11 Old Kitchen Features That Have Vanished Over Time 

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In New Zealand a meat safe was just called a "safe" and vented to the outside of the coldest wall in the house. We had one at the far end of of our walk-in pantry. We certainly kept a cold leg of leftover mutton in there, after we had eaten one meat of it roasted.There was a double swung door on the kitchen end that was fantastic. I have never seen it in any other NZ house, not many of the things mentioned above.

@@faodail3913”one meat of it”??

'pie safe' makes more sense. I've (64f) heard of those, but I've never heard of a 'meat safe'.

Yeah, don’t know where the writer got the idea of a MEAT safe?

Alot became more portable these days

Many items are still available, and many of the items they show on this channel were either not that popular, or just concepts.

I agree. Especially the drop down ironing board and the rolling pin drawer.

@@jessieflores8788 Drop down irroning boards were quite common where I came from. The rolling pin drawer, not so much.

absolutely, we have lost imagination, ingenuity, vision, desire lots of things 😪

Never hear mention of a laundry chute without thinking of an Erma Bombeck line. She talks about which is easier to raise, boys or girls. She says definitely boys, because with girls, if you get suspicious and call upstairs to ask what they're doing, they will say "nothing!" and you'll have to go upstairs yourself to find out they're making mud pies with your expensive moisturizer and face powder. With boys, you call up and ask what they're doing, and they'll say "Joey threw the cat down the laundry chute. It was cool!"

*hear - drat the stupid dictation that changes what I said just as I hit the "send" button

My aunt & sister both had a laundry shoot & I was very jealous. When we remodeled our master bedroom & two bathrooms we actually had a great space between the two bathrooms that was great for a laundry shoot. It doesn't fall to the laundry room but close enough. Luv it!

@@vickidemarco2076 * chute. But somehow "shoot" also works, to describe the push of putting items into it.

I lived in a house that had a closet with a stacked washer & dryer on the 2nd floor (where all the bedrooms were).

Nooks are cool. Very space efficient. And very cozy. I think they facilitate communication.

My 1927 house has one and I LIVE in it! Great east light!

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I have one from the 50's, the cans of today are not as they were then and most times now, my wall mount can opener won't work on the newer cans. In Joy

I cared for a 99 year old in her home who cared for 3 sons and 3 adopted sons. She was a nurse in an early war during this time.. She said she'd buy 10 pounds of hamburger meat and covered it with a cloth, and kept it inside a dark pantry.

We had a meat safe in UK the pantry was down a few steps so lower and on the coldest side of the house. No fridges in those days but no central heating either. Did none of us any harm at all but to be honest food was cooked fresh daily and we actually ate very well now in 80's so it couldn't have been so bad. No upset stomach either😊

I was born in PA and yes, they were pie safes - never for meat!!! Meat needed to be refrigerated - this was a dumb statement!

They probably re-purposed them when refrigerators arrived simply be removing the hook and installing a few shelves. And what a good idea it is. A place to put baked goods fresh out of the oven to allow it time to cool without becoming an attraction for insects and animals.

In the winter we often use the balcony (enclosed) to keep big items that would take up too much room in the fridge, like a pie or a cake, a lasagna or a frying pan full of something.

That sounds like such a cool idea!

@jbelle021 Yes, it was/is cool, literally.tge cool air from beneath the house circulated up around the vegetables helping them to last longer.

I lived in an old farmhouse in the hills of Hayward, CA, in 1972. It had the same feature but all the shelves were wire mesh. It was great for keeping vegetables fresh.

My husband grew up in a house with one of these. It was built in to an exterior wall on the north side of the house. They called it ‘the cool cupboard.’ It pulled cool air up from under the house and vented it to the outside at the top of the cupboard.

We had one in our 1920s house in Los Angeles. It had lazy susan shelves above the wire mesh, which allowed cool air from the cellar. It was fabulous.

I believe this is an AI narrator.

they are still available

I got tired of the handheld ones with cranks wearing out (same with the electric ones), so I just use the boy scout type with a wood handle, fast, effective, and will never wear out.

The built in ironing board is what I need most.

Because my mother did not have the use of one of her arms, the wall mounted can opener my father put in place for her to use was placed lower than most, but in an area she could open any size can with ease.

