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- Freeze Frame
- Texas Flyer wanted
- Just a Year Too Soon
- WWII -- Replacing men with women at the railroad crossing.
- Yes, Icing
- You kids drive me nuts!
- NOT An Easy Job
- I wonder
- Just add window boxes
- Icing Platform?
- Indiana Harbor Belt abides
- Freezing haze
- Corrections (for those who care)
- C&NW at Nelson
- Fallen Flags
- A dangerous job made worse
- Water Stop
- Passenger trains have right of way over freights?
- Coal
- Never ceases to amaze me.
- Still chuggin' (in model form)
- Great shot
- Westerly Breeze
- For the men, a trapeze
- Tickled
- Sense of loneliness ...
- 2 cents
- Charm City
- What an Outrage
- Brighton Park
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Now We're Cooking With Gas!
Columbus, Georgia, circa 1948. "Kitchen display -- Tappan stove." 4x5 inch acetate negative from the Shorpy News Photo Archive. View full size.
Betty Brown
Was Betty Brown the name of the store or the new owner? I wonder what happened to the middle finger of the man in the back!
[She seems to have been the Betty Crocker of Tappan. -tterrace]
Know Them Well
Tappan stoves were made in my hometown of Mansfield, Ohio. Stovemaking started there in the 1800's. My great-grandfather was a patternmaker for one of the local stove companies in the late 1800's.
Warmed-Over Memories
I grew up with that same Tappan stove. Was happy to find that name on the cooktop and double ovens here when I moved in.
Easy Whirldry
A small portable washing machine.
[The Stove People don't know what they're missing. - Dave]
Google even harder
I scrolled through the OCR text of the Roseburg, Oregon newspaper article (the second link from Dave's search), and read that it's an Easy Whirldry Washer:
https://www.google.com/#q=%22whirldry+washer%22
Plenty of hits on that; even a recently uploaded (2011) YouTube video of one in operation - in color!
What's in the Box?
Can anyone make out the label on the box to the left? It looks like it says "New! All Purpose Whirlday Washer" - it's that word Whirlday - a google search comes up empty - that's what it looks like but that doesn't sound right. Its certainly Whi something something day though.
[Maybe you're not Googling hard enough. -Dave]
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