That’s because companies noticed men starting to be more involved with household chores but didn’t want them to feel demasculated due to having to use “girly colored” appliances in pink, yellow and light green.
That Tappan was wonderful! My parents had one, and it did everything. There was no need to buy a separate rotisserie that required counter space. It was ideal for a small kitchen, with the pullout burners. Plus, my parents' model had a stainless steel pullout cover, which was sometimes used for the covered leftovers until that food was refrigerated at the end of the day. The base, as you said had a large space for pots and pans of all sizes, plus the lids. My parents purchased theirs in the mid-60's, and it was still working perfectly when I sold their house in 2020. NO ONE makes spectacular and lasting appliances like that any more.
My Aunt had a Tappan 400. As of her passing five years ago it was still working perfectly. That thing was incredible. My cousin inherited it. I tried to buy it from her. She wouldn't even think about it. I wish I could find one for sale. I watch the ads on the off chance that one happens to come on the market.
My parents had a Kelvinator Refrigerator like this one. It was what decided which house they bought when they moved from NYC to Atlanta, GA. Since it was so big, it wouldn't fit into the refrigerator areas of most of the houses they looked at. It kept working until the mid 1980s. (i wish they made things that last that long today)
It is adainst corp business policy to make the product last and the corp can not sell part and service. The new model can not be sold if the old one is still in operation.
My Dad had a fridge with a giant motor that really kept the food well. The repair guy said it should last for many decades. Drawback was manual defrost needed and small size.
@@TraceyHarbaugh True, but it didn't catch on everywhere till the mid 1960s. Since then you know that, whatever you buy today, you'll be buying again in about 3 years. Especially cars.
The good ole days, when one income was enough to afford a house, car, 2 kids, wife and the next best kitchen appliance just to make the neighbors jealous….🔥
@Kenny I don’t remember it that way because I’m 70 years old and every single grade school (and most high school) teachers I had were women and most clerks in stores like JC Penney, Woolworth’s, etc. were female as well as the utility company office employees
Now if you only make $100K a year you'll still struggle! 1960s average home was $12k, which is about $120K in 2024. The average home price in 2024 is $400K! Something doesn't add up!
We had the wonderful Tappan range. It only had the one oven, no cutting board, the burners were in the classic two rows of two configuration. Loved that stove. It was a sad day when it quit working and my parents had to replace it with a regular floor stove
It’s called a French door refrigerator now. Works the same, but wall mounting a fridge is a nightmare. Replacing it is a nightmare. With a French door you get the same height and capacity without structural damage to your house.
Same! And the eye level stove...the Flair by Frigidaire I think? Similar to the Tappan but the oven doors lifted up :) I would love both of those appliances.
My uncle was an architect. They remodeled the house in the 1950's, and installed the wall mounted fridge and freezer. My aunt came to hate it because the compressor was outside the house and was often breaking down with expensive repairs.
My childhood home, built in 1959, had as original equipment a Tappan Fabulous 400 range/double oven. My folks replaced it with a conventional style stove in 1980. The entire aesthetic of our kitchen was changed, and not for the better.
When my dad died I inhrited😢one of those toasters. It’s older than I am and I’m 58. It still works great! I love the Art Deco appearance. I did get shocked sticking a knife in it without unplugging it. The knife flew across the kitchen. They don’t build them like I they do now.
Dishwashers we’re invented back in 1793. In 1896, someone finally patented it and made working models. There’s commercials for them clear back to black and white era films in the early 1900’s. Bette davis was in a commercial in 1930 for them.
I love the way that they continuously found new inventions and improvements for the products.... FOR the customer. No companies these days have the passion to compete with other brands with new and revolutionary additions to household appliances. Customers dont matter anymore.
1:51 Tappan stole this idea from Frigidaire. My great grandma owned a free standing Frigidaire range very similar to this range top. It was designed specifically for disabled cooks, and was a GODSEND to her after she had a stroke. The pull out stove top was designed so that someone in a wheelchair would get close enough to use it. And the oven doors either swung up and out of the way, or owned to both sides like French doors. That helped prevent a disabled person from burning themslelf on a hot oven door sticking riche out in the middle of everything. I liked her stove so much that when we got our new house almost 30 years ago, we bought one for it from a used appliance shop. A friend of ours STILL uses the wall oven version that came in her house when she bought it. The Tappan version hasn't stood the test of time like the Frigidaire brand has. I don't know ANYONE who still has a working Tappan, but Frigidaire I still going strong.
The wall mounted fridge freezer....and the wall mounted oven grill with pull out stove top!!!! I was telling my daughter about it... Didn't believe me.... Thanks for the proof and the pictures..... Awesome....
I want the refrigerator in the wall that looks like a cupboard. I saw this on a different appliance video. I Love the idea. Especially the part where you aren't stooping or trying to find something low and behind. Love it!!!!!
So, who brought that stove design on the market first? Tappan, or Frigidaire? My Aunt Irene had the Tappan. As for Bewitched, GM. sponsored the show, so all of the appliances ( stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, electric grill, and the Roller-Matic washer and drier) were Frigidaire, and the vehicles were Chevrolet.
@@williamslater-o5b Tappan was first, there's even one in Graceland. Frigidaire followed a year later (Samantha had the Frigidaire Flair) then Roper with their Charm model. The Flair was the last one to be discontinued.
that’s Tappan stove is awesome. My mother had an oven with a little extra oven above it, and a stove between. Not the slide out one pictured, but it was awesome. She had it all her life, it lasted from the 50s to 2000 working fine. But oh my god I want that Electro chef mint green stove. If I ever get rich I’m buying that from someone.
I still use a circa 1940s Sunbeam Mixmaster as my mixer. It has a variable speed end on the back, and you can smell the ozone when it's running. I also have the Sunbeam Drillmaster, which was a lightweight all aluminum drill for the housewife. I even have the instruction book somewhere. And no, I'm not 120 years old; 55, but I enjoy the old stuff.
