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I believe this was part of a longer military produced film series meant for the wives of military officers on bases (or they have another one similar to this, it's been a few years since I watched it). I'd like to see them take on modern apartment kitchen design, using modern options anyone can order online! That would be something.
Hey, do you happen to know anything about the source of this video? Or by any chance, the actress’ name? This is a little weird but she really looks a lot like me and I’m curious to know if there happened to be any clearer photos or videos of her - I’ve never found a doppelgänger before!
two lazy susan with tons of built in storages for potato, onion, salt, tea, flour....indeed more functional 1949 kitchen than my 2022 mid-century house
My sister has a 1948 Frigidaire in her basement. It’s from our parents and still works. The door gasket has been replaced numerous times and the motor redone at least three times, but it’s still in use!
@@mariekatherine5238that's great... Things made to be fixed, not made for the landfill. My microwave started acting funny after only 2 months of use. The cost to repair would be more than a new one. And fixing it alone risks death because of the materials inside. What a shame
I think we've really lost a lot of common sense over the years. This was very modern at the time, and some of it wouldnt work (open bins with flour and sugar? Oh no!) One thing I've learned as I've grown older - I love having a kitchen that's separate from the living space, I see why people used to love it then too :)
It was Advancement in knowledge of food safety and cost of repair of Sliders and castors etc. However, an invisible cook top is available if you got the Moucha money
What i love about those old media (movies / music / radio) is how soft spoken and well articulated the people were. No slurring of words, fast paced rapid fire sentences or emotional outbursts.
I'm gobsmacked by how wonderful this kitchen is, despite seeming small. It's better than any kitchen in any rental flat I've ever had, or seen. WHY did we stop designing kitchens like this?? It's fabulous!
@@themetalchica No, they exist because people don't maintain their exteriors and seal them up yearly like they used to, and let weevils and bugs get into their kitchens.
@@neoasura No? Huh. That's sweet. Nice of you to drop in and shower us with your loveliness and superfluous, nonsensical information. Don't let the bedbugs bite!
@@neoasura I grew up in a house similar to this in Wisconsin, years before you were an idea of an idea. The bugs were a huge issue, as were the smaller parts the broke all the time, esp w 2 kids in the house, opening and slamming doors, drawers, and container shelves. Casters broke, or became unaligned, one drawer of sugar fell out and spilled all over the then 1970s puke green carpet in the kitchen, bc we carpeted kitchens back then. You're about 12 in grown up years. Tupperware was invented for a reason.
When we moved into our first home (1950's track home) that same electric stove was sitting in the garage covered by a sheet. We cleaned it up, looked good as new and worked perfectly. We used it for the years we lived there. When we sold the house the couple moving in asked to buy it but we just let them have it. We became good friends and 20 years later they still have the stove. Works perfectly. Talk about quality.
I've been told by repairmen of the day that they built appliances to last a life time. Every component was made to be replaced or repaired so the whole unit didn't need to go into the dump. We Americans used to take pride in long-lasting and reliable products. Alas. That's all over now.
After my parents passed away I took over their 1950s house (I took it over in 1998 when mom died) and the house still had the original stove (the one pictured in this video, minus the boiling pot inset), I just replaced the stove in 2016 when I could no longer get the oven heating element anymore. I'd likely still have the stove if I could have replaced that heating element, it was a damn good stove that raised a family of 8 then a family of 5, two generations.
I have a Samsung stove and above counter microwave that was purchased July 2020. The digital numbers on the stove are going haywire. Flashing and flickering and just noticed this week parts of the numbers on the microwave have gone out.
Back then is when good quality products were made meant to last a life time,might i add simple and easy as well.Nowadys almost everything is computerized you have to type in your setting on a little keyboard,whereas back then you just turned the knob and you were ready to cook,and don't even get me started on the instruction manuals for these new stoves might as well be written in greek.
Up until they passed just a few years ago... my grandparents had almost the exact same layout kitchen. They had refused to upgrade their house since the 40's as they were comfortable and loved they way everything worked.
