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Our first manufactured refrigerator was a Kelvinator in the early 1950s. My Dad built the one before that. It was a 4ft by 5ft hole in the wall of the kitchen, situated over the stairs leading down to the basement. It had two large vertical doors, lined in galvanized tin or steel and the mechanicals at the bottom. It was voluminous and kept everything super-cold. I never gave my Dad credit for making it until later in life, it was quite the achievement.
ReplyDeleteMilleson - Very impressive!
DeleteSome great vintage ads!
ReplyDeleteKelvinator was famed for their Food-o-Rama refrigerator with side by side double doors and shelves that you could turn for convenience.
ReplyDeleteIn 1954 Kelvinator merged with the car maker Nash and developed the improved Weather Eye air conditioner for cars that had all its components under the front hood. Other carmakers had various components of their AC systems under the hood and in the trunk.
The onesie swimsuits so popular in the 1920’s and 1930’s.
You can see Rudolph Valentino in his onesie in the 1925 film short The Sheik’s Physique, as well as his 1925 Isotta-Fraschini town car. RV paid 20,000 dollars = 367,000 dollars today.
Dairy Queen and Howard Johnson’s were OK, but in Southern California we had Thrifty Drug ice cream at 10 cents a scoop in the 1960’s, later 25 cents a scoop ! :)
-Rj
Rj - Ah, the good old days.
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