I remember my grandmothers vintage kitchen table and chairs ( 50s table i believe ...She cooked often with a pressure cooker that I thought was gonna explode ...Her and my mom were good cooks ...I remember getting a free drinking glass that was inside the oatmeal box ...and getting a free prize inside the cold cereal box ...The good ole days ..Makes me want to cry ..but I like remembering .
Those aluminum ice cube trays were a challenge to operate, especially as a little kid. Even if you could pull the lever up, whatever ice fragments didn't stick to the metal typically went FLYING all over the kitchen. Plastic trays were a significant improvement. Although the early models were more brittle than those we use today and often had to be replaced every few weeks.
Along with many other things, I still have two that came from my grandmother’s house that she bought new. Lol I actually like using them for whatever reason!
My parents didn’t have a lot of money so our kitchen was simple but still warm and inviting. I still have my parents’ GE percolator from 1960….makes the best coffee you’ll ever drink. I use it most every morning ☕️! Name me one modern appliance that can last 64 years and still work as good as it did when new. There aren’t any!
When he said you just pull,back the handle and it releases the ice cubes 🧊, I said…maybe, if your hand didn’t get stuck on the metal handle or the tray. We had a wonderful childhood.
_my parents’ GE percolator from 1960….makes the best coffee you’ll ever drink. I use it most every morning! Name me one modern appliance that can last 64 years and still work as good as it did_ I 100% agree with your point here. Now-a-days, they're "saving the planet" by throwing everything into a land fill after 2 years. I want things that LAST.
give me a 40s or 50s kitchen any day!!!!! the 50s kitchen i grew up in had linoleum counter tops that matched the floor. durable!! that small kitchen holds memories of Christmas cookie baking/decorating, delicious meals made by mom, Thanksgiving turkeys roasted and ever so much more!
I haven't smiled like this in awhile now. I loved growing up during those years. Such a calmer time. Where families enjoyed being together. Cooking, watching the Ed Sullivan show was something we looked forward to.
When you were little did you look forward to the future? Isn’t that interesting? We looked forward to the future then but now we are nostalgic for the past! 🤔 we found out that the future isn’t like it used to be.
I'm 80, and if I could time-travel I would take refuge back in this bright era. However, knowing that we can't do that I think I will just trust God instead that He will see us who trust Him through these dark times to a brighter future.
12/14/2024: I am 66yrs old now. Those who put their trust in GOD will never be ashamed. GOD always taken care care of HIS own. Aloha, Shalom & Maranatha from Hawaii🏄🏄♀️🌺🤍🎺🙏🏾. Rapture Ready! See and meet you soon enough. 🎺🎺🎺🎺
I'm 66 but looking at these kitchens on this video really brings back memories. Every relatives house I visited and had barbecues or holiday gatherings at had a phone on the wall. Containers labeled to make pies, cakes, or cookies. Looking back them kitchens were very colorful back then.
I love Recollection Road videos! Videos like this fill me with happiness and sadness at the same time, in equal parts... I suppose those two add up to a longing. A longing for simpler times that I remember so fondly.
I bought some tupperware fairly late, in perhaps the 90s. It's WONDERFUL stuff, such high quality ... when I die, this stuff will still be around Of course, my mom had Tupperware in the '60s, but I believe even then it was "expensive." (we were _not_ "well healed").
@@MVINCENT-e3t Being a young fellow back then it sure was exciting. Mom would have the entire living room decorated with treats, tea, coffee, and wedge sandwiches, and the women would dress as if they were going to a local dance. It was such a great time, and it didn't hurt that when everyone went home I would get my choice of what was left of the treats, and sandwiches. 😀
I still have pyrex, corning ware and tupperware from my grandmother. They had one of those tables with the aluminum wrapped around edges and had aluminum and vinyl chairs. Stuck to them in summer since they didnt have air conditioning.
No, it doesn't. We have cherry wood cabinets in our kitchen. Wooden furniture is earthy and helps us stay connected with nature while we're indoors. So do live houseplants.
I have my parents' corning ware set and use it a lot. My kids did, also. Now my grandkids will when they get older. I love you mom and dad. Miss you so much. 😢 😪
The movie "Julia, Julie" was actually pretty good. AND, when I got to the Smithsonian in Washington DC, they actually had Julia's kitchen set on display for us to see.
