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To: Red_Devil 232; Redleg Duke

It is rare to find one of those cupboards intact. They were very popular in CA in the 1960s as a curiosity. Most people painted them and decorated them with rosemalling. They also modified them and ruined their antique value.

I lived in a subdivision circa 1910 at that time and many of the houses in the neighborhood incorporated a California version with the flour bins and grinders built right into the kitchen cupboards. My kitchen had been remodeled already, so I didn’t have that. I always kept my eye out for an authentic Hoosier Cupboard, but I never found one. Of course I was in the wrong part of the country (N. CA). But I did see several that had been “refurbished” and turned into something else.


107 posted on 03/04/2011 1:34:51 PM PST by afraidfortherepublic
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To: afraidfortherepublic
I would love to have one in my kitchen. Does not have to be antique but has all the features. Our elders sure knew how to make things that were very useful and practical.
112 posted on 03/04/2011 1:45:03 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: afraidfortherepublic

Northern California starts at the Sonoma/Mendocino line and includes the counties of Mendocino, Humboldt, Del Norte and parts of Trinity and don’t you forget it! (rant off)

My mother had a table with a marble work surface and a large slide out bin for flour and one for sugar. She made all her bread, pies and pastries on it. We had a block ice cooler until we got a “Fridge” in 1940 or 41. I remember her cooking on a kerosene cook stove prior to the Butane stove...


118 posted on 03/04/2011 3:00:44 PM PST by tubebender (Now hiring Tag Line writers. Full time low pay)
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