I love the review but I feel a lot of the facts are wrong. Some I know are wrong. Also I expected a more chronological review in order of when the item was prevalent. But overall great video.
We bought a small Whirlpool refrigerator/freezer on sale: $900+ They said it would last 2-3 years, maybe 5 if we were lucky. That was the best rated brand and model. 😵 My husband's family had a refrigerator that survived and kept working after a devastating flood went through their town. The house was a mess, but they cleaned the mud off the fridge and it kept working. I always liked GE appliances. Movers dropped my GE washer 5' onto it's front on concrete when I moved. It only broke the light cover! It went on to give years more service in a big family.
@@knitwit7082I just had to get rid of my GE microwave two years ago. I had it for 29 years, a present from my parents for my very first apartment. I was so sad to let it go. The one I have now feels so lightweight and chintzy. Plus, it’s not from my sweet dad, who passed away in 2020.
My parents bought a microwave from Montgomery Wards in November of @ 1972. They took it out of the carton, and set it up to make sure it worked, and then packed it up as a present for Christmas to each other. After they got down from the attic and thought about an hour, then decided to give it to each other for their anniversary, November 30th. So back up to the attic! It lasted at least 30 years.
Our first microwave was huge. We had it in the kitchen, but didn’t tell our friends. We had a small party, and murmuring was that we were so addicted to tv that we had to get one for the kitchen!😊
The son-in-law of a close friend of mine worked for Litton Industries. He got her a new Litton microwave about that time. It was still working when she passed away in 1991. So, it probably worked for 20 years, at least.
@@knitwit7082 I don't think anyone uses the microwave to cook anything anymore. They mainly use it for reheating things or boiling water. Meat cooked in a microwave is horrible and rubbery
Never used an electric knife and never will. My Uncle Sam taught me how to use the correct sharp knife to cut and slice. 53 years later I still use the techniques he taught me.
I am very old and recall using a mangle to iron linens. A mangle was an ironing machine. The cloth rotated between a padded cylinder and a heated curved plate
@@aliciamersdorf4426 my mother worked in the local washroom and I remember helping after School feeding sheets through these Mangels. It was hot work...😱
@@i_am_a_freespirit Yep. Mondays in the summer were a taste of hell at our house, not only sheets, spreads, and pillow cases for the family but all my Dad's white shirts and doctor's coats waiting to be starched and pressed.
I inherited many of these appliances and time-savers after my parents passed. They were the Silent Generation. "Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do Without." I'm Gen X, but our household thrived thanks to that mantra. (That said, most of my cohort born before the 1980s will remember many of these tools.) My devices still work, ergo there isn't any need to replace them. My fridge, stove, and washer are modern. A humorous aside: My Dodge Caliber came with a "Chill Zone" in the dash for soda cans.
My parents were children during the Depression. No waste, no buying things you do not need, once school clothes wore out they became play clothes and mom has a mending basket. I think the only thing I do not miss is the freezers you had to defrost.
@@rosanneshinkle4133I think living through the Depression really scarred people. My father-in-law died at 95 in 2001. He had money, but he kept old shoes and clothes long after they were worn out. He still had their original bedroom set where they made 4 babies. He was always terrified of not having any money because he was too old to work and make more. He always had a stash in his house. He left word with his pastor where it was. He wanted us to have it. I know why: they were cremated but had no burial plot. He knew we would bury them. All of a sudden, my sister-in-law started examining her shoes. She wouldn't look at us. She had taken the money. She knew he kept a stash, went in and took it. My husband publicly shamed his brother into burying them. We never saw their grave but I doubt they have a marker. He cheated his dad out of his real estate too! Sorry...
The electric knife and the seal-a-meal are still important in my kitchen! The toaster and microwave are used daily. Everyone still has an electric can opener, and those fridge/cooktop/sinks are still used in tiny studio apartments. We all have some form of PC.
I don’t think anyone did any sort of quality control on this vid…stupid content farming, doesn’t matter if the subject matter actually matches up with the title, they’re just gonna pump content…🙄 I was honestly starting to get annoyed by how many of these appliances weren’t actually vintage, just been around for a while. Vintage would indicate that they’re no longer made and I noticed SEVERAL that are still made today…🙄
Bobrogers99 • I have bought TWO Seal a Meals in the last 10 years. Even got a roll of extra bags. They both disappeared! My husband pled not guilty, but it is just the 2 of us. If I didn't "lose" them, he did. What did he DO with them? Did he hate them? I had one when we first got married in 1990. I liked it a lot. That one disappeared years ago too! Is there a pattern here?🤔🙄
I still have my electric Hot Dogger, and I love it. It tastes better than any other way. I love my electric knife, too. I use my pop corm popper, too. I purchased my all-chrome GE Toaster Oven (which looks nothing like that item today) in 1964. Mine is pictured near the end of your video. It is still going strong. It has outlasted every toaster my friends bought within the last 10 years. My parents has a gas Flair oven/broiler/rotisserie/range. It was still going strong 3 years ago when I sold their house. NO appliances last over 60 years any more. It was a great thing for their small kitchen. Those jukeboxes were fabulous, especially at pizza restaurants where my friends and I used to gather as adolescents and teens. Thanks for the video!
My Mother bought a Philco Refrigerator before I turned 3. 66 years later, still going strong. Not as pretty as it used to look - but then who of us are - but it still runs as well and much more quietly than the modern one. (Wish I did!) Only drawback is having to defrost it (but twice a year ain't bad - kind of nostalgic actually). They sure don't build 'em like they used to!
I'm actually old enough to remember the first microwave oven heavily marketed to the home. It's name was an absolute mouth full called, "THE AMANA RADAR RANGE MICROWAVE OVEN!" I loved seeing these shown on Let's Make a Deal with Monty Hall or The Price Is Right with Bob Barker. The first time I remember seeing a Radar Range in action was in an old Ma & Pa Kettle movie called Ma & Pa Kettle and Win a New House.
The Amana, my Dad had to have one lol! My Ma didn't believe the instructions and "tried" to make a meatloaf. Needless to say this was not a shining example... It was sooo dried out that it kinda looked like punky or damaged wood. Inedible, not even a "maybe the dog will like it". Thank the Deities she got better but it was just an expensive leftover warmer \pop corn maker! Love the nostalgia💖
I remember from childhood that iceboxes were called that because ice was literally used. I remember when ice was delivered for the icebox. Just like milk delivery!
@@lindacombs7424Not like the originals, I am sure. Remember getting 3 songs for a quarter? My husband's high school classmate brought hers to their 25th reunion. So fun to dance to.
what i appreciate about vintage homeware are the appliances. There was no "planned obsolescence", waffle irons, toasters, refrigerators, you name it lasted DECADES without repairs. My mother (b 1924) had a Coldspot freezer purchased in 1954 that ran to 1994 and was still working when she unplugged it. She had grown to old to defrost it. Nowadays you get a Samsung fridge with a computer in the door and you will have to use that computer to claim your warranty for a repair. The wicked witch of the west said it best....What a world, what a world...
Only stupid people buy a refrigerator with a screen in the door. It is all marketing. This is the same demographic who spend money on things that lose value and then wonder why have no money in the bank.
Really. When they went to that "computer chip" stuff made in Asia, life expectancy for appliances went from 20+ years down to 2. Of course, the cost went WAY up. When our 5-year old side by side died completely (even the light went out) we looked and looked for an old used one. Nothing. I guess people keep them or sell a house with the old-timer in it.
roxanneherrmann2107 • Mine too! She had 2 or 3 of them at the same time. (Not sure why: they all worked?) We went to a laundromat one time when I was about 8. She HATED using a top loading washer. She hung the clothes outside to dry in good weather; in the basement when it was bad weather. Monday was laundry day. Tuesday she "sprinkled" and rolled them up. (Before steam irons.) Wednesday was ironing day. Remember those days? We shopped at the A&P or Piggly Wiggly. Hahahaha!
We couldn't afford appliances back then for the most part. I remember our very first television was delivered and set up the day America set foot on the Moon in 1969, and our cat stolen an entire chicken from the kitchen table 😂
That's a great memory for the 1st tv...but man O man...that musta been a big cat...but 1n 1969 money was tight in our house too and that cat wouldn't got a chance to use up 9 lives
Well, we were so riveted to the Apollo moon landing on our black and White TV, that no one paid attention to the dinner table...🥹so the cat about 17 pounds did a "snatch and dive" (where claws hook and get janked backwards with whatever is attached 😂🤣😂) at the edge of the table where the plate with the chicken stood from the extra chair 😂. It was our fault for not watching the table and in Germany everyone was fascinated by whatever Americans did, including Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon!