@@sandratuttle And they'll probably outlast both of you. Things were made well back then. I'm just now replacing the Hotpoint stove with double oven and refrigerator from 1984. Fridge prolly just needs an R-12 charge, but it's time to update anyway. Be lucky if these new ones last ten years!
I wasn't born until 1988, but this stuff is just so cool. I remember watching old Mickey and Goofy cartoons that would have titles like "The home of the future!", and it would show a bunch of appliances anf contraptions like this. I always wanted everything in that cartoon in my house, but thought it was just all made up stuff. It's pretty cool to know the things I would see in those cartoons actually existed!
I remember when they had picture phones at the airport. I never got to talk on one but I got to set and play with it while we waited on my dad's flight to get in😅
Fabulous video! So surprised he didn’t mention that the Thor washer also washed dishes. An appliance worthy of the Jetsons - and I can’t even begin to imagine how it would work. Time to google!
I have owned/operated an appliance repair business for 40 yers. Due to what I learned and know, almost ALL of my appliances are older Whirlpools, BEFORE the electronic controls were FORCED UPON the public. They have lasted for years with almost NO needed repairs. If those video gamers who invented the electronic controls for appliances went to work for the space agency, all of the astronauts would quit. When a "new" electronic control is ordered, it comes with a "core charge". When the "defective' control is sent bac to the factory, the core charge is deleted.The factory REPAIRS to old control and sells it as a brand new one. So, what do you think you're getting for your $$$$$?
I used to like the refrigerator. My grandmother had. It wasn’t featured on this list but you’d pull on the handle and it would open up and it had so much room in the refrigerator and then the freezer was right in the refrigerator. I know that was the style of the 60s and 70s but I always thought that was so cool.if I had to choose one of the appliances that was featured today in this video, it would definitely be the tappan 400. That looked fantastic.
I remember my mom having to defrost the refrigerator 'cause the freezer compartment would freeze up in a real thick coating of ice and automatic defroster hadn't been invented yet .
@@doughoward6401 I remember them. You had to be careful when scraping the ice because you could puncture the thin metal and then you would be out a fridge.
My Mom's cousin was a homebuilder back in the day. They had built themselves a new home and when we went to visit them for the first time in their new home, I vividly remember their GE wall refrigerator in that coppertone color that was so popular back then. Seeing that refrigerator/freezer on the wall really blew me away as a young child!
@@Cheshyre. I had one for a while. They are great. I bought it used and it lasted several years. I now have a portable 18 inch floor type that I can get a lot in. Sometimes regular pots and pans too.
Older Refrigerators last a LOT longer then today's makes. We have an Amana Fridge from 1991 that is still working perfectly. That Tappan 400 is sweet. I remember people having them. The only drawback was they were Electric and not Gas. I am a firm believer in Gas Stoves & Ovens to cook with.
My mother Westinghouse refrigerator that manufactured with 220V was brught from Hawai in 1962 and shipped to Thailand still in operation with no repair! My aunts and my mother were passed away at the age close to 100 and the frig is still funtional. The battleship that transports this frig was sink for fish santury 5 years ago!
That's why thry sont make them like they used to. Each household had appliances that were built to last and unless you wanted an updated one just to have it, you wouldn't need to buy a new one. The companies weren't making any money, so now you make appliances that last a lot less and folks have no choice but to buy a new appliance. It's not just about making them cheaper as really they are still expensive, its about continuing to make money.
My husband inherited a Hotpoint refrigerator when he bought his grandmothers house. It was older than he was. We had it up until 6 years ago. We were very sad to see it go because it was much admired by everyone who saw it and and had a giant veggie crisper. Alas it didn't seem to be keeping the temp as low as it did and the gaskets were probably the problem. We maintained the back regularly so it wasn't the motor. My husband just didn't want to go to the trouble of finding someone to fix it with the proper gaskets, so we let her go. She was mine for at least 20 years and was my husband's grandmothers since the early 50s.- 90s. We bought a new refrigerator and it lasted 3 years. There was nothing we could do about it. The one we have now, a Whirlpool without freezer as we have a large chest freezer, has lasted 4 years so far. I sure do miss my old Hotpoint. We made a horrible mistake not getting her repaired. She would have lasted us a lifetime just like Grandma.
@@CyberBuki Because they want you to pay $4K and above for a fridge that needs repair constantly before you give up and buy another that is no better. Oops. Or stove, either way it's painful.
The Tappan oven stove. Is what my wife was talking about.. that's actually pretty neat. Again my wife loves this stuff and wants a modern version of these.
I actually have a counter top dishwasher! I bought it about 7 years ago, brand new. Even though it's small, it cleans my dishes better than any other dishwasher I have ever had!
mMon also had the g.e. double oven! It was a handy feature. They were side by side. I would guess 58 or ' 59 We also had the calrod burners that were a kind of smart burner. They kept food warm. I liked the g.e. refrigerator at that time There was a pole in the middle that , when a button was lushed on the front of each shelf, the racks would travel up or down to desired place! Never any spoiled food in the back. The shelves were shaped like a half circle, so they twirled up and down easily. I would love that model again, being now in a wheelchair!😊
The first house I ever lived in until I turned eight years old had a Tappan Gas Range with four burners and to the left it had an oven above and a broiler below. The thing had pilot lights so I don't know if an old 1961 stove exists in the house. I was born two years later.
Funny, I thought you were going to say-regular and decaf. Size of coffee depends on what size cup you want. Hubs uses an 8 oz cup, son a 10 oz cup, daughter uses a 16 oz mug, I have an old stoneware beer stein, think it holds a liter, keeps my coffee hot and I don't have to refill it every 5 minutes.
I worked at Dunkin Donuts when we only had regular coffee or a packet of instant Sanka for the 2 people that wanted decaf 😂. The small coffee was 6 oz, and the large was 10 oz - the size of today's small. And for the serious coffee drinkers, we had the new "The Big One" - today's medium. Oh, and we also had counters where people sat for hours drinking their coffee out of real cups, talking with their friends. My uniform was a little beige dress with a pink and orange donut tree apron, and a small round billed hat. They don't make that hat style anymore and it's difficult for me to describe lol. I loved that job though!
