[rocklandman]

coming along nicely Kirk !!
By the way, I like your avatar of the radiobar in my Living Room !! LOL
Rock

[OldRestorer]

You sucker,

I have been wondering where you went.


Kirk

[morzh]

I would understand a picture of Kirk lying senseless on top of the bar, hugging some junk cabinet he fell in love with, but this alone....

[klondike98]

Kirk, Here's the fridge you want...

http://cnj.craigslist.org/atq/4433894425.html

[OldRestorer]

I really like that!
I will be buying one when I get my house done...

[Arran]

I think that fridge is newer then the Philco 41-kr, probably from the early 1950s, those pre war refrigerators didn't usually have a separate external door for the freezer. The freezers in most I have seen was just large enough to fit a box of ice cream and a few ice cube trays. In any event one of the produce drawers in the craigslist fridge is also missing it's front, which could be a problem to replace.
Regards
Arran

[morzh]

Pre-war.... we had those all the way into late 60s. The rounded top single door ones. Was the one I grew up around, model "Oka".

[klondike98]

OK, I posted that more tongue in cheek than expecting you were serious about the fridge or that it be a 1941 or 42. Here's a 1941 advertisement for the fridge:
http://www.amazon.com/1941-Philco-Refrig...B00GIOA2A0 or this one http://www.ebay.com/itm/LARGE-COLOR-1941...0822378298 in case you can't actually find one.

[OldRestorer]

This one is cute but not great..

http://longisland.craigslist.org/atq/4513461528.html

But better than this one

http://newhaven.craigslist.org/app/4493993165.html

[Arran]

They had single door models made all the way into the 1970s (possibly 80s) here as well, at least among the cheaper models, I knew someone who had a rectangular chocolate brown number a few years ago. But I think that most if not all of the pre war fridges had single doors, unless they were from a restaurant. Oka, that's a funny name for a fridge, there is a town in Quebec by that name, famous for it's cheese, infamous for a Mohawk uprising.
Regards
Arran

[morzh]

A soviet dream....a fridge stuffed with baloney and smoked kielbasa.

[OldRestorer]

no cheese?

[morzh]

Cheese too! But first - baloney!

We had no cheese and no any kind of baloney or sausages in Soviet provinces. Even those that made them shipped 100% to Moscow without anything left for the locals.
If it weren't for, well, stealing at the factories and special relations between people and special distribution, we would not be even aware of how it tasted.

[Arran]

I ran into an article about that whilst looking up Soviet built fridges, about how there was a Grade A and Grade B to industrial and agricultural production. Grade B was consumer goods of all kinds, and the distribution system was bizarre to say the least. Then there were the various measures the planners took to try to cure imbalances, like workers not having enough financial incentive to improve productivity. But then having fixed that they could end up with too much take home pay, and not enough goods to buy it with, so would either work less or save whatever they earned rather then spending it.
There was more to it then that but basically it explains why you could not have a fridge with bologna, kielbasa, and cheese in the former USSR. It is also a textbook example of why economists are largely useless in terms of making an economy work.
Regards
Arran

[morzh]

Well, everyone knows, entrepreneurs and consumer demand make economy work.
We did have the demand galore.