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Default Gallery Of Mid - Century Food Illustrations


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> "wff_ng_7" > wrote in message
> news:5EyHf.1074$Lr.848@trnddc01...
> > "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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> > ( #wff_ng_7# at #verizon# period #net# ) ===============

>
> Wow!! What an amazing range! I would kill for that (in working
> condition...) right now!



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