If you fine folks have't already seen this article, you gotta check out the kitchen, from 1956...

OMG! It is my nana and pop-pops kitchen. The only differences are that they did not have an

island, theirs was really used / enjoyed for many family dinners and the refrigerator was updated. All else was same. I really had to take a double take on the home. The outside is also similar, but my grandparents changed the "garage" to a family room and constructed a new garage behind the house. All the windows / doors are the same.

My room was on the top right, my sisters room was the top left.

Sadly, I can't forward this to my mom, as I know she will cry. But you brought back some fun memories for me.

Even the siding / brick / colors are the same / flour / sugar / tissues, etc. Wow! Flooring, cabinets, appliances! You brought back many fun thoughts of how many times I spent in their kitchen.

Thanks for posting!

 
You would ALL have loved my nana and Pop-pop! Just imagine a mini barb running through that kitchen

learned to make:
- corn on the cob in the pressure cooker (Scared me!)
- Baked potatos
- Dak Ham from the can (We have danish lineage)
- Some sort of cinnamon rolls that were put in the oven
- shoe fly pie (PA related)
- fun salad vinaigretes. Pop-pop could not rationalize the cost of purchasing salad dressings in a bottle; so we made our own each visit. (I do this to this day!)
- Nescafe coffee using boiled water
- Cut up watermelon which was worth a 10 minute discussion on how sweet it was. (Cause they worked hard selecting just the right one)

 
Reminds me of my sister's house . . .

Very nice kitchen in that article!

Sister and boyfriend bought his parent's house, about a mile from the beach in the greater Anaheim (and west) area. Still has the original PINT gas stove top and built-in oven. Old and still very nice. I told her I would buy both from her if they decide to remove them! But now that I have raved over the stove and oven, she wants to keep them.

 
so how was it never used in all these years? I missed that part. my parents had almost the same in

their kitchen. the previous owner worked for GE and all appliances were top of the line for the time and stainless. Mom never used the dishwasher and it looked just like that inside. didn't have that lever---it pulled out and you had to reach down to load/unload. She never updated either---sold the house with those old appliances still working---well kind of. the clock stopped working on the oven and many changes of electric elements in the oven and the cooktop. we even had the wooden carved valance above the window. but isn't that a stainless "new" dishwasher in the first picture?

 
and that house is almost identical to ours. my bedroom was that first upstairs window. the family

room was the window down below and even the one car garage. same layout exactly but we had nice Indiana stone in front where they have brick. same concrete stairs going down to the driveway. eerie.

 
If you put this pink French Poodle knick-knack on the shelves over the sink, you would

be standing at our kitchen sink...including the curved wooden cornice (my father was a carpenter...our house was FILLED with curvy wood things).

One of my weekend chores was CLEANING THE STUPID CURLY HAIR ON THIS PINK CERAMIC DOG--A DISGUSTING JOB WHEN YOU LIVE IN A SOOTY STEEL-MILL AREA AND YOUR FATHER SMOKES.

Why couldn't they have gotten a normal black poodle? Who has a pink French poodle...well, with the possible exception of Liberace.





 
I was reading where the present owner's grandparents bought the house, but..

...for whatever reason, never moved in.

Evidently, they didn't understand what "rental income" was.

Michael

 
There is a big problem with all those appliances. They may work ok

but they have been sitting for a very long time. Spiders get into places, build webs, and other bugs do various destructible deeds. I know this because we had an RV which sat for a few months at a time. Bugs caused more issues in our fridge plumbing than I care to talk about.

Then there is the maintenance issue. Parts are no longer available, and no one would know how to work on them except an older guy who was retired but still alive. We can't get parts for a coffee pot that is twelve years old and had to scrap it. Happens all the time to us.....we keep our stuff a long time with the belief that if it works fine, keep it. When we go to order parts, the parts guys just laugh at us.

That is a lovely house, too bad it sat in waste for so long. What were those people thinking.

 
for those facing a similar task:

Swoosh the difficult to clean thing in a bucket of warm soapy water, rinse under running water, let air dry.

 
This is MY CURRENT kitchen, well the cooktop anyway...

The color is "GE Pink" and it's on my electric range (I have the exact push button control on the cabinet front) and my wall oven though by 1959 I have the new sleeker model. Up till a few years ago I had the pink fridge too, though it wasn't a built in like this, just a normal one, but it had a butter warmer and foot pedal to open the door.

Don't have pink plastic counters though, but when I was a kid mom had a pink dinette set that matched the appliances.

(That looks like a new dishwasher in the cabinets.)

 
Eww...Bugs... Eww; By the way... , completely agree re: rethinking purchases

I grew up with the mentality of buy / keep / maintain forever.

My parents prided themselves on how long we had a car. I did the same. I am learning the hard ($$) way that perhaps it is best not to hold onto them forever. It is costing so much to maintain, and replace parts.

I just had this discussion with dh; I have not ventured into the coffee machine / freezer route; but that is next. I love my freezer, but I have spent lots maintaining it, replacing the ice machine, condenser, etc.

 
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