My grandparents had a really tiny kitchen in their 1930s home with very little storage. They had a wall mounted can opener, a wall mounted ice crusher, and a wall mounted pencil sharpener. Some of the best meals I’ve ever had were made by granny in that kitchen. 💗

My great-aunt's was upstairs at the end of the hall. There were 3-4 beds lined up on one side when summer really began and the other side was simply a back porch for relaxing. (They had some money.)

We have a sleeping porch in 100 a 100-year-old house. It's a study/office now. Very useable for about 9 months of the year.

You’re right that screen porches had many positive elements-ours was converted into a small den in the 60’s with a bedroom over it. My late FIL used to sleep in their screened in porch in Ohio-no AC. A screened porch is a safe dry place for children to play as well as nap. ❤❤ I wish I had one now. ❤

My grandparents had a sleeping porch when they lived in the city, but when they moved to the country, they used to sleep on the roof! My grandfather would spread out blankets and such on the roof, and my sister and I would sleep in the middle, with him on one side and Grandmother on the other. It was cool up there and almost like a fairytale to be sleeping in the treetops. Plus, we were above the mosquitoes.

I slept many times on my mother's screened-in porch as a child back in the late 1950's to early 1960's. Even then, southern Louisiana in the summer could turn miserable -- and no one had air conditioning yet. I remember setting up a fan to blow on me while I lay on my little pallet, covered with a top sheet I had dampened in the tub and then wrung out. The evaporation from the sheet being fluttered by the fan was very cooling, and by the wee hours I might be so cooled that I had to go back inside.

I agree with you. We do have an eating area in our kitchen, but we seldom use it; we have a large dining room and prefer to eat in there. (We had three children, plus raised one of hubby's nephews to we needed SPACE.) I honestly don't like to have too many people in the kitchen while I'm cooking Hubby is a big help, but anybody else is either in the way, or distracting. I'm such a grinch!

I watch that step saving kitchen video at least once every six months. I love it. I want it.

It depends on how many people are in the kitchen . Step kitchens get crowded fast.

Well, you need to remember that the older kitchen designs catered to from-scratch cooking by stay-at-home housewives. Starting in the 1960's, as more women left the home to pursue a career and frozen/processed foods really started hitting the mainstream, those designs didn't really make as much sense. Now, as more people realize just how horrible processed food is, and also how fulfilling a "traditional" family (i.e., a stay-at-home parent and one working parent) lifestyle is, these older designs are becoming more relevant again. If you think that's neat, you should really take a look at how some other countries do their kitchens. For example, I live in a part of the country where it is very hot much of the year. Having a main kitchen OUTSIDE make a LOT more sense than putting it in my air-conditioned house where the oven/cooktop are heating up my home and doubling my electric bill. I will be building a home in a few years and you better believe I will be putting my oven and cooktop outside on a screened in porch.

Oh wow! Sounds like a great invention for pastry, especially if you're making it in summer.

I used it a few times in the last fifty years. Found it easier to just crank the A/C up $$$@@sundayoliver3147

I grew up with a 1955 house and thoroughly and completely dislike that era - probably because I lived through it - furniture and all. It seems to me that younger people (I’m pushing 77) really like this era. Nit a problem as I prefer other times - but I’d never give up ,icing without electricity👍👍👍

@@sandybruce9092 To each his own. But I too grew up in a 1950s house, and I am 66, so not that much younger. I live in Palm Springs, California, the epicenter of Mid-Century Modernism. The MCM design aesthetic is highly valued locally. It is a significant part of the local identity. And I love it.

My current home built in 1953 has a built in linen press for formal linens, pull out cutting boards under a few drawers, baking pan storage, serving tray storage, built in spice shelf, original push button stovetop with oven above, a smaller wall oven built with post-war aviation grade stainless steel, a Swingline can opener, original custom cabinetry, a covered hole in the countertop that when opened allows one to discard trash or recycling directly into garbage cans in an enclosed area in the garage, and an under-cabinet recessed corner cabinet that has 2 doors (1 into the kitchen and the 2nd to the outside when the 1950s-1950s local milkman would deliver the fresh milk directly into the kitchen. It also has a large pantry, a cleaning closest, and laundry area with storage cabinets above. At one end of the kitchen is a breakfast area with a large window with wooden louvers beneath, so that light from the garden room enters, a view of the garden area beyond the garden room is visible, and air can flow through the house when the garden room windows and the louvers are open. The house has some very special features, unique to its architect. A 1948 house I used to own had a 1950's type "rec room" with vintage linoleum with a shuffleboard floor design, a dry bar, a built in piano, and a brick BBQ grill with hood, vented to the outside. It also had a 20'x20" screened in porch. Vintage houses are special in their own ways.

