WEIRD Vintage Appliances from the past we FORGOT existed

My mom had a Tappen 400. I loved that stove.

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Wooow ❤ so cute

"Functionality" was not a word in the middle of the last century."Ality-itis" had not yet infected our speech and language.

The reason that the PicturePhone did not take off is that it could only communicate with other PicturePhones

Actually, the weirdest part is the voice of the narrator. Gave it up after 23 seconds of Elvis the pelvis.

The wall refrigerator is the best.

Electro Chef did NOT include a fridge…that was an oven!

Some of these things, like the tapan 400, are awesome.

I'm trying to get that ge cabinet fridge/freezer combo

The Tappan 400 reminds me of the stove and oven on the Bewitched set. Samantha Stevens has a similar stove and oven. I actually thought it was pretty cool.

I have a countertop dishwasher and I am so happy. They came back in style because I love it.

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One can see TAPPAN in the charming "Bewitched" in Samantha's new house.

Now we get overpriced junk with digital screens made in China today

I'll take the Tappan range and oven/rotisserie along with the GE Wall refrigerator with cabinet freezer drawers. Awesome!

I had a Fabulous 400 loved it. Had to leave it behind.

My parents had a Westinghouse refrigerator/freezer with a push-button single front door[1]

Inside at the top, above the freezer (between the two controls) was a "butter keeper" that kept 1/2 pound of butter just cool enough
to still be soft (no need for leaving it outside the fridge or having rock-hard butter inside the fridge) It also had 4 tilt-out bins/
shelves in the door, for eggs (each held 8 eggs = 32 eggs) It also had a deli-meat keeper bin just below the freezer ( Bologna

or a pound of ground beef with ice crystals)

1.) That particular Westinghouse refrigerator/freezer was in a commercial where it didn't open during a live commercial because
a technician forgot to plug it in. The Westinghouse appliances were usually advertised/demonstrated by Betty Furness. On that
day, she just happened to not be there when the refrigerator/freezer did not open. Yet everyone remembers her as the person
who was demonstrating the refrigerator/freezer on that day.

Your voice over... is it AI or a real person? 🤔

Countertop dishwashers still exist though and are used in offices and small apartments...

Yes and there was a mum at home for the kids😢

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The Kelvinator fridge was high tech and super well-built.

Someone forgot to mention that the AutoMagic washer also washed DISHES as well as laundry. Yup... it was a convertible. How did you miss that feature?

Not much of a point to the Western Electric Picture Phone if most of the people you called or who called you didn't have one. I was in grade school when they came out. Most people I knew weren't interested.

So the point is: people back in the 50s were just as dumb as people today! Good to know.

I want me a foodorama baby!! Like Midge Masel!

I want a Food-o-rama maybe a bit modernized but I wants one!

Does anyone else find this guy's voice annoying... sorry to be negative but I couldn't finish the video.

I want a 50s blue 💙 stove

Back in those days stuff was mafe to last. The company cared abiut customers not high Tek gadgets that break down

Look at these fridges!

Hy don't they just make the small dish washing machine

Yes I remember them all.....wait how old am I ?

Everything around in the late 1940s-1950s was "New" Right after WWII when I was born. New cars, new homes, streets, towns., furniture, appliances. It was a great time. Nothing old or worn. I remember the new smells from cars, clothes, at school the newly printed books that crackled when first opened, and the mimeograph machines the teachers used. For the homes?
Fiberglass curtains, aluminum Christmas trees with spotlights, water coolers before central a/c the side panels were straw, new linoleum floors, "blonde" furniture and for some reason massive lamps most over 36" tall in the early 1960s, watch Twilight Zone or other early TV. Melamine dinnerware, S&H Green Stamps, the huge Sears catalog, telephone operators! Give them a phone number they would give you the address sometimes directions! Emergency just press "0" someone was always there. That was great. Pay phones were a nickel and were everywhere even along the highways.
Best part of all? Family structure Dad worked, Mom took care of the house and us, we all ate at the table, Dad said "Grace" thankful for our food. We all talked about what we were doing, then did chores, homework and bed. Mother knew where everyone was 24/7. We were taught discipline and manners. We were spanked for misbehaving and we deserved it. Kids at school were disciplined there as well and it taught kids there's consequences for bad behavior.

I miss that way of life, it worked. In any case, great memories of those years and it's hard to describe the wonderful feeling that everything around you was brand-spanking new! Of course it couldn't last but being there at the beginning was a great experience!

I don't know if anyone remembers but in the kitchen on the Beverly Hillbillies they had fridges flush with the wall. They even had a duel freezers flush with the wall. They showed them a lot when they showed Jethro digging through them for a snack.

Great nostalgia vids, but, ugh! The AI voice!! Better than ai feminine voice, but stll, grating as heck. 😖 could binge watch if human.

The "Tele-Bar". I can see it now, "Make your drink somewhere else, I'm trying to watch Ed Sullivan !"

I know you wasn't supposed to but I am not dead but my mom had a big refrigerator and it had ice trays you had to pull on a handle to get you ice trays were metal and we used to get a spoon and scrape the ice from the freezer and eat it

My family owned a Tappan Fabulous 400 back in the 1970s, and it was amazing!

Just wait until that Tappen TURKEY lands on your BURNERS and leaks a bit a grease throughout all four burners? OUCH!

My neighbor had the same range and my father was a Bell telephone man. I used to beg him to bring home the video phone stuff, but since no one in our little town needed it or could afford it, there werent any to show. But I always asked him questions and when when when!

Some of these need to make a comeback.

You are not giving dates for a lot of these items...

What an awful video with a reader that just goes on and on without so much as a pause - do the makers of these videos ever play them back to see the rubbish they have made?

Oh my heart! 💜💜💜 That Tappan Fab 400 ... the first time I ever saw anything like it was in Bewitched (although technically I believe Samantha had a Frigidaire Flair) and I wanted her kitchen so badly! Never had stove envy until then. That is something that needs to make a serious comeback.

I wasn't born until 1988, but this stuff is just so cool. I remember watching old Mickey and Goofy cartoons that would have titles like "The home of the future!", and it would show a bunch of appliances anf contraptions like this. I always wanted everything in that cartoon in my house, but thought it was just all made up stuff. It's pretty cool to know the things I would see in those cartoons actually existed!

I just turned 65 last month. I distinctly remember the actual day they released the 1st microwave to the public- i came home from school( i was 13) and saw this monster sitting on the kitchen counter and my momma sitting at the table drinking a steaming cup of tea, something i had never seen her do. I said " Momma, what is that thing??!"
She said " it's called a " miiiicro waaave" My eyes felt like they were gonna pop right out of my skull. She jumped up, grabbed another mug , filled it and put it in the micro and pushed a button and pointed at the clock on the wall- within 1 min the next cup was STEAMING and we were just flabbergasted with the speed.😂😂😂
Momma said " now don't you or your brother put ANY food in here without me or Dad being in here with you or you'll blow it up!! For weeks i was terrified of that thing 😂😂
Something else about my Mom, she was raised with a bunch of siblings on a tiny log cabin farm in rural NC, buying brand new appliances were NOT part of her every day behaviors, she was a bit of a stickler for old fashioned things, i had to teach her to apply mascara when i was 15 because she was going for her 1st job interview and had never worn makeup! Later she became very open to new ideas however she mostly knew kids and cooking lol, 7 of us!
GREAT videos!!