A formica counter is pretty durable and less work than granite.

@silencedogood9747

21 күн бұрын

And lighter. The stone counters put a lot of weight on your cabinets and floors and they also need to be resealed periodically.

@crwlh6721

21 күн бұрын

The drawback to formica used to be that you couldn't set a hot pan on it (not the case with granite). Has that changed?

@cathylemay2215

20 күн бұрын

I still wouldn't put a hot pan on a counter anyway. I have other surfaces.

@retroguy9494

15 күн бұрын

@@cathylemay2215 I just use a hot plate. I have several of them.

@HappyComfort

13 күн бұрын

Also many people installed or had installed granite or similar rock countertops which we now know causes lung damage / disease called silicosis. Which has no cure.

I'm 45 and i grew up in the 80s and was teen in the 90s. My childhood homes kitchen floor was Linoleum. We had a wall mounted can opener. Lots of Jello molds, Tupperware. We even had the manual mixer. Thanks s for the memories

I have a Formica countertop. It's bright blue and still holding up after 72 years.

I’d be much happier in one of those colorful 50s/60s/70s kitchens than the bland all white or grey ones you see everywhere these days. That hand crank mixer is still handy for quickly whipping up small batches of this or that. Many grand houses (Biltmore, for example)and virtually all city townhouses had basement kitchens. Dumbwaiters were used to bring food up to the dining room.

Those "Jello molds" you refer to are not exclusively jello molds, nor did they originate in the mid-20th century. They originated in the early 18th century, not just for desserts like puddings and ices, but also for complicated layered meat, egg, & vegetable terrines, sometimes enclosed in a layer of pastry as well. Butter molds are quite old, too

@cannedmusic

2 күн бұрын

weren't some of the jello moulds also usable as bread and cake moulds?

Married in 1977 and for many, many years, I had jello molds hanging on my kitchen walls. Never used them, but they were pretty.

@deborahpetipas9365

21 күн бұрын

I have used my copper molds as decor since the 1980s. My grandchildren always ask about them

@user-wi9hv2pb2q

16 күн бұрын

my mother did that. of course she also hung the frying pans from the wall by a nail so maybe she just forgot about them. 😂

I grew up with linoleum, clothes chute to the laundry room (still a great idea), a metal lined bread drawer and a potato drawer! Wish I still had them!

@WhereShallWeGoToday

2 сағат бұрын

Sadly, I think they had to stop with dumbwaiters and laundry chutes because they encouraged fires to easily travel between floors. 🫤

I have my mom’s hand mixer, meat grinder which she clamped to the kitchen table, and burger press, all thick heavy metal. From the ‘60s, they still work perfectly.

Faded into history? Forgotten objects? LOL I STILL have a Formica counter top, Jello molds, a bread box (which is actually built into the cabinets), a manual hand mixer (mine is the exact same one on the right at 6:41 and YES, I still use it) and Tupperware (which I still use). In addition, my kitchen floor is Linoleum! I inherited my family home and all these items, which belonged to my parents, are still here, in outstanding condition and still in use!

@hey_thatsmyname

13 күн бұрын

If the house was that old, I bet there's gorgeous hardwood hidden under that linoleum, too 🙄

@retroguy9494

13 күн бұрын

@@hey_thatsmyname No, not in the kitchen. But there is in the bedrooms, as well as under the carpets in the living and dining rooms! Oak.

@hey_thatsmyname

13 күн бұрын

@@retroguy9494 devastating

R u kidding? Those stone/marble/fake stone countertops are cold and hard. I LOVE Formica. My grandmother got the discontinued samples from the store on little ball chains and we loved just looking at them and playing with them. I don’t even remember how we played but they are a major memory from my childhood. (b. 1953) I used fallen leaves pattern in my 2014 cottage. I’ll love it even when it’s old and worn. Also, I have Linoleum on my bathroom & laundry room floors. It kills germs and doesn’t react badly to scratching and gouging. My son made me a bread box. I have & use the egg beater. So there. I’m old. 💛

My condo has a kitchen stuck in 1984 (cabinets, sink and counters - updated range fridge and dishwasher) has off white formica counter. They are old but quite durable

Linoleum is more environmentally friendly than later floor materials. Breaks down and doesn't pollute the environment when you throw it away.

