FORGOTTEN APPLIANCES From the Past...That Were Pretty Cool
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Back in the 80s, the sound of our electric can opener made the cats come running like it was a dinner bell. 🐈 🐈⬛
Yes me too! Also I had a small dog that came running too!
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Mine too. My current cat comes running into the kitchen every time she hears a can open.
@@valerieannrumpf4151 same here.❤
Our cat Whiskers would magically appear when she heard the can opener!!
5:45 The GE Americana refrigerator! I have that exact 1965 model in the same coppertone color. It is still going strong, working perfectly. The gold flecked countertop is backed by florescent lighting behind a patterned glass panel. I also have the matching electric range. Definitely built to last, they are treasured by me.
I'll bet they are beauties! :o)
Mom had a 1960 Standalone unit that was huge. It was a GE with a bottom freezer that went all the way across both sides and it had a countertop with a lighted back in the middle!
Yes it was also a dark copper color.
Wow you're lucky that is terrific
That's awesome 😊
@Pam ela that's today's throwaway Society for you! All those computer chips are doing a wonderful job, aren't they?
My parents' home in the 70's had a mobile dishwasher which was actually really handy because the entire top of the dishwasher was also a cutting board. In effect our house had a small island in the kitchen that could be moved around for cooking and washing both which was convenient at the time.
WE HAD ONE IN THE 50'S
Oh yeah, ditto here.
My granny had one of those. What I remember most was that it had a hose which she hooked up to the kitchen sink's spigot.
My first dishwasher. Did 3 full loads a day for over 10 years.
Yes, plus if you were into canning you could run your jars through a cycle, then push it to the stove, ladle whatever you were preserving into fresh sterile jars and put the hot jars on the butcher block top for the lids to set.
Everything shown was a higher quality product than you can buy today. Hands down.
And it seemed that everything was designed for ease of use also...less bending down required. I'm tall and have a bad back and arthritis, so I notice these things.😊
We had a Kenmore roll-around dishwasher, and it was even worse than modern dishwashers. It would only get the dishes clean if you washed them first, and then you had to dry them afterward. Basically, it sort of sterilized the dishes. The impeller blade broke constantly, and my dad spent many an afternoon and weekend fixing it. I got stuck washing the dishes for several years, and I showed my mother that it was faster to wash them in the sink and let them dry in the rack next to the sink - not to mention that I didn't have to come back 2 hours later to dry and put away the dishes - but she insisted that I use that stupid dishwasher. The thing is, having been trained on that old piece of junk, I find it VERY hard to put dirty dishes in to wash.
Those can openers would last for years and years, not a few months or even a few days if you buy the shitty one from Dollar Tree.
YUP, YUP, YUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not really. TV's were often notoriously bad and needed frequent repair. My Toshiba TV is the first flat screen I ever bought and has been flawless since 2007. Same for the Samsung in the living room which is 11 years old.
Percolators are still used and sold in stores. One advantage is the stainless steel filter the grounds sit in lasts forever. Also, watching the color of the coffee in the clear knob at the top shows the strength of the coffee if you want it strong or weak.
I love love my percolators, so much.
I love percolators! My Dad liked to use them
Smells so good too
I use a percolator to make my coffee almost every day. Takes a bit of trial and error to get it right as far as how much ground coffee to use, versus how long to let it percolate, but once you do, it'll give you some of the best tasting coffee you've ever had. Better than drip, and better than Keurig, too.
I still use a stainless steel electric percolator from the 60s!!!!!! Thats whatbi call dependability!!!!!!!!
Okay I'm not changing my mind....people were much more creative back then, most of those devices are more practical and useful than what we have today... and they look good
These appliances and devices became quickly outmoded as family homes were getting larger and, thusly, more space available. Others disappeared because tastes changed or parts of it were unsafe or became impractically larger. Take the Tele-bar for instance. How many people do you know today with a television, at least the tv in their living/entertainment room, is less than 20” diagonal?
People back then were encouraged to be creative. The culinary arts started to become unpopular after the publication of The Feminine Mystique.
@Hitogokochi haha!! Isn't that just lovely? What at time we are in, frightening.
@Hitogokochi Yes, I watch the old TV series family with Kristy McNichol, I look at videos like this, as well as just remembering and I have a friend that feels the same... it's not the usual, I remember and it was better then type of thing, the times we're living in now are unique in a very bad and evil way
@@mmasque2052this was not a positive development.
The Flair Stove was on the Bewitched Show. I was always fascinated with that stove that slid into the cabinet.
That’s right! Good memory
I love cooking with my stove. Thank you for remembering. LOL
That was the first thing I thought of, “Bewitched “ stove.
I’m watching Bewitched on a throwback channel and recognized the Flair stove from that show!
