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[Marp]

As I was waiting for my bread to toast this morning I started thinking about how excited I was as a kid when the family got our first pop-up toaster and replaced one similar to this:

[Big Joanie]

I remember the traingle one that went over a gas burner ....

[beckyb1012]

When Mom bought our new 4 piece toaster in her "harvest gold" color I thought WOW!!

Extra toast in one swoop.

[Big Joanie]

Now that's high livin.....

[Marp]

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@Big Joanie wrote:

I remember the traingle one that went over a gas burner ....

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My nana had one like that.  Fortunately I wasn't allowed to make toast with it.

[Gram W]

I enjoy going to old/antique shops looking at kitchen products from long ago.   I remember helping Grandma in the kitchen and using those old toasters.

 Oh my!   Wait a minute I have those Corning, Revere, etc products in my kitchen.  I still use them everyday.  My Rainbow vacuum cleaner is used for the upstairs.  Some items I received when we got married in 1962.  Does that mean I am now an antique?   I am 72.  I don't  think of myself as an "antique".

[CareBears]

@beckyb1012 Is that an egg cooker ( kind of looks like the one Mark Charles sells), on the left, brown small appliance.

[SaRina]

When I was a child, ours looked something like this...

I love the smell of toast. It just doesn't smell quite the same coming out of a toaster oven. :-)

Speaking of retro kitchen gadgets, we also had this double coffee maker. I still have it.

[beckyb1012]

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@CareBears wrote:

@beckyb1012 Is that an egg cooker ( kind of looks like the one Mark Charles sells), on the left, brown small appliance.

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@CareBears Yes it is, we did not have one of those but Mom had some special pan for making poached eggs over boiling water on the stovetop.  Recently, the home she built when I was in the fourth grade and we sold my senior year of high school went back on the market.  They posted 35 photos of our home with all the changes outside and inside.  I saved the site on my favorites list and still look at from time to time.  One owner actually moved the stove and fridge from one side of the kitchen to the other.  It still had my Mom's huge beyond huge patio she added a few years after she built the home then a cover from the sun later.  A woman in her early 20's, two incurable diseases, divorced with three children and made that home special always.  I loved the 70's.

[CareBears]

@SaRina Forgive me for being so naive, but how do you use the double coffee maker?