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Vintage Nutone home intercom system MIB

pam kueber — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 09:59:25 +0000

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming with this special announcement: Hot item — a mint-in-box Nutone home intercom system. Listing ends Sunday night. Click on the green box “View and Bid” to go to the listing to see more photos. Pretty cool.

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More: MIB Nutone Food Center and MIB Hall-Mack bathroom hardware

pam kueber — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:59:49 +0000

It’s always amazing to see this stuff still mint-in-box. I always want to know the story: Where did it come from? Why did it sit for 50 years unopened? Who finally uncovered it? And — where will it go! Today: Four parts of a vintage Nutone Food Center – including the base. And if you are doing your bathrooms – there’s some great Hall-Mack chrome from both the Coronado and Metropolitan line.

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Vintage 1960 electric bathroom heaters

pam kueber — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:00:26 +0000

VINTAGE WALL HEATERS, often combined with exhaust fans, are fun to find in postwar homes. Here are three models I found in a catalog from late 1960. They are from Nutone and Rangaire — and oh my goodness, those ceiling models in particular are awesomely atomic, don’t you think?

I have not done research yet on companies today that replicate these appliances, which seem to have been not-uncommon. Nor do I know of repair places. As with all vintage appliances, I caution anyone dealing with these to know what you are working with. For example – asbestos in the insulation? Consult a pro.

Above: Note the groovy tile. And the cabinet doors look interesting, too.

More groovy tile.

Looks like a fancy chrome hubcap, don’t you think?

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A 1964 blue bathroom with built-in Hall-Mack, NuTone, Textolite & more

pam kueber — Tue, 12 May 2009 08:00:53 +0000

THE 1964 SPLIT-LEVEL TIME CAPSULE first shown yesterday also had two great bathrooms. The full bath upstairs is a beautiful robin’s egg blue, all 4×4″ field tiles, with cheerful flowery liner tiles. There is a separate bathtub and the shower. The shower door is a true classic, and notice the terrazzo floor pan, the light, and the tile on the diagonal on the ceiling.

And there’s more: A laundry chute built into a storage cubby… and the fold-down Hall-Mack scale holder below. The laminate countertop on the dual vanity is surely GE Textolite, from the “Twilight” series . And, the owner’s daughter told me that the Nutone exhaust fan/light also had a built-humidistat that turned the fan on and off automatically when the room became too humid. Finally, there was a hidden door to the master suite, along with a door to the hall. This might have been the best bathroom ever in this history of the retro-universe. Again – not pretentious, but so well considered and well built. Click through for the slide show – 15 images in all.

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