I remember watching Graham Kerr. One morning he made a “gourmet” dish that my mom made, inherited from my grandmother, who was raised in Alsace-Lorraine. We called it fried noodles and made it because it was cheap and you could feed a large family. Also it was a good, meatless dish. Gourmet, my foot.😊
I love the decor of 1950s and 60s kitchens. I don't remember watching Julia Child in those days (I don't even recall knowing who she was until at least the early-to-mid 1970s), but I do remember watching the Galloping Gourmet (Graham Kerr) with my mom on weekdays in the early afternoon.
I know that Julia Child recently passed way. But what ever happened to Graham Kerr? Is he still around? Seems the Galloping Gourmet show lost its popularity in recent years. Probably because people were becoming more health conscious and began to reject the kind of dishes he did on his shows.
I have that blue and chrome bread box and canisters. I have several hand mixers. Patented between the 20s and 50s. I only have two copper molds. I have a few German and American rivets. Use them during the holidays. I painted my cabinets that 40s cream and green. I love it. I love avocado green though.
I remember the small Welbilt cooker, the white metal kitchen cabinets, the formica and steel table and matching padded chairs, and the canisters in brushed steel with black bakelite lids. The lids had "flour", "sugar", "tea", etc. in raised white letters, and the canisters were of different sizes. About the cooker - Mom could manage to fit a 24 pound turkey in the oven! Oh yeah, six iron trivets hanging on the wall. I wish I could have those trivets!
My grandparents’ 1950s kitchen was a bright turquoise w green accents. I still remember the stained glass Coca Cola glasses. I inherited their kitchen table. My grandfather had gotten a marble slab from a soda fountain. They were replacing the marble with the new metal edged Formica/linoleum and my grandma designed a wooden base for the marble. Still has the bright turquoise utensil divider in the drawer. Love the video!
My husband & I stayed with friends in FLA in the 80s. It was Thanksgiving & I prepared the dinner (they were all batchelor brothers) I pulled out the cutting/bread board under the kitchen counter & they were astonished. "We never even knew that was there" one exclaimed. 😄
I still have the aluminum ice cube trays in my freezer. I have my grandmother's Tupperware and melamine dishes. I love my 40s pyrex especially the primary colors. I bought the 4 piece set for less than $20 during lockdown. 😊
11:35 My good friend, her 90-year-old mother lives in the SAME HOUSE she lived in since she was a girl ... and yes, she has a black phone with a DIAL hung on the wall in the "service porch" adjacent to the kitchen, TO THIS DAY. (I was there yesterday)
I remember a couple more items that were meant to be decorative that went along with the cannisters. Those would be Cookie Jars and Salt and Pepper Shakers
My dads parents house had the Aluminum diner set IN the kitchen proper. The linoleum floor had a gold base with black, red, and orange spots. Oh, those Tupperware parties. Yup, we had those pull trigger ice trays. We used them for years and years. Oh my Goodness. That (first) knotty pine photo, YES, my Grammy's kitchen looked just like that with the sink looking out over the driveway and the empty lot next door. But she had one of those pull out stoves, with the oven overhead. You could pull the cook top out to get to more burners. Grammy had one phone at the bottom of the staircase going up to the bedrooms. She had this piece of furniture that had a table top for the phone, a drawer for her phone and address books, and there was a seat to sit on while you used the phone. (When we moved to Florida) we always had a Yellow/.Gold wall phone in the kitchen. And I had a black rotary in my bedroom, long before cordless phones came in many years later. Do you remember when Julia was cooking a Roast, and she had it on a platter, and as she swung around with it in her hands, it FELL off of the platter, and ONTO the Floor. And then she says, "Remember. it's only YOU in the Kitchen !!" Do you know that I have 2 boxes of POP TARTS in my kitchen cabinet right now !!! he he he he
@@lindabyrtus857 In the Perfect Julia Child voice ... "Remember, it's only YOU in the kitchen !!" A housewife's greatest nightmare, dropping a roast she slaved over cooking, onto the floor !!
I love those butter moulds, and for the first time in my life I saw, just the other day, in the grocery store a pre-shaped butter mould in the form of a turkey! A great idea for somebody's Thanksgiving table.🦃💜 P.S. I still covet Samantha's stove / oven!
