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The toughest call to make is the dishwasher. I'm thinking that the cabinet between the sink and the door was altered to fit the DW at a later date which left them with that awkward narrow end door. In any event that particular dishwasher wasn't there in 1959.
The narrow cabinet may be original. My aunt's house had one that was set up like that. It was set up to hold backing trays and platters. A friends house had a similar one that was maybe a little wider which tilted out to be a storage bin for potatoes. These were in small row-house kitchens where every inch was critical.
A friend in Oakland, CA has a pull-out rangetop like that in his apartment. It seemed old when I first saw it around 1980. He doesn't cook much, so it'll probably lasr forever.
My parents bought the house I grew up in new in 1959, and it had a dishwasher in the same place. All the appliances were coppertone; the house next door was a mirror image of ours, and the appliances were PINK!
The kitchen counters were speckly oatmeal colored 4" ceramic tiles. I think the entire backsplash was matching tile up to the cabinets.
Never seen anything like this one before! These photos are from a real estate listing for a home built in 1959. It must be original to the house...right?
If anyone wants to see my 1953 restored Wedgwood stove, go to www.dreamstoves.com, and look at their Antique Vintage Stoves page. Check out the stoves from the 40s -50s; the one in the middle of the page with the red cook top and kick-plate is mine. He has much better pictures than I could ever post, including the total interior restoration. It's a real cutie of a stove IMHO.
If anyone wants to see my 1953 restored Wedgwood stove, go to www.dreamstoves.com, and look at their Antique Vintage Stoves page. Check out the stoves from the 40s -50s; the one in the middle of the page with the red cook top and kick-plate is mine. He has much better pictures than I could ever post, including the total interior restoration. It's a real cutie of a stove IMHO.
That oven is a hoot! Love the setback cabinets in front of the sink, too.
That is a very typical late fifties, early sixties type kitchen layout. Although, IMHO, they're missing the Formica counters with chrome trim and the quarter round shelves on the side of the cabinets by the sink.
I've always wondered why the top of the cabinets up by the ceiling are always entirely enclosed? Seems like a place for long term storage of holiday cookware, but I guess that's just what they did back then.
We had a '74 house with an O'Keefe & Merrit wall oven and a countertop cook top. They were separate units and the cook top didn't pull out, but it was nice to be able to use an oven that wasn't near the floor. The oven doors on the Flair oven shown in the picture is better, though, since it goes up instead of flops down. If there's a wall oven with the same sort of doors, I'd put it in the next house.
About '75-'77, we rented a house that had a pull-out stove. I remember the oven being above it that opened up. I only remember ONE oven, though. I thought it was kind of cool. You just had to be careful to make sure you don't leave any pots on the stove when you close it up-a lesson that was learned the hard way.
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