FORGOTTEN Objects in EVERY 1950s Kitchen - Life in America
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My Mom and Dad were married in 1949. He's been gone for a little over 3 years, but she's still going strong at 95. In her kitchen, she's still got her set of Pyrex mixing bowls, her bread bin, and her sugar, flower, tea and coffee canisters they got for wedding presents. The Kelvinator fridge they bought as newlyweds is still plugging away down in the basement, and there original Roper range just gave up the ghost a couple months ago.
Oh, and she still regularly uses her hand mixer. They just don't make stuff like that anymore.
Weird: what about the stuff that no one thinks of as vintage disposal and Dishwasher? These are junk now
BLESS YOUR DEAR MOTHER🙏🙏🌹🌹YES,I CAN ONLY IMAGINE HOW MY PARENTS ENJOYED THOSE DAYS☺️☺️
You can laugh at some of these things if you want, but I’ve lived through 9 decades and can tell you the 1950s was the happiest decade ever!
I was born in '60, V bee. Some of the 50' s life spilled into that decade. I agree, life was at a slower pace, simpler, and happier!
My point here is to present another opinion on whether things were better or worse in the past 70 years or so. I've actually given this question a great deal of thought. I'm grateful for many of the developments that have come since the 1950s. I was born in 1953. Women were mostly relegated to the job of being a housekeeper and mom because birth control was difficult and fairly unreliable. We couldn't depend on not becoming pregnant until more sophisticated contraceptives were developed in the 1960s. That one change has led to so much progress. I'm grateful for the medications and vaccines that have been developed to prevent and treat diseases that used to kill or cripple people. We now have safety regulations in the US that keep kids from being strangled, burned, or smashed accidentally. Seat and shoulder belts in cars have saved many lives that would have been lost without them. Pain control was difficult for terminally ill patients. I've heard about how awful end-of-life experiences were for people before the 1980s. It was common for people to drink and smoke heavily, with the accompanying health problems. Now it's harder to be oblivious to the direct correlation between smoking and lung disease. People had little information at their fingertips. A set of encyclopedias was the best way to find out about inventions, other cultures, history, and numerous other things that weren't a part of our own small communities. Almost daily I'm impressed all over again by what is available to me through the Internet. You and I couldn't have this conversation because we'd have had no way of connecting before the Internet, home computers, cell phones, and things such as RUclips. I can quickly learn how to do any number of repair jobs or cooking tasks by watching RUclips videos. What a great deal that is. Some things haven't been so great since I was born. The advent of the mass killer is a horrible development. Once these mass assault weapons have become available and people with low self-esteem can hear about them and obtain them easily, we see how tens of thousands have been killed by them. We see the decline of the daily newspapers in most cities. Because of the ubiquitous television and cell phone people don't subscribe to newspapers very much any more and that is too bad. Since you are around 90 years old, I'd be fascinated to learn from you about some of what you've experienced over your lifetime. Best wishes to you.
Life was way better then . No woman working … no talk of gay rights and flags .. no gay marriage . People knew what a woman wa and a man . No abortion .. no cars with chips … girls played jacks and hopscotch … boys had cap guns … better tv shows … no computers … all things were physical … you got a paycheck in your hand with a piece of paper . Just to name a few . Most important prayer in school .. pledge allegiance … Jesus is God .. are only hope ! In Jesus Name
@@gloriab357 Gloria, I am feeling that a lot of time could be spent in joy, or sadness. Every decade has failure. What matters is the overall effect. Nothing and no one is perfect! Smile, laugh, find happiness outside the negative. We all die, so find a spiritual path, as man is imperfect.
@@mordecaiesther3591 You’ve touched on all the important things, but there are some not so pleasant things that no longer happen, such as the Jim Crowe of the South. Also, years before the civil rights movement, countless people suffered hideously just because of the color of their skin. And then came McCarthy. Those were some really negative things in the 1950s, but there are better things (as stated) that make the 1950s a great time to be alive. Oh, and let’s not forget Elvis Presley…
Growing up in the 50's we had a refrigerator with a floor pedal. You just stepped on it, and the door opened (much like some wastebaskets do now.) When my mom's hands were full, she didn't have to put something down to open the door by the handle. I don't know why that feature no longer exists. It would still be so useful.
I agree! I never even heard about the foot pedal door opener. I’d be very happy to have that feature on my refrigerator now!
We had that for the freezer, but the refrigerator had a square electric button that you could hit with your elbow and it popped open. It also had a butter compartment that kept our butter spreadable.
I was born in 1957.....
I grew up with my Grandmother & Great Grandmother. Who Remembers their APRONS they had them for EVERY occasion & wearing them in the kitchen was a MUST!!
Born in 1953. I still have some of this stuff from my parent’s house. Things used to be built to last and last they did.
Things were made in the USA. They were made with quality and pride.
My father abandoned us before I was born so the first years of my life I was raised by my great-grandmother (born in 1904) since everyone else was working. I was about five when she showed me how to make a cake, I remember she took out the manual hand mixer and let me play with it, she was always sweet and patient, never scolded me even when I deserved it. When she finished I was so impressed with the result: just mixing and baking ingredients that where "hidden" somewhere in the kitchen, here it was a fragrant, delicious, ring-shaped cake! To me it was real magic and surely started my passion for cooking everything from scratch.
What an amazing woman. She not only gave you the basics; she gave you a source of joy.
and there is NOTHING better than homemade fresh baked anything, especially the scent of baking bread ...
@@kesmarn Thank you for the kind comment, she was a great source of unconditional love.
@@rhuephus Agree! I still bake our bread every other day!
What a lovely and warm story. She sounds a wonderful lady.
