My 1967 tract house came with Hotpoint kitchen appliances. Double oven, cooktop and dishwasher. All in coppertone to contrast with the avocado cabinets and countertops. Lovely!
Awesome!! I was one of 7 kids in my family, all born between 1953-1963, no twins. I had 6 brothers!! Our Mom was a slave to the house poor thing. Luckily these appliances were built for Moms like her but she was the oldest of 9!! She and her own Mother had it rough in the 1930s as they cared for the children that followed as well as Granddad and Nana who lived in the same home. What a tough life. ❤
The founder of Hotpoint, Earl Richardson, was working for a California power company by day and in his spare time developing a lighter, easier to use electric iron than the earliest ones on the market. After building several prototypes, he gave them to women to test in their homes--and hie convinced his employer to generate electricity in the day time on ironing day (most electric utilities at the time were on line only at night, to operate lighting)
This was awesome to watch thank you for posting. Advertising strategies, women value system in the kitchen has changed a lot since those days. 80 years from today would look back on our current timeline and probably shake our 😂heads at the value system just like back in the 1940s. Women have come a long way,But most places on earth they are repressed.😢
One of those Fangled New Irons. Twisted Transistor. Edit: The Oracle making sure your treating your stove correctly. Always laying in the Shadows..... O
Actually dishwashers existed in 1930. There’s a GE video on youtube with a new kitchen - with an electric refrigerator, electric range, and a dishwasher.
I have an on grid house, but I live in an off grid shelter (2- 20ft shipping containers with a roof over them) runs on solar power, water collection, compost toilet, solar and propane h20 heater (showes outside) cook on an old camp gas stove have a RV fridge ( I have a deep freezer down the hill in the house) the only up to date thing i really utilize is internet and an old laptop, old trucks, old motorcycles, old tractor, old tools, old dogs and 1 new pup some asshole threw out of a truck???, a pissed off old ass (donkey). Seems like I do a bunch of cookin, cleanin and fixing but I wouldnt change a thing.
What it doesn't mention is that "a generation ago" most middle-class women had some kind of domestic help in their home...they didn't handle it all alone.
In the early years of home electrification, there were ceiling fixtures and/or, depending on the room, a drop cord from that point. Many small appliances offered cords that instead of having a two prong plug, had a male end with screw-type threads to screw into the lamp socket in the ceiling.
Excellent vintage video! Thank you!
My 1967 tract house came with Hotpoint kitchen appliances. Double oven, cooktop and dishwasher. All in coppertone to contrast with the avocado cabinets and countertops. Lovely!
Guard it with your life. Todays appliance are short lived cheap junk.
I'd LOVE to have that heavy duty dishwasher right this minute!!
You know its louder than the space shuttle. Probably worked amazing.
Awesome!! I was one of 7 kids in my family, all born between 1953-1963, no twins. I had 6 brothers!! Our Mom was a slave to the house poor thing. Luckily these appliances were built for Moms like her but she was the oldest of 9!! She and her own Mother had it rough in the 1930s as they cared for the children that followed as well as Granddad and Nana who lived in the same home. What a tough life. ❤
I've always thought multi-generational households were very blessed.
Wow! Being the only girl, were you spoiled? Six brothers! Whoa!
@@lizlee6290 She probably never had to worry about a date getting to "handsy". At least not twice.
This is a feminist nightmare, and I absolutely love it.
😂😂😂
Roll on, Toxic Patriarchy, roll on!!! ;) ;)
Feminism is Cancer. Feminists are Cancer.
Why? These appliances took so much work off the shoulders of the homemaker.
i am an appliance tech thanks for the video
The founder of Hotpoint, Earl Richardson, was working for a California power company by day and in his spare time developing a lighter, easier to use electric iron than the earliest ones on the market. After building several prototypes, he gave them to women to test in their homes--and hie convinced his employer to generate electricity in the day time on ironing day (most electric utilities at the time were on line only at night, to operate lighting)
The announcer is none other than Harlow Wilcox
This was awesome to watch thank you for posting. Advertising strategies, women value system in the kitchen has changed a lot since those days. 80 years from today would look back on our current timeline and probably shake our 😂heads at the value system just like back in the 1940s. Women have come a long way,But most places on earth they are repressed.😢
They deserve their own cigarettes - VIRGINIA SLIMS!
My father was born in 1924 and always called the refrigerator "the icebox".
tell-a-vision . great to see the programming of the past ......
That's it! I'm getting rid of my gas stove and buying a Hotpoint.
People knew how to cook back then before processed "foods" were available.
Sure wish they made modern products to these standards,. Modern products are made to wear out in a determined time. We are cheated.
Because we’ve offshored all our manufacturing to other countries.
One of those Fangled New Irons.
Twisted Transistor. Edit: The Oracle making sure your treating your stove correctly. Always laying in the Shadows..... O
Seems like the dishwasher was kind of an afterthought here, but in 1941 it was the more mind blowing advance
All these things, plus true automatic (non-wringer) washers were available in 1941....the war delayed their expansion into homes.
Actually dishwashers existed in 1930. There’s a GE video on youtube with a new kitchen - with an electric refrigerator, electric range, and a dishwasher.
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As with all things today, look how far we’ve advanced. Now our appliances are lucky to last 7 to 10 years, maybe.
Best invention is self cleaning. No one likes to clean an oven!
Unfortunately the feds have come for that, too. I don’t believe you can get pyrolitic self cleaning any longer -it’s ‘aqua lift’ which doesn’t work.
I have an on grid house, but I live in an off grid shelter (2- 20ft shipping containers with a roof over them) runs on solar power, water collection, compost toilet, solar and propane h20 heater (showes outside) cook on an old camp gas stove have a RV fridge ( I have a deep freezer down the hill in the house) the only up to date thing i really utilize is internet and an old laptop, old trucks, old motorcycles, old tractor, old tools, old dogs and 1 new pup some asshole threw out of a truck???, a pissed off old ass (donkey). Seems like I do a bunch of cookin, cleanin and fixing but I wouldnt change a thing.
What it doesn't mention is that "a generation ago" most middle-class women had some kind of domestic help in their home...they didn't handle it all alone.
Er, not since before World War II and not in a lot of instances then. Really World War I ended domestic help.
@@nathanjustus6659 I understood domestic help was still common in the 20's and 30's
Pity they talk so much, otherwise this would make an amazing riff. Still might anyways.
4:55 - Was the power point on the ceiling?
In the early years of home electrification, there were ceiling fixtures and/or, depending on the room, a drop cord from that point. Many small appliances offered cords that instead of having a two prong plug, had a male end with screw-type threads to screw into the lamp socket in the ceiling.