Our New Stove
We got a new kitchen range this week. Our house is 34 years old, but the range was at least 10 years older than that. We bought our house from my aunt and uncle who were in their late 70’s when the built it. They brought the range from their previous house, and they had lived there for many years before. The old range was a “modern” wonder. It was a Frigidaire Flair range. It sat on top of built in cabinets. The top part had two ovens whose doors opened up rather than out. And the bottom part of the range was a drawer in which the cook top was located. You pushed a button and pulled it out from under the ovens. I guess you would call it a cook under. It dominated our kitchen’s decor, and we received many comments on this marvel of 1950’s kitsch. But Frigidaire, in its wisdom, decided to stop making the Flair in the early 1980’s, and soon thereafter stopped making replacement parts. For those of us lucky to have these things, the net result of the company’s business acumen was we couldn...