I too was abandoned by my father, and was essentially brought up by my grandfather who showed me how to cook from an early age, and boxing, DIY, science, classic comedies, and loaned his Readers Digest atlas, history books etc to me, to him, it mattered not a jot that I was a girl, but that I showed an interest in something, and he'd encourage that. I miss him every day since 1995.
It was a beautiful time indeed. People loved the concept of home and family.
Well, there was a lot of social pressure to conform
Absolutely
Good old mom and her copper Jello molds. She kept them so beautiful with "Twinkle". God rest her soul!
My aunt also had the copper molds. Brings back a lot of great memories of visiting my aunt and seeing those molds hanging in her kitchen!!! Lol ♥️♥️
I've decorated my kitchen in copper jello molds. They look fantastic. I've yet to use them as we are not big on jello here but they are nice. I've thought about maybe using them as bread molds.
What's cool is that I can still find in antique malls, thrift stores, church rummage and garage sales and still use many of the things my mom and grandmothers used in those times in the kitchen, even household furniture and other decor. I'd give anything to go back to those times and the slower world that existed back then. I have very good childhood memories and am so thankful for my parents and grandparents, all stable and hardworking people.
You are so blessed.
And the kids these days use the word "boomer" as if to be that age is a bad thing! What do they know?
@@camerrill Exactly. And my grandnephew constantly makes fun of his grandma, mom and me. He's definitely not one to take any advice from anybody our age, no matter how carefully we try to explain things...they find out sooner or later, I guess.
Just went to an antique mall today and saw many of those items!
We have all this stuff at my sister's antique mall in La Grange Park Illinois!
Thanks for the memories. I’d go back there in a heartbeat!
Absolutely!
Me too. So many good times. Have my family and relatives again. Safer times much safer and sane♥️♥️🥰
Back in the 1950s, before microwave ovens, the main tool for cooking a meal fast was the pressure cooker. I remember the one my Mom used so often. I was a very young child. The noises it made and the steam that escaped from it scared me. I was always afraid it was going to explode or something.
😂
My mom used her pressure cooker all the time. Green beans and potatoes with a ham hock was common. She also used it in her canning in late summer. When my sister was moving away, she asked for our mom's cooker. I remember one of the handles was broken!😂
Story is my grandma either made the kids leave to the backyard when she used a pressure cooker or they used the pressure cooker in the backyard
One of the strange things not mentioned here were quilted covers made to fit over toasters and some other kitchen countertop items.
My mom was gifted an aunt Jemima toaster cover she named Mabel😊that was in the early sixties
Yep we had those, mom still had some mechanical can opener in her pantry, not unlike a pencil sharpener, but that was her go to. I have an electric one but I keep a hand held one in case of lack of electricity, can always heat something over a fire but hard to get a can open. Unless you have a good knife to get it open and I don't
I still have several LOL. One I got in the 90s, even. The April Cornell company out of VT stil sells "cozies."
@@denverdubois5835 Very country and/ or retro.
@@JennyWinters
Had to look up the wall mounted opener. I haven't seen one, but my mother said her grandmother had one and that they looked similar to the gear-based Swing-Away openers. Apparently you can still buy the wall mounted style.
We have some similar to a P38 army can opener and they're convenient for easy storage and travel. With practice they're easier to use than the gear-based manual ones, particularly on dented cans.
My mom and dad were using those metal ice trays well into the 70's!
My Nan too! What a mess 😊
It wasn't that easy to pull up the handle to release the ice cubes. Hated filling them, as I always ended up spilling some water on the floor. The ice maker was a handy invention!
Yeh we had those until they invented the plastic ones.☝😩
I was using those until the 80s!
My grandparents used nearly everything in this video well into the 70's. And heck, the house I grew up in had a 1950's built kitchen - it was so neat. I remember loving the blender that was built into the counter.
There is a reason why mid-century is iconic....I love this style!
So many memories. My grandmother had a table like that shown in the beginning, but in yellow. She always had Jello for my sister and I when we came to visit, and those metal ice trays. She called the refrigerator the "ice box." "Son, go over to the ice box and bring me the butter!" Good times, one and all.
Same with my Grandma. It was always the "ice box", and you best believe you were expected to know what you wanted before you opened it!
@@jblyon2 As kids in the 50s and 60s, we weren't allowed to open up the refrigerator and take what we wanted. My mom had meals and snacks planned out, so you couldn't just grab whatever you wanted.
My parents also had the yellow dinette set. The chairs felt a bit sticky when you were wearing shorts. I grew up with the metal ice trays and had them even after I married. I was a young, married mother when the copper colored appliances came out in the 1960s.
@@daphnemiller6767 Revere Ware! My mom & aunts all had it. Had to shine the bottoms with Bon Ami copper cleaner. My mom remembers the Ice Man coming around. My Nan always called it the Frigidaire
@@samanthab1923 I still have the Revere Ware my parents gave me when I first married in February 1961. Of course now I have lots of fancier cookware but a Revere Ware saucepan is great for boiling potatoes for mashed potatoes. I'm on the fourth husband but still hanging on to the first pots and pans.
I'm an old soul, still use Tupperware and Pyrex almost everyday. Also can you remember opening cans with a hand held can opener? Or opening cola bottles with a hand held opener as well?
I cannot use Pyrex or glass skillets or saucepans. I burn everything in them.
"cola" Ha. Soda or Soda Pop ..mainly Soda.
Remember when you were young and everything was a "Coke".
Until you learned what you wanted was really a Root Beer !
I still use hand held can and bottle openers. The simpler the gadgets, the less space they take up and the less cleaning required. An excess of cords and ports and plugs and batteries is a pain 😂
I still use pyrex and use a manual can opener. I use my grandmother's Revere pots and pans.
I loved the metal ice trays- they made a great crunch sound.