Lol that was the first thing I thought too. “It’s all in the basting…”😂💗
I’m 65 and you showed several things I have never heard of. I really enjoyed this look at the past!
I'm 65 also and half of these I've never heard of!!
LOL I'm in my 70s and haven't seen most of these items. Great video.
I’m 75 and I’ve never heard of the wall refrigerator! Kind of cool but sure takes up space for regular cabinets. We lived in Phoenix from 1955 till I left in 2003 so maybe some,of these kitchen things never made it out West😄😄😄
I’m 69 and I’ve seen all but the cabinet refrigerator.
The fridge freezer with counter top is brilliant 😍
I agree!
It did not have enough room in it. If you had one, you would eventually have to buy another refrigerator.
It is very handy, and it has an electrical outlet and lighting. I have my Potbelly percolator and sugar bowl on it.
When she moved to an assisted living apartment, I inherited my paternal grandmother's electric percolator. I loved that thing and used it until it finally gave up the ghost in 2010. It was Ivory colored and had a little golden sheaf of wheat medallion imprinted on it. I miss it, but I miss her much, much more! ❤Thank you for the awesome memories Recollection Road!
Not a kitchen appliance, but my grandfather had a huge radio the size of a chest of drawers (floor standing with controls at chest level) with ornate wood arches and carved details. Was the centerpiece of their living room.
I still have a percolator and I love it.
They made the best coffee!
My family had a Frigidaire Flair stove and I loved it so much! Our kitchen was really small, so it was nice to be able to literally close the drawer on the stove when it wasn't in use. But the best thing about the Flair was the oven door that pulled out and then up. So sensible! I still miss that stove.
I had one in my apartment I lived in when I was waiting for my husband to finish his navy tour. It was ok but I had little kids and it was a bit more dangerous for them cause they love to pull up and climb on things. No problem when it was shut but a big problem when cooking.
IM JEALOUS
Samantha Stephens had that same stove in her kitchen!! I always thought it was so cool, especially the oven door(s)!! 😊
I lived for a year in a house with a very similar model, the elements were a straight line instead of staggered. that was the best stove I have ever used, it even beats the stoves I used working in restaurants.
It was the Bewitch Stove. The Rolls Royce of stoves. As a child I Remer my mother loving that kitchen. I know why now.
There are people who bought it back then who still have them. They still work. The inside of the oven was nickel.
I wish they would come out with a modern version, but with magnetic stovetop. The bottom part held pots and pans and some had a warming oven.
My grandmother loved her percolator and the coffee from it!
Percolator still makes the best coffee.
Sunday mornings you could smell the coffee upstairs and that was before I started drinking coffee.
@@freedomrings1420 Just loved the smell in the morning growing up!
Nothing like perked coffee
I still use a percolator the coffee taste so much better I've tried the French press I tried everything it's the best The percolator and I bought it just recently
The first Frigidaire Flair I ever encount4ered was in Samantha Steven's kitchen. Then a friend's mom had one. Both were magical!
My mom got one in the late 1960s
She has left us but the stove is still working and in my brother’s kitchen
I love the advertising of a housewife doing the housework in a dress and heels...and percolators still make the best coffee.
My grandmother used her percolator well into the 90's. Before she retired and no longer got up before I did to go to school it also acted like an alarm. Also an interesting little fun fact about the percolator, it was a popular dance in the 80's for those who listened to House music.
It's time for the percolator.
My Mom made the best tasting coffee with it!!! She had it down to perfection 😊
My Dad still prefers coffee from the percolator and still drinks it. His old one wore out a couple of years ago, and Mom found him one online somewhere!
I was using kcup coffee but remembered my mom made the best coffee in her little old percolator. So I ran to Cal-Ranch and picked one up for myself❗️👍☕️ Delicious😋
Avid outdoor types still use percolators designed to be set over a campfire.
My Mom had a Corning electric percolator for years and refused to replace it with the Mr. Coffee style of coffee maker. I couldn't blame her. That percolator made great coffee. 😊❤
My mom had several Corningware percolators over the years and they made incredible coffee.
I think we had Hamilton Beach percolators in our house. it kind of make sense since we had a manufacturing plant in the area and could buy them directly from there - especially since my dad was an employee there at the time.
EDIT: I take that back. It was Proctor-Silex that we had. Hamilton Beach is now the parent company of Proctor-Silex now.
And the coffee smelled great. I don't even like coffee!
I gotta ask someone- why do so many coffee experts say percolators make bad coffee cause they recirculate the water over and over until it is hot enough, resulting in bitter coffee? Maybe those who never actually had a percolator?
