Ohhh, that stove, my mother had a bronze colored one with two ovens up top, the cooktop was 4 burner gas and had a cover like piano cover that was atop and pulled out the stovetop to do the cooking then push it back toward the wall and pull cover over it, skillets and pots stored underneath, and it was just fabulous
Good evening from Tennessee. I’m a new subscriber and I’m thoroughly enjoying you channel. When I was a teenager and me and my parents lived in Illinois we had a Tappan range much like you described and the doors open out also with slide in burners. We had a small kitchen and my Mother just loved that stove because the burners could be hidden and give more space when not in use. I’m 73 now and still remember cooking on that stovetop. Wonderful memories. Thanks for sharing Doyle
I had a stove similar to your stove. I bought it in 1964 from sears store. Mine had two ovens up above and three burners one had a brain with timer Temp control. The burners slid under the ovens above& a covers the burners. It had a cabinet under for pots & pans. I’m 83 and enjoyed your story. Thank you for sharing❤😊
I was at a garage sale 20 yrs ago and the owners were remodeling their kitchen. They had that Tappan oven and I will Never Forget It! It was eyecatching and I wanted it sooo bad.
I love this story! And understand why you were happy to cook on that stove. Back in the mid 70s, I fell in love with my Great Grandma's refrigerator. It was old. It had a pull down handle, and the freezer was a big drawer on the bottom. It smelled like vegetables from the garden always did in those big old deep freezers. Back then, everybody called their refrigerator their 'Frigidaire', (whether it was that brand or not!) and I've never forgotten hers.
I love your stories! It’s just like we’re sitting down having tea together! And I will say it does help when I am lonely for someone who is interested in talking! I love talking as you do and not everyone does.Thank you for being here amongst all your friends it’s like we’re all family!
I rely on people like you to keep my days a little upbeat, well, a little more than ‘upbeat’. I am what I call a ‘project’ person. As long as I can stay busy creating and working on a new craft project, I am happy. Many people Read, I putter with my hands. As my mother used to say, ‘She’s messin’ and gaumin’. HA! Now, if I could only understand computer terminology, I’d be up and over a cloud!!!
I just love to hear you. My Mama was born in 1931 and she and my Dad passed when I was 32. I wish so many times over the years that I had ask her about herself and her childhood or young motherhood. She had gloves on and the little hairnet when we went out to church or the market. It's fun listening to you. It makes me feel mastalgic.❤
Dear Granny Pat: it may definitely be worth one of two options: either taking a course online or Better yet, if you have a college near by, asking one of the students in technology/engineering Department to ask them come over your house to explain and give you some tips. We Love you and wish you well, and wish Hopefully to see more of your wonderful content.👩⚖️🌞🤗💛💟😊😁
Thank you so much! I am 77 and grew up in Nebraska and remembering my mom out taking down the clothes. It was after dark and she came in to get me to show me the northern lights. It was the first and only time I ever remember seeing such a wonderful display, my mom knew so much about everything and was the very best mom ever!
My aunt Mary Lou has a stove like that and she Loves it. A Frigidaire. She lives in downtown Chandler Arizona in a bungalow built in 1920 and bought the home in 1992. The stove came with the house. She was able to go on line and down load the instructions and copy them. Hers is free standing on a cabinet for the pots and pans. 😊👍
I just love this and been watching your videos ! Your so sweet and down to earth just like family ! God bless you granny pat i was born in 1966 and from minnesota and north dakota !! ❤ thankyou for making these videos!
This story was amazingly great! I almost cried when you said you couldn't move the Tappan Range back to Kentucky with you. That is just heartbreaking to me. Thank you for this awesome story. Hope you're having a great day!🥰❤️
My family had a Tappan stove with an upper and lower oven in a brown colour. They bought it the year I was born, 1968. My dad died in 2015 and we sold the house with the stove. It was still in good working order. ❤
Whoa! My gram had that range! Hers appeared to be built in. Everything in her kitchen matched….including her rotary telephone. She passed on my birthday in 2000, she was 83. But when she passed, we were all gathering her things to sell her home. Come to find out, she RENTED that telephone!when the bell telephone man came, he said we could keep it…imagine, a rotary phone in 2000! Powder blue, just like everything else. Boy do I miss her house with all us grandkids. Thank you Granny Pat, you made me think of fond memories in a world that grows uglier daily.
My Grandmother had a Tappan! She loved that thing. She loved the double ovens, but she was so short, she had to step on a stool to see inside. She loved the storage underneath. She was the envy of all of her friends.
I absolutely cannot watch any of those remodeling shows. I am truly a preservationist. Glad to see that now there are many many of us that want to preserve the charm of old homes that we buy.
Imagine if all us gals had Samantha's nose twitch abilities and powers, we'd never need a stove. But since we don't, that Tappan is a beauty. Love the stove and Bewitched. Two wonderful Classics.