I_am_a_fre • Cat couldn't let that chance go by! My dad was the TV Repair guy with the uniform and big case of tubes that came to your house to fix your TV. He also had a store to fix radios, tvs, toasters, etc. My earliest memory (2 or 3) was watching Walter Cronkite on a TV with a little screen. Probably about 1955? My mother was frying something in the kitchen: SSSSZZZ. I wish they still had places to fix stuff like that. I have an old electric heater that needs a new blower motor.
@@sarahbauer5593I had a Kenmore that I bought in 1973. It had a set of orange hard plastic discs. To make decorative stitches you just changed discs. It worked great. I used it for 20 years, then gave it to my oldest daughter. She made her kids baby clothes and quilts. I think she still has it. Now that I am old my husband bought me a nice Janome that sits in the closet, used once or twice. 😢
My in-laws gave us and Electric Knife 50yrs ago at first I laughed , But guess what we still use it was a great gift . You can slice all kinds of foods .😊
The ' mangle' we called a wringer. A mangle was an ironing devise, large, it set on the floor. It ironed sheets and pillowcases in an era of cotton that wrinked. U had both wringers and a mangle. But, the other devises are fun to remember!!
Mangle was for ironing….my grandma had one in her wash room. It was hard for me to use, but I did pillow cases, then there was to curtain stretcher, loved
My mom had an ironing mangle, so when I was tasked to use one at a restaurant, where I cleaned the tablecloths and napkins, I knew how to use it. And this was in the 70s!
My parents had a stove with an elevated flat surface warming tray ‘hood’ over the stovetop. The kitchen also had an electric can opener and electric knife that only came out during the holidays when my dad carved. Also had that big wooden cabinet that held a tv/radio/phono and speakers on each side of the tv. But for some reason my mom never bought a Hot Dogger. We had to boil ours on the stovetop. To this day that is how I prefer to cook my dogs. Ah….the good old days…
I've had my refrigerator for over 40 years and it's still going strong, anything I want to keep truly cold, I keep in my old reliable. My new fridge is "energy efficient", keeping food minimally cold and all the shelves and drawers have had to be replaced. My washer lasted 40+ years but I had to replace it due to a part that needed replacing but the company no longer existed. The new washer wrings out the clothes so strongly that my clothes are so beat up in the washer that they lose their colors and wear out. I loved my popcorn popper in the dorm. I also heated soups and "spaghettios" in it. I still use the electric can opener, my niece wants one, but difficult to find and definitely not the same quality.
@@margarethanson8330 I had to replace a sewing machine for that reason Brother made it. It is only 23 years old but they no longer make the parts for it. It was an early computer embroidery machine. I let Brother know how disappointed I was and am.
4:28 . . . Still use the same Ronson electric knife today. Same color... same storage case. Didn't know it needed to make a 'comeback'. This is essential for roasts and turkeys.
LakeNipissing • Great for cutting homemade bread. Somewhere I have this handy thing you put the loaf in, and the sides have slits that are evenly spaced. You put the knife into each slit, and zzzz nice neat bread slices.
As a teenager in the 70's, Myself and many of my friends inherited the family TV/stereo console from the 60's, usually the TV part had died, so it became our personal "stereo". They usually worked pretty good, but they were big and ugly, and took up a lot of room. The cool kids had real component systems...
I remember our first automatic washing machine. My Dad and Uncle spent all night setting it up. I came home from school (2nd grade) to find our maid screaming, kneeling on top of the machine, which had vibrated itself into the center of the room. There was soapy water all over. I pulled the plug on the machine. My Dad worked on it some more, we were using that machine 20 years later. I remember watching a fishing show on TV, the man filleted fish with an electric carving knife. What a mess!
My Mum didn't need a 'serve-it-hot' food warmer. ANY hot meals we had were served on scalding hot plates, fresh from the oven ! You did NOT want to accidentally touch your plate, but your food remained hot, while you ate it - no matter how slow or fast of an eater you were !
stanwolenski9541 • You sound like a guy. Can you tell me where (not even why) a man/ husband could "lose" two NEW ones in their boxes in the HOUSE? I am baffled. He pled not guilty, but there are just the 2 of us, soooo...
@@knitwit7082 My best guesses, he doesn’t want to use them so he “forgot” he may have put them in the trash. Next, he is vacuum sealing his weed in the garage and doesn’t want you to know to know about his side gig. Third he may use them for something nefarious that will become an episode on Dateline.
In the late 1960's a friend of mine had a VW Beetle he installed a beer tap on the dash w/a pony keg and ice in the boot. Kept mugs in the ice also.......
My grandmother invented an attachment for the first automatic clothes washer that would churn butter. She got a patent for it and made a fair amount of money from this invention back in the 1940s/50s.
Wow!! I used to make butter for my kids. Put the cream from farm-bought raw milk into the blender. It made great butter. The milk left over is good to drink or use in baking.
🎉My grandmother had a Maytag wringer washer that was on wheels. We moved it from the enclosed back porch to the side yard for laundry. Then, after going through the wringer, I helped hang the clothes on the clothesline, strung beside the cement platform my grandfather put in to hold the “Maytag”. Going through the wringer, clothes took less than an hour to dry..My parents got one of the first refrigerators in the 1940’s made by Shelvador. It had a small freezer inside with an ice maker similar to what they showed. That refrigerator lasted for 40 years! I still have (and use) my mom’s electric knife, electric can opener with knife sharpener, & pop corn popper. A friend owned a bar for years and gave me his juke box. I just need to figure out how to assemble it. Mon & Dad bought all Frigidaire appliances when we moved in 1968 to a larger home. A Frigidaire Flair was the stove. Give me our old gas stove- looked like it had 2 ovens but the left side was a fully adjustable broiler, with the warming drawer on the bottom. Also, my Mother in Law had a mangle. It had an electric cord coming to it, It was about 4’ long,(looked like a wider, shorter ironing board on top & bottom) and worked like an automatic ironing board a padded board. on the bottom, there was a long flat padded board with a heavy padded top board the same size hinged to the bottom with a long metal handle. You arranged clothes on the bottom (I only saw it used for dress pants) and pressed them by lowering the top onto the bottom. At the time, I thought it might be something used at a dry cleaner.
As a kid in the late 50s, I recall a few homes in the neighborhood still had wringer washers. Maytag made them into the 80s, mostly for overseas sales to poorer countries.
Joyce • I think dry cleaners did use them. Maybe still do? I got confused. I thought Shelvador made the gas fridges. That was Servel that made those. We had one in an old camp trailer we had.
Wow, growing up in Germany, i remember the electric knifes. We didn't eat popcorn, BECAUSE corn was grown for life stock food ONLY, and was not for human consumption. I do remember the wringer washers...and my grandmother's first electric spinner BECAUSE she set me on the lid to keep the lid from flying open during the spinning cycle.😂🤣😂
Had one when I lived up two miles away from Forest City. Oh, my dad and I had to watch our fingers. Oh, but one time I forgot that my harmonica was in my pocket and it got smushed, I still have it and I sometimes get it out and play it. Love from Marysville California
My mother had a mangle in the 50s. It was a large white enamel machine that looked like a refrigerator on its back. It wasn't for wringing out clothes, those were called wringers. It was for ironing sheets and pillow cases before the invention of permanent press.
When I was a child we had a wringer washer - I was always afraid of getting my fingers or hand caught in the wringer. When I was in my early teens we had a Flair oven. It was a good idea for kitchens with limited room. The 'Seal-A-Meal' / 'Food Saver' are wonderful! I can vacuum seal extra portions for the freezer and not worry about freezer burn. Saves me time and money. My ex-mother in law had a trash compactor. Personally I never much cared for them. Then again I can't abide having trash in my house and take the trash out about twice a day. My husband was a major motor head when he was a teen and restored a few classic cars - One he restored (can't recall the name) had a built in cooler in the backseat. Which of course was made good use of by he and his buddies. He said it held 12 bottles of beer.