When you see the row of Pyrex bowls on their own special display shelf in the first apartment kitchen of I l Love Lucy, it's actually the original primary colors set! When they moved to the next place they were all stacked inside each other on top of the refrigerator. Jell-O molds also had hooks on them to display on the wall as well! There used to be a common expression on question style game shows "Is it bigger than a bread box?" Haha!
0:45 "The 1950s saw an explosion of new home owners ..." My parents being one of them. They bought a 3 bedroom 2 bath house with a 2 car garage, and a nice back yard for $16,500.
I grew up in the 60’s - 70’s and we had the aluminum ice trays. Mom still has them in her garage. 8:55 We had the built in oven with the broiler below, it was brown. 11:39 Grandmas phone, but in green.
Our new kitchen was installed in 1970, replacing a pink and white kitchen with wood cabinets, copper colored appliances, and shiny vinyl wallpaper with large orange and yellow flowers. My parents had a Corningware stovetop percolator. The sound of the electric can opener would always call our cat to the kitchen.😊
We had the gold steel cabinets that mom refinished with a wood grain paint kit. She did a large oak buffet, table and chairs to match. When dad got home from work we knew to be washed up and ready for dinner!
I never saw one either. We would always buy our molded butter premade from the grocery. Turkey for Thanksgiving, tree for Christmas and a rabbit for Easter.
I was born in 1965 so my favorite was our snack bar! Our icebox was a green color and our oven was in the wall next to the door coming in from the kitchen. I guess I have lots of favorites like the Tupperware Mom always bought. And oh how I wish I could get some of what we used to have! Our kitchen and dining room were wood paneling and I miss that. Well the front room and hall was wood paneling too! Thanks for the memories!
Great video. I love that you have Pop tarts! I still love them. There are a really affordable sweet snack. There was a time when a person was in my apartment for something. He thought it was so funny that I having a Pop Tart with my espresso with whipped cream that I had made for myself with my espresso machine.
Can you imagine kids today having to share the only phone in the house... especially when it was a wallphone hanging in the kitchen where everyone could hear? Hard enough for a 15-year-old boy calling a girl for a first date without the whole family listening.
I’m in the planning stage of redoing the kitchen of a new home to that 1950s-60s diner style thanks to Big Chill retro appliances. Kitchens designs now all look the same with no personality and originality.
The old linoleum floors needed to be waxed occasionally. Especially before the holidays. We kids were banished from the kitchen until the floor was dry.
I hated those ice cube trays. They shattered more ice than having a good cube come out. I am upset that my sister took my mom's Tupperware insulated glasses. She is still using them 60 years after they were purchase.
That's funny, to this day I love a check tile floor! Oh dear, is it totally passe? I don't care. When I replace it, I'll do it again. IT'S CLASSIC IMO!😅
The bottle opener for bottles and jars from 1956 back! Starting in 1957,twist off caps were being phased in right through the early 1970’s with soda bottles getting twist off caps in the early 1970’s and 99% of food and juice jars having twist off caps by 1970. This made bottle openers obsolete.
As I'm watching this, I have an old metal tea cart which was in the kitchen when I was a kid. I use it to hold my printer, scanner, and router. It might be as old as I am (1965) if not older. 11:00 My parents had a Corningware coffee pot which was eventually recalled because the epoxy holding it together degraded from the heat.
3:30 Those teal on white Pyrex bakeware ... those were GREAT and were made to last FOREVER. I still have some of Pyrex from my dear departed mom ... it's 60+ years old and as good as the day it was made. I wonder what products made today will be as good in the year 2080??
Today, designers have decreed all kitchens and cabinets shall be painted white with stone countertops and stainless steel appliances. There shall be no color!
I only knew 2 people in the 70s who actually owned a microwave. And it was the 70s before you actually started to see harvest gold and avacodo. First time seeing an iron trivit as well.
@dawnelder9046 I got married in 1966 and harvest gold and avocado were the colors of everything. My dishes, cannisters, towels, blankets, sheets, dishwasher, fridge and stove.😊
I’m from the 70s, but most of those items were still hanging around the kitchen. Those aluminum ice trays terrified me. They were hard to pull because they were frozen with condensation. When they did release, ice was flung all over. If you ran it under warm water, your skin would stick to it. The metal had wicked sharp edges. At dinner time i would always beg off that it was stuck.