Hello Miss Pat. Elvis Presley also had the same one you had. It is still at Graceland. Every time I watch Elvis stories and see that Tappan range I would have memories of my grandma she also had one. Thank you for more memories. I wish I could find one today.
Love the video , I had a built in Tappin double oven & range once & I loved ❤ it but I lost it when I lost my home in a big flood ! Today is the first time I seen you on RU-vid & I enjoy watching you & now that I seen you I will keep watching for your videos ! ❤ You & take care & May God Bless you 🙏 Bye for now & keep up the good work !
I *LOVED* your story about your old Tappan range. How I wish you had been able to keep it. I hope you were blessed to see the Northern Lights that night. I've never seen them either and I'm 80. I did go back to watch the preview which showcased the range. In fact, I paused the video and practically memorized the images. How wonderful! I didn't realize the burners ran across the width of the stove top and could be hidden. Wow! How unique!
Dear Granny Pat, I love this story! It sure would be a conversation piece to have a range in the living room. Very unique!! I hope you saw the lights! ❤
I just had the 😊 delight to see you, alongside my mom and father. We were thrilled to 🎶 listen to your story. Looking forward to more. Lots of love. Ps. If I were there, I'd volunteer 🙋♀️ to clean the stove.
Someone Find Granny Pat's Stove Please. ❤ I really enjoyed your story about your beloved stove. What a beautiful range and so useful. I hope someone finds your stove. The Bob Villa part was so funny.
Granny Pat, I just happened to run into one of your videos by accident when it came up randomly on my home column. I got about 5 minutes into your stories and I was hooked! Ice ascribed almost immediately and I have enjoyed your stories and your videos. I think you're just precious. My Grandmother had A tappan stove but it was much different than the one you had, but you're right, they were excellent stoves. Keep up the good work granny
Hope you see the northern lights,I love watching your video's.m 72 and never ventured out of Maine to much.iwhen I get a chance I go to yard sales,but never found any of the dishes you have,if I've seen them ,couldn'thopeafford them,you are so lucky to have all your beautiful dishes.hope you have a wonderful day.
My family never owned good china and crystal, couldn’t afford it, too many kids needing school shoes and winter coats! I was a gr’mother when I began collecting, piece by piece! Just one needing shoes now, and I’ve got plenty of them. HA!
One of my favorites. Like all, but my mom started painting just watching Bob Ross on public TV. Had ball, she did some for all the relatives, and so proud. She was in her mid 70's. Keep talking and recording. Bless you.
We bought a home in Miami back in the late 70’s that had the Tappan range. I loved it for the ten years we were there and I wish I had been able to take it with me. Watching your video brought back so many memories…I forgot about the rotisserie. So many luxuries and I have never had that quality since. Thank you for sharing!
Granny Pat, Once again I Love hearing your Stories! You are a Joy to Listen to! I watched you last night got up and started listening to you again this Morning. Thanks for All your Videos! God Bless You! ❤ 😊
So nice to meet you Ms.Pat! I live in the Coalfields of VA! Lebanon, VA to be exact! I adored your story of your stove! I too moved into an old house and got to pick from two stoves and I chose this adorable big stove and when I left it had to stay but I had it for a while. You are showing your ifle tower top and i loved the lil spoon from 69 yrs ago. It is precious indeed. we got a lil cedar box in 1983 but I don’t think any store (walmart) gives out anything anymore! Honey, h mom ow beautiful is your jewelry especially the turquoise necklace set. Love your story of the fiesta ware and the flying plate, oh yes mam I too have been in the same situation and No! He threw it he can clean it!!! Thank you so much for the wonderful 35 minutes or so we spent together! Until we meet again! Love from VA, Z.
I loved your story about your stove. It was a beauty and it would have broken my heart if I had to move and leave it behind. I just discovered your channel tonight and this is the second video I have watched. The first one showed how you make your potato salad. Looking forward to watching more.
I hope you DID see the Northern Lights!! When when I was in my late teens I was living with my Aunt and Uncle in Bloomington, Minnesota. They had a cabin in northern part of the state where we spent summers on the lake next to their property, and the men would ice fish during winters. One winter my Uncle took me with him, I was SO excited! We were standing on the frozen lake one evening when he told me to look up. I thought I was passing out or something, the sky was FILLED with BEAUTIFUL waving colors-I asked him what it was I was actually frightened. I’d never heard of the Northern Lights. He told me and we stood still, faces pointed up in awe as we watched those lights dance across the sky-it was magical-and cold 🥶! I was so fortunate to spend a few years with my Aunt and Uncle. They made every day an adventure.
Tappan really knew how to make appliances; they all did. You had one stove growing up, and it was used on the daily. People dont cook like they used to and they still don't last half of what they did. Those stoves were a genius masterpiece especially for that time. Love to hear all your stories. Hope you get to see the Northern Lights.