The GE wall refrigerator freezer would be so much nicer and useful than my side-by-side Maytag big box refrigerator of today. I like that the food would be at eye/arm level and I wouldn't have to bend down as frequently or have as much warm air enter the unit because it is divided into three individual compartments! I prefer refrigerated over canned goods. The Tappan 400's retractable burner with cutting board is space-saving luxury and I would love that as well in my galley kitchen! If I could live in the Monsanto House of the future I would feel right at home... @@MemoryManor
The tiny dish washer still exist. And i only know that because i literitly thought it was a new invention when i first saw one in one of my friends apartment. It was realy cool to look at because it has a window. Didn't know those things exist that long ago
Oh my heart! 💜💜💜 That Tappan Fab 400 ... the first time I ever saw anything like it was in Bewitched (although technically I believe Samantha had a Frigidaire Flair) and I wanted her kitchen so badly! Never had stove envy until then. That is something that needs to make a serious comeback.
I watch some of the old infomercials on RUclips about old-time appliances. I tell you, I don't know what happened. A lot of them were better than what we have today.
Countertop dishwashers are still made. Personally, I’d think it just as easy and a lot faster to wash that small load by hand, but to each his own. The wall mounted fridge was a flop for several reasons. More expensive to buy and install yet, because it was fairly shallow, the capacity was not as large as a standard fridge. Also, it was very inconvenient for anyone much below average height. I always thought those all-in-one stoves with upper and lower ovens were so practical. I’d love to have one. The combo clothes/dishwasher was standard in many post war housing developments where space was at a premium. At an estate sale some time ago I saw a single unit, a bit smaller than a standard stove, that combined a stove top, mini fridge, and sink. Pretty nifty!
The Kelvinator is awesome! Countertop dishwashers are still produced and in high demand 🙂 Western Electric manufactured absolute legendary electronics! But it was 20 years earlier, in 1936 Germany, that the very first video phone conversations took place at selected post offices between citizens in different cities.
My parents had a gas stove that had a large built-in stainless steal pancake griddle on top large enough to cook 4 pancakes at one time, restaurant style. You could cook bacon or sausage or steaks as well. I guess it was probably from the 1930's or 40's.
Was it a Chambers? They had 5 pilot lights. 1 for each set of 2 burners, 1 for what you describe as a griddle which had a broiler underneath, 1 for the oven and 1 for the "well" which functioned like a crockpot. That came with a big pot and a set of 3 triangular pots. The handles for the gas could be removed for safety if there were smallm children. The oven was lined with so much asbestos that you could preheat it and then turn it off to cook food. The Cadilac of stoves!
My neighbor had the same range and my father was a Bell telephone man. I used to beg him to bring home the video phone stuff, but since no one in our little town needed it or could afford it, there werent any to show. But I always asked him questions and when when when!
My parents bought a cabin that was built in the 1970s which still had all the original appliances. One was a dishwasher underneath and a cooktop on top.
8:17 When I was a kid, they built some houses down the hill from our street of very conventional cape, ranch and split-level houses, and these had no basements, but had kitchens with the clothes washers, dryers, dishwashers and boilers (which supplied in-floor heat and were the size and shape of a kitchen appliance, topped with a stainless steel counter), all in matched gold or aqua colors. The refrigerators were much like the ones pictured here, though I don't know if they were actually GEs. Unfortunately, all of that stuff became very expensive to replace, so the wall-refrigerators, which cost $3,000, were usually replaced with conventional models. The washers and dryers were eventually moved to a garage or utility room and the boilers were replaced with more conventional ones that wouldn't have looked right in a kitchen. The in-floor heating leaked after around 25 years and was replaced with radiators. So, all of that innovation only lasted for one generation, and most of those houses look pretty ordinary today.
My grandparents had a tappen, but it was a freestanding with top and bottom ovens with slide out burners. We inherited it, so I learned to cook with it. I really miss it.
*I was born in 1954 and as a child remember many of these products. I was most impressed with the horizontal refrigerator units integrated into overhead kitchen cabinets but never saw one in any house I visited back then. That was probably due to it being an "upscale" product but I must wonder why such a product like that isn't still around? It seems that "the future" is always dying and constantly being replaced. All I know is that a lot of that 1950's tech I never got to personally live and so it's rather sad seeing what I missed out on, all these decades later.*
I had a refrigerator that the shelves pulled out. A hinged ran along one side front. Pull the shelve out and it pivoted on the hinge to reach every part of the shelf.
I REMEMBER IN 1976 MY MOTHER HAD A 2ND HAND THUR WASHER, IT WOULD WASH SOME CLOTHES, THAT OLD THING WORKED SO GOOD, IT JAMED ONE DAY, AND MY BROTHER MARVIN WHO WAS'NT EVEN 9 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME, FIXED IT FOR MY MOTHER, SHE COULD'NT BELIEVE IT, BUT WAS SO HAPPY, SHE LOVED HIM SO MUCH FOR THIS, FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW ABOUT BEING POOR, IT'S NOT A GOOD FEELING, BUT TO HAVE ON CLEAN CLOTHES MADE US FEEL GOOD BACK THEN. MARVIN MAY YOUR SWEET SOUL REST IN PARADISE WITH CHRIST.
1) Prospective Tele-Bar customer: "Where's the ice-maker?" 2) I think the wall fridge/freezer looks good till you realize how much cabinet wall space you're giving up. I'd rather have a free standing fridge for ease of repairs or replacement. Also, having to go to the pantry every time you need a can or a box isn't efficient. Good video about design and modernity in the 1950's.
@@gentillydanny So you have to be a little bit efficient and gather up your needs before you begin cooking, as the TV chefs do. I would love to have a pantry.
Sure, a pantry is great but for those things that you want to put your hand to without going far. Of course mise-en-scene prep is essential.@@wandasetzer1469
The Tappan Fab 400 stove was at my grandma's house. The whole neighborhood was built in the late 40s for GI families returning from WW2. Small Cape Cod style, very small on Chicago's Southwest side. Only other place i seen one was on a tour of Graceland. Elvis had one!