Formica became very meh by the 90s as it looked dated. I had one when I was growing up but my dad changed it to that fake marble stuff which is ok but it is what it is. We also changed our cabinets too as the old ones were waterlogged and rotting by the time we took them out. Linoleum was on the floor but cheap stuff, we tiled it twice as the first time somebody didn’t do it right and we did it the second time as a project ourselves. It turned it much better the second time around. We also replumbed most of the wall. A lot of work but we like the look so far.
What are your favorite memories from your childhood kitchen? Let me know if this video unlocked anything for you.
We had cute little juice glasses with orange polka dots and other varieties.
I remember the formica tables in fun colours with the matching chairs and the canister sets too.
I remember my grandmothers vintage kitchen table and chairs ( 50s table i believe ...She cooked often with a pressure cooker that I thought was gonna explode ...Her and my mom were good cooks ...I remember getting a free drinking glass that was inside the oatmeal box ...and getting a free prize inside the cold cereal box ...The good ole days ..Makes me want to cry ..but I like remembering .
Jar of starter for sourdough on the back of the stove.
Corningwear dishes and Frigidaire refrigerators will outlive all of us.
the fridges now only last 12 years.
@@lovly2cu725 5 years....
@@lovly2cu725If you are lucky!!!!
Those aluminum ice cube trays were a challenge to operate, especially as a little kid. Even if you could pull the lever up, whatever ice fragments didn't stick to the metal typically went FLYING all over the kitchen. Plastic trays were a significant improvement. Although the early models were more brittle than those we use today and often had to be replaced every few weeks.
I just remember when you grabbed the sides to hold it your fingers froze to the tray for a bit. 😂
Still prefer them to the current plastic crap!
😅
@@moosebat47 silicone ones are better
Along with many other things, I still have two that came from my grandmother’s house that she bought new. Lol I actually like using them for whatever reason!
My parents didn’t have a lot of money so our kitchen was simple but still warm and inviting. I still have my parents’ GE percolator from 1960….makes the best coffee you’ll ever drink. I use it most every morning ☕️! Name me one modern appliance that can last 64 years and still work as good as it did when new. There aren’t any!
When he said you just pull,back the handle and it releases the ice cubes 🧊, I said…maybe, if your hand didn’t get stuck on the metal handle or the tray. We had a wonderful childhood.
Bet u sho right. Im jealous.
_my parents’ GE percolator from 1960….makes the best coffee you’ll ever drink. I use it most every morning! Name me one modern appliance that can last 64 years and still work as good as it did_
I 100% agree with your point here. Now-a-days, they're "saving the planet" by throwing everything into a land fill after 2 years. I want things that LAST.
We have a International Harvester refrigerator in our basement from the 1940's. Still humming right along!
My Dormeyer electric mixer, with the grinder attachment lasted 40 years
I still cook in my hand me down Corningware with the blue flowers. I liked to watch the Galloping Gourmet and Julia Childs on PBS.
Yep!
give me a 40s or 50s kitchen any day!!!!! the 50s kitchen i grew up in had linoleum counter tops that matched the floor. durable!! that small kitchen holds memories of Christmas cookie baking/decorating, delicious meals made by mom, Thanksgiving turkeys roasted and ever so much more!
I haven't smiled like this in awhile now. I loved growing up during those years.
Such a calmer time. Where families enjoyed being together. Cooking, watching the Ed Sullivan show was something we looked forward to.
Why does this make me feel so sad and miss the past so much ?
Me too.😢
When you were little did you look forward to the future? Isn’t that interesting? We looked forward to the future then but now we are nostalgic for the past! 🤔 we found out that the future isn’t like it used to be.
@@glennso47yeah
I'm 80, and if I could time-travel I would take refuge back in this bright era. However, knowing that we can't do that I think I will just trust God instead that He will see us who trust Him through these dark times to a brighter future.
Mid century modern is still available including the Formica. I just sold a home and looking for another
Doing a 1940's kitchen at the new place. Having fun.
