The fridge entered the kitchen 100 years ago, when most Americans still had iceboxes. These vintage Frigidaire ads capture the allure of these stylish new appliances.

Source: Better Homes & Gardens. International Harvester built refrigerators too!

Let's help find a 1960 Westinghouse Center Drawer Refrigerator, designed by Peter Muller-Munk, for the Carnegie Museum of Art's exhibition! We can do it!

It is one of those conversations with your husband where he would really like a new washer and dryer (even though he rarely does laundry) and you try to deflect the conversation by saying that "well, I would love a better refrigerator" and he gets on his phone and starts to look. And what can I say, he understands me. So one evening starts with "let's go out to dinner" which quickly leads to "don't be mad, I found it on craigslist" and I am ALWAYS leery of those words. But my husband is a…

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Never get in the middle of two ladies talking.

They were all the rage in the '50s, but have since become a novelty.

Refrigerator of the Future 1956

Vintage 1960s appliance advertisement, Frigidaire stove/ranges with pull-out easy-clean feature, 1964 Published in Ebony, August 1964 - Vol 19, No. 10 *********** I own this vintage magazine and have scanned/photographed this page to share it here only for non-profit commentary, critique, criticism, discussion, research, news reporting, education / information, research, teaching, and/or parody purposes per the provisions and guidelines of the U.S. Fair Use doctrine, pursuant to Title 17…

Roger Wilkerson, The Suburban Legend!

Westinghouse fridges, 1958

POP ART Still Life # 30 TOM WESSELMANN POSTCARD Kellogg's -

It's a very cool story.

1950s Home Maker she reminds me of my grandmother!!!