Self warming trays are great for get togethers, especially Thanksgiving where there are tons of hot dishes. Our family has shrunk, so I've given most of mine away, and just pull out my trusty heating pad if I need one. Electric knifes are underrated- you can get such lovely thin slices easily. I still have a Foodsaver for vacuumsealing, but even though it didn't vacuum, the Daizy Seal-a-Meal had an innovation current machines don't: the edges of their bags had holes like the old computer printer paper that you would hook on a spring lever that pulled the opening taut and you could mount the machine on the wall. Both the wall mount and spring holder made them easier to use. They also came with a custom "funnel" that you slid into the opening that held the bags wide open and kept food from getting on the edges of the bag messing up the seal. I still use that with my Foodsaver. We ate a ton of popcorn growing up. Only 4 of us, we would still eat more than one large batch of popcorn every time, and would fill up a brown paper grocery sack with it at home to take to the movie theater. Popcorn cooked without fat is just sad, and although the air poppers had a butter melter, it just made random kernels soggy. Dad liked to experiment, cooking the popcorn with bacon or sausage grease, or using the popper to melt sugar to pour on top. Now that so many movie theaters bring in bagged popcorn that they just heat up, the best popcorn you can get is one of those old stovetop crank type poppers and coconut oil - gets that perfect texture and flavor. The only microwave popcorn I've actually enjoyed in the last 20 years, I haven't been able to find in a decade: Orville Reddenbacher's Pour Over Cheddar. That cheesy sauce was the bomb. Food processors are still common, however, built in and all in one versions are extinct. I'm the proud owner of a Oster Kitchen Center: a motorized base that you can attach a mixer head to, a blender, a food processor, a salad shooter, an ice crusher, a pasta maker, an ice cream maker, a meat grinder, a spice grinder, and a juicer - maybe more, I don't have all the attachments. One great thing about its blender attachment is that it was mason jar sized: you could use any mason jar as the pitcher. Before that, I think it was Nu-tone that had the motor built into the counter, and you just snapped your attachments on. Sewrena on CZcams has one, and it's amazing. Now you have to buy every gadget separately, which is just as well because things are manufactured so poorly, you have to replace them regularly. The campaign for microwaves as a replacement for normal ovens created recipes that rival the horror of the 50s gelatin trend. Some things just should not be cooked in them. I stayed in a motel in the 80s that had one of those all in one kitchen pieces in the room and I thought it was beyond awesome - so compact and efficient! Mom was terrified we would get electrocuted, so she wouldn't let us use the sink there lol.
My Mother had that Flare Double Oven with the Pull OutStove Burners! It was the 1960's, & we had a newly built, 2 story house with several innovations. 2 bathrooms were a dream back then, & Mom's Flare Stove & breakfast bar were the envy of the neighbothood! Later, in the 70's, my Dad got the Hot Dogger as a freebie premium for opening a bank account in the new bank in town. He loved it!
Should do a video on the laundary mat. In the 70s, there was the mighty barrel defuser. For .25 cents. It cut the drying time by half. Mostly used for jeans, work clothes . And rugs. It was a true game changer. Great video.
The mangle, mangled my hand, when it caught it, and ran it to my wrist. I was screaming, and my mom freaked out! Instead of hitting the release, she reversed it, running my hand back through it, LOL! It hurt for a while, but thankfully, nothing was broken...
I remember the individual table jukebox units that were at every table in diners....I thought they were so neat as a kid. They hold fond memories like that of good Diner food with chocolate malts that were the highlight of every Diner experience back in the day when life was really good!
The way I remember what you call a mangle is from our local YMCA. It was put just outside the showers for the swimming pool, so you could remove excess water from your swimsuit before packing to go home. I miss that.
Stove top pressure cookers used to be around. I’m Gen X, but the next door neighbors had one when I was a kid, and I was fascinated with it because of the Tom and Jerry episode that featured an exploding one
Hahaha! I never heard of one exploding. I still have my old one, but it needs a new rubber seal and I have no idea where to get one. They were a great invention. Cooked fast, meat was very tender...
We had a Dishmaster kitchen faucet. A brush sprayer was attached to a refillable reservoir that delivered dish soap when you a pushed the button on the brush. Obviously, dishwasher manufacturers weren't thrilled, and almost certainly had a hand in it's DE-marketing.
The metal meat grinder. It ground up bologna and ham for ham salad and bologna salad sandwiches. Also, it was great for grinding meat for sausages. My parents loved theirs. The butler on wheels was great. You could take it to the living room, the dining room, the family room. Very convenient as you could load it up with dishes, food, drinks, etc. you did not have to carry all that stuff with multiple trips to the kitchen.
Why do they have people explaining about inventions that don't know what their talking about? A mangle is a machine use to iron & press clothes. A wringer was on a washing machne, put water & soap into mahon, turn on the timer & let the clothes agitate to get clean. Then run clothes through wringer & into rinse water. Dunk up & down in rinse water, run through wringer again, putinto clothes basket, take outside hang clothes onto clothesline using cloths pins to attach to line. Come back in an hour or two to retrieve dry clothes. Take inside & smell the freshness of th cloths, especially the sheets & pillowcases.
A wringer extracted water and was not called a mangel. A mangel had two rollers later they added heat, and was used to press iron sheets and table cloths, napkins, etc. When i was a child, my mom had one
21:52 Most clothes washers available today are pretty terrible at washing clothes, wouldn't want to put my dishes into a machine that can't even get your clothes wet.
4:50 Oh yeah, mom went crazy for the Seal-A-Meal ☺️ She was militant about squeezing out the air from bread and anything else that held plastic bags, so when this miraculous kitchen helper entered the scene, she absolutely had to have one 😁 And yup. We had an electric popcorn popper, but nothing beat Jiffy Pop for us kids, because we could make the magic happen ourselves if mom was busy 😁 We had the first type of corn popper you showed, then that bug round one before graduating to the hot air popper; a miracle delight for mom!
My first digital computer was a TRaSh-80 with a whole 4k of RAM. I thought I had something when I upgraded to a whopping 16k of RAM. It stored programs on cassette tape with a regular tape recorder. It would even make sounds when I put a small transistor AM radio on the keyboard. Not to mention the fun of typing in long BASIC programs and then spending hours debugging my typos.
The warmer is still in use. The 3 section home table appliance. Amazon carries an electric knife that more closely resembles a chainsaw. We called it a wringer also. Never heard of mangle. We had one! I had the greatest microwave/convection oven in the mid-80’s. It was made by Panasonic and was great in Hawaii since our on base housing had gas stoves. The 3 in 1 fridge, stove and sink can be purchased on Amazon.
No. A wringer is a washer. A mangle is for steam pressing. The lady my husband knew got her hair caught in a wringer...not a mangle. Hope that was clear.
I bought a brand new electric stove with ovens on top and bottom in 1971. I thought I had died and gone to heaven! Now I have a range top and a wall oven. They are pretty handy too.
Yeah. If you don't have a crazy husband who "loses" them shortly after they are brought into the house. I have lost 2, never used, in the box, in 10 years. Is he giving them away? Selling on EBay???🤔🤔🤔🤔
30:00 Yup. Mu dad had a TRS 80 with a DMP 120 (dot matrix printer) and a cassette tape drive..... Us kids were guaranteed by our dad to end up with broken fingers if we dared to touch the tape counter..... Where he kept track of where a program was on the cassette tapes 😬
I was baffled by the “mangle”, never heard that. Being a late baby-boomer, by the time I was 5, we had what was called an electric wringer-washer which was kept outside because the wash and rinse water had to be manually drained by pulling a plug. I remember being was warned to keep my little fingers away from the continuously moving rollers, so I was afraid but then was allowed to help my mom by feeding wet laundry through them (go figure)😮
No, I have a tabletop roaster with a steam table insert. The square pans sit in the insert openings above hot water in the roaster. As a roaster it was junk, but as a steam table it works great. My husband loves it. SO glad I bought the insert.
I still use my metal ice cube makers..They have never broken on me..I remember my cousins & myself would make kool aid cubes..wow ...lol.. I was my Dad's favorite remote control , channel 4 , oh no channel 7 , darn turn the antenna will ya..Nope Dad, that's your job, YOU get on the roof top in the snow! Ok so my Dad would do the outside thing, but I sure changed plenty of channels in my days. I still have my Jukebox, it's a 1978..Now it picks up a few records at a time, so I can't play it till I can find someone to fix it. ..I miss playing my 45's ..Now my Granddaughter buys the 33's..
Still have my trash compactor…had the kitchen remodeled twice and kept it. It’s amazing and crushes cans for recycling. Can’t understand why they all disappeared.