Your house sounds awesome​@@annetteclark8854

@@sandybruce9092 I am with you, sister. The only people who liked the 50's didn't live through them.

Would you want to keep air circulation away from baked goods so they don't dry out?

Yes, I am sick, sick, sick of it and those horrid stainless steel appliances. I remember when they first came out and I cringed, they remind me of a hospital.

​@@lr8424or a morgue! NOT an industrial look fan either!

And dull exterior colors as well! There's a mid ground.

They are so ugly. I love a lot of color in a house.

I like color. Color doesn't mean tacky, either. It can be tasteful colors. I think the white and gray showroom look is not for us. I do like white walls and light colors, but not super neutral. Right now I am using bright summer colors, against a white background. I like pops of color. Not maximalism but not minimalism, either. I decorate like a cottage style and love my 50 houseplants and mostly vintage decor. I think people to some extent got sterile with tastes and more expected, but I love homey things, not so much the store showroom look.

Wow, that’s so awesome to have the bread box 🥰

Thanks for sharing, love it !

Nothing better than freshly home-baked bread!

That is a beautiful anecdote. Thanks for sharing!

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And a sifter. I eat gluten free and low carb. I need to sift. And a pull out workspace.

I had never seen the rolling pin drawer before! I'm 63, been in well over 8000 kitchens throughout my appliance service career- many vintage ones, have seen all the other items in this video, but never the rolling pin drawer!

Right!? They take up such a weird amount of space in a regular drawer and that's such a neat solution!

I hang my collection of rolling pins on the wall.

Our house was built in 1912… kitchen was a big open room…no wall cupboards until the house was added onto in 1935 …when a breakfast nook/ small dining area was added also. I have a 1914 Wilson free standing kitchen cabinet now too. We also have a fold down ironing board upstairs hallway.

Agree. I adore the rusty, crusty and old. There was charm and character. Don't get me wrong, the modern kitchen is fine, but nor a deal breaker if old and screaming to be brought back to life.

Cant sit a spell on a bar stool looking at white office cabinets

Laundry chutes were fun, we used to throw toys into ours to see how fast they'd get to the basement. It's a good thing they were narrow, otherwise we would have tried climbing into them ourselves. I suspect they were designed to be narrow for that very reason!

That ironing board wasn’t a sixties thing. Older houses-1940s, say-had them.

When I had a residential housecleaning business many years ago I loved it when customers had central vac systems. It saved lugging a heavy machine around those big fancy houses I cleaned.

@@brendasnow8255 I think of built-in ironing boards as more 1920s, but they may have had a long run, because if you iron, they were practical!

I grew up in a 1926 house that my family lived in for four generations. In the 1960's the original kitchen was removed and we had not one but two ovens eye level, one oven a little bigger than the other. They were terrific. We also had a cabinet with a pull out shelf or drawer soup cans that laid on their side. The house was torn down in the late 1990's and I hope someone removed and re-used that excellent kitchen.

Oh me too. I would love a wall oven, with a stovetop on the counter. It eliminates a big hulking range that sits just high enough off the floor for crumbs to collect, but not high enough to clean underneath.....and that gap between the countertop and the range that you have to buy silicone strips to cover or everything drips down into it. Ugh. I cannot stand modern ovens/stoves/ranges. Some things should have never been "fixed".

My parents had a 1960 brick ranch house with a wall oven and counter top stove. It was so easy for my Mom to cook in and clean that oven. It was a brand called Tappan. It was still working great when she passed away in 1997 and it never had to be serviced.

Had a home once with the wall oven. Got a regular stove and oven. It was great having to ovens.

My parents have a wall oven that worked nicely for many years.

Still our. Our home we bought 6 years ago has one. I love it.

We had a home 25 years ago with a round bench table. It was great!

Mine was built in the 90s, and it has one🤷‍♀️

I disagree. We bought a 1920 house that had a mid century remodel (unfortunately). There’s a dining nook. It really only works for two people because it’s such a pain to get in and out of the middle of it.

@@shuttersteph That's a bummer ☹️ Maybe there wasn't enough room; probably should have made it storage. Mine is "small" but really just the right size😊 I guess if you get a place where it was planned in, in the first place, it wouldn't be as bad

I got mine several years ago, figuring to use it mostly for storage, simply because it fits my old-fashioned aesthetic. I cannot believe how useful it is! The pull-out is several inches lower than a standard countertop and allows a woman of average height (me) to really get elbows and shoulders into jobs such as kneading or rolling dough. Also, it's deeper than a counter and allows for access around all but one side. I just love it.