@@BakedRBeans I don't know. My mother-in-law always had a percolator, and her coffee tasted better than mine from a Mr. Coffee.
also use a GE Potbelly percolator everyday for my coffee. It makes the best darn coffee. Chock Full 'o Nuts coffee is coarser ground and a good brand for percolators.
They could make a Flair-type stove with induction burners and a convention oven at eye level, and I'll bet it would sell!
I wish i had a washing machine/dryer from the 1960s -70s now!!!! Such good quality!
I still have a GE can opener/knife sharpener on my kitchen counter I still use it
I remember trash compactors that was part of your kitchen cabinets.
I finished high school in Ohio when my dad's job transferred him to Dayton where Frigidaire had a manufacturing plant. One of the Frigidaire engineers attended the same church as my family and he worked in the new appliance idea department. At his home he had a refrigerator that had the standard ice and water in the door, but it also had a flavored drink mix in the door too. You would have to buy the flavored mix syrup from Frigidaire that stored inside the fridge and you could press a button on the outside of the Refrigerator that would mix with the water in the door. You could even set how strong or weak you wanted the flavoring you wanted. It did not go into production though because, A: it too up too much space on the inside of the refrigerator and B: Kool-Aid drink mix was already on the market and offered more flavors.
I wonder if he still has the mixer fridge!
See! Ahead of its time!
I wonder if you could that today but with an integrated SodaStream.
I remember that.
That's so cool
The fridge with the counter in the middle would be great!! I want one!!!!
Me, too!
I know, I want one of those stoves to with the oven on top!
There are a few on Ebay
Love those are old appliances appliances these days you'll be lucky to get 72 12 years out of them those appliances from the past were made to last and they put a lot of thought into those appliances
Not related to this video about appliances, but I just remembered that my mother-in-law was a frequent user of the Ronco Veg-O-Matic well into the 90s. I always giggled when she brought it out to slice tomatoes, but it actually worked quite well.
I actually bought one a few months ago at a garage sale. It works really well. Much better than the onion chopper that I had to replace three times.
Mom had one of those but I hated cleaning it.
All of these were outstanding and they lasted longer than new stuff of today and most are still around ...I grew up with most of them ..I wish they still made em I'd buy...
We still "perk-brew" coffee with an electric pot we got as a wedding gift almost 57 years ago. Several "gimcrackery pots" we tried and discarded because of poor coffee taste or product failure. It was made in America and still used here. 😁👍
Now THAT is getting one's money's-worth from products!
There was zero obsolescence-planning going on back then.
Stuff was built to last. Now corporations are just cheaters and liars (by both commission & omission means) with many operating as far-worse too!
You've got four-years on me Geezer, but we survived that questionable accusation of being "Boomers." Darned good thing.
My electric percolator gave out years ago but I loved the coffee it made. I have tried those with the coffee k-cups but they do not make the coffee hot enough.
I just bought a countertop dish washer a couple of years ago from Amazon. There are plenty of models available, along with youtuber reviews. The one I got featured a built-in water reservoir that I manually fill. Thus, this dish washer doesn't need to be hooked up to a sink faucet or even positioned anywhere near a sink. For example, if the only clear spot at home you had available to set this dish washer up was in the living room (yeah, classy), then hey, that is absolutely fine. The only thing you'd need to do to accommodate this location is to provide a bucket for the dish washer to drain in to. It is very convenient.
I have one too! Just perfect for us-retired couple. No bending over.
@IowaKim > Sounds like a Great Idea!!😀
My grandma had a peculator coffee pot in the 1970s and 1980s. She never did upgrade to a modern coffee maker. I can still smell the Maxwell House.
I still use my Corning ware percolator.. makes better coffee than any drip machine
Never ever seen a wall refrigerator until today and I'm 63. And you can get some good coffee by just making " Cowboy" coffee.
Yes
I LOVE those coffee percolators! It was fun to hear and see the coffee bubbling at the top. The percolators look great, too.
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I remember that smell from childhood!
I had an electric Farberware.
I still have and use one.☕️☕️☕️☕️😊😊😊😊
Literally waking up to smell the coffee. They were wonderful, and likely still available.
Back in 1960, Westinghouse had a unique refrigerator design called the “Center Drawer Refrigerator.” There was a separate slide out compartment, with it’s own temperature, located between the upper refrigerator and lower freezer compartments.
yeah, now they are $3500
I’d love to get my hands on some of these old appliances the stove is my favorite , in the wall class doors omg , also the stove top with the steamer place to put your pot in.
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I have a thing for vintage appliances! I'm currently cooking on a 1963 Frigidaire Flair. It's awesome, and so much safer than hoisting a screaming hot 25 pound turkey up from knee-level.
