48 Vintage Photos Show What Kitchens Were Like in the 1960s 

Great days miss them every thing was so simple

When kitchens were cozy and didn’t look the a lawyers office. Poor kids today, gray, gray,gray. 😩☹️

The magic about your photos is that these are everyday family kitchens being loved and used...not dream, modern advertisement kitchens. These folks were creating memories that they weren't even aware of!

It doesn't seem to matter what age they might be, everyone looks old, even the kids. Love the background music, it's perfect.

My 1969 kitchen had avacado green appliances: side by side refrigerator, dishwasher, built-in electric self-cleaning oven and burners. White ceramic tiles on counters and backsplash. Also avacado washer and dryer.

Our 100+ year old house came with a kitchen updated in 1959/60. Sunset maple cabinets with sunset wood paneling and faux brick wall behind the caramel Gaffers and Sattler cooktop/oven in sunset maple cabinetry. White with gold fleck formica counters (in nice enough condition to keep). Perfect for my vintage 1950s-1970s stainless cookware and accessories. A new stainless stove/oven replaced the original cooktop/oven. We have not updated our kitchen beyond that because I actually like it. 😂😂

Some of these kitchens are no bigger than a ship's galley.

Avocado green refrigerators, linoleum floors, cheap dinettes. The stuff that generated millions $$$ in kitchen remodeling for future generations.

How strange to think, many of these people are either very old or long gone. And if they could have been told their photos would be shared and seen around the world, about 55 to 60 years afterward - they would have thought that crazy and impossible! And a lot of these subjects probably never even saw the photos - especially if they were just visiting someone's home.

We were so blessed to have great grandparents for our children. People who still had Crucifixes on the wall, but were not over-the-top Evangelical lunatics. They were just Irish and Italian and being Catholic was both cultural and spiritual. It made our kids' holidays extra-special. We have had multiple generations in one place at the holidays and for Sunday meals. I remember being a little kid in Dale City Virginia, when it was a small place, and the houses were much closer to Levittown than the McMansion monstrosities of today. These pictures really remind me of simpler times.

Cooking was actually done in those kitchens.....

My 60's kitchen was nice not really old nor modern. The oldest thing was my cooking stove. My kitchen table was from the 50's and was worth money a few years ago$$$. Considered collectable.

All those vintage photos of quaint kitchens from over 60 years ago. 🍽️

Not everybody had kitchens like that......I only kitchens like that either in the movies, on TV or in a magazine. We certainly didn't have one like that when I was a kid. We had a kitchenette......and there were 6 of us living in the apartment.

Cool!!😃

Notice that there is little or no working countertop space in these old kitchens. Where do you prepare the ingredients for multiple dishes? What about the cleanup for a large dinner party?

Most of these look much older than the sixties. I imagine money was tight and they couldn't renovate.

Wow no middle fingers 😄

The SNL "Church Lady" @ 5:17. Ladybird Johnson @ 6:44.

No need for all fancy kitchens they have now days ?

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I guess these pictures are American because none of them are familiar to me living in the UK in the 60's....

From Brasil.

I just don't like cabinets and wood above a stove.