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Default Gallery Of Mid - Century Food Illustrations



"wff_ng_7" > wrote in message
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> "Gregory Morrow"
> <gregorymorrowEMERGENCYCANCELLATIONARCHIMEDES@eart hlink.net> wrote:
>> All taken from period (40's - 60's) advertising...some pretty neat stuff,
>> from the gross to the sublime:
>>
>> http://www.plan59.com/galleries/food/cooking01.htm

>
> Lots of great images... some look pretty goofy, just as today's ads will
> look in the not too distant future.
>
> Way deep down in the site, I came across an advertisement for the most
> unusual stove that was still in my parents' Miami house when they bought
> it in 1979. Looks like it dated from around 1959. My parents remodeled the
> kitchen shortly after they bought it, and that stove was gone for good.
> I've tried to explain the layout of it to people over the years, but no
> one really understood what I was talking about.
>
> A picture is worth a thousand words:
>
> http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm
>
> Anyone ever have a stove as unusual as this one?
>
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Wow!! What an amazing range! I would kill for that (in working
condition...) right now!

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