I've got my grandmothers Hoosier. Very good shape too except it's missing the flour bin/sifter.

Just don’t store your meat in it😂

I do too! My mom has a beautiful solid oak one. I found a Sears model that was missing its upper half and use it as an island in my storage-deficient kitchen. It’s fabulous for baking. Best $60 I ever spent!

I would love to have a central vac!

We use a Roomba. It is a small house and we run it constantly.

We built our house in 1991 and included a central vacuum system also. Still works very well, trouble free and soooo convenient.

I have a Nutone/Braun whole house vacuum we installed in our house in 1982. Use it all the time. Very quiet, little maintenance, easy use.

Oh we used to have one of those in our kitchen. Inside the cabinet door underneath the sink.

You can still buy them at the hardware store.

Would love this

I have one in the laundry we put in a few years ago. I didn't know they weren't a thing now lol

Ugh I miss a broom closet!!!! 😅❤

I never heard of it either. But according to Google, this was more an British thing. So that might explain it.

I'm from rural New Zealand and we had a meat safe in several places we lived .

​@@donna8243I'm English and Meat Safes were commonplace.

My first flat, when I was in university in New Zealand, had a meat safe in the kitchenbuilt into the side of the hill the house backed on to. Initially I was baffled, but I figured it out and came to appreciate it, old fashioned though it was. The front was a zinc perforated small door opening into the kitchen, but the fact that the other three sides were recessed into the damp hillside kept things cool. By the time I had the lower flat in this old house, the kitchen had a tiny refrigerator, but the safe actually kept things just as cool. It wouldn’t work in a hot climate, but you don’t need to refrigerate as much as most people think you do. Some day in the future, someone will make a video for whatever has replaced RU-vid about quaint early 21st century people thinking you need to store all your food in huge ‘refrigerators’ that guzzled vast amounts of energy and almost, along with huge gas-guzzling cars, burnt up the planet.

I totally agree with you!

They are especially useful on carpeted stairs.

Best $1400 we spent in the late '90's. Our central vac in a 2000 SQ ft house has worked perfectly ever since! Collects in a canister in the garage. Can go months before it needs to be emptied. Very quiet to use too! All surfaces! Consider installing one people!

You all have had good luck. I installed a large system when building my girlfriend and hubby's 5,000+ sq. ft. home from the ground up. I hated it from the get go. Never had proper suction and had the manufactures people over to diagnose at least a dozen times. It actually held back the move in date at least twice as I didn't want to have them sign off on everything before moving in. Once everybody gets their money, they scatter like roaches. Had the builder put pressure on them too. Anyway, that was over twenty years ago and we never use it and purchased three good quality vacuum cleaners and called it a day. She is in her late 70's and Hubby is 81 and in better shape than me and I am still in my 60's! Glad it worked out, we must have received the "manufactured the day after a holiday" batch!

@naomimoore, I have to be careful with our central vac. I can’t tell you the amount of times it sucked up, in an instant, something it should have. I’ve run to the outlet but never fast enough to rescue something.

@@colettesantoro8797- that’s when you go to the central unit and pop it open. Nothing is ever truly lost if it’s vacuumed up.

I have a house that was built in 1949, although the kitchen was remodeled at some point, probably the 1970’s, it still has the bread board. Over the years it had gotten rough and stained with anything that had been placed on it that was wet. I recently sanded it down and covered it with mineral oil. It looks brand new and beautiful!

my first kitchen as a wife had a crapload of cupboards and drawers including a pullout cutting board and small "secretary" just big enough for bill paying, etc. i loved that little house. We'd still be married and living there if i hadn't done everything the old man told me to do. He's somebody elses problem now. No regrets.

I had a cabinet with one and it was handy as a extra work surface on large cooking days. I do miss it. The cabinet got damaged beyond repair while swapping out a fridge.

We actually put bread boards in our kitchen. They slide into the island and have really made it more useful.

We had a bread board… Right above the bread drawer in our kitchen cabinet.

That reminds me of junior High school in the early 70s. A friend of mine would bring a leftover pizza slice wrapped in foil for lunch. She would lay it on the radiator and by lunchtime the smell was so good we all wanted pizza!

And that faucet over the stove to fill large pots!