My Mom has a Frigidaire Flair that I grew up with sitting in her garage. Still works great! It comes in use on holidays.
my grandpa gave me his old can opener from his college days in the 60s. it still works and my kids use it now 😊
The good old days!😢 Gone but not forgotten! Thanks Recollection Road ❤
Thank you for all you do Recollection Road👍🏻ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻
I would love to have a Ronson Can Do.
Hopefully there will be more videos on forgotten appliances , this was very interesting
I was born in 1992 but I enjoy history so I am fascinated by the appliances used in the past.
I never knew of the wall refrigerator. Cool.
I want one!
I'm 63 and never heard of it until today.
One other appliance from the past - my grandparents had an electric roaster that sat on top of its own metal storage cabinet. It was large enough to roast a whole turkey. My folks borrowed it a time or two when they were hosting large gatherings.
That would be very handy! I never saw one that would fit a turkey!
Nesco Roaster? I have a Westinghouse equivalent----1300 watts.
@@elultimo102 Might've been, but it was a long time ago. I really don't remember.
The huge electric iron - otherwise known as the "mangle" was a big part of my childhood, especially at Thanksgiving and Christmas when mother needed to iron our huge dining room tablecloth!
My mother had a mangle in the early years of her marriage. Of course she always had pure linen tablecloths.
Mangle was a brand name that was applied to all large irons. There was a steam Mangle (actual brand name) that was once used to press the sheets used at the Superior Funeral Home in Superior AZ. I never used it, I don't think it was functioning when I started working for the Mortuary in 2002.
There was a law stating that hotel bedding had to be ironed, and mangles were the usual means of completing the task.
My mother had one. I remember it well. It was down in the basement in the 1950's.
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That was one of my chores as a preteen to mangle some of the laundry. I also darned holes in socks and that’s why I gained a love for embroidery and other handwork.
I recall the Fridgidere Flair from "Bewitched" reruns. I wish they would come back. They take up less space, the stove top can be put away and having an eye level oven sounds very convenient.
Only bad part about the electric can opener was removing the icky sharp lid from the pesky magnet! As for the mobile dishwasher, I made the mistake (once) of using powdered laundry soap instead of dishwasher soap. When I opened the lid to see what all the chugging sound was, mounds and mounds of soap bubbles flowed out like a volcano all over the floor. 😂
Sounds like an I love Lucy moment
I have done that before. I felt so terrible then, but everyone dies laughing when I tell the story of my stupidity and panic!
I have an electric can opener that opens cans without leaving any sharp edges on the can or lid. It's really nice. 😊
Were you channeling Lucile Ball?
@@kevinsullivan3448 Ha ha! Sure sounds like it!
4:44 Why would Ronson picture their "Can Do" with a dented can?
I noticed that too!
@@danielulz1640 yep. :)
The Flair by Frigidaire was actually a whole series of ranges and cooktops that had those two features: the drawer cooktop or upward swinging oven door in various combinations. I own a Flair single wall oven without the cooktop. Not sure if you could buy a Flair cooktop without an oven though.
The first studio apartment my husband and I rented had a Flair in it. The burners in a drawer worked well in a small space.
I use a portable dish washer at my cottage, it was gave to me by a neighbor who did not know if it worked or not ,(was in the garage when they moved in). Going on nine years, the thing is built like a TANK!
Could you tell us what brand it is? Thanks.
Lots of people still have them. Apartment dwellers who don't have one built in. I don't know where RR got his information. That goes for can openers too. Almost all my friends have the counter top models because the little hand held electric ones don't work very well.
@@kesmarn maytag dishwasher
@@lanaj1107 I have a under the cabinet can opener that I still use. Try finding one of them today!
@@larryhall7998 I think my mother had one of those under counter can openers in the 70s. It really did save space!
The Frigidaire Flair was Samantha's range on Bewitched
Yes! Noticed that too. I think they should bring these back - saves on bending into oven. Not all ovens have lights. These are right level with your head. I bet they had a lot of trouble with the hinges becoming loose tho
Frigidaire was owned by General Motors at the time. GM was a sponsor of the show, provided the cars and kitchen appliances for the Morning Glory Circle house.
We also had a electric can opener with a knife sharpener and I n The early sixties we had a hand chopper you would push it up and down with a glass bottom
These interesting kitchen appliances of yesteryear are fun to see again after so many decades!!! 👍👍🙂
My parents bought their first and only house in the fall of 1955. We had a Philco refrigerator, Frigidaire stove, Bendix washer/dryer combo, and a mangle iron. My grandmother and great aunt also had mangle irons in their kitchens. How many people today would iron sheets, dishtowels, and items of clothing? There was an art to using that mangle iron, and after years of usage my mother and other relatives mastered its intricacies. The Philco refrig and Frigidaire stove lasted until 1985. The Bendix washer was still working throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, but the dryer component stopped working long before. Appliances were built to last, took a lot of abuse from a growing family, and were made well. Try explaining their longevity to people today----people would think you're crazy if you said you had a refrig and stove that were 30 years old and still working.
