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Sponsor |  fugitive247 | Mar 22, 2007 10:55am | Items could be either retro (OEM from latter 50's through 2nd Reagan administration) or actual antique (50+ years old).
My family would be in mourning if anything should ever happen to our 1st generation Hamilton Beach popcorn maker. None of us care much for microwaved, and stovetop method isn't nearly as entertaining. |
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Sponsor | | hand-head-man | Mar 22, 2007 3:04pm | If I weren't an apartment dweller, I'd likely have vintage major appliances, but all my small kitchen appliances are wonderful, curvy, 40's - 50's chrome and copper and get regular use. I like the lines, the heft, and the durability. I'll add that my copper Osterizer, with only 2 speeds, makes better smoothies than my hideous, harvest gold, 14 speed Waring blender.
Pretty much all my furniture is older too, because I like Space-Age splayed legs and multi-tier tables and lampshades.
My vacuum cleaner, a 60's Electrolux G model, has had a rough life and isn't very photogenic anymore (picture the middle one below after being dragged behind a truck for awhile), but it still does a good job and bags are cheap and easy to find.
If I'd had the money to spare for a second car at the time, I'd have a lovely turquoise and white Nash Metropolitan that I was offered after a hailstorm. The Honda CRX Si I had back then had close to $6000 worth of storm damage (thank goodness for full coverage insurance), but there was only one minor dimple in the heavy, curved, 50's steel of the Metropolitan.
In spite of the resilience that solid-state electronics offers, improved plastics and paint technology, etc., newer consumer goods just don't seem to have the durability of vintage ones. (Partly planned obsolesce, I guess, and market pressure to offer price over quality in all but higher end goods.) From an aesthetic standpoint that isn't so bad though. Ugly, square-edge, beige, black, or faux-woodgrain boxes from of the late '70s through '90s will start to fade, while things like stylish old Philco radios and TVs will be cherished and restored... or reproduced.
A modern TV based on the cool styling of the Philco Predictas
(I want! I want! I want!) |
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|  jillmiles | Jul 22, 2007 8:24am | 
SOUR CREAM GLASSES |
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