1950s kitchens were the best. I’m m so happy they have been making more stuff in pink and mint again 💕✨
My kitchen is lavender and mint 😊 I can't believe they were popular kitchen colors in the 1950s!
One error - they were called bread boxes, not bread bins. Comedian Steve Allen is credited with the first usage of the question "Is it bigger than a bread box?" on the 50's game show "What's My Line?".
😉 YOU Got it !!!! 👍👍👍
It depended on just where you lived. In the midwest, they were bread boxes. In southern Ontario, they were bread bins.
So many of these items carried all the way into the 70s. The molds, trivets, canisters and bread boxes. Spice racks were usually another popular kitchen item. I will take a 50s Formica countertop over a granite one any day! ❤️
Lol when I went to look at new countertops they showed me granite. I said hell no that's for tombstones!
Amen!
My mom always discovered that one ice cube left in the tray.😬
Formica fades in color. Granite is for ever.
@@MK-lh3xd nothing is forever. If a person takes care of Formica and isn’t abusive to it, it will do just fine.
I have a set of Pyrex bowls with alternating white/yellow yellow/white floral patterns with each size. They were a wedding present to a close family friend and given to me when I got my first apartment. 60+ years old and still good as new!
Pyrex bowel sets sell for huge amounts in the UK now
I still have some of the hand-me-downs I got for my first apartment. All the older ladies at work, their relatives I'd never met, lots of people chipped in. My closest friend at work was more than a decade older than me. Her older sister made a living buying up foreclosed storage units and selling everything. She had a large garage and several storage sheds on her property just packed full of furniture and gadgets. She opened them all up and told me to take what I needed. I was really embarrassed, because I was ridiculously shy back then, so I didn't really dig through everything. I just grabbed what I saw up front. I got a couch and some pots, maybe a couple of lamps and bits and pieces. It filled my truck up. They kind of forced an old Atari and Coleco vision set on me, with a box of games. They had no idea, I had no idea, I ended up giving it to a cousin after I played pacman a few times. It wasn't as magical on my little black and white tv as it was when I was eight. I found out later that he sold it for an obscene amount of money. Oops! Whatever, it made him happy. But I still have some of those pots because they were built to be passed down for generations. The one thing I would have liked to have was one of those old black or blue roasters. The kind with the white speckles all over, oval with dome lid. Every house had one when I was a kid. Now they're nowhere to be found. When I worked at a store that sold high-end to garbage cookware, customers always came in looking for them. We had a computer system that could track down anything anywhere in the country, even Canada. I was never able to locate one. I guess the people who inherited theirs hold on to them pretty tightly. Anyway, hand-me-downs are awesome and always appreciated. 😁😁💜💜
Hubby and I got a set of those when we were married in 1978, as a wedding gift. Alternate gold and white, white and gold with each nested bowl, gradually smaller in size. We still have them, 45 years later. Back when kitchens were colorful and beautiful, these were pleasant additions to ours. Damn it! I MISS those times!
My mom lives with us and we use her early 70s Pyrex daily. I love it.
Pyrex are big collectors items now. The older sets have the word PYREX in all caps.
There's one item that you failed to mention. I cannot recall ever being in any kitchen where a cast iron skillet was not present.
I'm cooking on the same cast iron skillet I've had since I was 19.
I think one of the photos had an enameled cast iron fry pan.
Yes but those really are one thing that never left in much of the country
Oh yeah, My grandmother was all about the iron frying pans. She used them everyday, every meal.
And a "drip jar" of fat.
Wow, who says you can't go home again? l just had a 7 minute flashback to my childhood, l was born in 1954 so seeing all this stuff sure is a great reminder to a much more simple time that l would love to see again. Back when people really did care about everything and weren't afraid to show it. We sure have come a long way (in the wrong direction).
EXACTLY!!
Ya it's cliche and 'lame' now to care about things.
What things are you talking about?
@@Genevieve1023 Please read the title and watch the video. Are you ok??
@@sallyaguilera9694 I wasn't talking to you.
Those metal canister sets, were mouse proof. Thanks from.St. Paul Minnesota.
Moth proof too!
not weavel proof
@@harvestmaid5669 Yes they are. No bugs eat metal. What’s weevils? St. Paul Minnesota.
@@johndemeen5575
It depends on the canister. If it doesn't seal tight bugs can get in.
I was born in the 80s but I actually have many of the things shown in this video. I guess I'm just a vintage girl at heart!
You are not unique! Many of us live with and use our vintage things. isn’t it a blessing?
pyrex and Tupperware still exist. the reason pink for kitchens and bathrooms was so popular back then is because it was the favorite color of the First Lady, Mamie Eisenhower. it was even considered patriotic to have a pink kitchen or bathroom
Growing up in the '50s in Ottawa, Canada, we had a pale pink kitchen with light grey trim.
Thanks- I had always wondered about all those pink bathrooms!
I remember the 50s well We had a Salt & Pepper shaker set that looked like cats & made a 'meow' sound when you shook them! We called them Salty & Peppy. Nice addition to our kitchen.
That's something I really wish there was more of in this day and age - cute little additions that just add a tiny bit of joy into a day. Old Corelle and Pyrex dishes with simple, pleasant designs on them... it's too bad that stuff isn't more common.
My Mom had salt and pepper shakers that were cows.
I had fun looking for such a shaker. Yes, there are some available! They don't make the sound any more, though. The styles were all different. I wonder if there was one like your Salty & Peppy!
While I wish I was around to experience the 1950's - every single thing on this list was in my grandparents' kitchen when I was a child in the 70's...I think of it as being able to experience a little bit of the 50's. Thanks for the fond memories of staying over at my grandparents on the weekends.