We just purchased a new countertop electric can opener! Not all is lost. Great videos!
I don't know where RR gets his info. Almost everyone I know has a counter top model. The little hand held electric don't work very well.
@@lanaj1107 We used to have a Black & Decker under the counter can opener.
Us too
I still have my parents old can opener. I don't use it for cans, but it has a useful knife sharpener on the back, just like the one in the video.
My family and some friends’ families had a number of these appliances. My best friend’s family had both a mobile dishwasher and a Flair stove. I was so fascinated by the stovetop that could be pushed in and pulled out. The dishwasher was especially interesting since it was so different from the dishwasher my house had. I still have one of those old countertop can openers - in harvest gold! The idea that I find most interesting is the cabinet refrigerator; having shallower shelves at eye level seems so practical. You’d need a big kitchen in order to give up that amount of cabinet storage for dishes, but it would be really cool to have such a refrigerator today.
My family had a Maytag portable clothes washer that was moved to the sink just like the dishwasher...you actually had to move the clothes from the washing tub to the small centrifugal spinner to wring them out.
We also had an old Maytag wringer washer in the basement that was powered by a hit and miss gasoline motor left over from grandma who used it on the farm when electricity was unavailable.
Technically, Maytag used a 2-stroke motor and you started it by stepping down on a pedal on the front of the machine-just like starting a motorcycle. A long flexible pipe carried the exhaust outdoors. BTW, hit-and-miss refers to a type of engine made by John Deere and others. It was a 4-stroke but fired intermittentally to control speed.
The Amish still use them!
They were also sold under the Hoover brand, which at the time was owned by Maytag.
There was an estate sale right up the street from me and the house had one of those Flair ranges. I recognized it as soon as I saw it since I had first seen one in the movie Blast From The Past with Brendan Frasier a few years before. The home owners were in the restaurant business and the other cool thing about the house was that the dining area in the kitchen was one of those big wrap around group booths you would see back then in eating places. Over all it was a pretty cool home and it had a pool too.
We had a booth in our kitchen from 1956 till Mom took it out and got a real table - maybe in the 80s. It was so new that the company actually took a picture of Mom and our booth for their advertising. I prefer tables and chair myself!!!!! Oh, the booth had walls on two sides.
I went to an estate sale that hand a huge sunken living room. Although I was brought up in this era, these are still cool to me.
Parents built a 3 bedroom house with 2 baths on first story, dining and kitchen and a full basement with bath and paneled wood and a half kitchen, not including the garage. I've kept it thinking I need to move into it as it has an elevator and everything you need is flat on the first story, mom used to drive thru the yard and bring groceries right into the house. Being disabled now, I see the merits of this house. However it has KILLER yard that is impossible to maintain or mow, it's all up a hill and I've worked hard to fight back the wisteria and the gnarly roses and camelias, and her fir trees are giving me hell too. The Assh*ole neighbor planted bamboo and it's taking over into my yard and I hate it some bad that I chop it and toss the stuff into his yard. He is responsible for this nightmare.
We had an electric can opener for a short time in the 70's but it stopped working rather quickly and we went back to our hand operated can opener which kept on working just fine. The last house my parents lived in (for 29 years) had a moveable dishwasher in the house's rather small kitchen. We never really moved it much except to hook it up the kitchen faucet to run the water through it - it also had a cutting board for a top.
M mom's house has a crank opener and i'm taking it. I love that thing.
BTW she has passed in 2015 and there is nothing stopping me taking it as I'm the sole owner, only child, executrix.
I had one in our home for a long time, the top came in handy for extra counter space.
Ahhh, the Avocado Green can opener. Gotta love the 1970's appliance colors that also included Harvest Gold and Burnt Orange. 💚💛🧡
We got a Frigidaire Flare oven/stove in 1962 -- What I would pay for one today... my cook top & double wall ovens don't hold a candle to that GREAT design. One of the best things was the burner drawer could be pulled out to expose 2 or all four elements. The ability to close the burner drawer so hot burner surface was out of touch was a nice feature. Swing up and clear oven doors also unhooked to tilt forward for easy cleaning the glass... Movies Blast from the Past home had the Flair. our unit had a top hood the the front pulled out to turn on vent fan and the oven doors slide right into it so any smoke etc was pulled right out. Or doors could be pulled out just an inch for venting & broiling etc.
We had a Flair stove in the 70’s. I believe it was a Tappan brand. I used to love hitting the little button to push the stove in after my mom finished cleaning it. I would definitely get one if they brought back the style! My grandpa always used a percolator to make his coffee. You could always tell what time it was when you could smell the coffee in the morning (5am)! Someone got him an electric coffee maker and my grandpa didn’t like it because he couldn’t smell the coffee throughout the house. I still have his percolator too!