I don’t miss the elevtric knife : I still have mine. I use a stove top popcorn popper. I hsve one ftom the 50s and a modern one. Dishwasher/washing machines are used in RVs!
I didn't know that. My RV has a Fisher & Paykel Dishwasher (I love it) and a Splendide combo washer/dryer. What is the brand of the Dishwasher/Washing machine?
there were Sears part stores around back in the day...something konked out...on washer; etc.. just unbolt a few parts take it in they'd match em up and back and running for another 10-15 years
My grandmother had a washer with a ringer on it. It was kept outside on the back porch which was covered. She told us about how dangerous the ringer could be and we were not even allowed to go on the porch when she was using it. We heard about how many women Whose scalps had been ripped off or who had lost fingers or even arms to the ringer. So we never went near the machine when she was using it.
😮I still use my electric knife. I take it to my daughter's house for family dinners. I am 76 and have had it since I got married in 1973 and it still works greatl My son in law wants me to leave it to him upon my demise.
my new mission in life is to get a pristine 36" sony trinitron CRT TV and build my own telebar cabinet with a turntable, speakers, vintage gaming consoles that look better on CRT TVs (NES, SNES, SEGA GENESIS, etc), a VCR and of course a full whisky bar complete with glassware storage.
Those electric knives were cool. Everyone needs one. I use it to open Amazon boxes too. Desl a Meal was good…. I do not miss old fashioned pop corn poppers….
14:05 Another wonder gadget that mom HAD to have ☺️ I have a 1970's or '80s Hamilton Beach model that I picked up in a thrift store several years ago and used until I also needed to retire my monster Healthmaster blender, and took advantage of a sale my local Costco was having on the Ninja set ☺️ The old ones were moved to being displayed alongside grandma's old steam curlers and coffee perculator that fascinated my toddler self so many years ago while sitting and watching the coffee splash and bubble-up in the clear lid handle ☺️
14:20 I still remember our first microwave; very heavy, metal interior with the temperature probe for meats, and a $450 price tag..... Yes, dad always made sure us kids fully understood what would happen if any of us broke the thing; a sore butt and no allowance until it has added up to enough to pay for its replacement 😳😱🫣
So, while I - a Floridian - appreciate the blow torch to remove the snow, since the snow hasn't melted I assume its still freezing. So when the blow torch turns the snow to water, wouldn't that water turn to ICE? How is that better? Are ya gonna keep blow torching the water until it evaporates? About the jukeboxes - I remember them and watching the record flip from the pile to the roundtable (words some wouldn't understand!). But its a drag to go to a restaurant or bar and have to endure someone's songs just to hear the 3 songs you paid to hear. Maybe we don't share taste in music - so glad for devices when it comes to that! Great vid!!
We had a wringer washer when I was a kid. I had to push the clothes or sheets through the wringer. I got my arms caught up in sheets and they were pulled through the wringers. I was stuck there with the wringer still turning. My mom was in the house (the washer was in the garage) and could not hear me screaming. Finally my little sister came in and panicked. She thought the machine was eating me. Mom came out and unplugged the washer and helped me get my arms out. Bruised from fingers to shoulders. After that I pushed the stuff through with a stick. Oh yeah, my mom laughed her ass off telling my dad and her best friend.
haha!! we have a hotdogger in its original box that we pass around the family every year at christmas. someone gets to be the 'keeper of the dogger' lol!! we have also collected some 'accessories' that came out after it, a bigger model, a bun warmer, etc. such fun! electrocute your hot dogs everyone!
I still use an electric knife. I cut meat esp roasts and freeze segments to cook as needed, I cut bread loaves to freeze also and I cut corn off the cob to prep and freeze. I also have a nice newer Black and Decker large toaster oven I use a lot. But I pop my popcorn the old fashion way in a SS pan with oil. Best way.
We were extremely poor in the 50s when I n my sibs were born, i do remember the wringer machine, but most of all we did our washing on washboards! In 1974 my hubby brought home this huge contraption that i thought was n air conditioner, but he told me it was a microwave oven! I remember the old tube T.Vs, daddy would tell us to go to the market n get him a tube if one blew up...i also remeber the old chest of drawers mom had used as a crib bed for each of us 5 kids , we were so poor but mom n dad made due with what they could! I love all old things n perfer them as I've aged...everything was built to last! I sewed my childrens clothes, and my own on old singer machine! I love all thing retro, especially Roaring 20s! Some old truckstops today still have the mini jukebox that sat on the tables...those i think were a dime to play like 5 or more tunes!
Are you a baby boomer? Do you remember these vintage appliances? Please share your thoughts 💭
I love the review but I feel a lot of the facts are wrong. Some I know are wrong. Also I expected a more chronological review in order of when the item was prevalent. But overall great video.
77yrsold.
The knife still works and I use it for my turkey.
I'm 60 years old.
Note that the Silent Generation (1928 to 1945) who are still alive would remember them well. They (and the Greatest Generation) were our parents.
Got lots of old appliances that work extremely well, and I can say with 100% certainty that we have gone very far backwards.
We bought a small Whirlpool refrigerator/freezer on sale: $900+ They said it would last 2-3 years, maybe 5 if we were lucky. That was the best rated brand and model. 😵
My husband's family had a refrigerator that survived and kept working after a devastating flood went through their town. The house was a mess, but they cleaned the mud off the fridge and it kept working.
I always liked GE appliances. Movers dropped my GE washer 5' onto it's front on concrete when I moved. It only broke the light cover! It went on to give years more service in a big family.
@@kdc-nb5fw My Ammana refrigerator (olive green) is still gping. Bought it in 1973. Daughter has had 4 since got married in 2008.
@@knitwit7082I just had to get rid of my GE microwave two years ago. I had it for 29 years, a present from my parents for my very first apartment. I was so sad to let it go. The one I have now feels so lightweight and chintzy. Plus, it’s not from my sweet dad, who passed away in 2020.
My parents bought a microwave from Montgomery Wards in November of @ 1972. They took it out of the carton, and set it up to make sure it worked, and then packed it up as a present for Christmas to each other. After they got down from the attic and thought about an hour, then decided to give it to each other for their anniversary, November 30th. So back up to the attic! It lasted at least 30 years.
Our first microwave was huge. We had it in the kitchen, but didn’t tell our friends. We had a small party, and murmuring was that we were so addicted to tv that we had to get one for the kitchen!😊
The son-in-law of a close friend of mine worked for Litton Industries. He got her a new Litton microwave about that time. It was still working when she passed away in 1991. So, it probably worked for 20 years, at least.
@@knitwit7082 I don't think anyone uses the microwave to cook anything anymore. They mainly use it for reheating things or boiling water. Meat cooked in a microwave is horrible and rubbery
I still have 2 sets of electric knives from the 70’s. Still use them once a year for thanks giving.
I have one that is a greenish and yellowish color
I still have one I used on turkeys, hams and roasts. They are the greatest.
Never used an electric knife and never will. My Uncle Sam taught me how to use the correct sharp knife to cut and slice. 53 years later I still use the techniques he taught me.
Those are great! I still have one from when I baked bread.
I am very old and recall using a mangle to iron linens. A mangle was an ironing machine. The cloth rotated between a padded cylinder and a heated curved plate
Thanks for sharing
Wow! I am 70 and have only seen them in movies.
@@aliciamersdorf4426 my mother worked in the local washroom and I remember helping after School feeding sheets through these Mangels. It was hot work...😱
@@i_am_a_freespirit Yep. Mondays in the summer were a taste of hell at our house, not only sheets, spreads, and pillow cases for the family but all my Dad's white shirts and doctor's coats waiting to be starched and pressed.
I inherited many of these appliances and time-savers after my parents passed. They were the Silent Generation. "Use it Up, Wear it Out, Make it Do, or Do Without." I'm Gen X, but our household thrived thanks to that mantra. (That said, most of my cohort born before the 1980s will remember many of these tools.) My devices still work, ergo there isn't any need to replace them. My fridge, stove, and washer are modern. A humorous aside: My Dodge Caliber came with a "Chill Zone" in the dash for soda cans.
I am still using my Amana refrigerator (avacodo) in 2024; it is 51 years old. It is old enough to run for president against Biden.
My parents were children during the Depression. No waste, no buying things you do not need, once school clothes wore out they became play clothes and mom has a mending basket. I think the only thing I do not miss is the freezers you had to defrost.
TheGruffchickjour •
Words to live by. I am only 70 but I raised 6 kids on a shoe string, so I had to do that.
