”..
like this:
http://funandfit.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/old-fat-jiggling-machine.jpg
Wouldn’t it be swell to shake cocktails on one? I’ve always wanted to do that!
These are funny too….roller massagers!
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_pofpa7CZ-Vg/ScBJdt4tX8I/AAAAAAAAFq8/-A_A0pm9yTE/s1600-h/jiggle1.jpg
Seems it could be really fun and silly to have a room full of this stuff for parties.
In my gigantic dream house of toys, anyway.
I used to have a Vitamaster Roller Massager! Everytime we turned it on, it made the lights dim! haha
Wow. That is weirdly cool. I had no idea such things existed outside of Looney tunes cartoons!
Creepy cool. I would never think of using it for its intended purpose, but I’m a tad twisted and would probably turn it into BBQ smoker for the back porch!
What?
A “TAD twisted”? You and Shane aka Trouble BOTH!
You know how they always say to take the door off a refrigerator if you are going to leave it out on the curb for pickup, because someone could get locked inside and die? And yet this thing is actually designed to lock you inside, with no possible escape other than screaming your head off.shudder.
Why is everything cool several states away? I think its gorgeous! If it was closer, I would totally buy this and USE it. But Fogville is cold all year round so maybe thats just me. I’m desperate for warm! Of course I’d ask my husband to check on me every 15 minutes or so. It does seem like you could get stuck inside…
LOL – I’m helping a friend sell one of these babies! Her’s is yellow – it was her mom’s. How funny!