Miss Granny Pat, so sorry you missed the northern lights but maybe you will get to take a little trip to Alaska. I just loved the story of your beautiful Tappan stove, I know it was well loved. Love you sweetheart and I would so love to meet you someday. You truly know how to tell a story. I could just listen to you all day long. Please keep bringing your wonderful stories to us Granny Pat, hugs and kisses 💕🌸
I’ve noticed that stove on Bewitched so many times. I always check out her kitchen appliances..I actually have the same Sunbeam mixer that Samamtha has. I bought it from a store last year that was closing down and my father helped replace the electrical cord so I can use it 😊 when I saw it on the show it just made it more special to me
Dear Granny Pat….I thoroughly loved & enjoyed your story about your AMAZING Tappan Range! I do remember watching Samantha on Bewitched and the times she was in her kitchen, the memories of being fascinated with her Range….because I had never seen anything like it! And to think that you had the opportunity in your lifetime, to have owned such a beautiful, high tech, expensive, unique cooking Range with the dual, easy access ovens!! Listening intently to your story, I could feel your excitement about the Tappan Range, and I was captivated….then when you got to the part where you were moving back home & couldn’t take such a treasure with you…. I felt sad and thought….OH NO! That’s when you know that dearest Granny Pat truly is such a GREAT Storyteller….besides being incredibly talented, creative & artistic with your hands, you certainly do have a gift of narrating a lifetime of entertaining, captivating, heartfelt/heartwarming, informative stories from your memories & experiences (including sharing your cooking & recipe segments)….I cannot express how much I enjoy & love every single one of your shows and I look forward to each one! You are so inviting, friendly & warm…you feel like family. Sending you much love & light….God Bless (saying a prayer that you did get to see the Northern Lights!) 💜✨✨🙏🏻🙏🏻✨✨🥰🥰✨✨👍🏻👍🏻✨✨💜 Sharon
Just found your channel this weekend and I'm already in love with it. It's so nice listening to your stories. I had the best laugh when the sports car zoomed by and sounded wild and You said What was that.....I watched that part over and over and cracked up at your reaction...that was priceless. Thank You Miss Pat for sharing such warm,fun and interesting chit chat.
I enjoyed your story about your Tappen Stove. I remember those. I was very young and I thought they looked unique! I had no idea about the chopping block. I know you had fun with it. Glad you had it a while. Sorry you weren’t able to keep it.
Oh my goodness I saw them restore one of those on a program one time. You won't believe how much they paid to get it restored. $10,000 I almost fell over. Who would pay that much because it no longer was the same all new everything in it. Some things were taken off and not put back. They ruined it in my opinion. I loved those stoves but by the time I got married they were not found anywhere. Great story loved it. Hope you see those lights. 🌹
What a fascinating, captivating story about a stove. I could tell how important that stove was to you and kept every moment of my attention. What reminiscing. It brought back wonderful memories of our family watching Bewitched, of course, a favorite for all of us at that time in tv because there wasn’t much competition. Thank you.❤️
I enjoyed watching your channel and interesting stories today!!! I laughed a couple of times! Your plates on your table and were so elegant and the colors of the pumpkins and apples behind you and how beautiful You look and dress...Wow!!!
This is beautiful range. My mother would have loved something like this. She was always baking and cooking too. My dad dies at 45 and she raised 5 of us and struggled every step of the way, God rest her soul. I love your stories! It's like sitting down with a good friend whose just a bit older than me who remembers the things of my childhood. You remind me of my mother although we are only about 13 years apart. I have a sister your age. I found your channel by accident, I was just browsing youtube and happen to see you and clicked on you. I'm glad I did! I'm from Connecticut.
Your mother sounds like a remarkable woman. No wonder you were so proud of her, I would be too. Like you, I had a fantastic Mother. They don't make them like that anymore do they?
I remember seeing the pictures of the Tappan ranges from the 50s -60s they're so great looking even today . I get excited over appliances for some reason .I looked it up on Google they're called fabulous 400 looks like you described. I put it cost $1000. in the late 50 and 60s . And a whole bunch of pics from magazines come up.
I'm 62 now but I remember when I first saw my mother in law's Tappan Range. It was in 1985 and she got it in the 60's, when they had that house built where my husband was raised. My impression felt a lot like Bob Villa's, BUT don't be upset, let me explain. That stove was very innovative for its time. Didn't seem like very long - a decade maybe- and they stopped making stoves like that. So anyone born in the 60's and up, wouldn't have known that stove. To us, it would have looked strange. No other stoves have looked like it since. What your story has done for me, is open my eyes to the fact that the 50's to 70's were very innovative years. High quality technological advancements in appliances and many other things were made. My question next is why did it stop? We haven't had any new advancements in stoves and appliances that stand out to most of us, anyway. I'm sure What happened? Just think what kind of stoves we'd have now if technological advancements had continued. Food for thought. I love your videos, Pat. I enjoy listening. Keep it up.
