"Sparkling beauty and smart design to put a touch of glamour into everyday living... yet practical too, in its time and work saving features... that's an electrical gift every mother will welcome," reads the ad copy.
"Yes, you're sure to please mother on her day with a new electric appliance she'll be proud to use for entertaining, happy to have every day in the year for many years to come."
I notice our pal Reddy Kilowatt is nowhere to be seen in the ad. I wonder if he was unsure whether every mother's face would really light up upon receiving one of the Westinghouse appliances?
Anyway, almost all of the 1955 gift suggestions are on eBay right now.
They really are quite beautifully designed. And the eBay write-up for each says that they still work, 70 years later – so they must have been of high quality.
For many years, my parents made their coffee with a stovetop Revere Ware percolator, before eventually switching to a Farberware electric percolator not unlike the Westinghouse Automatic Coffee Maker shown here. I'll bet the coffee made with that Westinghouse percolator beats the brew coming out of a Keurig any day.
Used my mom’s roaster oven pictured above to make sloppy Joe’s for an open house party in college. It was probably 25 years old and worked great. I also remember it being full of cabbage rolls during some holiday when the regular oven was full Todd.
ReplyDeleteHi Todd! That's a real nice memory of good times!
ReplyDeleteOur first purchase when we got engaged was one of those big electric waffle grills - we had our priorities! And for the first time, this spring, we just bought an electric percolator. The coffee tastes so much better than the drip coffee makers we’d always used. Now, we need a new waffle maker! Love a crisp, hot waffle made at home.
ReplyDeleteI don't think my dad would've ever dared to buy his darling wife any type of appliance, big or small. Not because she'd be insulted, but because he'd never be able to choose the right one and then never hear the end of it. I'm not a coffee drinker so I can't comment on the taste of one brew versus the next, but I sure miss the sound of a percolator.
ReplyDeleteI remember that roaster and the iron being in the Hopewell home when I was little; the coffee got made on the gas stove, in a percolator, and we had a GE waffle iron.
ReplyDeleteGood times.
We had one of those big ol' Westinghouse roasters. It only came into play when a turkey needed to be cooked, i.e., Thanksgiving and Christmas. Otherwise it resided in the basement.
ReplyDeleteAnd yes, my old Farberware percolator was far superior to the automatic machines now in vogue.
Each and every one of those items was heavy as could be and manufactured in the USA.And if found today would still be a usable,operational item built to last forever.Whereas now everything is sitting on a shipping container out in San Fran Bay waiting to be unloaded.All made by our friends who live in China instead of our friends who lived next door.And are made to last for a few uses till we buy another one from our Chinese friends halfway around the world.
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