Yesterday's Concepts for Today's Lifestyles.
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- Опубликовано: 22 июн 2011
- How many mid-century concepts are viewed as innovations of today? 1957 marked the launch of the RCA-Whirlpool® Miracle Kitchen - a wildly imaginative, futuristic and customer-relevant full-line solution for the ultra-modern home. The period Miracle Kitchen video highlights the room's features, which took advantage of major developments in technology, television and transportation.
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Ok, something isn't right! This looks like they had internet, Alexa, the Ring Doorbell, etc. That decade was more modern than the 2019! I am super jealous and I want THAT kitchen! Here we are thinking that we are in the best of times, and they already experienced our times, way back then!
@Black Gold
They had people behind the walls, in the overhead "ceiling", inside cabinets...
ALL OFF CAMERA...
flipping switches on motors, using ropes, pulling, opening, pushing, closing...
all rehearsed and on time.
This was a demonstration of their prototypes...not perfected and not ready for mass production and sale to the public. Very entertaining video though.
Black Gold lol
Hey did you see the Roomba vacuum?
Also,
The thing is no average fsmoly would have been able to afford these inventions.
The only places that could have used some of these inventions were in factories producing food, restaurants, hotels, cafeterias, etc. where they could afford the cost of automation.
this is the equivalent of an informercial for a concept kitchen, not a kitchen you could actually buy anywhere.
They didn't have it lol. It was a concept kitchen like the used to have at world's fair.
Let's keep in mind that any one of us could be watching this on a handheld touch screen screen in the middle of the ocean right now before we talk about how the future sucks. We didn't get jetpacks but there's some awesome stuff.
Wow, and here I thought the Roomba was a cool new invention.
Nah; people have been fiddling around with self-propelled vacuum cleaners almost since vacuum cleaners were invented. Took modern computing electronics to really make them commercially viable, but various prototypes have been around for decades.
u come from the Cracked article also?
This is pretty darned cool. Alot of technology went into this kitchen. I hope that people with disabilities and wheelchairs could use these height features.
I want it all!!! Oh, why did we ever settle for the stagnation of household progress?! We could have had this! At least we got the Roomba.
The reason is bc back then a homemaker was respectful now it’s considered lazy
"Here is the perfect, ideal kitchen....but you can't have it"
It's funny, out of historical curiosity being a general building contractor I've been recently watching a bunch of these "dream" kitchen vids and have been noticing a stark cultural contrast in daily activities. My mother being born in 1924 was the last of the old school wives running the household kids and all; no hired help, just her and the family.
What I'm getting at is that back in her day the kitchen was the center of household activities because back in those days, especially having grown up through the depression of the 1930's, lived through the scarcity of resources during the Second Word War, you almost never eat out unless it was a special occasion, and the children typically stayed home because it was considered being wasteful of hard earned money when they can eat so much cheaper cooking at home.
The point being is that the kitchen was in "serious" use all day, every day, seven days a week, constantly cooking breakfast before daybreak, lunch when applicable, and dinner. The kitchen was a serious home work station to keep the family properly feed and healthy from when the first child is born to when the last child leaves the home.
But that form of domestic nuclear family culture has dramatically changed decades ago, especially in the 80's the kitchen became a Yuppie vanity trophy more in style with European cabinets and European appliances that's more fitting for occasional use during a wine & cheese/cocktail party than raising a family. Or the occasional hosting of a gourmet vanity style dinner to impress friends and associates.
I suspect this is why we no longer see emphasis on the efficiency of daily use as a daily work facility, and therefore there hasn't been any advancement kitchen function, but has been scaled back to basic cabinet types and built in appliances. Today's kitchens just simply don't get the daily grind of use all day everyday as in the decades past. People eat out a lot more now, and take their children with them to eat out more as well. And when they do cook at home it's typically cheap processed industrial foods that typically require little more than a warmup in a nutrient destroying microwave oven. Virtually no one cooks from scratch as parents did decades ago.
What all this means is that the kitchen has morphed into a vanity home styling accessory and is no longer the central engine of a home as it once was in today's culture.
It's really not so much about vanity. It's that women are working. More taxpayers for uncle Sam.
@@deborahdean8867 That's because women were sold a bill of goods exchanging the love of family for the myth that freedom is being just another meaningless wage slave in the "workforce" and buying more consumer crap as the path to happiness. I think we all know how that's doing. Women are more medicated now than ever before in history due to depression, and I suspect we all can guess why.