I find your videos absolutely fascinating and oh so enjoyable. Real life at its best. I love the color of your eye glasses. Keep on tellin' the stories. You are truly a gem. 🌹
Lucky!?! You were wise to ask the lady if you could buy it!! I just got a new stove and I love it!! It makes me want to cook even more than I usually do.
A good stove makes all the difference. I still remember the oven on the stove in my Aunt's home - it took about half an hour to heat-up but once heated, it held the temperature steady. It was so nice for baking yeast breads and rolls!
Hello Pat! I just saw you for the first time today. I am a new subscriber now. I loved your story about falling down & laughing. I've too have always wondered why we all laugh when someone falls down. LOL I love your Tappan Range. I enjoy your stories. I turned 71 in Dec. I still work full time but am Blessed with a wonderful, easy job & I have been working from home for almost a year. Both of my bosses are amazing. They care about me a lot. I've worked since I was 14 & I have had some tuff bosses. But also some good ones. I have a few friends but we don't ever get together. My daughter comes by after work 3 or 4 times per week. I am a home body. So, watching you is like visiting with a Dear Friend. I wish you the best. Brenda Wichita KS
Our family had this in a beach house in Massachusetts. I remember it just like you do. I was very young but I can still see my mother cooking on it. It fascinated me and I just recently searched the internet for pictures of it and when I see it, it conjures up so much emotion.
Pat, Loved this story. What an incredible buy. Tappan seemed so innovative, sad that they didn’t survive. Appliances used to be built so well. They’d last a long time. Bob Vila…😂. You are a great storyteller!
That was a great story. That stove is amazing. Why can’t they make them like that today one. I never had anything like a rotisserie. Every Christmas I have friends and family come over the house. I have had up to 30 people and I cook most of the food and people bring some desserts. I’ve always had just one oven. I wish I could have two it would make it so much easier to get a big meal on the table. anyway so enjoyed chatting with you today. See you soon. Hope you get a look at those northern lights. I hear they’re beautiful.
@Chit Chat with Granny Pat Yes I just realized that, lol. My dream kitchen piece, or a frigadaire flair. The equivalent price of a frigadaire flair in today's money is $4300 dollars. A loaded flair was $439 without the option optional hood. You were so lucky.
Wow I would have loved that stove too. I sold appliances for several years. It is sad that so many nice kitchens and appliances on the market today . The younger generation never uses their kitchen. I have always said the heart of the home is in the kitchen. I love your vids .
So sad that things are made with LESS quality then in the 50's. I was lucky enough to see a Tappan stove like you had. It really was very impressive. Thank you for taking me back to a wonderful time.
I remember seeing the Northern Lights when I was a child in the late 50's or early 60's but have never seen them since. I live on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, born and raised here and will die here. Area most famous for the Assateague ponies and Misty of Chincoteague who was made famous by Marguerite Henry's book "Misty of Chincoteague" and the movie that was made starring Alan Ladd. David
I had a similar stove handed down to me by my mother-in-law. She had bought it at Sears and it had one oven on top with glass doors that opened in the middle. Below were 4 burners that pulled in and out like a drawer. The only thing I didn't like was that it was electric. I had never used one and kept burning things. I had been using a Tappan apartment size gas stove bought from a previous tenant and it cooked like a dream but by then I had a family so I took the Sears. It did bake beautifully. When my neighbor was given a new gas stove for her birthday, she gave me her old Caloric gas stove. It was a beautiful stove. Even the oven door lifted off so you could clean the oven more easily. She did not like her new one and wanted the old one back. Caloric, Tappan, and Roper were the best brands. Now they have all been bought out by Whirlpool who makes junk. I now live in a senior apartment with a small electric stove and back to burning everything but it is now 50 years later.
We had a Tappan Fabulous 400 in our house (built 1962) when we moved in. We used it for probably 3 years (1996-1999)but then it needed to be replaced. It was about 2/3 that size.
What a great story it held my interest and I got a little chuckle about bob vila😂. Keep telling those stories love them. I watch these at night when I can’t sleep so interesting and fun. ❤
I moved into my parent’s home after my Dad had passed away. Beautiful home- however the kitchen was from 1956 - including the Tappan built in electric oven. The oven worked up until 2months ago - I think it just needs a heating coil. It’s 67 years old! I would like to see if it can be fixed. They don’t make things like they used to !
Pat you are precious. This is my first time watching. Came across your channel and got sucked in. Lol. Can’t wait to see more. Oh by the way I love bewitched and your stove story was great. I never did like Bob Vila.
