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Post# 638868   11/13/2012 at 20:24 (4,194 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )        

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Keep ironed with this Simplex mangle!




Post# 638870 , Reply# 1   11/13/2012 at 20:24 (4,194 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )        
Get Cooking!

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With this beautiful GE 40"!

Post# 638871 , Reply# 2   11/13/2012 at 20:25 (4,194 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )        
Super Clean in here!

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One of the cleanest ovens I have seen..they must of used the self cleaning feature alot!!...Well worth $50!!!

Post# 638872 , Reply# 3   11/13/2012 at 20:25 (4,194 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Nice GE!

But I still want the universal gas stove!!!!

Post# 638874 , Reply# 4   11/13/2012 at 20:26 (4,194 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )        
and now for something in a Petite!

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This Hotpoint 3 burner!

Post# 638878 , Reply# 5   11/13/2012 at 20:28 (4,194 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )        
Think Pink!

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These GE wall ovens are all over Pittsburgh and easy to find...I saw one at an estate sale of of a Westinghouse engineer located across the street from their former R&D center near me..for shame!

Post# 638879 , Reply# 6   11/13/2012 at 20:29 (4,194 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )        
and finally...

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Keep cool in this Philco chest freezer!!

Post# 638880 , Reply# 7   11/13/2012 at 20:31 (4,194 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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I know I've neveer seen doors with that style/arrangement of black-glass doors on a GE Range before.  Very strange.   But beautiful range!!!


Post# 638882 , Reply# 8   11/13/2012 at 20:32 (4,194 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )        
The Universal is still there!!

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Norgeway, it has been there since I took the picture on June 17th and nobody has bought it...I think the price of $150 is keeping buyers away plus old gas stoves scare people...too bad because I think its a great stove!

Post# 638883 , Reply# 9   11/13/2012 at 20:33 (4,194 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)        
Nice 40!

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That GE looks like about a '64 - can anyone verify?

Post# 638886 , Reply# 10   11/13/2012 at 20:41 (4,194 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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That GE must be around 64, a P-7 self cleaning -- what year did they intro the dark coppertone color?


Post# 638893 , Reply# 11   11/13/2012 at 21:05 (4,194 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)        
I Thought YOU Knew, Greg!

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"....what year did they intro the dark coppertone color?"

I have long been under the impression that Coppertone replaced Woodtone Brown in GE's lineup for 1963, but that is not something I can prove. If anyone knows better, or knows of a source that proves the year of introduction, I hope they'll share it.

I can tell you that Coppertone was highly, highly coveted in the '63-'64 time frame; it was the Latest and Greatest. Women just loved it, for some reason. I don't really understand that; I've owned a couple of Coppertone appliances over the years, and they're sort of like today's black or stainless appliances - hard to keep free of visible finger marks.


Post# 638977 , Reply# 12   11/14/2012 at 05:56 (4,193 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Im Going to!!!

Come up there one of these days, That place is phenomenal!!That old Universal sure would look good here!

Post# 638983 , Reply# 13   11/14/2012 at 06:50 (4,193 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)        

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That big ol' GE is beautiful!

lawrence


Post# 639057 , Reply# 14   11/14/2012 at 14:34 (4,193 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Re Black glass doors..

Those just look like glass, really they are just accent pieces, the first generation of P-7 ovens didnt have glass windows.

Post# 639059 , Reply# 15   11/14/2012 at 14:41 (4,193 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
Coppertone...

I dont get it either, but coppertone and avocado outsold the pretty colors like turquoise,pink, sherwood green ETC..My Aunt remodeled her house the summer of 65, before I was born in September, she replaced her Norge stove and Philco fridge they got in 47 when they were married, and the Hotpoint dishwasher sink that was in the house when they bought it new in 56, they put in all coppertone Frigidaire stuff, a Compact 30 range, left hand door frost free custom deluxe fridge and a Custom Imperial dishwasher, she loved it, and it was in the house when they built a new house in 77.where they are today at 86 years old.She put in a GE wall oven, cooktop and Dishwasher in the new house,but they were white, only the oven remains.

Post# 639072 , Reply# 16   11/14/2012 at 15:35 (4,193 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI )        

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My Grandma Wilde had the matching fridge to the GE range pictured above.  It was bought new in 1964 when they remodeled their kitchen, and she got rid of all the cool looking windowed cupboard doors and so on.  She also get a new Monarch gas range that matched the fridge.


