"Syssi" > wrote:
> 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.

You are indeed correct. I was intrigued so I went looking on the net for
pictures of the studio set for Bewitched. I found some good pictures and the
stove in Bewitched is not the Tappan one from the advertisements that I
mentioned being the exact same as my parents' stove. It is similar though.
It is one with lift up oven doors rather than swing open oven doors. Also,
the burner configuration is different. On my parents' stove, the four
burners were all in a straight row, with a cutting board in front. The
burners are completely concealed when the section is pushed in and the
cutting board remains exposed. The Bewitched stove has the two end burners
to the back, and the two center burners toward the front, with no cutting
board.

Bewitched Kitchen and Stove: http://www.1164.com/set/tv/kitchen/index.html
Tappan Stove Ad: http://www.plan59.com/decor/decor056.htm

Funny how I watched every episode of Bewitched when I was a kid, but never
remembered the stove. I guess I wasn't interested in such things. On the
other hand, I remember my parents' stove very well, even though I only saw
it a few times while visiting. My mother, who actually used it daily, has no
memory of its configuration at this point.

I get the feeling things such as kitchen stoves were a lot more varied 40-50
years ago then they are now, with a lot of interesting features. Now even
with the professional style stoves, the variation isn't as great as it once
was. Needless to say, there are dramatically fewer stove manufacturers today
than there were 50 years ago, in spite of a lot of the brand names still
being around for marketing reasons.

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