Do you see, at 6:45, the way the pan of potatoes is sitting right inside the range? That was a common feature of the first couple decades of electric stoves that was called a "Deep Well Cooker"...it was literally a pot-shaped well sunken into the rangetop, with thickly insulated walls, and the heating coil at the bottom, And came with a covered pot that fit perfectly into it, with little raised handles. Some conpanies offered extra pots with metal dividers, meant to hold more than one kind of vegetable, etc. The Deep Well had multiple purposes: you could use it for deep frying or boiling, and it was more secure than having a pan sitting on top of the range.... No pan handles sticking off the side, and it couldn't accidentally be knocked over! Helpful for the busy mother of young children. It was also meant to be more efficient: you could set it on very low and use it like a crockpot, or set it on high for rapid cooking. Last but nor least, because it was so well insulated, it was perfect for preparing meals in summertime without heating your whole kitchen too much. (Considering this was when very few homes had any kind of air conditioning, that would have been a boon, and even now, would save a lot of energy) You could have a cut of meat and veggies packed in there, cook everything up on low heat, and then, after dishing the meal out onto your servingware, fill the pot with cold water to absorb the heat from the pan. Unfortunately, if stuff spilled, they xoyuld be a bit difficult to clean from what I understand, and the very large families of the 50s and 60s often meant people would rather have another coil because rheu were making big portions of everything. They're a pretty cool historical detail, though. When growing up, I partly learned to cook from a very old paperback cookbook for housewives using "the new electric kitchen!" and they explained it, and had whole meal plans that incorporated it and showed you how to use it in various ways.
@@TheFunctionalForce You're super welcome! When I was a young teen cooking from very old cookbooks, I found them fascinating so I did some research. In a way, they had some of the same functions as an instant pot.
Barbiturates were very easily available in that time period, and many women were given them to keep them complacent. They even had a catchy little name: Mother's Little Helper.
My grandma moved a little quicker than the woman in the add She baked, canned, and cooked great meals. She was a full time nurse and kept what we called borders. I couldn't walk in her shoes for one day. She had a pink kitchen much like this one, always so clean. My grandma, my hero. Love to all the ladies that didn't have today's luxuries and still spoiled us. Thank you for posting.
This was considered very modern at the time. Imagine, a phone in the kitchen! A refrigerator! A blender and a Mixer! Revolving kitchen cabinets! My grandmother didn't have this luxury. She used a very traditional kitchen burner using logs and she didn't have an icebox or even a phone.
I wonder the cost of the electricity in that house. The fridge itself would take a lot. This was very modern. My grandparents had charcoals and woods too to cook, and cleaning the dishes were not easy.
My gradma still use the traditional kitchen till the 90s. I used to help her lit the fire. Time consuming but the food was good. We did bought her stove but she usually prefers that.
My grandmother earned a home economics university diploma in the 1940s and her kitchen in the 1980s to 2000s still incorporated some of the space saving concepts in this video.
The woman's dress reminds me my grandma used to wear dresses like that until her very last day of life. Beautiful, I miss you so much, I am sorry for everything I've done wrong...
Honestly the only tweak I think would be nice is the paper towel roll being somewhere outside of the cabinet (in the open). It'd make quickly cleaning up spills easier
This is slightly before the surge in popularity of canned and frozen vegetables. That's why I think a lot of these ideas never caught on - not because they were bad ideas, they were great ideas, but because suddenly it became modern and space-age and 'healthy' to eat processed foods rather than cook from scratch.
It really wasn't that long ago... only like 73 years. It just feels like it was because we starting to lose those people in our lives connected to it. But yes, this is Vintage so it's still Modern compared to say a Dinosaur. We still got Kitchen Aids that look like that Today.
This is my first time i saw this video. The organization in the kitchen is very clearly, easy to see and choose the ingredients to cook. 1949 that the US was like this. Countries in Europe are very developed compared to our Asian countries. Someday, I will arrive to U.S and learn more knowledge and also speak English too much to get better.
Built ins for airtight storage containers would be amazing. And @ neoasura sometimes you can do so and still get infestations. Partner and I kept our own place clean, neighbors deserted their place furniture and food included and caused our previously fine apartment to have roaches that came through wall outlets/air vents/baseboards ect. It was horrific and I'm glad to be out of there.
@@user-te9zz5gx5eвполне возможно что сначала мыли в мыльной воде, убирали на сушилку, а потом, когда все помыто, ополаскивали водой. Никто не мыл посуду под проточной водой как в ссср, потому что за воду платили
I've always wished to be able to visit and see late 40's and 50's America. Everything looks so familiar yet so weird at the same time, kinda like a liminal space. Hope someone makes a timemachine without timeline altering consequence lol. Great video!