@@Oldhogleg I totally agree. I also think it's crazy how politicians equate womens freedom not only with abortion but a job. I think the message is get an abortion and go back to work instead of taking care of your loved ones. It just amazes me how a surgical procedure and a full time job is suppose to make anybody free. Politicians dont 'give' anybody a 'right' to work anyway
@oldhogleg2, a huge change has to do with the fact income has not caught up with inflation and the general,cost of living. Housing, food, cars, etc. Many people cannot afford to have many children, as well. Change marches on and I miss the way many things were as I grew up in the fifties and sixties.
@@denisewhitaker5116 Lol, you and me both. Although I love today's technology, everything else has gone to celebrating mediocrity. The dollar was stable, holding it's value for generations until it was taken off the gold standard in the early 70's. Now the dollar is only worth less than a penny than it did five decades ago (by design, of course). The dollar literally isn't worth the paper it's printed on.
When my husband gets miffed, he gesticulates wildly. I can just see him, mad as a hornet, waving his arms around, with cabinets and drawers opening and closing willy nilly. That would be hilarious!!! 😂
So it's safe to assume they'd all starve if the power went out. lol
Amen
@ericamanda01
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These systems could be on battery UPS backup. This was in fact done.
Lmao 😂😂😂😂😂 and I was thinking they should automatically be built into all homes when there built lol 😂 with the dark web out there could you imagine hackers could kill yah if we all had kitchens like this lol 😂
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Would love to see the remastered in color version. And I would love to know what happened to this kitchen.
Everyone that know how to service those machines quit their job
I love this! And, in other words, she has a primitive Alexa!!!!
Primitive?? lol
They got the flat-screen TV right, and the Roomba, and the electronic oven was a microwave. It must have been very high powered to cook things in 6 seconds.
Commercial kitchens can do this including fast food restaurants
For stoves
Induction cooktop, and the modern dishwasher with macerator; multi-compartment fridge, all-in-one clothes washer/dryer common in Europe and in motor homes... a whole lot of these "concept prototypes" have made their way into modern development; just not in these exact forms.
And an Alexa!
Now I was born a good 13 years after this video but I do remember how cool it was to think how amazing the future would be, now I just want to go back to a less complicated time.
It's a '57 prototype of the Jetsons' space age kitchen. All that's missing is the robot maid,and the treadmill, lol.
I'd love that mood lighting.
What a bunch of imaginative ideas that were unfortunately never realized it truly possible. But i love the positivity, ingenuity, and vision. I'll tell all my friends about it!
Dreams that no one ever follows through with.....too bad.
If I was crazy rich id have something similar. I love 50s future
This is crazy. What happens when something breaks down? Still...even in 2019...we don’t have most of this stuff yet.
It's reminds me of The Jetson TV Series hahaha
I was thinking the same thing... LoL
Anyone else have the Jetson’s theme song in their head as they watched this?
Nope. But if it gets stuck in my head now, I'm coming for you!
Yeah now it's in my head.
I like the old kitchen, behind a green baize door with people who knew what they were doing. We ate whatever was served but the focus was on being an interesting dinner partner. Now we have people focussed on cuisine but inept at conversation.
Drinking Game: Take a shot every time she says, "RCA-Whirlpool® Miracle Kitchen".
Help I died of alcohol poisoning
Lmfao I’m in lol 😂
OMG HAHAHAHA
She keeps saying “RCA Hurlpool Murkle Kichin”
I see roomba???? 👀😁😂😁😂😁😂😁😂
Love love love the mid century lines in these vids.
we have dish washers but dishes that put themselves away? how awesome would that be! among other things....weird its 2018 and we are still no where near much of this stuff...our entertainment devices sure advanced( fast computers,TV,internet,mobile computing,video games even VR) but when it comes to home appliances not much has improved.....:/ they assumed the future would focus more on the kitchen or home in general but it focuses more on entertainment. i mean nothing wrong with that i love entertainment! but stuff like this would come in handy too...make life sooo much easier.
You don't need them. Most of these are just gimmicks and just annoying.
Imagine waiting for 10 seconds everytime you open your refrigerator door or any other cupboard.
@@redd4426 I noticed too, how slow all the motorised things were. Surely they can use faster motors in modern versions. That slow down as they approach their end limits, so they don't go clunk, and items jump about.
They didn’t really put themselves away. They stayed in that cart the whole time.