This may partially be because mine is a couple decades old, but the hose is a pain to lug around. The house is long enough to cover the entire main floor from one hookup, but that much house is heavy. It's better made than the cheap shop vac tubes, it's never had to be replaced, but that just adds to the weight. We tried using a different one that was lighter, but it tore in just 6 months. Other than bringing the hose up and down the stairs though, I like the system.

I think a good Miele vac is more convenient and just as performative. Certainly far cheaper.

Yes they do. I 'm too disabled to do many of those things now, but when I was a kid I lived on a farm for while. We didn't have electricity even. I learned how to do many things the pioneer way - including how to butcher animals, milk goats, cook on a woodstove, keep a fire going, make cheese, bake bread, make butter, weed a garden, can foods, and so on. We even had a treadle sewing machine, and a washboard.

@@darleneengebretsen1468we had wash boards when I was a kid and a machine with a ringer up top so you had to put the clothes through manually.

They still make women like that, but these days those women are apparently neglected and unappreciated by people like you. Your loss ☺️

I can assure you, those women do still exist. Look harder.

@@r3db0x there really wasn’t any need to be rude.

Yes, lol. Today's kitchens are so dinky. It's like they forgot to put it in the plans and then, once built, decided that a dinky kitchen can fit here or there. Makes no sense when the rest of the house has huge rooms. I prefer older homes. Well built. Made with common sense. Practical. Functional. My added bonus would be a closet in every room and hall too

@OP My aunt had a "monster " pantry. One day, she walked into the pantry and found her twin sons, my cousins, had poured a gallon of olive oil on the linoleum floor and were "ice skating" in their new school shoes. My cousins are now 76 years old. Edit: punctuation

Modern kitchens have not "evolved". They have become easier to clean but less useful as a work space if you make everything from scratch as I do. Most of the young people I know now, don't need a kitchen--just a fridge next to the microwave and Keurig--and new house design is reflecting that.

@@RobertJarecki Love that story! 😅🤣😂 Some little hineys probably got blistered for that escapade.

​@@priestessofkek2406 Most people I know, regardless of age, fit that description...including my in-laws (in their 60s). Funnily enough, the ones who don't fit it are younger (40 and under).

We moved into an early 1960s house in 1992 that had a pink bathroom. I couldn't wait to get rid of it.

When we were first house-hunting in the early 80s, we saw a house with a pink kitchen sink. Total No for me

Pink tile backslash, sink, toilet and floor, pink Formica counter tops with gray Boomerangs! Now that's class! LOL

The pink bathroom reminds me of my Oma and Opa's house...they are long gone now 😞...

They're beautiful. I paused on that.

And the interesting shapes of some of the counters. Just like cars back then, very outer space looking. We've gotten so boring and mundane these days.

You have a great memory. I never knew about the ant poison trough!

The dairy hatch would be fantastic for package delivery in the modern era. No more porch pirates!

​@@Axqu7227 That was the exact same thought I also had.

Love your stories!👍❤️

I miss the fridge door lever SOOOOOO much

My parents house had an old refrigerator in the basement to store gallons of milk since there was 7 of us. Went through a gallon of milk a day back then. My parents lived in that house for 55 years and the fridge was still working. The new owners did not want it so it got junked. They don't make them like they used to.

New fridges are so badly made. I don’t remember anything breaking on our 1980s fridge. Now our fancy ice and cold water dispensing fridge has broken down twice, bins are already cracked, and one of the shelves broke because we had a gallon of milk on it. (But we do love the ice and cold water lol)

​@@Anwelei Yep. Planned obsolescence sucks.

My kitchen is slightly larger than a galley, and I have a small dining area that we put in a small 4 seat table we love. I can't have lots of details in the kitchen due to space. I have 3 cabinets in the dining area I use for extra storage. I love our house, but I do work full time and as much as I love to bake, I am not a homemaker and do not spend a ton of time cooking in it.

Most of us are not as fortunate.

@@briansullivan5908 Most of you are "not as fortunate" as poor people like me who have old-fashioned, outdated kitchen features?! My dear, I think you have missed the point.

@@nutmeg208 no outdated kitchen features are wonderful. I have an outdated kitchen myself and wouldn’t want those gadget disasters for all the world. It’s just mine us scaled down it doesn’t really have any cool features so that’s it’s just basic.

My O'Keefe & Merritt stove/range is from 1947! My mother bought it used, ($200!), sold it to her mother and now fits in my 1949 house! Needs to have a knob fixed and the broiler tuned up, but oh the meals that have come from that loved appliance! I still love it after 30 years of use!!!