I remember Formica. In our 70s' home, they were kitchen tables. The bread bin is still very much a thing in my country. The hand whisk, yep my mother had one. Lino was a staple of kitchens and bathrooms.

@retroguy9494

15 күн бұрын

Remember it? LOL My kitchen floor is STILL Linoleum! It was put down in the early 1970's.

I hate that so many things are gone.

I have a bread box, in fact, I have two. I also have the bread wood pullout boards in my kitchen island, on both sides! I still have Tupperware, too.

My sorority house had a dumb waiter. The kitchen, on the ground floor, was locked at night, but as the smallest TriDelt, I was sometimes sent downstairs via the dumb waiter to unlock the kitchen door. Good times!

@margaretbedwell3211

8 күн бұрын

Bet y'all had a good time with those stunts. Happy memories for you.

You can still buy Formca sheets. I am redoing my kitchen with the yellow.

@cynthiajones1113

2 күн бұрын

❤

We just had new Formica counters installed in our midcentury modern house - Wilson art boomerang pattern. ❤

I read an article that said the TITANIC had linoleum floors. It was considered to be the quite the new thing .

Enjoyed but have to disagree with working harder made food taste better. By the time my grandmother finished cooking and baking, she'd lost interest. She was always thrilled by a night off and she deserved it. I have found I'm the same way. Watching everyone devour food that took me hours to prepare, very quickly, takes the wind out of my sails. My mother never "got it" but I really get her point. All 9f my hardwork undone so quickly! Enough to rob my appetite and I'm better off going for a long walk.

@retroguy9494

15 күн бұрын

Not MY late grandmother! She LOVED to cook and did most of it by hand. She was still cooking a full Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner for the extended family well into her late '80's! I love to cook too and have a lot of her and most of my late mother's recipes. You should consider yourself lucky and count your blessings. Because I'm an almost 60 year old bachelor who's family is all gone now and I would LOVE to have someone to cook for other than just for myself!

@stanleycostello9610

15 күн бұрын

Right you are. I am almost 70, live alone. I sometimes make Grandma's or Mom's recipes. I wish I could share them with relatives.​@@retroguy9494

@runningfromabear8354

15 күн бұрын

@@retroguy9494 I thoroughly enjoy my family in other ways. We have 20 years old daughter, 18 year old son, lost our 12 year old son to cancer in 2021 and have 18 month twins. We have 200 acres that I enjoy with my kids, we live near a ski slope and lakes an rivers. My husband and I invest a lot into our family but that doesn't mean that we have to enjoy cooking. Just like my grandmother enjoys her large family but no one has expected her to cook in a long time. She enjoys hiking with us and spends a lot of time reading to her great-grandchildren and going thrifiting and watching football with the oldest. Not sure why some people with families whose traditions revolve around eating assume anyone who doesn't don't appreciate their families. We have our own traditions and ways of bonding.

@retroguy9494

14 күн бұрын

@@runningfromabear8354 I'm truly sorry about the death of your son. That's way too young. I know all too well the pain of loss. Where you live sounds absolutely heavenly. No one in MY family has had that much acreage in several generations. It's not that anyone 'expected' my grandmother to cook. In fact, when she turned 80 my mother and one aunt tried to convince her that since everyone was getting older, we should all have holiday dinners out at a restaurant but my grandmother wouldn't hear of it. Mainly because of the staggered sittings, rushing people and the food not being as good as what she could cook (she was right about that one too). My grandmother did more than just cook for family. She did many other activities with us as well just as your mother does. I didn't say eating was a tradition with our family nor did I assume other families did not have traditions. It's just that in OUR family, the attitude was always that we had to eat and what could be cooked at home was always much better than one could get at most restaurants. Especially on holidays. When it was just me and my father left, he insisted we go to a restaurant that first Thanksgiving. Their turkey dinner was some of the worst food I ever had in my life and it was a GOOD restaurant! So from that time forward for over 20 years until I lost him last year, I cooked dinner for us here every holiday.

@runningfromabear8354

12 күн бұрын

@@retroguy9494 We cook. Just don't enjoy cooking.