@annacolleen wesson etters I have known people who, and seen kitchen in magazines which, have two dishwashers. basically, you use the clean dishes from one and put them in the other and run it, then reverse the process. The first time we encountered this, neighbors home in the 1970s, my mother was appalled at the expense and laziness but it seemed brilliant to me.
@@NilZed1 Makes sense to me!
i wonder what the plumbing in the walls looks like with all these dish washing drawers
I would starve to death trying to remember what button to push What if the power goes out? You couldn't even make a peanut butter and jelly sandwich
Never mind which button does what, but where are the buttons.
No, just wave your hand.👋
Never seen a kitchen like this before.
what matter of sorcery is this? drawers that open with slight of hand she must be a witch
Hey RCA, how is that kitchen of the future coming along? When will it become available for sale? LOL
How awesome is this they had the "touch"technology in those days...
JUST by passing your hand ...
Wow!!!!
The more mechanized things become the more you gotta deal with breakdowns.
Thank God that this kitchen never went into production or reached the future! I would have been totally mad trying to work in it, fighting with all recalictrant machines!
I can imagine the cost even back then I don't think they sold very many of those type of kitchens
I want this - RIGHT NOW
after all I've been waiting for seventy years this!
I want this Kitchen ... :)
I NEED AN RCA-Whirlpool® Miracle Kitchen AND I NEED IT NOW.
What one of my college professors used to call "post-optimal technology."
Love this idea...
Unbelievable! This is amazing. What the companies did now is to improve the cosmetics of the gadgetry.
Why did this not come to fruition?? Someone dropped the ball in not seeing this through 😝
I wonder how many of these kitchens were installed in homes. This is really cool.
0 this is just a demonstration thats nearly on propaganda level.. do you realize how much power a house like this would need, let alone maintenance. She mentioned all kinds of refrigerator and freezer compartments and blah blah which are huge power suckers. No way this one even worked properly as suggested
@@aaronroach1333 just imagine how much that damned electric bill would be.
Guys, it runs on magic.
What the hell have I just been watching?!!
This must be a weird dream. Lol!
What did happen to this kitchen and other things from the RCA/Whirlpool domestic lab?
All the men pulling things with sticks from under the floor got old and retired so it stopped working.
I bet they really loved this back then.
They said the system keeps an inventory of food. How did they do that without UPC codes? Did you have to enter in the stuff manually? How does that save time?
and just who actually restocked all those handy dandy automated shelves, hmmm? housewifery reduced to the skills of a grocery-shelf stocker on the one hand, and a computer programmer on the other.
Magic... everything in that place is magic
Took the words right outta my keyboard. Don't forget the alpha list of repair people to keep that stuff in working order. And keeping fingerprints off all that stainless steel.
The best way to apply this today is a super premium kitchen company that has specialists that have a route and visit each house on a weekly or bi weekly basis to clean, empty waste, perform maintenance and so on. Machines help a lot as long as you have competent maintenance staff to assist
@@opagev2107 I wouldn't want someone coming in my house like that.
That's the Smart Doorbell.
That's what kitchens are going to be like pretty soon!
Push-button living, but the buttons were never labeled so everyone was extremely confused.
on more than a few devices, you have to push the same two or three buttons in various patterns, which requires keeping the paper instructions handy, or bookmarking it when you finally get around to looking up the website. the button pushing on my coffee maker requires the sensitivity and skills of a Morse code operator, it's been weeks since I did the 'descaling' and no one in the house can manage to push the buttons in the exact timing required to reset it so the right hand button gives us a double shot. we are reduced to the primitivity of using the left hand single shot button twice instead. the Lumie alarm clock lost it's settings when it got unplugged 3 weeks ago, the wake up time was saved, but I may never get around to looking up all the other settings. I'm just tolerating the light coming on earlier than I want, the time screen no longer going black when the alarm is set, the lack of a slow sundown effect at bedtime...
Wow How come we don't have kitchens like this
Why is the later video from 1959 not on here?
That's Alexa's great grandma. Lol
What they don't show is they had a large and very expensive monolithic computer system of its time in the next room. Their engineers knew in the future the type of computers they were using would be getting smaller and lower in cost. This type of kitchen can be done today, but for a cost. It can work all from a computer module the size of tablet.
Many of these things are here now and a lot better, ring doorbells, google home/ Alexa, refrigerators that tell you the inventory, and of course the roomba!
