This is a fun one!
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