My grandmother had those jello molds and the trash compactor. She also had a pull out stove. We have always had a bread box in our house. I do remember when tupperware looked like that. 😂😂

@retroguy9494

15 күн бұрын

You should come to MY house! I still have Tupperware from back then that 'looks like that.' I still use it and it's sill i good condition! Just out of curiosity, what is a 'pull out stove?'

We had a lot of these items in the 60s to the 80s bread boxes, Formica, linoleum, manual handmixer, Jell-O, molds, Tupperware, etc.

I think most rentals I know have Formica. It's cheaper than wood or granite and more durable, also easy to clean. 😊

My mom, who is 99, still has her Formica countertops! She also has a fish jello mold. She always made salmon mold in it, which sounds awful but was delicious. We have a bread box and use it every day!

🇨🇦 LOL 😂 I have all of them except the Formica & linoleum in my kitchen. Those have been replaced with stone countertops & tiled floor. But wouldn’t think of replacing any of the others. 😊

@VirgoLunaKnight

21 күн бұрын

You have a dumb waiter and trash compactor😮?

@retroguy9494

15 күн бұрын

I, too, have all of them except the trash compacter, wall mounted can opener (mine are hand held) and the butter molds.

@VirgoLunaKnight

15 күн бұрын

@@retroguy9494 wow

@retroguy9494

14 күн бұрын

@@VirgoLunaKnight Well, there's a reason. I inherited my parents house that they built in the 1950's after they were married. So most of the things date from then up to around 1990ish.

My brother and sister-in-law redid their kitchen in the 1970s and had a trash compactor as well as one of the early microwave ovens (which they used for about three decades, at least). I remember thinking the compactor was a great idea til i tried to lift and carry the bag of compacted trash. It weighed a ton. Only my brother could lift it. I'm not surprised people stopped getting them. More trips to a larger outdoor can is easier on your back.

Are you kidding?! I have Formica counters now. Beautiful, durable, no fuss, value for money.

@sandybruce9092

10 күн бұрын

Absolutely! My kitchen has white cabinets and black marble Formica - it was new in our home in 1999 and I still,love the colors! These videos make,people,thunk these things are gone forever!! Nope! Although some I’m glad have gone! We had those copper molds when I was a kid - never used % kind I’d wish I still had them when Mom moved.

I was a little kid in the 80s and I remember my grandparents having a bread box in their kitchen. It had a beautiful fruit basket painted on the front. I thought it was so pretty. I always wondered why my parents didn’t have one at our house. We just put our bread in the oven and we’d have to take it out when we needed to bake something. lol

I got a bread box, put it on the microwave. Dad complained because it was just another thing that...until he realized the bread was fresher as a result. Then he turned around and got mom this beautiful wooden breadbox to replace the cheap metal one I placed there. As for Tupper wear, I still purchase similar containers from Dollar Tree. They are so convenient. (the electric can openers, like the one shown at the end, that had the knife sharpening device on the back)

Trash compactors are even more useful today. We don’t use ours for trash but for recycling. You can crush a lot of aluminum or paperboard or plastic into a small space that takes up only a fraction of the space traditional recycling containers do.

We moved into our house in 1959. It was built during WWI. The electric stove had 4 burners. The rear left one was a deep well. We actually had a pot that fit into the well and I think the pot actually came with the stove. I think it was called a soup well. remember my mother cooking stews in it.

I use the “built in” breadboard several times daily. It’s a space saver and more useful than the smaller independent ones. Still have hand mixers, Tupperware jello mold, and so much more. Things “built” today break too quickly.

My boyfriends house still has the can opener attached to the side of a shelf in his pantry.

I still make Jell-O molds for fun sometimes as treats! Although these days it's only the boxes of Royal Gelatin that have the instructions for doing molds. Jell-O has been mostly focused on making Jigglers since the 90s!

I still have my grandmother's hand held mixer from circa 1920, which I use occasionally. I think the decorative top part of the handle may be made of bakelite. And I have a metal slotted spoon of grandmother's, again about 100 years old.

Had all of that stuff and more, growing up in the 50s 60s 70s and married by the 80s...etc.

Sure miss having a rotary egg beater in the kitchen drawer. So much quicker and easier than an electric hand mixer for beating a few eggs or whipping cream. I grew up doing the baking in my family and always used one when baking cakes.

