Vintage range mavens, can you date this?
writersblock (9b/10a)
8 years ago
Looking for something totally unrelated, I ran across this quirky little Westinghouse range:
The listing says 1930s-40s, but I'm darned if I can figure out an approximate date. Magic Chef was doing gas ranges with chrome legs in the mid 30s, and Westinghouse was moving in the general direction of the superstructure on this one by 1936, but the styles were quite different:
1935 magic chef:
The streamlined style of the top one would make me think mid to late 40s, but by then the knobs would have been large and dark and easy to grab, no?
Anyone got a guess? It seems to confuse the sellers, too (stove/oven/desk!), and they're pretty up on old appliances:
http://www.atomicwarehouse.com/more.cfm?productid=1846&categoryid=11
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8 years agolast modified: 8 years agoOh, and for future reference for anyone finding this thread while looking for info on the Rancho, here's the 1953 model. Note that the cooktop is over the oven now, and the storage drawer has moved up under the work area:
writersblock (9b/10a)
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6 years agolast modified: 6 years agopetewildermuth
2 years agoThe Westinghouse Rancho is a great old stove! I picked one up in good condition, mostly working, with very good condition enamel, for about $275 in 2020. I installed a new range cord, repaired the loose burner drip trays, wired in a new oven indicator bulb and socket, and a new 3000W coil wire for the lower oven heating element. A 70+ year old stove, which works perfectly, and can be relatively easily repaired, except that it is hard to find replacement Corox burners. It's been such a wonderful stove to us and the oven bakes so evenly.
I recently read (see attached press release) that the Rancho Range and other Westinghouse appliances came standard with a development of 500+ homes built in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio in the early 1950s by developer Ray Heslop. This was the largest development of post WWII housing at the time in Ohio.
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