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Thread Number: 61589
/ Tag: Ranges, Stoves, Ovens
Coppertone memories |
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Post# 842574 , Reply# 1 9/24/2015 at 09:12 (3,151 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy  (Oak Park, MI) |
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Copper in my ipinion: What to get when you can't make up your mind bet. Avocado & Harvest Gold...
It was a veteran color from the Yellow/Pink/Turquoise period--it lasted almost throughout the Almond era...
An alternative to Sterile White, what I wish I had as opposed to my "Everyday Stainless Steel", and can make a Warm or Cool Kitchen (or Laundry)...
No matter what the appliance or brand, Copper is Classic--Copper is King!
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| Post# 842575 , Reply# 2 9/24/2015 at 09:34 (3,151 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT) | ||
Coppertone has always been our favorite...
we love the warm look that goes so well with maple finish cabinets so we bought brand new a Coppertone GE drop in 30" range, Coppertone KDC-17 d/w, and Coppertone 15 cu ft Frigidaire Custom Imperial top freezer fridge for our first house in 1974. Now have a Coppertone 1968 GE wall double oven awaiting our new retirement home next year.
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| Post# 842577 , Reply# 3 9/24/2015 at 09:38 (3,151 days old) by joeypete (Concord, NH) | ||
I really do miss those old colors. Growing up in the northeast (NH primarily) we had a lot of avocado green appliances or the harvest yellow. I remember our green GE dishwasher in our second house in NH. It had a rusty spot on the inside. We still used it everyday though lol. And we had a range with an oven on top...in green as well. I believe that was a GE too.
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Post# 842578 , Reply# 4 9/24/2015 at 10:03 (3,151 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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 Fond memories of coppertone here! Our family's first dishwasher was a coppertone portable, so just the mention of that word will send me back in time. Years back, Hubby and I bought a weekend place in the Laurentians (north of Montreal) that had a coppertone tileboard backsplash in the kitchen area - we had avocado appliances and I thought they blended really nicely (guess who didn't?? LOL). | ||
| Post# 842585 , Reply# 5 9/24/2015 at 13:51 (3,151 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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Post# 842591 , Reply# 7 9/24/2015 at 14:42 (3,150 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Love Coppertone! Always been one of my favorites. I have this Frigidaire range, can't talk my wife into installing it in the kitchen, maybe someday!
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| Post# 842593 , Reply# 8 9/24/2015 at 14:45 (3,150 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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Post# 842610 , Reply# 10 9/24/2015 at 17:43 (3,150 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 842618 , Reply# 11 9/24/2015 at 18:06 (3,150 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Kenny, What's there now? | ||
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Post# 842622 , Reply# 12 9/24/2015 at 18:34 (3,150 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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 The new house we moved to in September 1961 had a coppertone kitchen--gas O'Keefe & Merrit 42" cook top with griddle-in-the-middle and burner with a brain; companion wall oven with broiler in lower compartment--motorized for rotisserie and meat probe; Vent-a-Hoot; matching sink; as well as O &M dual drench dishwasher. Because the house was in the Houston parade of homes that spring, it also had a Norge gas fridge with ice maker. As an adult, the Maytag A700 pair in the laundry room was white, which I don't understand. The NtoTone intercome system was a copper color like on the bottom of Revereware pans. So it all pulled nicely together. The beautiful harmony lasted until we moved in and brought the white paneled 1-year old Waste King and my dad spray painted (that looked like medium-light chocolate milk) the 1948 Kelvinator that took up residence there until my grandmother's 1957 1-door Frigidaire fridge came to live with us. I've always had a soft spot for coppertone. Felt GE has some of the deepest, richest looking coppertone a few years later (I.e. the recent posting of that beautiful Americana Fridge) as did Maytag in the late 1960s & early 1970s. It's those deep rich tones that will make me drool. | ||
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Post# 842625 , Reply# 13 9/24/2015 at 18:47 (3,150 days old) by Jmm63 (Denville, NJ) |
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 My Mom always thought white appliances looked "cheap" so we always had color...mostly shaded coppertone. Our first house,1969, had all coppertone appliances and that's when she bought matching coppertone Kenmore 700's which she had for over 30 years. The back splash in the kitchen was metal copper squares so the appliance looked great with it.
Our next house was sooo mid 70's. Harvest gold appliances with red indoor outdoor carpet in the kitchen, and the Kenmore 700's came with us.
My Aunt and Uncle had coppertone too well from the 60's to mid 80's when they remodled the kitchen and went with Almond. Even today, although all my appliances are white, I still tend to feel they look "cheap", it must be genetic? | ||
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Post# 842641 , Reply# 15 9/24/2015 at 22:00 (3,150 days old) by abcomatic (Bradford, Illinois) |
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I bought my mom a coppertone Lady Kenmore dishwasher for Christmas in 1967. It was a portable and had a roto-rack for the top rack of the machine. She used it a long time. I still have the cutting board top from it. Gary | ||
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Post# 842761 , Reply# 16 9/25/2015 at 15:30 (3,149 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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The first people I knew with Coppertone appliances was my mom's friend Marguerite Frost & her family. They built a new house in '59, with Frigidaire built-ins in Aztec Copper, which is not shaded. As for Shaded Coppertone, Glenna C., a friend of the family, got her kitchen redone around '64, with a new GE Mark 27 drop in range. | ||
| Post# 843263 , Reply# 17 9/28/2015 at 17:21 (3,146 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
I always loved Coppertone. Especially the edged.
My Mom back in the mid to late sixties wanted to do the "Colonial" Theme that was so popular back then. (Especially in New Jersey or it seemed.) All that faux brick, plastic bottled glass cabinet door inserts, Vinyl Brick Tile flooring and Coppertone. Just as she was getting her plans together to do this reno., along came Avocado which she liked better because it was brighter and "Mod". She then went with one wall of the kitchen in a Peter Max sort of "Pow Flower" wallpaper which was hip at the time. W had a Philco Side by Each Fridge Freezer, a Whirlpool Mark 100 Dishwasher, but still had the White in color Westinghouse Range. (Like Kevin313s) This presently today is the only Coppertone Appliance I have. 
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Post# 843281 , Reply# 18 9/28/2015 at 18:36 (3,146 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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Post# 843335 , Reply# 19 9/28/2015 at 23:12 (3,146 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN) |
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Coppertone kid here too
My parents were married in 1966 and they bought a matched set of Fridigaire 40" coppertone range and fridge (but Mother wouldn't pay extra for 'colored' w/d so her new Maytag was white). They built our house in 1968 and had a coppertone sink and range hood installed in it. Daddy was laid off in 1974 for about 10 months (union job so he still drew a check, just not as much) so Mother went back to work for a while...and she said "I'm working so I'm going to buy a dishwasher!" Enter her KDS17A in coppertone. Daddy never did like that Frigidaire range though, he felt the elements didn't last as long as they should because they were so thick...whether there's any truth to that or not, I don't know. They switched to gas in 1992 so it's now a non-issue.
My paternal grandparents had Coppertone range and fridge. We had 3 neighbors with coppertone appliances (my dad and granddad also built their houses), 3 neighbors with avocado kitchen appliances (one of those also had avocado w/d). My maternal grandmother had white kitchen appliances...an old Crosby? electric range with a deep well, Frigidaire refrigerator, GE dryer with the fluorescent light panel, and a 1974 GE filterflo in avocado. When she died in 2012, the only things left were the FF washer and white GE dryer...still going! | ||
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