@@rosanneshinkle4133I think living through the Depression really scarred people. My father-in-law died at 95 in 2001. He had money, but he kept old shoes and clothes long after they were worn out. He still had their original bedroom set where they made 4 babies.
He was always terrified of not having any money because he was too old to work and make more. He always had a stash in his house. He left word with his pastor where it was. He wanted us to have it. I know why: they were cremated but had no burial plot. He knew we would bury them.
All of a sudden, my sister-in-law started examining her shoes. She wouldn't look at us. She had taken the money. She knew he kept a stash, went in and took it.
My husband publicly shamed his brother into burying them. We never saw their grave but I doubt they have a marker. He cheated his dad out of his real estate too!
Sorry...
The electric knife and the seal-a-meal are still important in my kitchen! The toaster and microwave are used daily. Everyone still has an electric can opener, and those fridge/cooktop/sinks are still used in tiny studio apartments. We all have some form of PC.
I don’t think anyone did any sort of quality control on this vid…stupid content farming, doesn’t matter if the subject matter actually matches up with the title, they’re just gonna pump content…🙄
I was honestly starting to get annoyed by how many of these appliances weren’t actually vintage, just been around for a while. Vintage would indicate that they’re no longer made and I noticed SEVERAL that are still made today…🙄
Bobrogers99 •
I have bought TWO Seal a Meals in the last 10 years. Even got a roll of extra bags. They both disappeared! My husband pled not guilty, but it is just the 2 of us. If I didn't "lose" them, he did.
What did he DO with them? Did he hate them? I had one when we first got married in 1990. I liked it a lot. That one disappeared years ago too! Is there a pattern here?🤔🙄
I still have my electric Hot Dogger, and I love it. It tastes better than any other way. I love my electric knife, too. I use my pop corm popper, too. I purchased my all-chrome GE Toaster Oven (which looks nothing like that item today) in 1964. Mine is pictured near the end of your video. It is still going strong. It has outlasted every toaster my friends bought within the last 10 years. My parents has a gas Flair oven/broiler/rotisserie/range. It was still going strong 3 years ago when I sold their house. NO appliances last over 60 years any more. It was a great thing for their small kitchen. Those jukeboxes were fabulous, especially at pizza restaurants where my friends and I used to gather as adolescents and teens.
Thanks for the video!
Appreciate your interest!
Didn’t you find it nostalgic?
My Mother bought a Philco Refrigerator before I turned 3. 66 years later, still going strong. Not as pretty as it used to look - but then who of us are - but it still runs as well and much more quietly than the modern one. (Wish I did!) Only drawback is having to defrost it (but twice a year ain't bad - kind of nostalgic actually). They sure don't build 'em like they used to!
My mom still uses a 35+ year old electric knife every Thanksgiving. Just the once a year 😂
Wow!! Still have your Communion $$?!?
The gas Frigidaire Flair must have been a well kept secret. I've never seen a gas Frigidaire Flair
I'm actually old enough to remember the first microwave oven heavily marketed to the home. It's name was an absolute mouth full called, "THE AMANA RADAR RANGE MICROWAVE OVEN!" I loved seeing these shown on Let's Make a Deal with Monty Hall or The Price Is Right with Bob Barker. The first time I remember seeing a Radar Range in action was in an old Ma & Pa Kettle movie called Ma & Pa Kettle and Win a New House.
The Amana, my Dad had to have one lol! My Ma didn't believe the instructions and "tried" to make a meatloaf. Needless to say this was not a shining example... It was sooo dried out that it kinda looked like punky or damaged wood. Inedible, not even a "maybe the dog will like it". Thank the Deities she got better but it was just an expensive leftover warmer \pop corn maker! Love the nostalgia💖
I remember them!
I remember these too.
Born in 1959.
Same, I was born in 1961.
I owned one when they came out !!! I loved it !!!!
I remember from childhood that iceboxes were called that because ice was literally used. I remember when ice was delivered for the icebox. Just like milk delivery!
Good old times… right?
My living room furniture is solid oak and looks like an ice box. It has survived a flood. I think it will outlast me.
I remember the milk delivery !! not ice though....that's cool.
How old are you?😊❤
@@dew7545 Close to 70. 😊
The old Wurlitzer jukeboxes that had the bubble lights were our version of MTV. 😂
? Anyone still see a JuteBox ?
Yes, jukeboxes are occasionally given as prizes on Let's Make a Deal, and The Price is Right on CBS. Very retro 👌
😝😝😝
@@lindacombs7424Not like the originals, I am sure.
Remember getting 3 songs for a quarter?
My husband's high school classmate brought hers to their 25th reunion. So fun to dance to.
what i appreciate about vintage homeware are the appliances. There was no "planned obsolescence", waffle irons, toasters, refrigerators, you name it lasted DECADES without repairs. My mother (b 1924) had a Coldspot freezer purchased in 1954 that ran to 1994 and was still working when she unplugged it. She had grown to old to defrost it. Nowadays you get a Samsung fridge with a computer in the door and you will have to use that computer to claim your warranty for a repair. The wicked witch of the west said it best....What a world, what a world...
I have a Coldspot freezer
Only stupid people buy a refrigerator with a screen in the door. It is all marketing. This is the same demographic who spend money on things that lose value and then wonder why have no money in the bank.
Most excellent comment. Appliances break more often and people toss them rather than try to repair them.
Really. When they went to that "computer chip" stuff made in Asia, life expectancy for appliances went from 20+ years down to 2. Of course, the cost went WAY up.
When our 5-year old side by side died completely (even the light went out) we looked and looked for an old used one. Nothing. I guess people keep them or sell a house with the old-timer in it.
@@rosanneshinkle4133It costs as much to repair them as replace them.
What a huge waste of resources!
My mom had a wringer washer as far back as I can remember!
My grandmother had one. Mom always hung the clothes out to dry. We did not have a clothes dryer until the 60s. You can live without one.
roxanneherrmann2107 •
Mine too! She had 2 or 3 of them at the same time. (Not sure why: they all worked?)
We went to a laundromat one time when I was about 8. She HATED using a top loading washer.
She hung the clothes outside to dry in good weather; in the basement when it was bad weather.
Monday was laundry day. Tuesday she "sprinkled" and rolled them up. (Before steam irons.)
Wednesday was ironing day.
Remember those days? We shopped at the A&P or Piggly Wiggly. Hahahaha!
Also, my mother was afraid of electric hand mixers. My brother bought her one. It stayed in her kitchen drawer, unused.
@@roxanneherrman2107 me two...🥰
We couldn't afford appliances back then for the most part. I remember our very first television was delivered and set up the day America set foot on the Moon in 1969, and our cat stolen an entire chicken from the kitchen table 😂
That's a great memory for the 1st tv...but man O man...that musta been a big cat...but 1n 1969 money was tight in our house too and that cat wouldn't got a chance to use up 9 lives
Well, we were so riveted to the Apollo moon landing on our black and White TV, that no one paid attention to the dinner table...🥹so the cat about 17 pounds did a "snatch and dive" (where claws hook and get janked backwards with whatever is attached 😂🤣😂) at the edge of the table where the plate with the chicken stood from the extra chair 😂.
It was our fault for not watching the table and in Germany everyone was fascinated by whatever Americans did, including Neil Armstrong setting foot on the Moon!
I_am_a_fre •
Cat couldn't let that chance go by!
My dad was the TV Repair guy with the uniform and big case of tubes that came to your house to fix your TV. He also had a store to fix radios, tvs, toasters, etc. My earliest memory (2 or 3) was watching Walter Cronkite on a TV with a little screen. Probably about 1955? My mother was frying something in the kitchen: SSSSZZZ.
I wish they still had places to fix stuff like that. I have an old electric heater that needs a new blower motor.
I still have floppy disks used in college back in the 80's ...
I also remember these jukeboxes...
I have a sewing machine that uses floppy discs to put embroidery designs in to make designs.
@@sarahbauer5593I had a Kenmore that I bought in 1973. It had a set of orange hard plastic
discs. To make decorative stitches you just changed discs. It worked great. I used it for 20 years, then gave it to my oldest daughter. She made her kids baby clothes and quilts. I think she still has it. Now that I am old my husband bought me a nice Janome that sits in the closet, used once or twice. 😢
@@sarahbauer5593 does that give away our age 😱🤣😱???