Flair was from Frigidaire, but other companies made a similar model. and good for you keeping your grandpa's percolator! They make great coffee!
One thing missing...remember those large electric cookers? Essentially a large rectangular pan on legs, with a lid, that you put meals like roasts and veggies in and plugged into the wall to heat the whole thing until the contents were cooked. My mom had one for years, and when that lid was lifted the smell wafted into the next room and we all knew dinner was ready. Pretty sure they were discontinued for safety reasons as I burned myself on the thing more than once!
We called them electric frying pans. You can find them being used in art studios to melt wax or home chocolate makers sometimes use them to melt the chocolate.
Still available. I bought one in 2019 at Walmart to cook in a hotel room while I was temping.
Electric skillets are very much still available. As a matter of fact, I am going to replace my old one soon. The rectangular shape is my favorite. Love to cook bacon and eggs, pancakes, Chicken and “messy” things in it, thus saving a mess on the stove.
I can think of a few things that fit your description. People are saying electric skillets, but I think you're talking about the bigger, deeper cooker. We have one where you could lift the pot part off to take it to the table and you could also use the base as an electric griddle.
Thank you! I knew I couldn't be the only one who knew he wasn't referring to an electric skillet. They also had big electric roasters that sat on it's own stand and that was the first thing I thought of when I read his comment.
Love this one! I’m retired but worked for over 30 years at a very large appliance company. I swear that overhead cabinet mounted refrigerator could make a comeback for upscale homes. Oh! And I live in a house built in 1960 before dishwashers were common … I *have* one of those rolling portable dishwasher things - they still make them. And it works fine.
I had the top of it covered in the exact laminate as the rest of the counters in the kitchen, so I use the top for all kinds of things!
I don't remember ever seeing a wall mounted frig, but I like the idea. Also the Flare stove. I grew up in the 50s and 60s but I don't recall ever seeing one or hearing of one. I do like the idea though.
I had one of those dishwashers that were rolled over to the sink and hooked up to the faucet.
I had one of those "Hotdogger" things. The prongs were fat and would tear open the hotdogs before you even got them cooking. Then they mostly only cooked on the ends near the prongs. The centers rarely ever cooked. If you left them on long enough to cook all the way, the ends would explode in the cooker. I used mine quite a bit, but the hotdogs weren't as good as cooking them other ways.
I've never seen a wall fridge, and I was born in 1961, I'm 62 now. I like this idea. I've seen a TV and record play in one before but not a bar built in with both. These two items were for rich people or affluent people, I guess. I was foster kid and most of my foster parents were poor.
I never heard of a wall fridge.
I never saw a wall fridge, and I was born in 1955. It's an interesting idea.
We had one. I remember getting bashed in the head when the doors were opened over the kitchen table. Ours was yellow. We were forever opening the doors to find something.
My parents still have their General Electric can opener (white) and use it often! That Presto Hot Dogger sure brought back memories for me, though! We had one of those when I was little, and we used it for many years - and at the end, we could only keep the hot dogs in the machine for about fifteen seconds before it started sizzling and sparking!
Had a friend whose mom had the kitchen remodeled in the 70’s. They had an indoor bbq grill built in & boiling water for a cup of tea at the tap. It was a huge kitchen. All the latest & greatest.
The Thor Automagic had different drums for the clothes washing and dishwashing functions, so dishware and clothes weren't washed in the same tub. The clothes washing function used a typical agitator. Dishwashing used a center whirlygig spray spindle that scooped water up and sprayed it over the dishes and I believe drained it in the process, wash and a couple rinses. It was a bit of drudgery to swap-out the tubs to switch from clothes to dishes which may be the reason the machine didn't last very long on the market.
I remember being like 3 years old and we had this washer that had a wringer, it's some antique now but then you put the clothes out on the line and dried them. No dryer. Just than wringer washer.
That one brought back some nice memories. Mom and dad had most of the small appliances you showed. They had the GE portable roll around dishwasher which is about 50 years old and still works. I still have a stove top percolator. They made the best coffee. Your channel is great, it brings back fond memories of better times. Thank you.
Never had the stove stove coffee maker. Always had the percolator or instant coffee in my childhood.
Both countertop dishwashers and portable dishwashers still exist and are very common in urban areas
That is the only kind of dishwasher I have ever had....a portable one that can be moved around the kitchen.