12/14/2024: I am 66yrs old now. Those who put their trust in GOD will never be ashamed. GOD always taken care care of HIS own. Aloha, Shalom & Maranatha from Hawaii🏄🏄♀️🌺🤍🎺🙏🏾. Rapture Ready! See and meet you soon enough. 🎺🎺🎺🎺
I'm 66 but looking at these kitchens on this video really brings back memories. Every relatives house I visited and had barbecues or holiday gatherings at had a phone on the wall. Containers labeled to make pies, cakes, or cookies. Looking back them kitchens were very colorful back then.
I remember most of the items mentioned. I can still picture a turquoise radio on the fridge playing "Good Vibrations" ... good times for sure.
I love Recollection Road videos! Videos like this fill me with happiness and sadness at the same time, in equal parts... I suppose those two add up to a longing. A longing for simpler times that I remember so fondly.
Soft, pastel, jadite green kitchens are still great in my book. White, milk glass coffee cups were awesome too.
Ah the good old Tupperware parties.
I bought some tupperware fairly late, in perhaps the 90s. It's WONDERFUL stuff, such high quality ... when I die, this stuff will still be around
Of course, my mom had Tupperware in the '60s, but I believe even then it was "expensive." (we were _not_ "well healed").
@@josephgaviota Haaaa, isn't that the truth. It is great to have. Sad they stopped selling it. It was expensive but well worth the price.
Mrs. Roy, who was Mom's next door neighbour would throw great Tupperware parties. Duncan Hines cakes and coffee was served.
@@MVINCENT-e3t Being a young fellow back then it sure was exciting. Mom would have the entire living room decorated with treats, tea, coffee, and wedge sandwiches, and the women would dress as if they were going to a local dance. It was such a great time, and it didn't hurt that when everyone went home I would get my choice of what was left of the treats, and sandwiches. 😀
I loved the oven Samantha had in Bewitched. Bread drawers. So many things I miss.
I still have pyrex, corning ware and tupperware from my grandmother. They had one of those tables with the aluminum wrapped around edges and had aluminum and vinyl chairs. Stuck to them in summer since they didnt have air conditioning.
The wood look never gets old.
No, it doesn't. We have cherry wood cabinets in our kitchen. Wooden furniture is earthy and helps us stay connected with nature while we're indoors. So do live houseplants.
I have my parents' corning ware set and use it a lot. My kids did, also. Now my grandkids will when they get older. I love you mom and dad. Miss you so much. 😢 😪
❤
And a lot of those"modern " appliances" were purchased with S&H green stamps. Can't forget them!
Or they could have been purchased by redeeming coupons from packs of Raleigh Cigarettes.
Wish I lived in those times
It was wonderful growing up in the 60's. I am thankful for that every day. 😊
12:40 Julia Child, oh how great. My mom's favorite was Graham Kerr, "The Galloping Gourmet."
The movie "Julia, Julie" was actually pretty good. AND, when I got to the Smithsonian in Washington DC, they actually had Julia's kitchen set on display for us to see.
I remember watching Graham Kerr. One morning he made a “gourmet” dish that my mom made, inherited from my grandmother, who was raised in Alsace-Lorraine. We called it fried noodles and made it because it was cheap and you could feed a large family. Also it was a good, meatless dish. Gourmet, my foot.😊
I love the decor of 1950s and 60s kitchens. I don't remember watching Julia Child in those days (I don't even recall knowing who she was until at least the early-to-mid 1970s), but I do remember watching the Galloping Gourmet (Graham Kerr) with my mom on weekdays in the early afternoon.
Loved both !! Great cooks & very entertaining !! 😅
I know that Julia Child recently passed way. But what ever happened to Graham Kerr? Is he still around? Seems the Galloping Gourmet show lost its popularity in recent years. Probably because people were becoming more health conscious and began to reject the kind of dishes he did on his shows.
Mom started working part time in the afternoon, much to dad's chagrin. Us kids watched the Galloping Gourmet and had cooking contests! Good memories 😊
2:40 "Everything in the kitchen had its rightful place."
As my grandmother said, "a place for everything, and everything in its place."
I have that blue and chrome bread box and canisters. I have several hand mixers. Patented between the 20s and 50s. I only have two copper molds. I have a few German and American rivets. Use them during the holidays. I painted my cabinets that 40s cream and green. I love it. I love avocado green though.
Rivets?!
My mother was Lady Kenmore with a suite of pink appliances and boomerang counters and kitchen table my dad made.