YES! My whole life I thought of these things as ‘seventies’ because that’s when I grew up. Turns out the things I love were from the 40s through79s, as my grandparents didn’t do major changes, just brought a thing or two into the house over time.
I say, no years have been as great as the 1950s through the 60s.
I know what you mean. The aluminum ice tray was definitely a part of my life. It was messy but fun to crack the ice out of the tray. I didn't know my grandparents had those from the 50s. I guess they were relics by the time I grew up as a 70s child.
Just buy some of these threw E-Bay or Esty.
the bad thing about being around in the fifties is that today you are now in your seventies--trust me i know!
The beauty and unique style of 1950's kitchen/dining ware will last forever!
The 50's were the golden years! Thankfully, I was born in the 50s... the best decade ever! Loved the home furnishings and accessories so much, as well as the family values!👍❤️🇺🇸
Mom made one jello out of cottage cheese mixed with lime jello. Another was called "Waldorf" made of small cubes of apples, walnuts, and celery bits in your choice of jello. Her favorite jello was cherry flavored with a can of fruit cocktail and miniature marshmallows.
That sounds yummy. Let's go over to your mom's, and try some!
(my mother has passed, so it sounds _extra_ good to go to someone's mom's house)
My Mom made all of those jello saladsg. I still have a cookbook from Jello for how to make those. It is a easy, less expensive and colorful way to have various desserts for sit down dinners with the whole family - another thing that is hard to find now.
That was my favorite too! Those were the days....
My mom's favorite was made with cherry jello, canned cherries, and either blobs of whipped cream or sour cream. I'll never forget the time she mistakenly bought UNPITTED cherries. We had to spit out the pits as we ate the jello--which we thought was hilarious, since Mom was such a good cook and rarely screwed anything up.
My favorite as a child was strawberry jello with a can of fruit cocktail mixed in. I haven't made that in thirty years. Have to make some to start the new year out right!
Every single one of those kitchen gadgets PLUS all that Tupperware were found in both of my grandmothers' kitchens as well as our kitchen back then. What a tremendous amount of great childhood memories this video provides!
Plenty of memories there for sure! The aprons like what my grandmother wore. The lever ice trays were the best. The things we take for granted.
Well, I'll grant that our modern flexible plastic ice cube trays that let you release the cubes by just pressing on the bottoms of the compartments so the cubes fall out easily do work better and are less tedious than those old-fashioned metal trays with the levers. Those could be difficult at times. And I'll admit that I am grateful for the automatic ice cube maker in our fridge where all I have to do is reach into the bin and grab however many loose cubes I need. Some things really are improvements, especially as we grow older and become less dexterous than we once were. Still, there are many fine things from those earlier times that I truly miss and wish we had back, again.
I managed to get one of those ice cube trays. Still have it....along with Tupperware and pyrex.
I have such an apron. They're not difficult to sew.
i was born in the mid-50's. manual mixers ARE easy to use, and i still use one. also, when my nieces were young (in their 30's now) they absolutely LOVED for me to let them fix scrambled eggs, pancakes, or cakes with these mixers. other than this, i truly loved your clip.
GOOD VIDEO,MADE ME MISS THE 50S.I GLAD I GOT TO LIVE IN THOSE TIMES.PEOPLES BACK THEN WHERE NICER TO EACH OTHER.THINGS DON'T ALWAYS CHANGE FOR THE BETTER/ GOD BLESS EVERYONE
1950s weren’t that great for Black folks.
Caps lock
@@samtron5000 PARTYLINES
Vegetable-flavored Jell-O? Yuk! 🤢
TRY FRIED SPAM AND EGGS,YES WE HAD CRAZY FOOD MIXS BACK THEN. P S YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT MOMS DID WHEN YOU GOT SICK. GOD BLESS@@luisreyes1963
Man those kitchens were beautiful! I remember using the aluminum "ice trays" with the mechanical release handle.
I was about 5 years old. My mom had all those cool baking dishes too. And tupperware. It was wonderful.
Agreeing 100% with @michael Anenberg
Yes! New Pyrex is not the same nearly indestructible glass it was then!
@@MTknitter22 Pyrex went with all other manufacturers. They realized if they make these items last then there are fewer sales over time. Make them last just long enough. Then sell them again.
Those aluminum ice trays were the most accursed and dreadful things ever!
Like chalk on a blackboard that screeching noise some ice trays made. Sent shivers up my spine.
My mother was born in 1912. I grew up with her letting me "help" in the kitchen by mixing with a hand mixer.
Love the design and appliance styles of the era.
having been born in 1956, i remember my mother having many of these items in our kitchen, pyrex bowls, tin counter cannisters, electric mixers, and the cast iron trivet, i recognize the one we had from this video! all these kitchen items were of good quality, much superior than today and they bring back happy and fun memories of my childhood, thanks for sharing this!
Boy that brought back some memories. I think that was some of the more happier times in life. I love taking trips back in time. I think about the best of times and the worst of times. I miss those large thanks giving dinners we had and Christmas dinners. If I really could go back, that's where I'd be right now. Don't get me wrong, there are things nowadays that are interesting in there own way. Thank God for memories cause with out them we wouldn't know where we come from nor would we have any idea where we might be going. Hope everyone has some pleasant memories to carry them through the hard times life brings about today. Take care everyone and may God bless you and your family. 🙏🙏
It’s tough getting old. My mom & her brother are the last of their family & Ive already lost two siblings, my dad & husband. Everyone is spread out. Cali to TN & NYC to DC
@@samanthab1923 I remember when BOYS were REAL boys, and GIRLS were REAL girls, and they knew what public restrooms to use, no confusion and no MENTAL ILLNESS
@@saminaneen When nobody could go online to spread their poison.
