The Smiths: WE LEAVE THE FRIDGE DOOR OPEN!

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

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[noluck-boston.livejournal.com]

I love that lilac kitchen.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

I get the idea that girl in green at the Thomas's place is doing that slow, mock clapping thing at girl in pink. "You think you're soooo damn hot with your poofy petticoat."

[weelisa.livejournal.com]

Why keep ice cream cones in the freezer? Who puts an entire roasted fowl in the fridge - cooked to perfection but now nice and cold and uncovered and smelling up the rest of the food. At least it should be partially eaten - then it would make sense.

[misstia]

i don't think that is quite a freezer area....see how that part is like closed off from the freezer area? i've seen other ads on here that have had areas down in that part of the freezer where they've shown bananas.....

i have never ever understood the fully cooked uncut roasts, hams, etc in fridges....i suppose though a cut one wouldn't be as appealing in the ad....

[moonpupy.livejournal.com]

Agreed. I seem to remember, long ago and far away, this was advertised as an area for things that needed to be kept cool and dry, but not refrigerated, like cones and bananas. And paper plates, apparently.

[misstia]

shut the door tag?

[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

Kelvinator--the Nash Rambler of home appliances.

[whoseline_wlsc]

I love the Andersons' kitchen, especially that yellow fridge.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

The "Medallion Home" electrical-appliance (and so electricity-consumption) marketing campaign has a longer description here: http://www.smecc.org/live_better_electrically_medallion_home.htm

[pbrim.livejournal.com]

We had one of those medallion all-electric homes in rural New Mexico in '62 or '63 -- not even the excuse of a developer built house, it was custom built to my mothers design. It was really neat, except that one winter when we had a bad ice-storm, and our electricity was out for three days. Living in the country meant we had a well, with an electric pump, of course. No heat, no lights, no running water for three days of below freezing weather. We were totally screwed except for the pretty fireplace in the living room. Our next house had propane heat.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_nicolai_/]

That doesn't sound great. However even homes with, say, gas heating still may need electricity to run pumps or fans to provide heat, or may not start if the electrical controller is not powered.
Very simple gas heaters will run without electricity, though; if I lived somewhere very cold with a nontrivial chance of a power outage, I would probably have one or two to hand if my house didn't have an electricity-not-required heater. Or I'd make it possible to use a generator to power the core house infrastructure (heating, refrigeration).

This all-electric idea was not just in the USA; I grew up in the West Country of the UK in a house built in the early 1960s (the era during which the UK would be reshaped by "the white heat of technology", and (nuclear) electricity would be too cheap to meter). Lighting, cooking, and heating was electric; in the case of the heating, an electric heater and hot-air ducting. By the time I lived in it in the 1980s, it had been retrofitted with a gas boiler and radiators for economic reasons.

[mjspice.livejournal.com]

CLOSE THE DAMN FRIDGE!!

[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

The Andersons save money because they understand you have to shut the fridge door!!

And apparently, Kelvinator invented the "side-by-side" refrigerator.