Date: 2010-03-17 11:21 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] shep-shepherd.livejournal.com
The tabletop oven puts me in mind of the Baby Belling, which was a very popular appliance in the UK :)

Date: 2010-03-17 11:24 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] misstia
doesn't that look like plates in the bottom of the oven?

Date: 2010-03-17 11:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] albear.livejournal.com
Holy crap those are expensive. I looked them up on the inflation calculator http://www.westegg.com/inflation/ and used 1954 as the base year.

Toaster: What cost $23.95 in 1954 would cost $188.99 in 2009.
Table oven: What cost $32.40 in 1954 would cost $255.67 in 2009

Restoring the Toast-o-lator

Date: 2010-03-18 04:32 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] franklanguage.livejournal.com
I didn't post anything about the Toast-o-lator because I haven't been able to find an ad for it online. I did find this article that includes information about it, though, and am posting it because (http://www.jitterbuzz.com/indtol.html) people deserve to know about transport toasting—apparently an obsession of the Toast-o-lator's inventor.

(Oh, and what made me post this was the reference to expense; I believe the Toast-o-lator was about $250 in the 1950's, making it the true Rolls-Royce of toasters.)
Edited Date: 2010-03-18 04:34 am (UTC)

Date: 2010-03-18 02:13 am (UTC)
From: [personal profile] whoseline_wlsc
I like them all, especially the cute little tabletop oven!

Date: 2010-03-18 02:56 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] moonjaguar.livejournal.com
An old boyfriend of mine had something a lot like (if not the same as) the tabletop oven in the ad, about that size. It came with his no-kitchen-having sleeping room. The little sucker was handy for stuff like frozen pot pies, hot dogs, baked eggs, that kind of thing, more like a toaster oven with more room. I don't know if he tried to "roast fowl" in it though.

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