@@peculiarstar4261 I found a Farberware FDW05ASBWHA at a church yard sale for $25. It does a good job of washing dishes, but doesn't dry them very much.
My mom had a Tappen 400 when I was a child. She gave it to her sister in the 70’s. When it broke in the 90’s it was sold to a collector. I guess it was a great stove. I love the burner drawer
I loooooooove the Tappan Fabulous 400. Would love to own one. Also, I've been a huge fan of Kelvinator refrigerators. My maternal grandparents had one in their homes in the 80s or perhaps even in the 70s. (before I was born)
My parents had a Westinghouse refrigerator/freezer with a push-button single front door[1] Inside at the top, above the freezer (between the two controls) was a "butter keeper" that kept 1/2 pound of butter just cool enough to still be soft (no need for leaving it outside the fridge or having rock-hard butter inside the fridge) It also had 4 tilt-out bins/ shelves in the door, for eggs (each held 8 eggs = 32 eggs) It also had a deli-meat keeper bin just below the freezer ( Bologna or a pound of ground beef with ice crystals) 1.) That particular Westinghouse refrigerator/freezer was in a commercial where it didn't open during a live commercial because a technician forgot to plug it in. The Westinghouse appliances were usually advertised/demonstrated by Betty Furness. On that day, she just happened to not be there when the refrigerator/freezer did not open. Yet everyone remembers her as the person who was demonstrating the refrigerator/freezer on that day.
You can still get a countertop dishwasher. Even though they are pricey for what they are I’d rather use them. I have a bad back so I don’t have to bend over to load and unload the thing. I don’t have anywhere to put one or I would have it.
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I think the appliances were amazing, especially the refrigerators. The colors were great too.
I bought my house in the 80s because it came with a Tappan 400. It was STILL great!
Those things were really built to last don’t you think?
@@MemoryManorEverything was back then. Cars appliances. You name it nowadays. Everything has to be replaced or repaired almost constantly
Wait, you did?😮that so cool 😎 !
@@CyberBuki does it still work?
@@bizzyizzy9526 I moved from the house in 2012, and it worked when I left.... all except the Rotisserie... which was probably Operator Error
Some of these need to make a comeback.
I love that appliances came in amazing colors. Now they are just instatutional white and stainless steel.
We had Avacado Green
Why I like buying retro skins/ vinyl for my appliances.
That’s because companies noticed men starting to be more involved with household chores but didn’t want them to feel demasculated due to having to use “girly colored” appliances in pink, yellow and light green.
@@twistysprinkles8586 Pink make pee-pee go bye-bye. (Nevermind that pink is also the colour of a lot of those men's pee-pees.)
@@twistysprinkles8586That's not true at all it's just cheaper to have one or two colors only
The Tappan 400 needs to make a serious comeback!
I want one!!
It really does! My back could use a break :)
Agreed
@@jenniferhansen3622me too
Also, the GE wall refrigerator
I wish we still had all of these. The new stuff today sucks. The glass top stoves are the worst.
The glass tops heat more evenly. The older things are prettier, but coils are very uneven for heating.
My new gas stove has plastic knobs. 😡 they looked like metal until the plastic silver colored coating started peeling off.
@@cjhoward409 And the plastic knobs break easily.
I have a Wolf stove.
Back then things were made to last today things are made to not last
That Tappan was wonderful! My parents had one, and it did everything. There was no need to buy a separate rotisserie that required counter space. It was ideal for a small kitchen, with the pullout burners. Plus, my parents' model had a stainless steel pullout cover, which was sometimes used for the covered leftovers until that food was refrigerated at the end of the day. The base, as you said had a large space for pots and pans of all sizes, plus the lids. My parents purchased theirs in the mid-60's, and it was still working perfectly when I sold their house in 2020. NO ONE makes spectacular and lasting appliances like that any more.
why do these appliances look more modern then the ones we have today? its mind blowing 🤯 and love them
I wonder the same thing.
Fab 400. I want one! The wall fridge is great! Sadly we went backwards when it came to appliances.
My Aunt had a Tappan 400. As of her passing five years ago it was still working perfectly. That thing was incredible. My cousin inherited it. I tried to buy it from her. She wouldn't even think about it. I wish I could find one for sale. I watch the ads on the off chance that one happens to come on the market.
There's at least three right now on e-buy. Just search for them :)
I must say this product sound and looks amazing 🇬🇧
That over seems amazing. I am shocked that manufacturers having tried to bring it back.
I love the range of colours that used to be available for old timey appliances.
My parents had a Kelvinator Refrigerator like this one. It was what decided which house they bought when they moved from NYC to Atlanta, GA. Since it was so big, it wouldn't fit into the refrigerator areas of most of the houses they looked at. It kept working until the mid 1980s. (i wish they made things that last that long today)
It is adainst corp business policy to make the product last and the corp can not sell part and service. The new model can not be sold if the old one is still in operation.
Planned obsolescence!
My Dad had a fridge with a giant motor that really kept the food well. The repair guy said it should last for many decades. Drawback was manual defrost needed and small size.
Appliances are fashion accessories now and would get discarded regardless of quality so they just make them cheaply.
@@TraceyHarbaugh True, but it didn't catch on everywhere till the mid 1960s. Since then you know that, whatever you buy today, you'll be buying again in about 3 years. Especially cars.
The good ole days, when one income was enough to afford a house, car, 2 kids, wife and the next best kitchen appliance just to make the neighbors jealous….🔥
Not really
@Kenny I don’t remember it that way because I’m 70 years old and every single grade school (and most high school) teachers I had were women and most clerks in stores like JC Penney, Woolworth’s, etc. were female as well as the utility company office employees
And corporations were not as greedy.
@@aprylrittenhouse4562it is true. You didn’t live extravagantly but yes you could live well on one income and no overtime.
Now if you only make $100K a year you'll still struggle! 1960s average home was $12k, which is about $120K in 2024. The average home price in 2024 is $400K! Something doesn't add up!