@@saminaneen You know how parents dealt with "mental illness"? They used "The Board of Education, applied to the Seat of Learning." A few swats and those "mentally ill" kids got healthy really quick!
@@saminaneen There have always been transgender people, although they are a small percentage of the population. Their lives were awful because no one understood enough about the situation to accept them. Now we are in a period of learning about the people who are among us who don't fit neatly into a category. By far most people are clearly and absolutely male or female. Unless you know a person well who is living with this issue, it's difficult to believe that it actually happens or that people aren't just making it up for some perverse reason. Please keep an open mind. If you haven't had to cope with this kind of misery first hand, be thankful because it's certainly not easy. Mental illness has also been with us as long as there have been people. It isn't anything new at all. I'll add here that if you have been led to believe that mental illness is the simple cause for the mass shootings in the US, that is just not the case. A person can be in practice looking after the well-being of mentally ill people for a whole lifetime career and never encounter a person among those mentally ill who would be at all inclined to kill anyone. I've heard people try to claim mental illness is the cause of the massacres we hear about so often now. It is not an accurate conclusion. The reasons are far more complicated than that. To be brief, it happens when a person has been bullied for years and feels absolutely no one cares about them. They want to fight back and eventually realize an automatic assault rifle with capability of firing rapid rounds of ammunition would be the way to get back. Now people will have to listen to them, or so they think. It's about their rage at being badly treated and a sense that they can't do anything about it that is the cause.
I was born in the late 50’s. I remember the aluminum ice trays. It helped if you ran some water over the tray before you pulled back on that handed to crack the ice from its mold. One of my mom’s pet peeves was someone taking ice from the mold and not refilling the tray. We had those ice trays until i was 13 when my parents split up
Haha. My mom would also get on us about not refilling the ice tray.
Did they split up over the ice tray not being refilled? Asking for a friend.
@@glennso47 tell your friend no..mom wanted a new refrigerator but dad would not buy her one. The day she was forced out of the house, (divorce) he went to Sears and bought a new one with an automatic ice maker. That Kenmore refrigerator lasted 50 years
@@mal1465 😮
@@mal1465 Done out of spite, of course. Right?
I recently had the great good fortune to inherit the remainder of my Aunt's collection of Tupperware from when she used to sell it in the 50's to early 60's. Still works better than anything else of similar design.
Oh my gosh! I didn't know those were butter molds!!
I'm 67 and I have handled every single item you have shown here. Great memories as a child helping in the kitchen.
When my mother was young in the 1920s they still had a real Ice Box. The Iceman brought huge blocks of ice to put in it on a regular basis. While the size of an electric refrigerator, it didn't hold a lot of food because insulation took up a lot is space.
Insulation AND ice.
the beater was designed for eggs, not heavy work. They are called egg beaters and we still have them today.
pancake batter, and Maybe cake batter if it used a lot of egg... like Angel Food.
You're right! I mainly remember my mom scrambling eggs with them.
making meringues, for lemon meringue pie. and you would chill the aluminum bowl in the freezer to make the egg whites get puffier.
@@thedreadtyger Used 4 whipping cream. Darn happy for our Mix Master, for cake batters and butter frosting.
I used to collect kitchen gear for my retro kitchen .. this video is on point !
Back in the day when we actually ate in the kitchen at the table. I hate the open concept homes. I like each room to have its own character and appeal. A surprise to the eyes. Our kitchen table top was Formica yellow. In the 50s and 60s. Truly great days
The triangular trivets were used on ironing boards or counter tops to hold hot irons, either the old fashioned kind or the modern electric steam irons. You'd put the iron on the trivet to cool off before you put it away.
Looks just like the kitchenettes we had in home economics class!
When we had home ec classes 😞.
I would have liked to have had home economics class when I was in high school because it would have helped me when I was working as a house cleaner.
@@bostongirlsandy My mother forced me to take home ec. She took me to the counselor's office to discuss it. I remember saying I didn't need to take it because I was going to be rich enough to have someone else do the home chores. Well, I ended up in the class where all we did was cook and sew. I don't recall learning anything about house cleaning.
I'm a guy, and I voluntarily took home ec in high school in the mid 80s. And not because it was where the girls were, lol. I just thought it was a good idea to take it.
Although, I remember thinking that it was strange that more guys didn't take it, because it was DEFINITELY where all the girls were, lol. Only one other guy was there that I can recall.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter
When I was in high school Home Ec was strictly a girls only class. Guys could take shop classes. Wood, metal, auto, period. No choices outside of that. These were as segregated as gym class.
We did have driver's training that anyone could take. It was a classroom subject when I took it but a couple years earlier there was actual in car driving as part of the course.
The only thing we had in our kitchen from this video was the hand mixer. I was too small to use it, but loved watching Mom mix things with it.
Everything else on here was acquired many years later, when Mom could go to work full time because the four of us were finally all in school all day.
All of our neighbors were the same---nobody had any kind of fancy kitchens, and all the houses were built by the people who lived in them, not by builders. Whatever material was at hand was used, and clever people like my mother made furniture, refinished old/used furniture, sewed their own curtains, made bedsheets, etc.
5:20 My mother used to use an electric mixer like that to make cakes. 😁
A beautiful trip down memory lane. Thank you.
I can still remember my grandmother's bread box, it had a very specific aroma of bread and all other sorts of sweet rolls and little baked goods she kept in there. By then it usually contained a bag of Wonder bread rather than the unwrapped bakery loaves of years prior.
That reminds me, we had a bread drawer built into the cabinetry. 70’s.
@@samanthab1923 High class! 😉
@@karenh2890 You’re too funny. What we really wanted was a laundry chute 😊
And the function of the bread box wasn't really to "keep the bread at room temperature." It was -- at least in a major way -- to keep any stray insects from having contact with the bread, as well as keeping those kitchen breezes from blowing over the bread and drying it out.