I remember the small Welbilt cooker, the white metal kitchen cabinets, the formica and steel table and matching padded chairs, and the canisters in brushed steel with black bakelite lids. The lids had "flour", "sugar", "tea", etc. in raised white letters, and the canisters were of different sizes. About the cooker - Mom could manage to fit a 24 pound turkey in the oven! Oh yeah, six iron trivets hanging on the wall. I wish I could have those trivets!
My grandparents’ 1950s kitchen was a bright turquoise w green accents. I still remember the stained glass Coca Cola glasses. I inherited their kitchen table. My grandfather had gotten a marble slab from a soda fountain. They were replacing the marble with the new metal edged Formica/linoleum and my grandma designed a wooden base for the marble. Still has the bright turquoise utensil divider in the drawer. Love the video!
I miss the pullout breadboard. Perfect for rolling out pie crusts, and didn't take up counter space.
My husband & I stayed with friends in FLA in the 80s. It was Thanksgiving & I prepared the dinner (they were all batchelor brothers) I pulled out the cutting/bread board under the kitchen counter & they were astonished. "We never even knew that was there" one exclaimed. 😄
The kitchen's in the 50s and 60s were awesome 👍😎
...and 70s and 80s.
I still have the aluminum ice cube trays in my freezer. I have my grandmother's Tupperware and melamine dishes. I love my 40s pyrex especially the primary colors. I bought the 4 piece set for less than $20 during lockdown. 😊
I have the Corningware and Pyrex cookware. We still have a wall mount phone in the kitchen. I’m old!😊
We had a rotisserie as part of our oven. ❤
11:35 My good friend, her 90-year-old mother lives in the SAME HOUSE she lived in since she was a girl ... and yes, she has a black phone with a DIAL hung on the wall in the "service porch" adjacent to the kitchen, TO THIS DAY. (I was there yesterday)
My sister still uses our mom's Sunburst Yellow Pyrex mixing bowl. I am amazed by its longevity.👵
The butter lamb is still very popular in Buffalo NY,at Easter . We discovered my grand mother's kitchen had a short fling with lavender in the 50s !
I remember a couple more items that were meant to be decorative that went along with the cannisters. Those would be Cookie Jars and Salt and Pepper Shakers
I still have the blue and cream colored Aunt Jemima cookie jar we had when I was a kid. I am 72 now.
A question you never hear anymore "Is it bigger than a bread box?"
Except on those electronic 20 Questions games you get at Walmart. Frequently, that is precisely the question asked! 🤪
My dads parents house had the Aluminum diner set IN the kitchen proper. The linoleum floor had a gold base with black, red, and orange spots.
Oh, those Tupperware parties. Yup, we had those pull trigger ice trays. We used them for years and years.
Oh my Goodness. That (first) knotty pine photo, YES, my Grammy's kitchen looked just like that with the sink looking out over the driveway and the empty lot next door. But she had one of those pull out stoves, with the oven overhead. You could pull the cook top out to get to more burners.
Grammy had one phone at the bottom of the staircase going up to the bedrooms. She had this piece of furniture that had a table top for the phone, a drawer for her phone and address books, and there was a seat to sit on while you used the phone. (When we moved to Florida) we always had a Yellow/.Gold wall phone in the kitchen. And I had a black rotary in my bedroom, long before cordless phones came in many years later.
Do you remember when Julia was cooking a Roast, and she had it on a platter, and as she swung around with it in her hands, it FELL off of the platter, and ONTO the Floor. And then she says, "Remember. it's only YOU in the Kitchen !!"
Do you know that I have 2 boxes of POP TARTS in my kitchen cabinet right now !!! he he he he
Oh I watched Julia Child do that too! 😅 Thought about it when I would have those types of mishaps, made me chuckle. Thank you for the memory Jeremy.
@@lindabyrtus857 In the Perfect Julia Child voice ... "Remember, it's only YOU in the kitchen !!"
A housewife's greatest nightmare, dropping a roast she slaved over cooking, onto the floor !!
I love those butter moulds, and for the first time in my life I saw, just the other day, in the grocery store a pre-shaped butter mould in the form of a turkey! A great idea for somebody's Thanksgiving table.🦃💜
P.S. I still covet Samantha's stove / oven!
