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[violann]

Is there any business that makes them or imports them?

Or in desperation, an analog (ewwwww) that at least LOOKS like a good '50's kitchen clock? 

[nomless]

@violann, eBay has vintage plug in clocks.  Lots of cute kitchen clocks.  Amazon has vintage AKA retro style clocks.  I found a website that carries retro clocks but the ones I looked at were battery operated.  I think eBay is your best source for plug in clocks.

[Sooner]

Are you getting the cat with the rolling eyes and the swinging tail?  LOL!!!!

[violann]

@Sooner IF I COULD, I WOULD! At this point I just want a clock with a TAIL (electric cord!).

[ValuSkr]

You don't like battery-operated?

[violann]

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@ValuSkr wrote:

You don't like battery-operated?

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In my personal experience, this particular type of "planned obsolescence" is a huge annoyance both with hanging a batteryclock that will lie flush against a soffit, and also a battery. Clock always seems to let me down at the most inappropriate moments ( IE., when I actually want to know WHAT TIME IT IS).

[ValuSkr]

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@violann wrote:

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@ValuSkr wrote:

You don't like battery-operated?

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In my personal experience, this particular type of "planned obsolescence" is a huge annoyance both with hanging a batteryclock that will lie flush against a soffit, and also a battery. Clock always seems to let me down at the most inappropriate moments ( IE., when I actually want to know WHAT TIME IT IS).

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I guess you don't have many power outages.  We have quite a few here in SE Pennsylvania and the battery-operated wall clock keeps right on going.  No need after power is restored to drag the step ladder up to the kitchen and figure out how to reset the clock, not to mention having to rehang it on the nail (which can be a trick!).  The battery doesn't need replacement often - probably every two or three years.

[Sooner]

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@violann wrote:

@Sooner IF I COULD, I WOULD! At this point I just want a clock with a TAIL (electric cord!).

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@violann

I think you can!  I remember seeing one not too long ago in a catalog or something.  Does Vermont Country Store have them?  Google it and I'll bet you can!  LOL!!!!

FOUND IT!  Amazon has them 

Kit-Cat BC01 Classic Black Clock, Large

Back in the day our neighbor bought one and her husband wouldn't let her run it all the time because he was afraid it used too much electricity.  TRUE but sad story.  So she could only run it when they have company or when I wanted to come by and see it.

[novamc1]

My parents had one of those cat clocks with the bug-eyes and swinging  tail in our kitchen when I was growing up.  I suppose everyone did.

I know I couldn't live without the two large-faced battery clocks that we have used for years.  One is a version of the  big indoor/outdoor clock that you see advertised everywhere, from garden shops to BedBathBeyond to Walmart and on and on.  It can come in different colors......ours is a brushed silver/steel color, but I've seen it in many different finishes. It  has a hygrometer dial on the face that shows relative humidity and a thermometer.  It hangs in  the family room and I must look at it at least six times a day, even when I'm just passing through the room.

This clock sets itself  for changes in daylight savings time because it gets radio signals from a government facility out West.  It never goes out during a power outage.  I've only changed the one little AA battery in it once over the 7-8 years that we've had it on the wall in our family room.

I also have another battery clock that I don't put on the wall but  have propped on one of those display easels on a table in my  "personal woman cave".  It, too, only uses one AA battery and just like the wall clock I mentioned, that little battery seems to last forever--at least 4-5 years.

If you want a plug-in, that's fine.  But for convenience, I'm willing to change one  little AA battery just a few times during a lifetime.  We have power outages and brief interruptions--some lasting only about one or two seconds--and I'm tired of adjusting the oven and microwave clocks every time that happens.  Technology is better than that!

[novamc1]

Here are photos of the  simle battery-operated clocks I referred to in earlier post.  The one propped on an easel can hang on a nail in the wall just as easily.  Don't know why photo is laying on its side......I didn't take it that way!  Thanks not, QVC.  LOL!