What's In The Basement? A 100 Year Old Kitchen
This antique gas stove was manufactured in Detroit, Michigan in the 1920's by the Detroit-Michigan Stove Company.
It has all the modern conveniences of the time such as easy temperature control of the oven by this dial.
Which in addition to displaying the set temperature, also listed different food dishes that you would typically cook at that temperature.
There is a large baking oven, with slots for easy height adjustment of the wire shelves.
And a smaller broiler and toasting oven below. Complete with wire shelves and a drip pan. Looks like it could use a good cleaning.
The stove cook top has four individual burners.
And a warming drawer below the cook top.
What modern equipped kitchen in the 1920's would be complete without a state of the art ice box to keep your food from spoiling? Fortunately, our little time capsule has one of those also.
Presenting the Icyco Refrigerator ice box!
I found an advertisement for a Icyco Oak Refrigerator with three door style and 100 pound ice capacity for $27.50 in a magazine dated August 1918. Sounds similar to this one. It features a large compartment on the top to hold ice.
A well insulated main compartment to store your perishables, and a small door at the bottom for easy access to the drip pan to catch all that melting ice.
I hope you enjoyed this little glimpse of the past. Join me again soon (when the Boss isn't looking) and I go exploring and find out What's In The Basement.
Until next time...
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That stove is in amazing shape. I suggest you take it home and hide it for another 98 years. What an amazing example of history hiding in the basement!
I would certainly like to! Unfortunately, even though my boss may not notice if I'm away from my desk for a short period of time, he's sure to notice me carting out his antique stove.
I'm working on a mock up of you now.....we'll do "A weekend at Bernie's" in reverse and leave a look-a-like dummy at your desk and we'll go snooping through everybody's basements. I'll prep the film crews and get legal on top of this. Damn, this is gonna be a huge network success!
Um, never mind....the dog has asked me to play ball again......later Brother!
The important thing is to keep Candy (and @Anise of course) happy. First things first!
Now that I think about it, there is already a show on cable about pretty much the same thing, called "Pickers" or something.
Those certainly look a lot better than modern day appliances, if not a bit small. Too bad they don't make anything like that anymore.
They definitely made things a lot sturdier, and with more character, than they do now. But I wouldn't want to be constantly hauling blocks of ice in to keep that refrigerator cold.
You could easily make a fridge that looks like that with a condensor instead.
Wow you just found something cool great day in exploring that
Thanks! I did have a lot of fun finding these and doing a little research on them.