We had the "Flair" range/ovens at our house. My mom used it for over 40 yrs.
When you see the row of Pyrex bowls on their own special display shelf in the first apartment kitchen of I l Love Lucy, it's actually the original primary colors set! When they moved to the next place they were all stacked inside each other on top of the refrigerator. Jell-O molds also had hooks on them to display on the wall as well! There used to be a common expression on question style game shows "Is it bigger than a bread box?" Haha!
On those electronic 20 Questions games you can get at Walmart, that is frequently one of the questions asked 🤪
Our first cabinets were white enameled metal. We didn't have Pyrex until the 1960's.
I loved the colorful still dinette table and chairs
0:45 "The 1950s saw an explosion of new home owners ..."
My parents being one of them. They bought a 3 bedroom 2 bath house with a 2 car garage, and a nice back yard for $16,500.
Oh, and our refrigerator, stove, oven, washer, dryer ... all turquoise. VERY big in 1958.
Wow! That was a lot of money back then
I’ll bet the fire department had a lot of business with those explosions! 🔥
I grew up in the 60’s - 70’s and we had the aluminum ice trays. Mom still has them in her garage.
8:55 We had the built in oven with the broiler below, it was brown.
11:39 Grandmas phone, but in green.
"coppertone"
Our new kitchen was installed in 1970, replacing a pink and white kitchen with wood cabinets, copper colored appliances, and shiny vinyl wallpaper with large orange and yellow flowers. My parents had a Corningware stovetop percolator. The sound of the electric can opener would always call our cat to the kitchen.😊
I finally found one metal ice cube tray was so happy lol
Thank you !
We had the gold steel cabinets that mom refinished with a wood grain paint kit. She did a large oak buffet, table and chairs to match. When dad got home from work we knew to be washed up and ready for dinner!
Thank you.
I still use my Grandma's hand mixer from the 1930's. 😊
I'm 68 and i never saw a butter mold. 😮
I never saw one either. We would always buy our molded butter premade from the grocery. Turkey for Thanksgiving, tree for Christmas and a rabbit for Easter.
never had fancy stuff in our house
I have seen moldy bread though. Does that count? 😊
I was born in 1965 so my favorite was our snack bar! Our icebox was a green color and our oven was in the wall next to the door coming in from the kitchen. I guess I have lots of favorites like the Tupperware Mom always bought. And oh how I wish I could get some of what we used to have! Our kitchen and dining room were wood paneling and I miss that. Well the front room and hall was wood paneling too! Thanks for the memories!
Great video.
I love that you have Pop tarts! I still love them. There are a really affordable sweet snack. There was a time when a person was in my apartment for something. He thought it was so funny that I having a Pop Tart with my espresso with whipped cream that I had made for myself with my espresso machine.
The cast iron frying pan the size of your hand that was the ash tray on the stove, so none fell in the food while Mom was cooking.
The hand mixers mixed!
What else would they have done? 🤔. Aren’t mixers supposed to mix? Just like vacuum cleaners are supposed to suck! 😂
My 1980's house still has formica on the countertops. Tupperware recently filed for bankruptcy.
What? Tupperware too? 😢
Tupperware just came back from going under.
@@USNBLUE yup
Can you imagine kids today having to share the only phone in the house... especially when it was a wallphone hanging in the kitchen where everyone could hear?
Hard enough for a 15-year-old boy calling a girl for a first date without the whole family listening.
Yea, but the party line out in the boondocks.😂😂😂😂😂
I’m in the planning stage of redoing the kitchen of a new home to that 1950s-60s diner style thanks to Big Chill retro appliances. Kitchens designs now all look the same with no personality and originality.
The old linoleum floors needed to be waxed occasionally. Especially before the holidays. We kids were banished from the kitchen until the floor was dry.
$500 for a microwave, that would be $4,500 today!
Now a good microwave oven will cost less than $100.
No vintage kitchen is complete without copper jello molds no one ever used, and a phone with a long cord mounted on the wall. Plus lots of Tupperware.
Good video!
I hated those ice cube trays. They shattered more ice than having a good cube come out.
I am upset that my sister took my mom's Tupperware insulated glasses. She is still using them 60 years after they were purchase.