We had a mobile dishwasher when I was a kid in the 1970s. It hooked up to the faucet in the kitchen and the drain hose went into the sink. It wasn't on the counter; it had wheels. It got pushed into a space by the water heater in the back porch when not in use. Worked great until the day that my brother broke the dial. It was a Kenmore if I'm not mistaken (Dad worked for Sears) and we had a repairman out to replace the dial in a day. Sears was good with warranties back then.
Electric can opener of course was on the shelf. Grandma had one too. Pro-tip: if it has a knife sharpener built in: don't use it on your good knives!
My dad used a glass percolator for his coffee. Mom and I didn't touch coffee but my brother grew up loving it.
We didn't have a trash compactor but our neighbors across the street did. With a total of 8 kids it got some heavy use!
The TV/Hi Fi Stereo/AM-FM radio, that was encased in a smart looking wood cabinet.
The coolest gadget I remember growing up was a simple blender...built into the kitchen counter. As I kid I was just mesmerized by it.
Typically made by Nutone and some years later you could get a food processor attachment for it.
@@kennixox262 yes! We had one, too, extremely useful and convenient. Loved it!!!
We still have our 20 year old Oster. Stainless and glass. That and the Kitchenaid blender.
@@reneehaynes3121 Blendtec makes a built in unit now but personally would not have one as they may be difficult to replace/repair in the future leaving a non finctional unit or hole in the counter too. As a kid in Florida we had a Nutone in a home built in 1960, yellow Formica countertops and when my parents had the kitchen revamped in the 1980's, it went away and was replaced by a Vitamin counter top/portable blender. These day in my own house, use a Vitamix that when it dies, it can be replaced. There were a lot of built in small appliances such as well toasters, can openers and that sort of thing. A bit too gimmicky as they won't last as long as the kitchen. The same goes for built in coffee machines and microwave ovens. The issues for the most part, non standard openings making it difficult to replace.
I still have my parents' wedding gift Oster blender from 1967 as well as their pots and pans and they all still work well to this day.
The Ronson Can-Do is awesome my mom has had one for as Iong as I can remember and she still uses it to this day!
Way-to-go, yourself and your Mom, Brian!
Most all of what was manufactured back-in-the-day was built to last and be repaired.
Now it is 'planned obsolescence' or in-short, raw knowing corporate THIEVERY accomplished by yet-another means.
(Of these, THEY possess thousands upon thousands of such cheats!!)
Yes I have a can do can opener and the Ronson cook n'stir blender and a Ronson electric knife
I have one of those stove top peculators that I use every morning. It is a farberware percolators with copper bottom, I use it on my gas stove, I got it so that I could still make coffee when the power goes out. They are not cheep anymore. Maybe because they are now considered very retro.
Got my first and last Mr. Coffee machine as a gift years ago; it didn't even last a week before I gave it away. Bleahhh. Guests are sometimes amused at my old-school stovetop percolator. THEN they taste the coffee. 😃 A drip machine simply can't compare. We've got whole generations now thinking they can't make good coffee at home.
This was very interesting as I remember some of these but never heard of some like the washing machine/dish washer. Thanks for this video 😊
I only learned of that recently too, there are videos of it in action you can watch.
Nothing like washing your soiled underwear, then switching the barrel and washing your dirty dishes. 🤣
@@funkibloo3811 Ugh!
The GE American fridge seems like a pretty cool design - i.e. incorporating a work surface with a fridge/freezer...I am surprised it wasn't more popular at the time. The appliances I remember in my home growing up were the electric can opener (we had one in lime-green...the company - or maybe it was just the brand name - was called "Viking"). We also had one of those dishwashers on wheels shown at 3:30 that you would roll over to the sink in order to attach the intake hose to the faucet....but I don't remember it doing a very good job washing dishes lol! - i.e. we used to have to rinse everything very thoroughly before loading the washer, otherwise the dishes wouldn't come out clean ...it really wasn't much of a time saver! And I've lots of great memories of my family's camping trips in Maine where my dad would use a percolator on a coleman stove. To this day - that unique bubbling sound percolators make along with the smell of the coffee and frying bacon take me back to summer mornings in the 70s at the Sebago Lake campground..
Sequoia National Park for me❗️Everything tasted so much better while camping. 😋👍
@@funkibloo3811 Couldn't agree more!!!
@@funkibloo3811 We camped there as kids. Lived in the Bay Area.
Full-size, countertop style electric can openers with a knife sharpener are still readily available.
Wall mounted refrigerators are still available in commercial kitchens. You could easily use one in a home, but they're pretty small (just like the 60's models).
The Flair stove was a huge danger. After a few years the supports for the oven lid would get weak, and the oven lid came down on people's arms as they reached in to remove something from the oven.
There are still plenty of countertop dishwashers available. Ideal for those tiny houses with only one person.
Percolator coffee pots are still available, both electric and stovetop. I personally despise what they do to the coffee, but there are still some people who like them.