We had the wonderful Tappan range. It only had the one oven, no cutting board, the burners were in the classic two rows of two configuration. Loved that stove. It was a sad day when it quit working and my parents had to replace it with a regular floor stove
You forgot to mention that the Thor washer could also be used as a dishwasher!
Shame there was no real picture of one!
@@Cheshyre. ruclips.net/video/EpscOJxmsig/видео.html
It was mentioned in the video.
I'm loving the Tappan. It would be perfect for a tiny house that so many are living in these days.
I want the cabinet refrigerator. It would be great to have my food at eye level.
That makes absolute sense! Especially for old people like me who have arthritise
It’s called a French door refrigerator now. Works the same, but wall mounting a fridge is a nightmare. Replacing it is a nightmare. With a French door you get the same height and capacity without structural damage to your house.
Just get on your kness and they will be at eye level
Same! And the eye level stove...the Flair by Frigidaire I think? Similar to the Tappan but the oven doors lifted up :) I would love both of those appliances.
My uncle was an architect. They remodeled the house in the 1950's, and installed the wall mounted fridge and freezer. My aunt came to hate it because the compressor was outside the house and was often breaking down with expensive repairs.
I would love a Tappan 400 range. Having a cutting board right in front of the stove would be fantastic.
My childhood home, built in 1959, had as original equipment a Tappan Fabulous 400 range/double oven. My folks replaced it with a conventional style stove in 1980. The entire aesthetic of our kitchen was changed, and not for the better.
When my dad died I inhrited😢one of those toasters. It’s older than I am and I’m 58. It still works great! I love the Art Deco appearance. I did get shocked sticking a knife in
it without unplugging it. The knife flew across the kitchen. They don’t build them like I they do now.
I love the Tappen stove and I would definitely love to have this model because of the convenience.
Dishwashers we’re invented back in 1793. In 1896, someone finally patented it and made working models. There’s commercials for them clear back to black and white era films in the early 1900’s. Bette davis was in a commercial in 1930 for them.
I love the way that they continuously found new inventions and improvements for the products.... FOR the customer. No companies these days have the passion to compete with other brands with new and revolutionary additions to household appliances. Customers dont matter anymore.
Not enough competition. Back then, there were a lot more brands and energy efficiency was not a concern.
My grandparents had a Tappan 400! It is still in the house to this day after several different home owners.
Same.
Saw my 1953 Tappan 40" range in the intro. I miss it. My father built our home in mid 1950's. We had a wall refrigerator.
There was a refrigerator/stove/sink combination available in the 1950s. You can still buy one today.
I remember as a kid in the 60's, we would go to the beach and stay a few days, we always got a room with a kitchenette that had these.
We had one in the break room at work and one in the small kitchen at church.
Cool History! Love the Stove and Fridge Combo, Priceless!!💖💖💖💖
1:51 Tappan stole this idea from Frigidaire. My great grandma owned a free standing Frigidaire range very similar to this range top. It was designed specifically for disabled cooks, and was a GODSEND to her after she had a stroke. The pull out stove top was designed so that someone in a wheelchair would get close enough to use it. And the oven doors either swung up and out of the way, or owned to both sides like French doors. That helped prevent a disabled person from burning themslelf on a hot oven door sticking riche out in the middle of everything.
I liked her stove so much that when we got our new house almost 30 years ago, we bought one for it from a used appliance shop. A friend of ours STILL uses the wall oven version that came in her house when she bought it.
The Tappan version hasn't stood the test of time like the Frigidaire brand has. I don't know ANYONE who still has a working Tappan, but Frigidaire I still going strong.
The Kelvinator fridge/freezer and the Admiral tv/stereo/bar! Totally cool looking pieces!
The wall mounted fridge freezer....and the wall mounted oven grill with pull out stove top!!!! I was telling my daughter about it... Didn't believe me.... Thanks for the proof and the pictures..... Awesome....
The Kevinator looked luxurious!!! I would love one today!
Beats any refrigerator on the marker right now am i right?
I want the refrigerator in the wall that looks like a cupboard. I saw this on a different appliance video. I Love the idea. Especially the part where you aren't stooping or trying to find something low and behind. Love it!!!!!
The Tappan 400 & Flair stoves were engineering marvels. 🥰
I grew up with that very Tappan Fab 400 stove. The large side was the oven and the small side was the broiler.
Elvis even had a Tappan 400 at Graceland.
The Stephens family had one on "Bewitched", too
I remember that bewitched episode!
Samantha's was a Frigidaire made by GM. That stove and the Frigidaire refrigerator were on lots of episodes.
So, who brought that stove design on the market first? Tappan, or Frigidaire? My Aunt Irene had the Tappan. As for Bewitched, GM. sponsored the show, so all of the appliances ( stove, refrigerator, dishwasher, electric grill, and the Roller-Matic washer and drier) were Frigidaire, and the vehicles were Chevrolet.
@@williamslater-o5b Tappan was first, there's even one in Graceland. Frigidaire followed a year later (Samantha had the Frigidaire Flair) then Roper with their Charm model. The Flair was the last one to be discontinued.
You can have anything in the movies/TV. The Jetsons had a flying car. I am still waiting to buy mine.
that’s Tappan stove is awesome.
My mother had an oven with a little extra oven above it, and a stove between. Not the slide out one pictured, but it was awesome. She had it all her life, it lasted from the 50s to 2000 working fine.
But oh my god I want that Electro chef mint green stove. If I ever get rich I’m buying that from someone.
I still use a circa 1940s Sunbeam Mixmaster as my mixer. It has a variable speed end on the back, and you can smell the ozone when it's running. I also have the Sunbeam Drillmaster, which was a lightweight all aluminum drill for the housewife. I even have the instruction book somewhere. And no, I'm not 120 years old; 55, but I enjoy the old stuff.
I had my mother's Dormeyer mixer from the 40's. It still works. Had a juicer and a meat grinder attachment. My daughter has it now.