@@i_am_a_freespirit I am almost at the bottom of the hill. I have used a sewing machine that you pumped like an old organ, from the 1880s.
@@sarahbauer5593
I had a treadle sewing machine after my mother got her first electric sewing machine when I was 9 years old 🤣
My in-laws gave us and Electric Knife 50yrs ago at first I laughed , But guess what we still use it was a great gift . You can slice all kinds of foods .😊
Sweet old memory.. isn’t it?
The ' mangle' we called a wringer. A mangle was an ironing devise, large, it set on the floor. It ironed sheets and pillowcases in an era of cotton that wrinked. U had both wringers and a mangle. But, the other devises are fun to remember!!
I remember my mom and grandma talking about how dangerous those old ringers were. "Getting your t*t stuck in the wringer" was a real thing😮
@@johnathandavis3693 That actually happened to my grandmother. Yikes!
Correct, two different machines.
Mangle was for ironing….my grandma had one in her wash room. It was hard for me to use, but I did pillow cases, then there was to curtain stretcher, loved
My mom had an ironing mangle, so when I was tasked to use one at a restaurant, where I cleaned the tablecloths and napkins, I knew how to use it. And this was in the 70s!
My parents had a stove with an elevated flat surface warming tray ‘hood’ over the stovetop. The kitchen also had an electric can opener and electric knife that only came out during the holidays when my dad carved. Also had that big wooden cabinet that held a tv/radio/phono and speakers on each side of the tv. But for some reason my mom never bought a Hot Dogger. We had to boil ours on the stovetop. To this day that is how I prefer to cook my dogs. Ah….the good old days…
Indeed!
Which one is the favourite memory?
I've had my refrigerator for over 40 years and it's still going strong, anything I want to keep truly cold, I keep in my old reliable. My new fridge is "energy efficient", keeping food minimally cold and all the shelves and drawers have had to be replaced. My washer lasted 40+ years but I had to replace it due to a part that needed replacing but the company no longer existed. The new washer wrings out the clothes so strongly that my clothes are so beat up in the washer that they lose their colors and wear out. I loved my popcorn popper in the dorm. I also heated soups and "spaghettios" in it. I still use the electric can opener, my niece wants one, but difficult to find and definitely not the same quality.
Thanks for sharing
@@margarethanson8330 I had to replace a sewing machine for that reason
Brother made it. It is only 23 years old but they no longer make the parts for it. It was an early computer embroidery machine. I let Brother know how disappointed I was and am.
I love the frigidaire ice box, great logical ice maker, and now I want some popcorn.
We had an electric knife when I was a kid. Hamilton Beach!
4:28 . . . Still use the same Ronson electric knife today. Same color... same storage case. Didn't know it needed to make a 'comeback'. This is essential for roasts and turkeys.
Thanks for sharing
LakeNipissing •
Great for cutting homemade bread. Somewhere I have this handy thing you put the loaf in, and the sides have slits that are evenly spaced. You put the knife into each slit, and zzzz nice neat bread slices.
As a teenager in the 70's, Myself and many of my friends inherited the family TV/stereo console from the 60's, usually the TV part had died, so it became our personal "stereo". They usually worked pretty good, but they were big and ugly, and took up a lot of room. The cool kids had real component systems...
Parents had the TV/stereo/LP player console with sliding screen cover.
I remember our first automatic washing machine. My Dad and Uncle spent all night setting it up. I came home from school (2nd grade) to find our maid screaming, kneeling on top of the machine, which had vibrated itself into the center of the room. There was soapy water all over. I pulled the plug on the machine. My Dad worked on it some more, we were using that machine 20 years later. I remember watching a fishing show on TV, the man filleted fish with an electric carving knife. What a mess!
A mangle is an iron,not on a washing machine. You lay the clothes in it to iron them.
My Mum didn't need a 'serve-it-hot' food warmer. ANY hot meals we had were served on scalding hot plates, fresh from the oven ! You did NOT want to accidentally touch your plate, but your food remained hot, while you ate it - no matter how slow or fast of an eater you were !
LOVE THE FLAIR STOVE
Loved ours growing up! Would love to have that style return.
#7 - A mangle is not a wringer - it's an ironing machine. They are two completely different devices.
To preserve food a vacuum sealer is a must.
stanwolenski9541 •
You sound like a guy. Can you tell me where (not even why) a man/ husband could "lose" two NEW ones in their boxes in the HOUSE?
I am baffled. He pled not guilty, but there are just the 2 of us, soooo...
@@knitwit7082 My best guesses, he doesn’t want to use them so he “forgot” he may have put them in the trash. Next, he is vacuum sealing his weed in the garage and doesn’t want you to know to know about his side gig. Third he may use them for something nefarious that will become an episode on Dateline.
In the 70s my family had a Sears Kenmore trash compactor.
Trash compactors were so cool. My daughter-in-law had one in an old house her mother had left her.
This vid needs a clip of THE FONZ starting the jukebox with his fist!
I still have (and use) a Hamilton Beach electric knife , color Harvest Gold. Received as a wedding gift from my grandfather 53 years ago.
The seated, console mangles were the best for ironing clothing neatly.
I can remember attending a home show in the late 70s where they demonstrated the food processor. Now I have a big one and a small one.
In the late 1960's a friend of mine had a VW Beetle he installed a beer tap on the dash w/a pony keg and ice in the boot.
Kept mugs in the ice also.......
Awesome!!! bet he/she was most popular friend around
My grandmother invented an attachment for the first automatic clothes washer that would churn butter. She got a patent for it and made a fair amount of money from this invention back in the 1940s/50s.
Thanks for sharing
Nice!
Wow!! I used to make butter for my kids. Put the cream from farm-bought raw milk into the blender. It made great butter. The milk left over is good to drink or use in baking.
Fridges from the 1950s -60s were SO SUPERIOR to later fridges. The ringers were scary - my grandma had one in her basement….
🎉My grandmother had a Maytag wringer washer that was on wheels. We moved it from the enclosed back porch to the side yard for laundry. Then, after going through the wringer, I helped hang the clothes on the clothesline, strung beside the cement platform my grandfather put in to hold the “Maytag”. Going through the wringer, clothes took less than an hour to dry..My parents got one of the first refrigerators in the 1940’s made by Shelvador. It had a small freezer inside with an ice maker similar to what they showed. That refrigerator lasted for 40 years! I still have (and use) my mom’s electric knife, electric can opener with knife sharpener, & pop corn popper. A friend owned a bar for years and gave me his juke box. I just need to figure out how to assemble it. Mon & Dad bought all Frigidaire appliances when we moved in 1968 to a larger home. A Frigidaire Flair was the stove. Give me our old gas stove- looked like it had 2 ovens but the left side was a fully adjustable broiler, with the warming drawer on the bottom. Also, my Mother in Law had a mangle. It had an electric cord coming to it, It was about 4’ long,(looked like a wider, shorter ironing board on top & bottom) and worked like an automatic ironing board a padded board. on the bottom, there was a long flat padded board with a heavy padded top board the same size hinged to the bottom with a long metal handle. You arranged clothes on the bottom (I only saw it used for dress pants) and pressed them by lowering the top onto the bottom. At the time, I thought it might be something used at a dry cleaner.
Yes, that is a mangle. The things shown in this video with the washing machine is a wringer. We had one.
As a kid in the late 50s, I recall a few homes in the neighborhood still had wringer washers. Maytag made them into the 80s, mostly for overseas sales to poorer countries.
Joyce • I think dry cleaners did use them. Maybe still do?
I got confused. I thought Shelvador made the gas fridges. That was Servel that made those. We had one in an old camp trailer we had.
@@user-cn6cw6os3s They saved on water and maybe eiectricity.
I still have a mangle on my utility sink. Still use it. Bought for $5 at a flea market in 1998.
Wow, growing up in Germany, i remember the electric knifes. We didn't eat popcorn, BECAUSE corn was grown for life stock food ONLY, and was not for human consumption.
I do remember the wringer washers...and my grandmother's first electric spinner BECAUSE she set me on the lid to keep the lid from flying open during the spinning cycle.😂🤣😂
Had one when I lived up two miles away from Forest City. Oh, my dad and I had to watch our fingers. Oh, but one time I forgot that my harmonica was in my pocket and it got smushed, I still have it and I sometimes get it out and play it. Love from Marysville California
Dorothy •
Yreka was my home town! I remember Marysville-Yuba City very well.