2020 still waiting for my push button dinner RCA!!
This kitchen is coming back soon. The kitchens of the future will be like that.
Wow I didn’t know they had all that back then
I get the feeling that this kitchen couldn't actually do any of these things and that it was a concept.
Hi Whirlpool... do you have any leads or info on *where* a prototype of the "mobile floor cleaning unit" exists? I know the patent was fleshed out and legit, inclusive of a moving washing machine. But I'm shocked this isn't more widely talked about or celebrated as a precursor. Any idea what the "future history" of the whole project was, or where any of this stuff is if it still exists?
They were right about the invention of an automatic vacuum.
I love how even the film is "futuristic" by being in black and white, but the cabinets are brown in "color".
I imagine that at this time the most unbelievable part was the digital monitor of food supply, or seeing someone at your door from a small screen. The hand waving, push button stuff was probably what people thought would be the most likely to happen. Now, excuse me while I go turn on my mopping roomba.
1957 nannte man in Deutschland die Waschmaschine noch Waschbrett .
Es gab eine Gemeinschaftswaschküche dort stand ein großer Kessel der noch mit Kohle beheizt wurde. In dem wurde die Wäsche gekocht. Der Waschtag war für die Frauen Schwerstarbeit und nahm fast den ganzen Tag in Anspruch .
What year was this? We still don’t have this kitchen today.
I don’t want to wait for those automatic shelves to lower. It’s faster if I just open them myself.
The only fantastic with this film was the woman hostess or moderator. She was very good at remebering long texts, without any script.
I was around in the 50s, don't remember anyone having one of these. Wonder how many were actually sold. I'm pretty sure that it never got past the "wouldn't it be great if" stage. Love her dress though.
This is where the idea of Roomba came from.
is much better that old technology than this days,
Someone's pulling that cart with a string👀
Where's the 1959 video?
Oh c'mon...70 years later and we still don't have this jetson's style kitchen.
🙄😂
I dont know what year that was, but Westinghouse came out with the all electric home around the same time.
How much service does this kitchen need when something doesn´t work or break down? There must be a massive array of servo-motors, switches, relays, electronics and so forth. You shouldn´t wait to long before it starts to malfunction.
Looks like 1957 IS far from being obsolete.
they also install all kitchen kits for USS Enterprise
Did they actually sell any of these?
thank you Jane Jetson! In the real future you will be emancipated and will no longer be chained to your RCA kitchen (or your RCA bedroom).
every time she says 'RCA WHIRLPOOL MIRACLE KITCHEN' take a shot.
That planning center basically became the Echo show
There are no sinks in the future!
It's "The Magic Touch Of Tomorrow."
I want a cake that bakes in 3 minutes and dishes that put themselves away.
Imagine the power bill!!! 😲
"... or when your bridge game has been a little too long ..." 😅
Was there a 50/50 chance that one of the whirlpool appliances would burn your home to ashes when you popped out to the shops like there is today?
Is this film actually in black and white or just really badly faded color? Or is it some kind of colorized black and white thing?
Why don’t we have this in 2020 ?
Who’s the lady in the video?
One thing I found funny was the pots and pans storage. From how it was presented before that point, I can't see where you need any pots and pans, because the kitchen does it all. So why do you need pots and pans any more?
I read an article that said it was fake. “They had a two-way mirror with a person sitting behind it that could see the room,” former designer Joe Maxwell told me over the phone. “And they radio-controlled the vacuum cleaner and the dishwasher.”
Source: Gizmodo
The 1950s "Miracle Kitchen" of the Future Had Its Own Roomba
By Matt Novak
Who knows.🤷🏾♀️
Dream kitchen = maintenance nightmare
My dad, who's a boomer, and I thought this was cute. Predicting Roomba, Alexa, Ring, video baby monitors and flat screen tv's??!! I wonder what's being worked on now that will be used daily even 20 yrs from now??!! Some of the other stuff was wacky but we enjoyed the video.
we never got the half of these things...even Ron Popiel would think this is far fetched!
It looks like a person needed a very big kitchen in order to have all of these things.
All these electric devices move sooo incredibly slow... This would drive me crazy.
Ok this frightened me a little 😬
Who had these kitchens????? I have never seen Anyone have a kitchen like this
the entire first part where she's pushing buttons is just having a smartphone
Can you imagine the cost of all this... plus I seriously doubt I will see any of this in my or my children’s lives....