@@sandratuttle And they'll probably outlast both of you. Things were made well back then. I'm just now replacing the Hotpoint stove with double oven and refrigerator from 1984. Fridge prolly just needs an R-12 charge, but it's time to update anyway. Be lucky if these new ones last ten years!
I wasn't born until 1988, but this stuff is just so cool. I remember watching old Mickey and Goofy cartoons that would have titles like "The home of the future!", and it would show a bunch of appliances anf contraptions like this. I always wanted everything in that cartoon in my house, but thought it was just all made up stuff. It's pretty cool to know the things I would see in those cartoons actually existed!
I remember when they had picture phones at the airport. I never got to talk on one but I got to set and play with it while we waited on my dad's flight to get in😅
Fabulous video! So surprised he didn’t mention that the Thor washer also washed dishes. An appliance worthy of the Jetsons - and I can’t even begin to imagine how it would work. Time to google!
I have owned/operated an appliance repair business for 40 yers.
Due to what I learned and know, almost ALL of my appliances are older Whirlpools, BEFORE the electronic controls were FORCED UPON the public.
They have lasted for years with almost NO needed repairs.
If those video gamers who invented the electronic controls for appliances went to work for the space agency, all of the astronauts would quit.
When a "new" electronic control is ordered, it comes with a "core charge".
When the "defective' control is sent bac to the factory, the core charge is deleted.The factory REPAIRS to old control and sells it as a brand new one.
So, what do you think you're getting for your $$$$$?
I used to like the refrigerator. My grandmother had. It wasn’t featured on this list but you’d pull on the handle and it would open up and it had so much room in the refrigerator and then the freezer was right in the refrigerator. I know that was the style of the 60s and 70s but I always thought that was so cool.if I had to choose one of the appliances that was featured today in this video, it would definitely be the tappan 400. That looked fantastic.
I remember my mom having to defrost the refrigerator 'cause the freezer compartment would freeze up in a real thick coating of ice and automatic defroster hadn't been invented yet .
@@doughoward6401 I remember them. You had to be careful when scraping the ice because you could puncture the thin metal and then you would be out a fridge.
Remember in the movie Robots Rodney's Dad's torso was one of the little dishwashers. Very cool!
My Mom's cousin was a homebuilder back in the day. They had built themselves a new home and when we went to visit them for the first time in their new home, I vividly remember their GE wall refrigerator in that coppertone color that was so popular back then. Seeing that refrigerator/freezer on the wall really blew me away as a young child!
They currently have those smaller portable countertop dishwashers. I had one when my main dishwasher broke down
I saw one of those just the other day!
@@Cheshyre. I had one for a while. They are great. I bought it used and it lasted several years. I now have a portable 18 inch floor type that I can get a lot in. Sometimes regular pots and pans too.
One rather interesting feature he forgot to mention wat the Thor Automagic washer doubled as a a cloths washing machine and a dishwasher
Yea, what was that about?!
I want that Tappan!!!
My family owned a Tappan Fabulous 400 back in the 1970s, and it was amazing!
Samantha on Bewitched had a Tappan 400.
For the time, it was truly cool.
She had a Frigidaire Flair. 😊
It was a Flair. My mama had that Tappan but my dream stove is Samantha’s Flair. Heck, I want her entire house! ❤❤
They still make counter top dishwashers I have one, I love it.
Older Refrigerators last a LOT longer then today's makes.
We have an Amana Fridge from 1991 that is still working perfectly.
That Tappan 400 is sweet. I remember people having them.
The only drawback was they were Electric and not Gas.
I am a firm believer in Gas Stoves & Ovens to cook with.
My mother Westinghouse refrigerator that manufactured with 220V was brught from Hawai in 1962 and shipped to Thailand still in operation with no repair! My aunts and my mother were passed away at the age close to 100 and the frig is still funtional. The battleship that transports this frig was sink for fish santury 5 years ago!
My mom got her grandmother’s fridge when she died and it still runs great (circa 1960’s) amazing 😨
That's why thry sont make them like they used to. Each household had appliances that were built to last and unless you wanted an updated one just to have it, you wouldn't need to buy a new one. The companies weren't making any money, so now you make appliances that last a lot less and folks have no choice but to buy a new appliance. It's not just about making them cheaper as really they are still expensive, its about continuing to make money.
@@johnmadow5331 That is awesome!
@@grace7701 Tell me about it! We've had to buy two fridges in the last 11 yrs! Terrible quality anymore.
My husband inherited a Hotpoint refrigerator when he bought his grandmothers house. It was older than he was. We had it up until 6 years ago. We were very sad to see it go because it was much admired by everyone who saw it and and had a giant veggie crisper. Alas it didn't seem to be keeping the temp as low as it did and the gaskets were probably the problem. We maintained the back regularly so it wasn't the motor. My husband just didn't want to go to the trouble of finding someone to fix it with the proper gaskets, so we let her go. She was mine for at least 20 years and was my husband's grandmothers since the early 50s.- 90s.
We bought a new refrigerator and it lasted 3 years. There was nothing we could do about it. The one we have now, a Whirlpool without freezer as we have a large chest freezer, has lasted 4 years so far. I sure do miss my old Hotpoint. We made a horrible mistake not getting her repaired. She would have lasted us a lifetime just like Grandma.
My aunt had the tap in 400 in Pennsylvania I was fascinated with it I have never seen anything like it she kept it pristine
I believe to this day nothing compares to the tappan 400
@@MemoryManor they built stoves to last it's probably still running
We all agree!
Wonder why no one offers anything like it
@@CyberBuki Because they want you to pay $4K and above for a fridge that needs repair constantly before you give up and buy another that is no better. Oops. Or stove, either way it's painful.
The Tappan oven stove. Is what my wife was talking about.. that's actually pretty neat. Again my wife loves this stuff and wants a modern version of these.
I actually have a counter top dishwasher! I bought it about 7 years ago, brand new. Even though it's small, it cleans my dishes better than any other dishwasher I have ever had!
I need one of those.