My mother had a mangle in the 50s. It was a large white enamel machine that looked like a refrigerator on its back. It wasn't for wringing out clothes, those were called wringers. It was for ironing sheets and pillow cases before the invention of permanent press.
All of these appliances are still used in food service today.
These aren't exclusive to😮 baby boomers!
Originated that time
When I was a child we had a wringer washer - I was always afraid of getting my fingers or hand caught in the wringer. When I was in my early teens we had a Flair oven. It was a good idea for kitchens with limited room. The 'Seal-A-Meal' / 'Food Saver' are wonderful! I can vacuum seal extra portions for the freezer and not worry about freezer burn. Saves me time and money. My ex-mother in law had a trash compactor. Personally I never much cared for them. Then again I can't abide having trash in my house and take the trash out about twice a day.
My husband was a major motor head when he was a teen and restored a few classic cars - One he restored (can't recall the name) had a built in cooler in the backseat. Which of course was made good use of by he and his buddies. He said it held 12 bottles of beer.
Self warming trays are great for get togethers, especially Thanksgiving where there are tons of hot dishes. Our family has shrunk, so I've given most of mine away, and just pull out my trusty heating pad if I need one.
Electric knifes are underrated- you can get such lovely thin slices easily.
I still have a Foodsaver for vacuumsealing, but even though it didn't vacuum, the Daizy Seal-a-Meal had an innovation current machines don't: the edges of their bags had holes like the old computer printer paper that you would hook on a spring lever that pulled the opening taut and you could mount the machine on the wall. Both the wall mount and spring holder made them easier to use. They also came with a custom "funnel" that you slid into the opening that held the bags wide open and kept food from getting on the edges of the bag messing up the seal. I still use that with my Foodsaver.
We ate a ton of popcorn growing up. Only 4 of us, we would still eat more than one large batch of popcorn every time, and would fill up a brown paper grocery sack with it at home to take to the movie theater. Popcorn cooked without fat is just sad, and although the air poppers had a butter melter, it just made random kernels soggy. Dad liked to experiment, cooking the popcorn with bacon or sausage grease, or using the popper to melt sugar to pour on top. Now that so many movie theaters bring in bagged popcorn that they just heat up, the best popcorn you can get is one of those old stovetop crank type poppers and coconut oil - gets that perfect texture and flavor. The only microwave popcorn I've actually enjoyed in the last 20 years, I haven't been able to find in a decade: Orville Reddenbacher's Pour Over Cheddar. That cheesy sauce was the bomb.
Food processors are still common, however, built in and all in one versions are extinct. I'm the proud owner of a Oster Kitchen Center: a motorized base that you can attach a mixer head to, a blender, a food processor, a salad shooter, an ice crusher, a pasta maker, an ice cream maker, a meat grinder, a spice grinder, and a juicer - maybe more, I don't have all the attachments. One great thing about its blender attachment is that it was mason jar sized: you could use any mason jar as the pitcher. Before that, I think it was Nu-tone that had the motor built into the counter, and you just snapped your attachments on. Sewrena on CZcams has one, and it's amazing. Now you have to buy every gadget separately, which is just as well because things are manufactured so poorly, you have to replace them regularly.
The campaign for microwaves as a replacement for normal ovens created recipes that rival the horror of the 50s gelatin trend. Some things just should not be cooked in them.
I stayed in a motel in the 80s that had one of those all in one kitchen pieces in the room and I thought it was beyond awesome - so compact and efficient! Mom was terrified we would get electrocuted, so she wouldn't let us use the sink there lol.
My Mother had that Flare Double Oven with the Pull OutStove Burners! It was the 1960's, & we had a newly built, 2 story house with several innovations. 2 bathrooms were a dream back then, & Mom's Flare Stove & breakfast bar were the envy of the neighbothood! Later, in the 70's, my Dad got the Hot Dogger as a freebie premium for opening a bank account in the new bank in town. He loved it!
Should do a video on the laundary mat. In the 70s, there was the mighty barrel defuser. For .25 cents. It cut the drying time by half. Mostly used for jeans, work clothes . And rugs. It was a true game changer. Great video.
The mangle, mangled my hand, when it caught it, and ran it to my wrist.
I was screaming, and my mom freaked out!
Instead of hitting the release, she reversed it, running my hand back through it, LOL!
It hurt for a while, but thankfully, nothing was broken...
Mangles didn't have rollers. Wringer washers did.
I had several of these appliances they were wonderful. Thank you 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩💖💖💖💖
B-4 microwave, was the radar range! My neighbor had one and had to have the fire department come by once a year to check for radar waves
9:20 those are not mangles. Those are wringer washers. Mangles ironed clothes. Especially large items.mangles were allay heated too.
The jukebox and the pinball machine was the most complex devices ever made.
I remember the individual table jukebox units that were at every table in diners....I thought they were so neat as a kid. They hold fond memories like that of good Diner food with chocolate malts that were the highlight of every Diner experience back in the day when life was really good!
The way I remember what you call a mangle is from our local YMCA. It was put just outside the showers for the swimming pool, so you could remove excess water from your swimsuit before packing to go home. I miss that.
Stove top pressure cookers used to be around. I’m Gen X, but the next door neighbors had one when I was a kid, and I was fascinated with it because of the Tom and Jerry episode that featured an exploding one
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Hahaha! I never heard of one exploding. I still have my old one, but it needs a new rubber seal and I have no idea where to get one. They were a great invention. Cooked fast, meat was very tender...
We had a Dishmaster kitchen faucet. A brush sprayer was attached to a refillable reservoir that delivered dish soap when you a pushed the button on the brush. Obviously, dishwasher manufacturers weren't thrilled, and almost certainly had a hand in it's DE-marketing.
I think I recall having one of those. At some point it gave up the ghost.
I had forgotten all about it.
The metal meat grinder. It ground up bologna and ham for ham salad and bologna salad sandwiches. Also, it was great for grinding meat for sausages. My parents loved theirs. The butler on wheels was great. You could take it to the living room, the dining room, the family room. Very convenient as you could load it up with dishes, food, drinks, etc. you did not have to carry all that stuff with multiple trips to the kitchen.
Why do they have people explaining about inventions that don't know what their talking about? A mangle is a machine use to iron & press clothes. A wringer was on a washing machne, put water & soap into mahon, turn on the timer & let the clothes agitate to get clean. Then run clothes through wringer & into rinse water. Dunk up & down in rinse water, run through wringer again, putinto clothes basket, take outside hang clothes onto clothesline using cloths pins to attach to line. Come back in an hour or two to retrieve dry clothes. Take inside & smell the freshness of th cloths, especially the sheets & pillowcases.
A wringer extracted water and was not called a mangel. A mangel had two rollers later they added heat, and was used to press iron sheets and table cloths, napkins, etc. When i was a child, my mom had one
21:52 Most clothes washers available today are pretty terrible at washing clothes, wouldn't want to put my dishes into a machine that can't even get your clothes wet.
4:50 Oh yeah, mom went crazy for the Seal-A-Meal ☺️
She was militant about squeezing out the air from bread and anything else that held plastic bags, so when this miraculous kitchen helper entered the scene, she absolutely had to have one 😁
And yup. We had an electric popcorn popper, but nothing beat Jiffy Pop for us kids, because we could make the magic happen ourselves if mom was busy 😁
We had the first type of corn popper you showed, then that bug round one before graduating to the hot air popper; a miracle delight for mom!
rochellees •
Nothing beat the old kind of popcorn made in an iron skillet and lid
on the stove on a Saturday night by my mother.
Ah, the good old days! This brings back so many happy times
Yes it is 🤩Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙂
I have a 60's console stereo/record player, with hidden revolving mini bar, & with a fake fireplace in the bottom. I love it lol
Totally something Quagmire would have
My first digital computer was a TRaSh-80 with a whole 4k of RAM. I thought I had something when I upgraded to a whopping 16k of RAM. It stored programs on cassette tape with a regular tape recorder. It would even make sounds when I put a small transistor AM radio on the keyboard. Not to mention the fun of typing in long BASIC programs and then spending hours debugging my typos.
It's so nostalgic. Love to watch
I want one of those stoves that have the sunken stewpot - so handy!
JazzyBabe56 • My sister-in-law had one in her old range. I met her in 1970. It also had a warming compartment beside the oven. BIG range!
The warmer is still in use. The 3 section home table appliance. Amazon carries an electric knife that more closely resembles a chainsaw. We called it a wringer also. Never heard of mangle. We had one!