I used my microwave as my bread box
I actually love the looks of these kitchens
I remember those horrid aluminum ice cube trays well. They were always a pain to get the cubes broken loose and usually they crumbled. I remember running them under hot water to loosen them up.
I can sum them up in one word: UGHHH!!!
LOL not like the plastic trays are really any better. Worst if if someone who doesn't understand water expansion when freezing overfills them and you can't twist that thing for love or money.
Great stuff man. My mom had one of those manual rotary hand mixers. I can still remember the sound it made when you would spin the crank. Wish mom was still around to use that mixer.
Yeah, my mom passed last year at 90, and we "kids" sure do miss her. She had one of the manual mixers too. It was a big deal when she got an electric one, but there was never enough money for something like a KitchenAide mixer.
We called those rotary hand mixers egg beaters.
@@maryloulong6789 Same here.
I thought they were called “egg beaters?” 🤔. The electric one my mom finally got was a Sunbeam Mix Master. But I do remember the ones with the hand crank that mom said was an egg beater.
@@glennso47, they were sold as a hand mixer but had a myriad of uses including torturing siblings and cousins. Don't get it involved in your hair. Ouch!
I still use vintage pyrex. It is the best! I love the vintage look of them too. I would love to get my hands on a full pastel blue set.
i've found a lot of missing pieces for my old sets from ebay. i'm a fossil myself.
I remember we had a set of tumbler cups all of different pastel colors.
So did we, in the 60s.
Aluminum ☑️you can still find them some places &catalogs☑️🌚
Love my metal ice cube trays. I still use mine and they are the best at making ice
You can buy them in 2022 but usually cost$15-$20 each
I use old metal trays. They make clear ice cubes that seem to taste better then those from plastic bins.
My house was built in 1960. My kitchen is a mix of 40s 50s an 60s. I love it
I still have and use the kitchen table my dad bought in 1960 when I was 2. I'm glad they kept it.
I have mine also.
Still have mine it's yellow
Very interesting. The house I grew up in was built in 1953 and had a cutting board you could slide in and out.
Yes, I remember the sliding cutting board under the counter. Another feature of our Arts and Crafts house was the pull-out angled deep flour bin. A fold-out ironing board with its own little door hung on the wall of the kitchen as well.
My house built in 1980 had a pull out cutting board. When we remodeled the fancy corner cabinet they put in wouldn’t leave room for a cutting board. Now every time I make cookies I miss it !! 🍪🍪🍪
My grandmother used to make tomato jello. The line about the molds not improving the taste made me remember that!
It's called Aspic. I have a collection of glass molds to make it with.
Great time for growing up! Carol from California
I was a sixties baby & have always suspected the 40’s & 50’s were the best years. Still I recall many of these things (& still have a few), especially those ice cube trays, no doubt acquired in the decade prior to my arrival. Anyone else have a grandma who referred to margarine as Oleo regardless of the brand?
Remember when you had to colour the margarine yourself? It seemed that due to some quasi-legal regulation here in Ontario, Canada, in the '50s, margarine could not resemble actual butter. White margarine--you may just as well call it lard--came in a rectangular bag and had a colour button in the middle that you pressed. The reddish ampoule then, with a lot of squeezing, turned the questionable content a more buttery yellow, but slowly. As my mother had a career, I was farmed out; this is how I remember this aspect of my day care.
Dazey can openers were also very popular during this time. I have one made in the 1940's on my wall that is still opening cans and is liable to last longer than I will.
My granparents had one. It was red and white.
Ours was a Swing-Away brand. Wherever it is, I'm sure it still works fine.
Our metal canister set had 4 containers and were ultra modern, fit for the space age: brushed aluminum with copper lids. My sister still has some Tupperware that our parents bought in the late 60s. They made stuff to last in those days.
Love the jello molds @ 5:57 I lived in the usa for a year in 1981 and housewives then were still making and serving jello salads; with mini marshmallows, grated carrot, diced celery etc. There were recipes for them in cookbooks. They were beloved of the pot luck socials and suppers at church and all manner of functions. Coming from Australia and seeing jelly used for the first time in this weird way, I could never reconcile myself to putting a spoonful on a plate with a hot dish. I still couldn't in 2022, jelly in my book is for dessert.
Women who were married and had kids and stayed home to raise them were known as "housewives" but now are called homemakers. We put ice cube trays in the freezer section of a refrigerator, not an icebox which was a small refrigerator kept chilled with a 50 lb. block of ice. My Grandma had an icebox on the farm that was made of oak, lined with tin, and stood about 36 inches high and insulated with cork. The icebox had a spigot and a metal "catch pan" beneath that collected the melted ice that dripped down and had to be emptied every day. I still remember the stale odor of the ice inside. My Mama had copper canisters for flour, sugar, coffee and tea. She bought a yellow chrome table and chairs like the red in the photo in the video. They were very popular. Of course, women wore an apron in the kitchen but not high heels to do their housework, like in ads!
Aspic or meat Jello was also popular too. Never had that thankfully but had my fill of Jello salad. I had one aunt, bless her heart is still alive as of this writing at 98, who used to make different flavored layered jello with sour cream between them. I completely forgot about people making butter molds during the holidays. Having trivets and copper molds on the wall was common to see in many kitchens. Watching Happy Days is what a common middle-class kitchen looked like. The Hazel show is what an upper-class kitchen looks like. Ozzie and Harriet, Leave it to Beaver, Donna Reed and Father Knows Best programs show typical 50s kitchens.
Love it! Interesting how many of these things carried over into the 70s. I remember getting cut with that ice tray!