Post# 639119 , Reply# 17   11/14/2012 at 19:57 (4,193 days old) by maytag63 (South Berwick, Maine)        

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I like the chest freezer.

Post# 639175 , Reply# 18   11/15/2012 at 05:57 (4,192 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Coppertone was a beautiful, rich feeling color.  "Pretty" colors.  That's just it.  People were tired of all the femme colors.  Now more rich, earthy colors with texture and feel.  Only "pretty" I could tolerate as turqoise.  All the rest just too femme.  I feel sorry for all the husbands saddled with all that pink from the Mamie Eisenhour "collection".  Our spring 1961 built house had coppertone O'Keefe & Merrit appliances (well the Tappan dishwasher lol).  Plus the sink.  Friends built house in 1964 with GE coppertone.  To this day, I still say there wasn't much diffference in the two shades.   And yes I relize those dark glass "windows" are just accents.  Can see that with the doors open.  But that "fe3ature" was way ahead of its time.  Still reminiscent of the future of black glass door accents. 


Post# 639177 , Reply# 19   11/15/2012 at 06:19 (4,192 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)        
Bob:

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I hear you about pink - it's a bit much for me, too.

I have to say, though, that I have a soft spot for both Yellow and Turquoise; they're both cheerful, bright colors that are, to my eye, timeless.

All the other colors - from Sherwood Green to Cadet Blue to Doeskin and Poppy and Avocado and all the rest of them - don't appeal to me. My own choice is White, which always matches, always goes with other colors, and will always be with us.


Post# 639649 , Reply# 20   11/17/2012 at 10:39 (4,190 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        
40" GE Coppertone Range

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I contacted CJ and bought the GE range and will likely drive up to get it Sunday. This is the first GE 40" range to have a SC master oven. This same range was on Pittsburgh Craig s List earlier this year and I was interested then but I could not get a picture of the inside of the oven so I was Leary about the SC ovens condition [ We saw a lot of early SC ovens that had been cleaned to death ] so thanks to Jerry taking pictures of the inside I decided to add it to the Museum. This stove will replace a very similar GE 40" white range that is two years newer. If anyone wants this slightly newer range let me know, I also have a beautiful white GE TOL Americana that needs a home also about 1965-6 vintage.


Post# 639651 , Reply# 21   11/17/2012 at 10:44 (4,190 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)        
John:

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Are there any pictures of the white 40" GE?

Thanks!


Post# 639662 , Reply# 22   11/17/2012 at 12:12 (4,190 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )        

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Everyone has a point about color, which isn't classified by sex - my wife loves the earthy colors more than the pastels.

I'm like Danemodsandy - kinda like the yellows and turqoise, and prefer pink only (the very light beige-like pinks) on a vintage washer and dryer. Mamie Eisenhower pinks - no thanks. Anyway -whatever floats yer boat.

I like special colors that we don't get - the last array of colors for cars that I loved were the mid-80's choices you could get for, say, a 1985 Cadillac Biarritz (and I've never owned one). The brochure had so many interesting colors, you could easily transfer those to appliances.


...and the GE '40 is really nice - what a stove, it still has timeless lines, imho.


Post# 639664 , Reply# 23   11/17/2012 at 12:17 (4,190 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)        
Phil:

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That beige-y pink was called "Shell Pink." Sears offered a lot of stuff in the color in the later '50s. Our bathroom was painted Shell Pink above its black tile, and Mom doted on finding more stuff in the color.

I will say this for it - when you looked in the mirror of a Shell Pink bathroom, you looked like one of Honey Boo Boo's grandkids. The color made the light very flattering indeed.


Post# 639677 , Reply# 24   11/17/2012 at 13:19 (4,190 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia )        

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Combo52 - congrats - another one for modest(smile) collection, where it will be in good cared-for company.

danemodsandy - I don't know what a Honey Boo Boo is, but if Hostess comes out with a pastry named HBB, and tastes great - I'll look the other way before turning pink. Hmmm, speaking of... mom-in-law has a 50's ranch; the single bathroom is pink tiles and black tiles border above. Very Mamie-ish or....uh...honey-boo-boo 'ish. Good grief.



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