Love the fridge/freezer with the center countertop. I remember the old refrigerators with the handled metal ice trays and lovely turquoise interiors.
The sound of coffee percolators can't be matched.
Never thought of it but, good point, Debbie!
The tele-bar was a dry bar not a wet bar. Wet bars have a sink and running water, dry bars do not.
We had a Kenmore trash compactor in our Fort Worth, Texas home. Trash compactors were kind of popular in the 1970s, but you don't hear much about them today.
We had a Presto 'Hot Dogger' or some such I think it was called. Mid-70's. Worked well enough.
The telebar would have been a great invention, you could get the child to grab the remote and a beer at the same time!😁
Also, the portable dishwasher is not forgotten, they are still popular for those with limited counter space.
Umm … there were no remotes at that time.
@Andree Elliott Remotes at least as far back as 1956.
Yes there is a great example of a presentation video for a remote control TV from 1961 on YT with lots of options to control from your chair or couch.
Here ruclips.net/video/htYGxXpABeM/видео.html
@@andreeelliott2943 Maybe that was just the rich people cause we never had a remote either :)
I want a Frigidaire Flare oven/stove!!!
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I did not even know about those counter top alternative dishwashers - fascinating!!!!
I had an electric can opener at one point, but I also had a hot air popper for making popcorn without the oil. Maybe that was more of a 70s thing. We may laugh at these contraptions now, but I like how people were always trying new ideas. Everything we have today was once just a crazy idea. That's worth remembering.
I remember all of these appliances from the past. I love watching your channel to remind me of the past. It also reinforces my knowledge of how much better it is today than in the past.
When were you born because most of us baby boomers and gen-xers wish like crazy to be sent back there.....NOW!
@@kellymarsh3956 I was born in 1958. I am a white male, and I would not like to go back to the 60s/70s. Medicine, technology, science, and personal equality were much worse than today. Racism was still plentiful and overt. Women were treated as 2nd class citizens. If you were magically sent to 1960, you would not last a month before begging God to send you back to the present.
@@lylecoglianese1645 I'm with ya. Who's working on the time machine cause they need to speed it up!!! I'm 55 and I have such fond memories of the 70's . Take me back 😩
My husband and I didn't buy a microwave until 1985. That's one appliance I wouldn't want to do without!
@@karenh2890My wife and I bought a house in 1981 that had a built in the wall RadarRange that I believe was built by Raytheon. It was huge and it could burn things to a crisp and boil water in seconds.
Hamilton-Beach Popcorn Pumper!
My dad had an appliance store from 1950 thru 1974. I had only seen a few of these. They must have been pretty rare, as I even worked on the delivery truck and carried off old appliances as well.
Wow! I was unaware of a lot of these! ❤❤👍
There is no such thing as “very unique.” Uniqueness is a singular quality that takes no modifiers.
CORRECT!
"Uniqueness is a singular quality that takes no modifiers."
And, just as with 'pregnancy' it either is or it ain't!
Term 'prefect' also.
Or, to put it otherwise these are states of being that are in-and-of-themselves absolutes, requiring of naught else for any modifying.
And, by the way, use of "more perfect" as found in THE "Preamble," was a punk I believe; it intended to be found at sometime later, such as now, so as to put the very lie to all of what was to follow.
(Plus, how's all that working out now, as it has experientially/provably massively devolved into what it has? OK? Hmm? Glory per se as raining-down from Heaven, soon a promising? To myself ' seems more like what is down-below to boil upward!)
Grew up in the 70s & 80s. Those hot doggers made it taste like metal. Glad to see _those_ disappear!
I came here to say this! Weird metallic taste. Ugh.
Oh, not an appliance but, I swear it is one of the best things I've ever used in my kitchen.
It's called a Hoosier cabinet.
They were around from around 1890s until the 40s when cabinets took over.
I am a short and I can only use the first two shelves of an upper cabinet. Then I have to use something to climb up.
and the counters make me have to stir or use a mixer with my arm up like a wing and get tired.
My Hoosier I got a few years ago and it has 2 cutting boards and storage in the top and bottom to fit quiet a bit of my kitchen in it. And it takes a minute to clean up after either baking and preparing because everything from spices and hand gadgets, utensils, bowls, ect. is right there.
Mine was built in 1914 and was in great shape inside and a little destressed outside like they do in faux looks for your house only the dings and fading in some areas are real.
I love it so much
Seems like a lot of time and energy went in to developing practical dishwashers. My parents had probably the cheapest and most practical dishwasher on the planet. ME!!!!
What about hand crank meat grinders of the 30's and 40's??????
They still make those. They also double as sausage stuffers.
@@BuckHelton The Germans would love it. They'll stuff anything into a casing!