Had a neighbor that was so kind,at age 8 was introduced to a tabletop dishwasher. 1968
My parents had an old double ge oven, still worked until the 90's when they remodeled the kitchen. They also had a burner with a "brain"😊
mMon also had the g.e. double oven! It was a handy feature. They were side by side. I would guess 58 or ' 59
We also had the calrod burners that were a kind of smart burner. They kept food warm. I liked the g.e. refrigerator at that time
There was a pole in the middle that , when a button was lushed on the front of each shelf, the racks would travel up or down to desired place! Never any spoiled food in the back. The shelves were shaped like a half circle, so they twirled up and down easily. I would love that model again, being now in a wheelchair!😊
Countertop dishwashers still exist though and are used in offices and small apartments...
Just three years ago my husband and I got rid of my parents Hot Point refrigerator from 1951.
One of my mom's friends had an electric Tappan Fabulous 400. She was one of the best cooks I've ever known.
The first house I ever lived in until I turned eight years old had a Tappan Gas Range with four burners and to the left it had an oven above and a broiler below. The thing had pilot lights so I don't know if an old 1961 stove exists in the house. I was born two years later.
Always dreamed of having this in my house.
I'm so old, I remember some of those appliances.
How old?
When I was young, there were only two kinds of coffee:
Regular
&
Large
And gasoline was only Regular and Ethel.
@@josephgaviota
Yes!
I remember that as well.
@@josephgaviota
MERRY CHRISTMAS
from 11102
Funny, I thought you were going to say-regular and decaf. Size of coffee depends on what size cup you want. Hubs uses an 8 oz cup, son a 10 oz cup, daughter uses a 16 oz mug, I have an old stoneware beer stein, think it holds a liter, keeps my coffee hot and I don't have to refill it every 5 minutes.
I worked at Dunkin Donuts when we only had regular coffee or a packet of instant Sanka for the 2 people that wanted decaf 😂. The small coffee was 6 oz, and the large was 10 oz - the size of today's small. And for the serious coffee drinkers, we had the new "The Big One" - today's medium.
Oh, and we also had counters where people sat for hours drinking their coffee out of real cups, talking with their friends. My uniform was a little beige dress with a pink and orange donut tree apron, and a small round billed hat. They don't make that hat style anymore and it's difficult for me to describe lol. I loved that job though!
I love these and would use them today...
Which one would you choose if you only had to choose one?
The GE wall refrigerator freezer would be so much nicer and useful than my side-by-side Maytag big box refrigerator of today. I like that the food would be at eye/arm level and I wouldn't have to bend down as frequently or have as much warm air enter the unit because it is divided into three individual compartments! I prefer refrigerated over canned goods. The Tappan 400's retractable burner with cutting board is space-saving luxury and I would love that as well in my galley kitchen! If I could live in the Monsanto House of the future I would feel right at home... @@MemoryManor
I have a countertop dishwasher and I am so happy. They came back in style because I love it.
The tiny dish washer still exist. And i only know that because i literitly thought it was a new invention when i first saw one in one of my friends apartment. It was realy cool to look at because it has a window. Didn't know those things exist that long ago
Loved the TAPPAN 400 Would like them again!!! Wish we had these appliances now!!!
Oh my heart! 💜💜💜 That Tappan Fab 400 ... the first time I ever saw anything like it was in Bewitched (although technically I believe Samantha had a Frigidaire Flair) and I wanted her kitchen so badly! Never had stove envy until then. That is something that needs to make a serious comeback.
I watch some of the old infomercials on RUclips about old-time appliances. I tell you, I don't know what happened. A lot of them were better than what we have today.
As you watch and comment with your smart phone.....😅
I loved the Tappan 400. It was a great stove!!
Countertop dishwashers are still made. Personally, I’d think it just as easy and a lot faster to wash that small load by hand, but to each his own.
The wall mounted fridge was a flop for several reasons. More expensive to buy and install yet, because it was fairly shallow, the capacity was not as large as a standard fridge. Also, it was very inconvenient for anyone much below average height.
I always thought those all-in-one stoves with upper and lower ovens were so practical. I’d love to have one.
The combo clothes/dishwasher was standard in many post war housing developments where space was at a premium.
At an estate sale some time ago I saw a single unit, a bit smaller than a standard stove, that combined a stove top, mini fridge, and sink. Pretty nifty!
The Kelvinator is awesome! Countertop dishwashers are still produced and in high demand 🙂 Western Electric manufactured absolute legendary electronics! But it was 20 years earlier, in 1936 Germany, that the very first video phone conversations took place at selected post offices between citizens in different cities.
11:13 How gorgeous is that fridge?!!!??!?
My parents had a gas stove that had a large built-in stainless steal pancake griddle on top large enough to cook 4 pancakes at one time, restaurant style. You could cook bacon or sausage or steaks as well. I guess it was probably from the 1930's or 40's.
Was it a Chambers? They had 5 pilot lights. 1 for each set of 2 burners, 1 for what you describe as a griddle which had a broiler underneath, 1 for the oven and 1 for the "well" which functioned like a crockpot. That came with a big pot and a set of 3 triangular pots. The handles for the gas could be removed for safety if there were smallm children. The oven was lined with so much asbestos that you could preheat it and then turn it off to cook food. The Cadilac of stoves!
@@mgertp I don't remember that much, I just loved that pancake griddle. We had pancakes every Saturday morning.
I'll take the Tappan range and oven/rotisserie along with the GE Wall refrigerator with cabinet freezer drawers. Awesome!
My neighbor had the same range and my father was a Bell telephone man. I used to beg him to bring home the video phone stuff, but since no one in our little town needed it or could afford it, there werent any to show. But I always asked him questions and when when when!
I want a GE wall fridge and freezer!!
I alway thought about 'wouldn't it be great if.....: and they HAD it already.
Bring it back GE!!
My grandma had an oven with pull-out burners and a glass oven above. It also had an oven below.
And the ovens had ovens
The last feature story is doubled as a dishwasher too; you missed the most fascinating part!
Oh gee! I wish I owned a nice big house, and could shop for many of these items! I really like that huge fridge!