I remember getting my tongue caught on the cold ice tray. 🥹🥺
The ice tray was treacherous!
Yeah, remember the orange kitchen in the Brady Bunch series in the 70's.
My first house had yellow built in appliances. Tile counter tops. I still have a pyrex bowl from that era that was given to me as a wedding gift. It was the best decade of my life. Thanks for taking me back to that time.
This was such a fun and nostalgic video .... really awesome 😎
My mother's kitchen was turquoise, just like the one at the beginning of the video!
Yellow curtains adorned the windows, stainless cupboard door knobs...anyone remember the Avocado colored fridges that came around in the 70's?
We had neighbors who owned one of those!
I really don't like the stainless steel appliances, unfortunately, the only stove I could get, was steel.
The fridge I managed to get...side by side WHITE!
There's that I guess...
I love how a resurgence of Pastel Kitchen Appliances is happening right now. You can find Toasters, Microwaves and Refrigerators in Turquoise blue or even a Keurig in light pink.
Everything took me back to the 50-60s. We had all that stuff, plus a meat grinder that clamped onto the counter or breadboard so my dad could grill the some burgers from some higher quality cuts of meat.
Memories! I grew up in the 60s but many things still applied. Our first house had light blue cabinets and appliances. Sold to my uncle, they remodeled it in the 70s. We definitely had Formica countertops, linoleum floors, and a metal legged kitchen table and chair set. Our 70s house had light yellow appliances, flooring and counter tops but stained wood cabinets. We definitely had the molds for jello, Bundt cakes, etc. PS: I still use a canister set in my kitchen.
Many of the then "modern conveniences" shown here, were in my household growing up. I was born in 1961, when I left home in 1979, I was given a manual eggbeater mixer, and maybe the house I moved into had that swing arm ice tray...but I definitely remember living with both of those things after leaving home.
Born in 1961 also and same!
omg almost the same years 62 and 81. that year i remember being inducted into the joys of group living including a dish where you put a cut up chicken in a pot mixed with a packet of onion soup and a tin of apricot juice ('nectar'?) and baked it. surprisingly good. another was mac and cheese with tuna and tinned champignons, years later i learned that was actually called tuna mornay. i remember the 'eggbeater', that is what it they called it
I still see those old metal ice cube trays occassionally at the thrift stores in my area and remind myself "No you don't want those" they were so hard to pull that lever on your wrist but so cool. I really should get one to show the "youngsters" lol. Anna In Ohio
I remember all those gadgets and especially the Pyrex plates. I also remember those kitchen floors, wow. It does seem that the 50s was a happy time. I remember seeing lots of photographs from that era and everybody was always so happy 😊
Thank you for bringing all these joy and happiness to all of us!! Blessings! ♥️
I remember going to Tupperware parties with my Mom, and many of the items we purchased were in our kitchen for years! I still miss my molds and stackable bowls!!🤣😆👏
I never knew about the butter molds. Set jello-type deserts were definitely a thing in my childhood. I remember something called junket which was some sort of set dairy dessert. My mom always had a mechanical hand mixer in the drawer.
Butter molds were for parties.
Junket was rennet.
@@jamesmcinnis208 Junket is also an English pudding or custard dessert that goes back to medieval times, also known as curds and whey! 🍧
@@trudygreer2491 Interesting, thanks!
@@jamesmcinnis208 My pleasure, Jim.. you know what they say, Knowledge is Power! ;)
@@jamesmcinnis208 We never had butter molds. Jello molds, yes. But never butter molds.
These kitchen nostalgia videos are truly funny. Unless a young woman was a new bride, her kitchen wouldn't be filled with just new, fifties-made items. A woman in her forties or fifties (and there were plenty of them) would, for example, still have many items dating back before WW II, and maybe most of her kitchen possessions. As something would break or wear out, then she'd get new one(s). No kitchen owner for a period of time furnished a kitchen like shown here!
Ohhh those were the times 😢 hardworking people, moms at home, dads outside and children playing outside too.
LoL I still use those trivets, molds, and those mixers!!!! BTW, I'm 51!!! Those things were built to last forever! My favorites of my grandmother's trivets I found cleaning out a drawer (and may have been my great grandmother's from the 1920s). They're cast iron letters spelling HOT and COLD. Fun!
I still have and use those pyrex mixing bowls, the hand beater and many other vintage kitchenwares. I grew up (born in 1965) with these things and still use. It's fun to use things that I remember fondly being used by my grandmothers and my mother. Thanks for the trip down memory lane!
One of my Pyrex bowls was originally my mother's, and I remember mixing up so many date bars, lemon bars, etc., in it. Baking was my job as a child and teenager.
Boy howdy, those were the days. I remembered some things and I loved the checkered flooring and the colorful appliances. I do remember that one time my younger brother got into the drawer in the refrigerator and as he sat on the floor he ate an onion and had tears running down his face. That must be why he doesn't like onions today. I have one of those hand held beaters and one or two of the pot rests. The ones shown sure were decorative. I have a couple of cast iron skillets too. Oh the memories this video brought back. Thank you for memories from the 1950s as those were the good ole days of my childhood. God bless.
We had an ice chest until the mid fifties and then we got a fridge. The difference! I remember so many of those things. I used to get the job of creaming the butter and sugar and Mum always insisted on using a wooden spoon for that and ordinary table sugar. Our oven had an alcohol thermometer on the front and it had to be watched throughout the cooking because it would need adjusting.
I certainly don’t miss the plumbing of the fifties with the toilet halfway up the yard and the only hot water for showers and baths - all the other taps were cold. We had an electric copper in the laundry that had to be emptied via a bucket under the tap at the bottom; a set of concrete double tubs with a hand wringer in between and the clothes were lifted out of the copper via a stick that was much the size of a half a broom handle. Lots of other things I remember but doubt anyone really cares much now.
