I helped my friend Jim move yesterday to this cool little spot that is sort of in the hood. It’s a nice little one bedroom apartment. I walked into the kitchen and almost yacked to the high levels of cute radiating from the stove and oven area. I don’t know dick about vintage kitchenware but the old GE kitchen is pretty bad ass.
The kitchen has pink tiles, pink stove top and a pink oven. The oven is pretty rad, you look at it an immediately know it’s some old shit and has more character than most people encountered on a day to day basis. It also has a clock/timer/countdown style interface that no longer works (it was prolly the tits back in 1950)
The stove is electric (has no flame but the rings that get red hot) and is by far the coolest part of the whole kitchen. It features clicky analog blender style buttons to control heat levels rather than knobs. Each burner has six buttons and when any button other than off is pressed down the GE logo lights up red!
Last but not least there is a non-functioning blender built right into the counter top. It is a silver panel with one hole for the blender to go into and a big ass knob you turn. Again this must’ve been tits back in the fifties. I wish it still worked, I imagine it wouldn’t be too hard to get it back in working order if one were so inclined.
There are also a few other cool things I didn’t take photos of. The doorbell being one of them. It has a short but wide button and when pressed it clicks in and rings upon release. The ring is similar to that of an old game show bell and I think it is actually a bell being struck by a tiny hammer upon releasing the button. We must’ve pressed it twenty times to figure out where it was coming from and when we saw the little metal box in the hallway we realized it was also a vintage doorbell.
The bathroom also had some cool stuffs including a doorless medicine cabinet of sorts built into the wall across from the toilet to house your toilet paper, some magazines, misc. bottles and a hand towel. Then next to that low hanging wall unit is a similar style hamper built into the wall. It has a door on top to drop in your dirty clothes and door at the bottom to pull them all out come laundry time. I’m torn as it is very functional but oddly clunky, maybe more for the kids who have a hard time tossing their dirty clothes in the hamper.
It’s really cool to see old relics of past eras still in working condition in some slightly hood apartment in San Diego. It makes me wonder how many more gems like that are scattered all throughout the various neighborhoods in SD.
