Kitchen

[Tinkrbl44]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

This was proudly described by the photographer as a beautiful, retro, 1950s kitchen.  What do you see wrong?

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@Kachina624 

It's GOT to be AI.

No one who has ever had a kitchen would know you couldn't get into the fridge.

BTW, the first time I ever saw a microwave was in a snack bar at a large store.  The woman behind the counter asked if I'd like my sweet roll heated up in the microwave. 

I said "Huh?"  and she cut and smeared butter on my roll, heated it and ... to tell you the truth .... I was AMAZED that a machine could heat up a roll for me.  This was the late 1960s.  

[AuntMame]

That's weird AI *it. Notice how narrow the stove is, how it has only 2 burners but 4 knobs. What is that weird ****** on the table supposed to be? Jell-O? 

[Caaareful Shopper]

Is this like a "How Many AI Mistakes Can You Spot game?

• Refrigerator in the corner
• Modern microwave in a 50's house
• Kitchen table & chairs taking up the entire floor space of the kitchen; cannot open oven door or cabinets
• Long curtain extremely close to the gas stove
• Two-burner stove with four knobs
• Sink directly next to stove

[rockygems123]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@loriqvc wrote:

Actually, the microwave was available to consumers on a limited basis in the 1950s, though the models then certainly weren't the small over-the-range versions so popular today and shown here. I'm guessing this photo may have been taken to highlight the color scheme and/or retro approach to the kitchen, so perhaps they took liberties and simply corralled all the items into one tight shot—obviously, neither the refrigerator nor the oven is accessible in this setup. And I'm not sure what the bit of metal just visible on the counter near the stove might be; hopefully it isn't the sink, but who knows? 

@loriqvc. I entered Drexel University in 1960, majoring in home ec.  They were just experimenting with the use of microwaves in cooking.  Their prototype was described as huge and not suited for practical home use.

I was the first person I knew to get a microwave oven, in the late 1970s a GE.  It was huge and only 450 watts, also very expensive.

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@Kachina624 @loriqvc 

We had one when I started at a private high school in 1968.

It was huge and just about destroyed the food. Inconsistent hot spots and dried out the food.  I was afraid of it ha.

Not like today's microwaves.

[gloriajean]

It was in 1973 when my first daughter was born when we got our first microwave oven. 

[Citrine1]

Mistakes aside, I love the refrigerator!  The rest of the kitchen is kind of fun, too -- if it were laid out differently, of course.  

[Kachina624]

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@Caaareful Shopper wrote:

Is this like a "How Many AI Mistakes Can You Spot game?

• Refrigerator in the corner
• Modern microwave in a 50's house
• Kitchen table & chairs taking up the entire floor space of the kitchen; cannot open oven door or cabinets
• Long curtain extremely close to the gas stove
• Two-burner stove with four knobs
• Sink directly next to stove

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@Caaareful Shopper.  I also question whether that style of molded plastic chair existed in the '50s.  I checked and couldn't find any manufacturing dates.  Most kitchen chairs then were chrome with vinyl seats.

[MaverDaver]

The refrigerator door can't open but that's okay because today a number of people don't/won't/can't cook so they need that microwave.

[Tinkrbl44]

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@AuntMame wrote:

That's weird AI *it. Notice how narrow the stove is, how it has only 2 burners but 4 knobs. What is that weird ****** on the table supposed to be? Jell-O? 

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@AuntMame 

Wow, great catch!  

[AuntMame]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@Caaareful Shopper wrote:

Is this like a "How Many AI Mistakes Can You Spot game?

• Refrigerator in the corner
• Modern microwave in a 50's house
• Kitchen table & chairs taking up the entire floor space of the kitchen; cannot open oven door or cabinets
• Long curtain extremely close to the gas stove
• Two-burner stove with four knobs
• Sink directly next to stove

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@Caaareful Shopper.  I also question whether that style of molded plastic chair existed in the '50s.  I checked and couldn't find any manufacturing dates.  Most kitchen chairs then were chrome with vinyl seats.

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You're right about the chairs. 

I remember kitchen chairs as having chrome legs and frame with vinyl padded seats and backs. 

I think the plastic bucket stacking chairs that became obiquitous in office meeting rooms and cafeterias came out in the 1960s. 

That teapot on the stove is also not a teapot style from the 1950s. More of a modern version of a "retro" style.