I have been planning on trying to build pull outs for my bottom cupboards. The smallest, I put up barriers for cookie sheets, cutting boards and cooling racks to keep them upright. I was going to start with that one. Same design, but pull out. If I do it I will have enough room for a shallow pull out second drawer on the top. And it could have a dedicated spot for my rolling pin and my rolling mats.

Plus they are wheel chair friendly!

Still popular here in the UK - mine has a small central bowl between the sink and the drainer (I am the dishwasher :) )

@@denisehill7769 I'm from the UK, now live in the US. No one has heard of a one piece stainless steel sink and drainboard. This isn't civilisation, these people are savages!

I just can't imagine not having a draining board. I have two, and a dishwasher.​@@denisehill7769

No way would I want a breakfast nook. I rent land from a woman who has one in her 1940's home. It's way too hard to crawl in and our of the booth every time you want to eat.

We had a suspended ceiling of plastic panels that were illuminated by flourescent fixtures up above it. The whole kitchen ceiling lit up. I think my dad got that idea out of a home magazine. We also had a stove where the burners were on a pull out drawer. When not in use, they just stored away. Made the stove quite compact. We also had one of the very early dishwashers, a GE. Unlike the ones today, it had a giant tub that pulled out, and you loaded the dishes into it from the top. It did a lousy job. Modern diswashers are infinitely better.

Milkshoot telephone nook

Here in America, a lot of houses had exhaust fans. Our old house had a big hood with a exhaust fan over the stove as my current one.

Pretty much every house I've ever been inside has a range hood.

Was it the kind of stove with pilot lights and you had to manually light the oven and broiler? We had one when I was a kid, so cool.

But not every working mom can afford takeout. I never could. I cooked double and triple meals which I froze and used the crock pot a lot. If I had a choice I would not have been working. I was eorking because I had to. Nor would my mother or grandmother have worked. They always put housewife on the census. But they both worked outside the home. Rich women got to stay at home in the 40s, 50s and 60s. Upper middle class. Even some middle class. But not lower middle class or poor. The people designing kitchens seem to assume everyone eats takeout and is rich. Kitchens are designed to be cheap, fall apart showcases instead of functioning rooms. And for those of us who need functional kitchens, tough luck. Our last stove did not even come with outlets and only two rakes. The wall it is on has one outlet behind the fridge. Not exactly useful. Moreover, many people have diet issues that make eating out a nightmare or do not want to eat garbage. We need to bring back functional kitchens. For the non rich people. Or those who want to eat something other than grass products.

@@dawnelder9046 what changes would you recommend?

A much older item, predating electric refrigeration.

@@johnstone7697 I think that would be "ice boxes".

I have a central vacuum system in a remodeled home. They are great

I install roughly 6 systems a month. New and existing homes. Retractable and standard systems. Usually just massive houses most the time 🤘🏼

@@rickygonewild69 What's your definition of massive? Hubby installed the piping for the central vac we installed in the 1800 sf house we had built. With central vac, the noise & the heat & exhaust are not in your living quarters but in the garage or basement where the cannister is installed.

canada, old house had a central vac. the problem with these things is they kind of age and slow down and then you got all these outlets all over the house that don't do anything useful any more.

I love my hardwood floors. Actually, they were super popular in the early sixties. My mom bought a brand new two story house in 1963 and I remember that it had wide plank hardwood in the kitchen/ family room combo. But for some odd reason, the formal dining room, which was just off the kitchen, had carpet. My mom used that dining room allllll the time and loved it.

Good point- too many people these days wouldn't fit, or they would fit in BEFORE breakfast, but need to be pried out by the fire department AFTER breakfast.

I use flower sack towels, they are fantastic!

@@jabbaa6500 they are the best.

What is a Pittsburgh potty? Is it an extra toilet? Some very old homes built in the 1800's or 1900's in Montclair NJ have a small odd little room in the basement with just an extra toilet in it, no sink.

@@Earthy-Artist That is precisely what it was. Pittsburgh Potties were frequently found in the basements of older houses. They were extra toilets with no sink and no privacy. Ours was by the cellar door to the outside. There was a reason for these things, but I need help remembering what. Something to do with the plumbing.

@@judithcoloma613 Thanks 😊!

I live in a rental house with an electric stove. I hate the stove and would love to cook on a gas stove again.