That's funny, to this day I love a check tile floor! Oh dear, is it totally passe? I don't care. When I replace it, I'll do it again. IT'S CLASSIC IMO!😅
Crystal Punch bowl set with sherbet and ginger ale at parties.
Thank you so much for this video,,, ❤❤👍👍❤❤👌👌❤❤
Dont forget the cooking show "The Galloping Gourmet".
Loved him!❤
always a great show !
The bottle opener for bottles and jars from 1956 back! Starting in 1957,twist off caps were being phased in right through the early 1970’s with soda bottles getting twist off caps in the early 1970’s and 99% of food and juice jars having twist off caps by 1970. This made bottle openers obsolete.
Would like to ad those microwaves weighted like 100 pounds.
As I'm watching this, I have an old metal tea cart which was in the kitchen when I was a kid. I use it to hold my printer, scanner, and router. It might be as old as I am (1965) if not older.
11:00 My parents had a Corningware coffee pot which was eventually recalled because the epoxy holding it together degraded from the heat.
That's what the grandparents had.
I grew up in the 50's and early 60's. I was jealous of my friends who had mothers who could cook; and trust me, my father was useless in the kitchen.
it's to bad our kitchen was straight out of the 1890's lol. in this era grandma had just gotten rid of her wood stove. i kid you not lol.
Dang!! Y'all must have lived WAY out in the sticks.
Thanks for another great video. Is that Doris Day in the kitchen by the Tappan Fabulous 400 gas range? (8:14)
Sure looks like her!
6:18 Yeah, we ate a LOT of Jello back then.
Not knowing we were endangering our health with all the sugar and other stuff in the jello
Never say such colorful kitchens and I’m 80
ME... The tabel
I have lots of pyrex and corning. Use them every day..
3:30 Those teal on white Pyrex bakeware ... those were GREAT and were made to last FOREVER.
I still have some of Pyrex from my dear departed mom ... it's 60+ years old and as good as the day it was made.
I wonder what products made today will be as good in the year 2080??
Today, designers have decreed all kitchens and cabinets shall be painted white with stone countertops and stainless steel appliances. There shall be no color!
Oh, those were butter molds!!!
With the '60s being the burn the bra and free love decade, it only makes sense that people would decorate their kitchens with naughty pine!😉😂
Oh boy, oh boy, a nice Jello and ham salad, what no tuna? 😬
I only knew 2 people in the 70s who actually owned a microwave. And it was the 70s before you actually started to see harvest gold and avacodo. First time seeing an iron trivit as well.
@dawnelder9046 I got married in 1966 and harvest gold and avocado were the colors of everything. My dishes, cannisters, towels, blankets, sheets, dishwasher, fridge and stove.😊
12:03 Here the American population began to gain weight until they became obese. Sad, isn't it?
Is that June Cleaver?
Those aluminum ice trays were awful!
So were wringer washing machines. 😱
Does this channel have a moderator?
Not that I've noticed over couple years. Good question 😊
We say aluminum! British says a-lu-min-i-um! Hmmmm 🤔
Tupperware should have admitted defeat and just made all their bowls spaghetti stain colors.
My house was built in the 1950’s, and my kitchen is little. I would kill to have one of these larger 1950’s kitchens. 😊
I’m from the 70s, but most of those items were still hanging around the kitchen. Those aluminum ice trays terrified me. They were hard to pull because they were frozen with condensation. When they did release, ice was flung all over. If you ran it under warm water, your skin would stick to it. The metal had wicked sharp edges. At dinner time i would always beg off that it was stuck.
who knew Tupperware was an MLM? I didn't
8:12 Doris Day.
A wood/gas stove. Warmed the kitchen for breakfast
I was deprived no fancy butter
I never worried about it. I just used the butter and enjoyed the taste of it fancy or not.
At 76 I thought then and it is now apparent, 50s kitchens were kitsch.
Formica became very meh by the 90s as it looked dated. I had one when I was growing up but my dad changed it to that fake marble stuff which is ok but it is what it is. We also changed our cabinets too as the old ones were waterlogged and rotting by the time we took them out. Linoleum was on the floor but cheap stuff, we tiled it twice as the first time somebody didn’t do it right and we did it the second time as a project ourselves. It turned it much better the second time around. We also replumbed most of the wall. A lot of work but we like the look so far.