Mid Mod Pam on Nov 17 2008 | Filed under: pink kitchens, steel kitchen cabinets
Speedway Ron and I have become great online friends. He really knows his stuff when it comes to vintage steel cabinets.
Mid Mod Pam on Aug 21 2008 | Filed under: historic preservation, steel kitchen cabinets
This is a fun one!
Teacher Kerri is the shepherd of three kitchens’ worth of vintage Geneva’s and of course - her students.
Dig this incredible extended kitchen - and read on for her question - and my response.
Hi, Pam!
Recently I “inherited” a Family and Consumer Science (HomeEc) classroom with Geneva kitchen cabinets. The school — which [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jul 25 2008 | Filed under: FAQs
Hey Pam,
I am building a new house and I am doing a 50’s theme kitchen. I have a 60″ Beauty Queen sink base cabinet that needs to be restored. I am trying to find some replacement plastic rollers for the drawers and some new hinge springs as well as the rubber bump stops for the [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jan 31 2008 | Filed under: ebay
Because of my great fascination with steel kitchen cabinets, I also love U. S. Steel, because of the ads they ran during the 40s and 50s promoting steel in all sorts of household uses. Once WWII ended, all that steel capacity had to go somewhere! This branded 5-gallon garbage can gives me an excuse to [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jan 22 2008 | Filed under: steel kitchen cabinets
I feel like a giddy archeologist every time a new brand of metal kitchen cabinets surfaces.
I did some cleanup and additions to the Forum this long holiday weekend. Updated count: 45 distinct brands of steel kitchen cabinets from the 1930s through the 1980s! Admiral brand is the latest, with a lone cabinet just [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jan 08 2008 | Filed under: steel kitchen cabinets
Scathing Jane in Atlanta is looking for some more St. Charles metal cabinets to build out her set. She’ll send her sons to get them as far as Chicago or anywhere along the east cost, she has a big kitchen to fill. Please take a look at her post on the Postwar Steel Forum, and [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Jan 02 2008 | Filed under: steel kitchen cabinets
Whoa. What a blast from the past. These vintage Sears — harvest gold — steel kitchen cabinets now are on the Forum.
Also: If you’ve tried to log on to the Forum recently, but were told you couldn’t — my fault. I fixed the issue, and you should now be able to log right in. Sorry [...]
Mid Mod Pam on Dec 24 2007 | Filed under: kitchen, steel kitchen cabinets
During World War II, Americans were encouraged to buy war bonds to fund the war effort. At the same time, amid the deprivation of war time restrictions, the country was dreaming of better times to come. And at that front of that list: A shiny new kitchen!
Happy holidays, everyone. I dropped out of the blogosphere [...]
