"Wayne Boatwright" <wayneboatwright_at_gmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat 11 Feb 2006 09:16:01p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it wff_ng_7?
>
>> "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?
>>
>
> Actually, yes, this very stove. It appeared in some episodes of Bewitched.
> Also, in the mid 1970s I met some new friends who had one in their home.
> It had been immaculately cared for and looked like the day it was
> installed. The double ovens were completely lined in polished stainless
> steel. Quite a nice unit!
>
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> Wayne Boatwright ożo
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Are you sure? I thought Bewitched's oven had the lift-top type open. A
neighbor of mine had one until just this past year. Again, oven envy just
about killed me.
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