Wow. So different but yet so much the same. Now a 'bad food' budget is out of this world, forget the 'good food'....

I recommend the video "Century of the Self". It's on youtube. Worth a watch and eye opening into the advertising/commercialism/tv/magazine culture of this century (and last). Totally worth the hour...

I love this stuff. My minor in college was the social study of women. Fascinating classes. I took a Material Culture class my last semester and wrote a paper about how the history of the refrigerator intersected women's rights.

What a great find!

Interesting about women and college. In most of our programs, women outnumber men. One of my upper division classes last spring was all female.

I have a collection of women's magazines from the 1940s -- lots of "tips" about how to manage with WWII rationing. Also have 1950s mags, when the big focus was convincing women to stay at home, be good wives, and not work. I love these magazines for what they show about how our culture has changed. Fascinating.

We've come a long way baby.....I just heard that women drivers now out number men for the first time ever.

Bee- way cool as my grand nephew would say!

Debra
My mother had one of those ranges - hers was GE - It actually had a MW full size oven on the bottom and a smaller oven above - and a range with a magic burner which my mom still says was the best thing ever made - hers was circa 1972 but saw my first MW at he NYC Worlds fair in 1963(I think)

The house we just bought has one of those ranges! The bottom oven is no longer working so rather than repair it we are replacing with an induction range later this month.

Very interesting.

crl - maybe you bought my parents house! Wouldn't that be funny! - Their house was in Reading PA

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I've always felt I was old enough to understand and benefit from the much denigrated women's movement, yet young enough not to have actually be involved. Just to benefit.

I have McCall's sewing patterns from the 40s, 50s, 60s, and my own from the 70s. Even that much was interesting to notice the difference in the sketch models.

Kitchens I can't speak to. But I can tell you in 1964 my mom built a house with metal cabinets, that were a dark, slate/turquoise/cadet blue. Open to the dining area (seperate formal dining room,) Linoleum, a DW, built-in butcher block counter, a pantry with roll-outs, whole house pocket doors. My mom was always ahead of the game.

I'd love to see the articles!

a2gemini, our new place is in California--I guess there is more than one of those ranges still hanging around. Lol.

Deedles, I will check out that video.

a2gemini, the range in the mag is a GE americana. No MW but there is a special electric burner called a sensi-temp that is supposed to end pot watching forever as it boils a pint of water in 130 seconds. Maybe they started to use MWs to replace one of the ovens.

A friend of mine just remodeled her kitchen and ripped out the old Tappen with the slide out cooktop. She loved it but so much that she wanted to keep it.

I'm going to check to see if my mom's friend has any more. I would really like to see home decor magazines. Did they have kitchen magazines back then?

i remember the first time i saw a microwave oven in about 1967...we watched it boil water. also remember the first time i saw a color tv; it was at a tv station in the 1950's.