Showing posts with label refrigerators. Show all posts
Showing posts with label refrigerators. Show all posts

Sunday, May 23, 2010

The first refrigerator I recall

I got this picture online, obviously.  You can see it's not very tall, and in my memories of our GE refrigerator, I was far shorter than the top of the door.  I had to look way up high to see the round thing on the top.  I've searched online and found that this model was manufactured from 1927 to 1937; I was born in 1944, so obviously ours was getting on in years by the time I was old enough to form memories of it.  Although I read HERE that hundreds of them are still working.  Isn't that amazing?  




What started this particular walk down memory lane was a segment on today's CBS Sunday Morning (one of our favorite shows).  
I wonder who got our GE when we were done with it.  I imagine my mom wanted something more roomy, because that little thing couldn't have held much.  
Another memory is provoked when I think about that refrigerator:  Back then, margarine (we called it oleo), was white, and wrapped in cellophane.  There was a little yellow capsule included that you added to the white margarine; you kneaded it into the oleo until it was the same color as real butter.   Somehow this was supposed to protect the dairy industry, I believe.    
Cliff actually remembers the ice man coming, when he and his parents and siblings lived in "the Shirley apartments" in Kansas City; he remembers them putting the sign in the window when they needed ice.  The only ice box I recall is the one that sat in my grandma's front porch.