I had the greatest microwave/convection oven in the mid-80’s. It was made by Panasonic and was great in Hawaii since our on base housing had gas stoves. The 3 in 1 fridge, stove and sink can be purchased on Amazon.
Thanks for sharing!
Steam warming trays are still used everywhere. Like a lot of the rest of the appliances shown that are still in very widespread use.
I never heard a wringer being called a "mangle".
It's not. A wringer and a mangle are two different things.
No. A wringer is a washer. A mangle is for steam pressing.
The lady my husband knew got her hair caught in a wringer...not a mangle. Hope that was clear.
The Fridgedare Flair stove is still more modern and desirable than anything on the market in 2024. I wish I had one
I bought a brand new electric stove with ovens on top and bottom in 1971. I thought I had died and gone to heaven!
Now I have a range top and a wall oven. They are pretty handy too.
It was fun to watch the hot air popcorn popper!
A few of these things are before baby boomers and most of them are in use in modern versions. That TV bar, tho.
You can still get food sealers
Yeah. If you don't have a crazy husband who "loses" them shortly after they are brought into the house. I have lost 2, never used, in the box, in 10 years. Is he giving them away? Selling on EBay???🤔🤔🤔🤔
i dunno...#3....looking at those electric burners right next to that sink......what could go wrong??? lol
30:00 Yup. Mu dad had a TRS 80 with a DMP 120 (dot matrix printer) and a cassette tape drive..... Us kids were guaranteed by our dad to end up with broken fingers if we dared to touch the tape counter..... Where he kept track of where a program was on the cassette tapes 😬
I was baffled by the “mangle”, never heard that. Being a late baby-boomer, by the time I was 5, we had what was called an electric wringer-washer which was kept outside because the wash and rinse water had to be manually drained by pulling a plug. I remember being was warned to keep my little fingers away from the continuously moving rollers, so I was afraid but then was allowed to help my mom by feeding wet laundry through them (go figure)😮
It's called a steam table!
No, I have a tabletop roaster with a steam table insert. The square pans sit in the insert openings above hot water in the roaster.
As a roaster it was junk, but as a steam table it works great. My husband loves it. SO glad I bought the insert.
I grew up with the pull out stove and it was fantastic.
I still use my metal ice cube makers..They have never broken on me..I remember my cousins & myself would make kool aid cubes..wow ...lol.. I was my Dad's favorite remote control , channel 4 , oh no channel 7 , darn turn the antenna will ya..Nope Dad, that's your job, YOU get on the roof top in the snow! Ok so my Dad would do the outside thing, but I sure changed plenty of channels in my days. I still have my Jukebox, it's a 1978..Now it picks up a few records at a time, so I can't play it till I can find someone to fix it. ..I miss playing my 45's ..Now my Granddaughter buys the 33's..
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Still have my trash compactor…had the kitchen remodeled twice and kept it. It’s amazing and crushes cans for recycling. Can’t understand why they all disappeared.
I don’t miss the elevtric knife : I still have mine. I use a stove top popcorn popper. I hsve one ftom the 50s and a modern one. Dishwasher/washing machines are used in RVs!
Did you find this video nostalgic?
@@Vintage.ShowTV Not really. Being nostalgic is not one of my finer points. For me, these were not "the good ole days ".
I didn't know that. My RV has a Fisher & Paykel Dishwasher (I love it) and a Splendide combo washer/dryer. What is the brand of the Dishwasher/Washing machine?
@@judyross182 No idea, but Amazon carries them.
@@ghw7192 Not that I can find. Can you provide a link to show me what you mean?
there were Sears part stores around back in the day...something konked out...on washer; etc.. just unbolt a few parts take it in they'd match em up and back and running for another 10-15 years
Norge made an electric range with a lidded cookpot for chicken or pot roast which you pulled out of the top to wash in the sink.
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My mom's stove had a built in crock pot on her electric stove. She used it to start dinner in am so it would be ready when she got home from work.
My grandmother had a washer with a ringer on it. It was kept outside on the back porch which was covered. She told us about how dangerous the ringer could be and we were not even allowed to go on the porch when she was using it. We heard about how many women Whose scalps had been ripped off or who had lost fingers or even arms to the ringer. So we never went near the machine when she was using it.
😮I still use my electric knife. I take it to my daughter's house for family dinners. I am 76 and have had it since I got married in 1973 and it still works greatl My son in law wants me to leave it to him upon my demise.
The sink and electric stove combo sounds like a really dangerous idea due to the huge shock hazard!
my new mission in life is to get a pristine 36" sony trinitron CRT TV and build my own telebar cabinet with a turntable, speakers, vintage gaming consoles that look better on CRT TVs (NES, SNES, SEGA GENESIS, etc), a VCR and of course a full whisky bar complete with glassware storage.
We had a Trinitron in 1970.
We had a ringer washer for a while when was young. and from what I understand they’re still being made for the Amish population
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Those electric knives were cool. Everyone needs one. I use it to open Amazon boxes too. Desl a Meal was good…. I do not miss old fashioned pop corn poppers….
14:05 Another wonder gadget that mom HAD to have ☺️
I have a 1970's or '80s Hamilton Beach model that I picked up in a thrift store several years ago and used until I also needed to retire my monster Healthmaster blender, and took advantage of a sale my local Costco was having on the Ninja set ☺️
The old ones were moved to being displayed alongside grandma's old steam curlers and coffee perculator that fascinated my toddler self so many years ago while sitting and watching the coffee splash and bubble-up in the clear lid handle ☺️
14:20 I still remember our first microwave; very heavy, metal interior with the temperature probe for meats, and a $450 price tag..... Yes, dad always made sure us kids fully understood what would happen if any of us broke the thing; a sore butt and no allowance until it has added up to enough to pay for its replacement 😳😱🫣
😊 thanks for sharing
Only baby boomers remember toasters and microwave ovens?
Seriously?
So, while I - a Floridian - appreciate the blow torch to remove the snow, since the snow hasn't melted I assume its still freezing. So when the blow torch turns the snow to water, wouldn't that water turn to ICE? How is that better? Are ya gonna keep blow torching the water until it evaporates? About the jukeboxes - I remember them and watching the record flip from the pile to the roundtable (words some wouldn't understand!). But its a drag to go to a restaurant or bar and have to endure someone's songs just to hear the 3 songs you paid to hear. Maybe we don't share taste in music - so glad for devices when it comes to that! Great vid!!
We had a wringer washer when I was a kid. I had to push the clothes or sheets through the wringer. I got my arms caught up in sheets and they were pulled through the wringers. I was stuck there with the wringer still turning. My mom was in the house (the washer was in the garage) and could not hear me screaming. Finally my little sister came in and panicked. She thought the machine was eating me. Mom came out and unplugged the washer and helped me get my arms out. Bruised from fingers to shoulders. After that I pushed the stuff through with a stick. Oh yeah, my mom laughed her ass off telling my dad and her best friend.
haha!! we have a hotdogger in its original box that we pass around the family every year at christmas. someone gets to be the 'keeper of the dogger' lol!! we have also collected some 'accessories' that came out after it, a bigger model, a bun warmer, etc. such fun! electrocute your hot dogs everyone!
I still use a Seal A Meal. Love it.
I still use an electric knife. I cut meat esp roasts and freeze segments to cook as needed, I cut bread loaves to freeze also and I cut corn off the cob to prep and freeze. I also have a nice newer Black and Decker large toaster oven I use a lot. But I pop my popcorn the old fashion way in a SS pan with oil. Best way.
The Seal a Meal. We sealed whiskey and vodka in the bags to sneak them into concerts
Had the old trash compactor that squarshed the garbage down but boy did the bag get heavy. The bags could get smelly.
We were extremely poor in the 50s when I n my sibs were born, i do remember the wringer machine, but most of all we did our washing on washboards! In 1974 my hubby brought home this huge contraption that i thought was n air conditioner, but he told me it was a microwave oven!
I remember the old tube T.Vs, daddy would tell us to go to the market n get him a tube if one blew up...i also remeber the old chest of drawers mom had used as a crib bed for each of us 5 kids , we were so poor but mom n dad made due with what they could! I love all old things n perfer them as I've aged...everything was built to last! I sewed my childrens clothes, and my own on old singer machine! I love all thing retro, especially Roaring 20s! Some old truckstops today still have the mini jukebox that sat on the tables...those i think were a dime to play like 5 or more tunes!
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The electric knife was one of the best inventions.