My parents bought a cabin that was built in the 1970s which still had all the original appliances. One was a dishwasher underneath and a cooktop on top.
I need that Fabulous 400 in my life! And in my kitchen!
I bet if you found one from that time it would still work.
What do you love about it so much?
It would be great with modern features.
I like the idea of oven above & the burners all in a line.
8:17 When I was a kid, they built some houses down the hill from our street of very conventional cape, ranch and split-level houses, and these had no basements, but had kitchens with the clothes washers, dryers, dishwashers and boilers (which supplied in-floor heat and were the size and shape of a kitchen appliance, topped with a stainless steel counter), all in matched gold or aqua colors. The refrigerators were much like the ones pictured here, though I don't know if they were actually GEs. Unfortunately, all of that stuff became very expensive to replace, so the wall-refrigerators, which cost $3,000, were usually replaced with conventional models. The washers and dryers were eventually moved to a garage or utility room and the boilers were replaced with more conventional ones that wouldn't have looked right in a kitchen. The in-floor heating leaked after around 25 years and was replaced with radiators. So, all of that innovation only lasted for one generation, and most of those houses look pretty ordinary today.
My grandparents had a tappen, but it was a freestanding with top and bottom ovens with slide out burners. We inherited it, so I learned to cook with it. I really miss it.
*I was born in 1954 and as a child remember many of these products. I was most impressed with the horizontal refrigerator units integrated into overhead kitchen cabinets but never saw one in any house I visited back then. That was probably due to it being an "upscale" product but I must wonder why such a product like that isn't still around? It seems that "the future" is always dying and constantly being replaced. All I know is that a lot of that 1950's tech I never got to personally live and so it's rather sad seeing what I missed out on, all these decades later.*
I had a refrigerator that the shelves pulled out. A hinged ran along one side front. Pull the shelve out and it pivoted on the hinge to reach every part of the shelf.
That is an exceptional idea! Needs to be revived.
There were also ones that had turntable shelves so you could get what was in the back.
I REMEMBER IN 1976 MY MOTHER HAD A 2ND HAND THUR WASHER, IT WOULD WASH SOME CLOTHES, THAT OLD THING WORKED SO GOOD, IT JAMED ONE DAY, AND MY BROTHER MARVIN WHO WAS'NT EVEN 9 YEARS OLD AT THE TIME, FIXED IT FOR MY MOTHER, SHE COULD'NT BELIEVE IT, BUT WAS SO HAPPY, SHE LOVED HIM SO MUCH FOR THIS, FOR PEOPLE WHO DO NOT KNOW ABOUT BEING POOR, IT'S NOT A GOOD FEELING, BUT TO HAVE ON CLEAN CLOTHES MADE US FEEL GOOD BACK THEN. MARVIN MAY YOUR SWEET SOUL REST IN PARADISE WITH CHRIST.
Some of these appliances like the refrigerator/ stove and sink combo were interesting ideas.
The first stove I would love that now as for the elctro chef looks like a easy bake over 😂
I just love videos like this the past items and how they affected the future and not askin to subscribe 10 seconds into the video 😂
1) Prospective Tele-Bar customer: "Where's the ice-maker?" 2) I think the wall fridge/freezer looks good till you realize how much cabinet wall space you're giving up. I'd rather have a free standing fridge for ease of repairs or replacement. Also, having to go to the pantry every time you need a can or a box isn't efficient.
Good video about design and modernity in the 1950's.
I love having a pantry. Works for us.
Me, too. I just don't want to go to it continuously when I'm busy cooking.
@@gentillydanny So you have to be a little bit efficient and gather up your needs before you begin cooking, as the TV chefs do. I would love to have a pantry.
Sure, a pantry is great but for those things that you want to put your hand to without going far. Of course mise-en-scene prep is essential.@@wandasetzer1469
The Tappan Fab 400 stove was at my grandma's house. The whole neighborhood was built in the late 40s for GI families returning from WW2. Small Cape Cod style, very small on Chicago's Southwest side.
Only other place i seen one was on a tour of Graceland. Elvis had one!
0:40 I have a dishwasher of similar size, and of recent manufacture. It's ideal for my needs and nothing at all bizarre about it.
@@peculiarstar4261 I found a Farberware FDW05ASBWHA at a church yard sale for $25. It does a good job of washing dishes, but doesn't dry them very much.
My mom had a Tappen 400 when I was a child. She gave it to her sister in the 70’s. When it broke in the 90’s it was sold to a collector. I guess it was a great stove. I love the burner drawer
We have an MCM house and love it. Still have the original double oven
I am laughing at the advert for Foodarama. It says living dolls love Foodarama😂
I loooooooove the Tappan Fabulous 400. Would love to own one. Also, I've been a huge fan of Kelvinator refrigerators. My maternal grandparents had one in their homes in the 80s or perhaps even in the 70s. (before I was born)
I'd LOVE to have that Tappan Fabulous 400 & the Foodarama!! That would make MY day!!
My parents had a Westinghouse refrigerator/freezer with a push-button single front door[1]
Inside at the top, above the freezer (between the two controls) was a "butter keeper" that kept 1/2 pound of butter just cool enough
to still be soft (no need for leaving it outside the fridge or having rock-hard butter inside the fridge) It also had 4 tilt-out bins/
shelves in the door, for eggs (each held 8 eggs = 32 eggs) It also had a deli-meat keeper bin just below the freezer ( Bologna
or a pound of ground beef with ice crystals)
1.) That particular Westinghouse refrigerator/freezer was in a commercial where it didn't open during a live commercial because
a technician forgot to plug it in. The Westinghouse appliances were usually advertised/demonstrated by Betty Furness. On that
day, she just happened to not be there when the refrigerator/freezer did not open. Yet everyone remembers her as the person
who was demonstrating the refrigerator/freezer on that day.
You can still get a countertop dishwasher. Even though they are pricey for what they are I’d rather use them. I have a bad back so I don’t have to bend over to load and unload the thing. I don’t have anywhere to put one or I would have it.