I love the innocent evolution of the kitchen... but the ants, insects and roaches had a field day accessing the sugar, flour and vegetables. But needless to say it was well thought of back in the days and that is honestly how kitchens evolved. Love the quality of the video.. I really appreciate the time spent in restoring and sharing this video. Thanks for posting
@ FirstNameLastName-wt5to Lol People who live in the Southern US know that no matter how clean your kitchen is, Palmetto Bugs aka giant roaches that refuse to die will find their way in.
I can relate to the bug concern living in central Florida due to tropical weather being constant. No matter how clean you keep your house it's something you have to always be diligent about. But with today's technology applied to storage combined with this kitchen design would be my dream kitchen! I love how the stove has a bin for steaming veggies!
What we want is the layout and space to do what needs doing. I don't need a refrigerator that can order my groceries or a wireless connection to turn on the oven (or whatever). I want usable counter and shelf space.
One of the reasons why modern kitchens are so different than this is because far less scratch cooking is done - now we use a lot of semi prepared foods that mostly require a little mixing and maybe 15-20 minutes or less of heating.
A lot of people no longer have the time to properly cook. Maybe on the weekend, but who wants to spend their days off preparing meals for the week? It's rather a shame, too. For medical reasons, I have to do my own food prep and cooking, and there are some nifty recipes available. Using prepackaged stuff means missing out on unique, tasty meals.
Why did we stop doing this? I am going to reorganize my kitchen. I would keep some of that stuff in sealed bags but the location and storage ideas are great.
I recognize nearly all those appliances: the Mixmaster, the flour sifter even the wooden rolling pin. Am still in the house built by my parents in 1950. Yes, we even had same table and chairs. Thanks for showing this.
Some things in this video made me laugh because it’s so 20th century to say certain things. But the main aspect of the video was jaw dropping. The compact and rotating shelves make so much sense. There’s a formula and strategy to everything, I love it! Definitely have me some ideas for my kitchen!
We still have lazy Susan's now. The worst thing about the lazy susan is that they're difficult to clean underneath the shelves and the walls of the unit.
Прошло почти 75 лет, а ничего лучше ещё не придумали! Идеальная кухня! Просто невероятно, что это 1949 год! Я родилась в 1977 году в Москве, домашний телефон и обычный миксер у нас появились, когда я уже училась в школе!
My mind is blown every 20 seconds watching this!!! Things just made sense and were so focused on flow and functionality. I actually just bought myself a barstool for the kitchen because back pain has caused me to avoid standing at the counter to prepare meals for any reasonable length of time. I thought it was such a wacky idea because I never see someone sitting to do kitchen tasks until this video 😂
For everyone worried about rinsing the dishes....it wasn't shown, but they were rinsed. The narrator said they were scalded and dried. That is when boiling water is poured over them, both rinsing them and sanitizing them. Some people chose to let them air dry, some would dry them with a clean towel.
What a pain in the ass that must have been. So she had to have a pot of boiling water on the stove to pour over the dishes in the rack... splashing scalding water everywhere and probably had to do the dishes in batches. No wonder they didn't film that scene.
1949 was still known as the 20th Century, not the19th; I was born in 1949 and looking at this kitchen, it was much better equipped than my mother's or my Grandma's kitchen. I was born in the UK and we didn't own a refrigerator, only a pantry to keep food cold. We never came down with food poisoning. My mother bought produce daily so it was always fresh, and we didn't have a telephone in the house, nor did we have a car. We travelled everywhere by bus or tram and had a happy life.
This kitchen design is far better design than a modern kitchen. Why modern kitchens don't have an option to have these features. I think they are brilliant.
As I remembered my grandmother’s kitchen was a perfect triangle in it. It was style in the late 60’s before I was born. She had counter space to work with near her stove. The sink was under a window on one wall and the fridge that was another wall. She had 2 door ways in the kitchen. 1 towards the dining room and the other is to the outside and the basement. Her house was built in the 1930’s. It was a small house. She did kept it tidy.
This is what home economics science was all about. If I had a kitchen like this, I might actually learn to cook --- & like it! Every aspect is pure genius! 👏
Beautiful color work. Really enjoyed this! I think I discovered this video 5 o4 6 years ago. As a side note: at one time, in the early through mid-century, during the height of the "home economics" era kitchen science was just that - kitchen science. It was a true scientific study. The principles outlined in this video are still useful and sensible today. But we have been so overloaded with corporate advertising constantly insisting that we need to drop $70,000 or $100,000 grand every 3-5 years on a gut job and remodel so our kitchen is "in fashion." I'd take this kitchen any day over a magazine kitchen - as much as I love some of them.