I have my parents kitchen table from the 50’s(chairs gave out a long time ago), the pink Pyrex bowl set and the little blue and white storage container with the glass lid(we couldn’t find the second one she had) I even have some of the older Tupperware from their kitchen. I use it all proudly too.
What a lot of memories. I remember the milk man making deliveries in glass containers. I was allergic to cow milk back then and had to get goat milk from the milk man that came in brown colored bottles vs. clear bottles for cow milk. Also, I remember manually help mother wash and hand dry the dishes using a dish drying rack. Stoves were all gas for the most part. Electric ranges were rare then.
I still prefer gas range to electric.
@@glennso47 Agree. :)
I think there are a lot of us who still wash their dishes manually. Drying racks are still sold everywhere.
@@traceytrotter9934 Yes. I remember that I would dry while mother washed the dishes when I was age 5 (1955). As a aside, also at age 4 or 5, I remember my father saying to me in the car, "Son, never buy Allstate Insurance". To this date, I have always followed his advice on car insurance. :)
@@bp39047 🙂
Thanks, RR for always taking me back to my younger days! I remember so much of what you talk about. My mom got one of the graduated sets of Pyrex mixing bowls when she and my dad were married in 1952. It's 2023 and I still have the biggest size bowl. That's all that survived. It's red and my mom called it her bread bowl for obvious reasons. I made 2 cakes in it just last night!😊 I miss you, Mama. 😢
And my grandfather was a carpenter and when he remodeled their kitchen the last time, he installed a bread drawer with the cabinets. It had a metal slide top that was vented. When we visited them I always opened that drawer to smell the bread. (Sunbeam) Even years after Grandma stopped keeping the bread in there, it still smelled of bread. Such a comforting memory!❤
The other night, between films, TCM showed a Tupperware documentary!! I'm sure it was a promotional movie shown to new salespeople, it showed everything from how it was made to how it was used. It was wonderful, I'm sure I'll never see it again.
We still had those ice cube trays growing up in the 80's. Probably someone gave them to my mom. Oh, but I hated them! My hand always stuck to the metal trying to get an ice cube.
I hated them too. They never made pretty ice cubes like you would see people using on TV☑️
Wish I still had one of those metal ice cube trays. It's so hard to get the plastic trays to work properly, and they spill water every time!
Brings back good memories of helping my Grandmother preparing meals on the weekends. Had fun helping defrost the fridge and washing clothes in the old wringer type washing machine then taking the clothes to hang out on the clothes line to air dry.
The new washers don’t clean clothes the way the old wringer washer did, and if we could only have the laundry soap that was used back then.
@@lynnschantz9185 Remember the glassware that came in the detergent boxes?
@@lynnschantz9185 The new front-load electronic low-water-usage washers are a joke. They take hours and the clothes don’t get clean. I bought one and paid the re-stocking fee to get rid of it. Then I bought a no-frills Speed Queen.
There are mid century enthusiast groups who source out mid century kitchen and bath retro inspired renovation materials. Pink bath tile? Yep, still available.
We moved into a new home in 1966 and had the dark brown color appliances. Two of our neighbors had homes built in the late 50’s. One had teal appliances and the other pink. I still have a hand beater and some metal jello molds. I wish I had the metal ice trays again. Our ice maker in the fridge died years ago. Back in the 50’s and early 60’s it seemed like all new houses had pastel siding on them. Our neighborhood was all pastel colors.
I think you're referring to the copper colored appliances. I still remember how excited I was to get our Frigidaire refrigerator.
I had the avocado green appliences.
I would love Teal appliances!
Oh spare me the Avocado, Brown or Harvest Gold kitchens of the '70s!! And that goes for the wallpaper and linoleum, too.
I remember those white and aqua pyrex dishes! My mother had some and they were in our kitchen for years.
I still have my divided aqua and white dish with the lid.
Things where made to last for years, my grandmother had them till she had to go to care home. I am willing to bet they are still in my Aunties house. You could use the lids to make pies in too and serve lettuces and olive platters. They stood up to anything. Last time a few years ago I bought Pyrex it didn't last two weeks. Thin and fragile.
I have a big yellow Pyrex mixing bowl that belong to my mother who got it from her mother. My mom would mix cookies, cakes, and her excellent corn bread dressing in it. It's over 60 years old. Since I do most of the cooking, I won't let anyone touch it (including my wife). I'm the only one who is allowed to wash it. I figure if I break it then it's on me. I see sets of them at antique stores and thought about buying a set, but it wouldn't be as memorable. When I'm gone, I'll hand it down to my daughter. As we get older, we all like to hold on to those memories from the 50's and 60's.
Who remembers the 1950 Betty Crocker cookbooks?
Wow! I’m 70 now and remember so much of this stuff… it was like walking down memory lane!! It was a good feeling.
At my house when I was a toddler we had an icebox and a wringer washing machine, a manual egg beater and a manual juicer and lots of cast iron pans and wooden spoons and yes Tupperware and Pyrex as well as the milk box on the front porch. You did mention Tupperware party's, but you left out Shara Coventry parties which always included jello molds as refreshments. LOL!
I havemy mom's beautiful necklace by Sarah Coventry thanks for the reminder
At 1:19 I saw the box of Duz detergent on the floor by the wringer washer and what a flashback! We had a wringer washer and sometimes my mom would by Duz because they'd they'd run promo's now and then and include a drinking glass in the box. Weird; eh?
What brand of laundry/dish soap stuffed free towels in the box?
My mom always bought Tide for laundry & dishes.
@@raallen1468 Breeze
We had a whole set of those glasses.