Refrigerator, vintage 1956

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06 May 2023, 10:08 AM

wtg

Refrigerator, vintage 1956

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06 May 2023, 12:28 PM

big al

That fridge has a lot of features. I wonder who the manufacturer was.

Big Al

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06 May 2023, 02:05 PM

wtg

It is a GM (yes, General Motors, not General Electric) Frigidaire Imperial Cold Pantry.

https://12tomatoes.com/1956-frigidaire-cold-pantry/

More refrigerator advertising from the past. There were some other neat features that we don't see today.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.c...-and-advertisements/

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When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden - Minnie Aumônier

06 May 2023, 06:45 PM

Steve Miller

quote:
Originally posted by wtg:
It is a GM (yes, General Motors, not General Electric) Frigidaire Imperial Cold Pantry.

https://12tomatoes.com/1956-frigidaire-cold-pantry/

More refrigerator advertising from the past. There were some other neat features that we don't see today.

https://rarehistoricalphotos.c...-and-advertisements/

Car companies and refrigerators:

Kelvinator, anyone?

06 May 2023, 07:26 PM

big al

I knew of the GM/Frigidaire connection, but a lot of those others were news to me.

Our refrigerator, when I was growing up, was a Kelvinator. After we got a newer fridge, I set out to salvage the compressor out of the old Kelvinator to use for an air compressor. I carted it out to a farm field and vented the refrigerant. I was surprised to see an evil-looking brownish-yellow cloud float out and disperse downwind. I had had no idea that the refrigerant in that old unit was sulfur dioxide. It killed a strip of grass that took all summer to regrow where it lay close to the ground before the wind dispersed it.

Big Al