@@caitlinhickie2334 Yes, I agree. All the other versions I've seen on RU-vid were in color. But this looks the best of any I've seen. There was a lot of other clean up done on this one as well.
While I love the layout and the structure of the cabinets and appliances, I would do different colors and of course a different counter top material. I LOVE the hole in the counter for food scraps!!
The only thing in this kitchen that would be concerning to me is the flour and sugar storage. They need to be in sealed bins perhaps inside the under-cupboard bins.. But otherwise, this kitchen design has a lot more than modern kitchens. They've thought of almost everything. 🥰
It depends on how much baking you are doing. If I buy in no bread for my family of four adults, and instead make loaf bread, sandwich buns, flatbreads for curry and gyro sandwiches, and tortillas for Tex-Mex meals, some sort of muffin or streudel for breakfasts, along with making a cake and a batch of cookies once a week, I'll go through ten pounds of flour in a week, easily. (We don't eat like that but then again we also don't walk everywhere either...but that was the way people ate back then.
The sugar and flour were quickly used. The homemakers baked breads, biscuits, sweets which were superior to the commercially produced junk of our generation.
The ring of that telephone reminds me of my beloved grandma. She’s been gone a long time now. She also had that same yellow dinette set. Very enjoyable video. Thank you.
The time that's always fascinated me is the late 1940s. Not 1950s. Not ww2. But 1946-1949. Because it's overlooked and so much was planted then of what came after.
I wish that I had a kitchen like that. I have never had as nice a kitchen as this one in the video. The counter garbage hatch is brilliant and I like the sunken boiling water thing on the stove.
I'm only twenty yet I feel so envious of the kitchen, nothing needs an internet connection or software update just to cook some potatoes, it seems so wonderful
Everything was so much better organized and convenient than what's offered today. Now it seems like everyone is more concerned with how modern it looks than how practical it is. The only problem with those great cabinets back then was that they would easily rust. But today, we could fix that issue. Bring those wonderful kitchens back! 😅
It alwaysleaves me scratching my head trying to understand what the logic was behind moving away from so many of these practical kitchen ideas. Some needed a little tweaking or revision but, for the most part, they were good. Fortunately, in fairly recent decades, some of them have made a comeback in one form or another.
I do really like the vertical pan storage and having equipment for each activity grouped together. I wish we were still thinking about where to put long handled pans! Bring back counter height lazy susans for sure, and the rolling desk is nice too. But I think these ideas needed more than a little tweaking. All those foods stored in the cubbies behind the stove would melt/degrade from the heat and maybe get wet and moldy, and all those pans above the stove and anything on those open shelves would be COVERED in grease-- the only thing that should be above a stove is a hood. Dish towels can't dry when they're shoved in a cabinet, and there's no lid on the garbage hatch-- taking that out constantly would take more time than having it there would save. And I'm so confused about "most women prefer to work right to left". Was that even true back then? And the counter tops are waaaay shallow all the way around because they've sacrificed so much space to the big bins. But most of all is the fact that it's an absolute pantry moth fiesta. I have all my dry goods in sealed plastic containers after learning the hard way, and getting them out of that kitchen would be an absolute nightmare once they got in. I like the thoughtfulness of the layout a lot more than I like the actual execution.
I think in this day and age...people really don't spend much time cooking...I know very few people who CAN cook...let alone manage a kitchen. Sad. But true.
I love so much about this. I think that we could accommodate a lot of these ideas in modern cabinetry to be sure that insects, dust, and mold don't attack food. But I gotta say, I think that deep well steamer/cooker *in* the stovetop is genius. Keeps having to have an extra pot around. It's hard to look at the fit and finish here. This is a test kitchen, so perhaps they weren't so concerned to make sure that cuts were even and that things fit well. But all that tacked-on metal edging looks so cheap - and so many of the interior corners with that design would be just about impossible to keep clean. All in all - I think this could be fitted into a modern kitchen using modern concepts of sanitation and ease of cleaning. Great ideas for efficiency for a small kitchen with one person doing the work.
I haven't enjoyed a video this much in some time ! The features are so clever, it makes my kitchen look ridiculously unelaborate. I can't believe how simple it looks yet so smart and efficient.
I just watched this video and am SO SAD that I can't have a kitchen such as this...I come from a long line of cabinet makers, and if I could, would have them recreate this for me.. I was definitely born in the wrong generation, because THIS is my absolute DREAM !!!!!!! ~Tracy~
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