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61 Mamie Pink Kitchens: “Two-tone” is the theme today

Pam Kueber - April 4, 2008, Updated: November 4, 2020

Our penultimate day of pink kitchens. I love that word, penultimate!

41. TGIF, it’s party time and these 1961 Hotpoint kitchen-goers are ready!

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42. This 1955 Geneva kitchen is more sedate but setting the pace nonetheless.

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43. Pink and yellow, what a spring-y combination. And, this seems like quite the 1957 groove pad! Note the wall-cabinet fridge, every ReRe reader’s favorite, it seems!:

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44. Oops. Another formerly used Flashback Kitchen with the numbers stuck in it. But I had to show this pink-lavendar-blue combo. Lavendar for kitchens was promoted later in the 50s. It looks nice here, be clearly never caught on. I think there’s something fundamentally icky about purple+food, grapes and eggplant notwithstanding.

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45. A 1952 Youngstown kitchen – you can see the rosy pink cabinet at the right, so this made the list.

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46. Religious readers will recognize this amazing kitchen. You gotta give those Formica interior designers credit:

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47. A 1955 St. Charles kitchen combining pink, aquamarine and birch (I believe.) Pretty snazzy:

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48. An honorary pink kitchen: pink + classic birch plywood cabinets with a darkish stain:

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49. Another (painted) pink and birch kitchen, from Coppes-Nappanee:

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50. And another all-time favorite, a Dow Styron tile ad with a kitchen that I christen pink because of the wall cabinet refrigerator. Awesome kitchen!

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  1. Sabrina says

    May 8, 2018 at 12:22 am

    My parents bought a model home in 1960 with a kitchen that included pickled white cabinets and gray countertops that had white and pink boomerang design. The GE appliances were pink. I still remember! So cool!

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