1920s-1930s Magic Chef Stove With 6 Burners, 2 Ovens, And A Bread Warmer"
Maybe you have an old item *that still works* to share.
One of my most prized possessions, an antique apple peeler. I just love it; works flawlessly
1920s-1930s Magic Chef Stove With 6 Burners, 2 Ovens, And A Bread Warmer"
Maybe you have an old item *that still works* to share.
One of my most prized possessions, an antique apple peeler. I just love it; works flawlessly
Those antique apple peelers work because they are made of cast metal. The ones my wife buys these days are all made out of cheap flimsy plastic and either break, or flex so much that they don’t work properly.
She likes to make homemade apple sauce.
That oven is a real collectors item. And I ALWAYS wanted an apple peeler, seemed so smart and cool looking.
A little *shoe* comes out at the end of the peel and *kicks* the apple into your hand or a bowl. Of course you need a nutmeg grater for the nutmeg in the apple pie.
Dad bought a Westinghouse 8 inch air fan in Moab Utah back in 1955. Paid over $50 for it.
It lasted till 2008. I still have it.
Today a plastic fan will cost around $10-$20 but will give out in a year or two.
Is that anything like the same one Ralph Kramden invented?
I also have an old Peter Wright Anvil that still works well!
Those things are hard to destroy but I did have to reface it after I bought it way back in 1973. Don’t know how old the anvil is.
I have my great grandmother’s coffee grinder...she used to let me grind in the mid-late 50s...it’s probably 125 years old
Looks like some of the stuff I see at Cracker Barrel.
It still worked when we sold in the 80's.
My mom's 1950 hair dryer complete with bonnet. It was still working in 2020.
dr jill has everyone beat on this subject...
The head had to be replaced and the handle has been replaced 2 or 3 times, but it still works great!
The Singer Featherweight sewing machine, a great design that worked and worked. Singer produced millions of them from the 1930s through the 1960s. They’re still considered essential equipment by some quilters.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singer_Featherweight
And man could she cook with it.....cornbread in a skillet ....white cornbread....not that yellow cake stuff
My maternal great grandma who I stayed with on occasion when wee......she used an enamel wood stove and cooked hell out of it....no power , well water, outhouse
Six room shotgun house on stilts....Smith county Mississippi
Fireplace in most rooms.....well out front ....tin roof collector that gathered in cistern on back porch.....it was like camping out....with oil lamps at night and the cacophony of frogs and crickets ....
That knife sharpener was cool.
Wonder what a working unit would cost.
What is this for????
Don’t forget the time that the more extension cords one had in the house meant they were poor.
Recently, the more extension cords mean the more ‘gadgets’ you own so that - in a sense - makes you more affluent....
Drooling over the range. We just closed up my parents’ house. My dad has his great grandfather’s scales from the hardware store he owned. They work great. My dad uses them when he makes bread.