Kelvinator

We know they existed.

Brands like Frigidaire and Kelvinator were entering the market.

They were, yes.

So why is the average American family still spending months boiling jars and rubbing salt into pork like they were crossing the plains in a covered wagon?

Ancient appliances.

My 90-year-old mother's still using a Kelvinator fridge dating from the year she was married.

From 1957, says Pete.

That's a fridge that's 69 years old.

Of course it did.

And then there was the Kelvinator Foodarama, one of the first side-by-side refrigerators.

It had the breakfast bar.

It had different, uh, weird compartments, a freezer wrap dispenser inside of it.

What did he say?

He stated that for the troops, G.I. Jill meant, quote, a trifle more than apple pie, the Brooklyn Dodgers, and those soul-stirring Kelvinator Nash advertisements all put together.

That is amazing.

It captures the cultural synthesis perfectly.

For those who might not know, those Kelvinator Nash advertisements he references were famous for depicting these idealized, peaceful American domestic scenes, right?

Exactly.

They were the exact future the soldiers were fighting to return to.

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So everything was changing, right? This is where the industrial era was really kind of catapulting.

And then we had the first commercial household fridge produced by General Electric Motors or General Motors in 1911 with its first popular line, the Kelvinator.

And by 1923, the Kelvinator held close to 80% of the market.

And then in 1926, the General Electric Company puts on the market the first hermetic compressor refrigerator.

So this is where we're seeing, like you said, catapulting.

You know, free farm, land deals, all that sort of stuff.

Kelvinator says, did Charlie have a sing? I don't think you would have had a sink tonight because you didn't get the dub.

Waino says, haven't all the clubs recruiting people had a meeting last week? Wonder what was talked about between them.

Yeah.

and it's rumored that William S. Hart really enjoyed when the new whole ice delivery person would come because they could talk about all of the happenings of the community while he was delivering his ice.

This on this side actually is a Kelvinator and this would have been an early refrigerator.

So it would have run off of gas or propane and so it was highly innovative at the time and for William S. Hart to have two refrigerators was really a big deal.

So these probably don't meet the energy efficiency rules we have today.