Now they are making jello cakes. Cake with jello on top with a clear jello then injecting flowers and other shapes in to it. It's beautiful and the flowers are made with a fruit smash.

I still use a breadbox. Keeps bread fresher longer. Never put bread in the fridge. Staleness occurs when the starch molecules crystalize and that happens quicker at low temperatures.

I only recently gave up my wall-mount can opener, because I couldn't find one that lasted longer than 1 year. They're all made in China, now, and are not as good as the old American-made models. FWIW, I've HATED the two types of electric openers I've tried... but am struggling along with one.

I was born in 70 but our house was built in the 50s so we definitely had formica and linoleum. The Jello molds remind me of my grandma and Potluck dinners. Many of these my mom had as well. Everything was more durable back then.

I have a clothes line in my backyard to this day . 2024 my dad was a plumber 🧑‍🔧 and the pipes for my line was from him 👍

I remember jello molds , I miss that

My house was built in 1996 and I have a bread board. I have an egg beater/hand mixer and it gets used regularly. My counters are Formica, but perhaps not Formica brand. Many of those things are still available to buy new, like bread boxes. Baking bread isn’t exactly nostalgic, it’s practical. The time consuming part is waiting for it to rise, but other things can be done while that’s happening.

History? We spent tens of thousands of dollars remodeling our kitchen two years ago. We sought out Formica for our rolling kitchen island. And they still have dozens of options to choose from. We picked it because, in many ways, it is more durable and stain resistant than the newer trends of marble, quartz, and granite. And takes no special care for it’s upkeep. Yes, we went with quartz for the main countertops, but we do all our food prep on that Formica island, because we have no cares about ruining it. And the look fits in perfectly with the rest of the kitchen, including that quartz.

I still have my mother's jello molds. I did wish the other day that I had the Tupperware lettuce kerper!!

I loved the trash compactor ❤ way back then

And I still have my Mom’s Tupperware from the early 60s - only came in one color - sort of a not see through!

Another common house decoration concept involved having wallpaper in the dining room showing some scenic picture usually of a natural location. There were plenty of "wall paper" businesses that could do this work. Now a lost practice with no tradesmen to do the needful.

I used some of my Tupperware bowls today!

What would I give for a yellow countertop ❤

Looked after properly a Formica or Aborite counter top will last virtually forever. While on these old time materials, give me real Linoleum brand sheet flooring. Durable, versatile, easy to maintain, and also a natural product that does not offgas.

Too funny…. to this day I use my mothers hand mixer to scramble eggs daily … works perfectly…❤️ RIP momma

Personally, I would love to have a dumbwaiter and a butter mold.

A clothe's shut to get dirty clothes down stairs to the laundry. A stove with a rotisserie (sp?) Hand crank coffee grinder. Oliomargarine in a bag that had to be worked in order to mix the color of what would become known as margarine. Bakelite plastic. Percolater coffee pots

@retroguy9494

15 күн бұрын

I STILL have a percolator coffee pot and I use it every day for my coffee! There is NOTHING like fresh perked coffee! But a hand cranked coffee grinder? Not even my late grandmother had one of those. The store used to grind it for her.

@chrisem79

15 күн бұрын

@@retroguy9494 LOL! Every house my grandmother lived in had a wood cookstove, a percolator coffee pot, and a hand crank coffee grinder on the wall!! I still remember the smells of her kitchen on a winter's morning -- absolutely devine!!

@retroguy9494

14 күн бұрын

@@chrisem79 I wish I could have seen something like that! ! Not to be nosy, but just how old ARE you and how old was your grandmother at the time? Because both my grandmothers had wood cookstoves too, but when my parents were children and they were both born in the early '30's. My father's parents died in the '50's before I was born and by the time I came along almost 60 years ago, my maternal grandmother had a gas stove. The kind that had the tanks outside. Even without the wood though, I still remember the awesome and amazing smells in my grandmother's kitchen too! I really miss here. We were very close.

If you looked at the old what’s my line? Siries, you will notice that Steve Allen is a guest on the show but not the shows moderator. That role was done by a man named John Charles Daily. Allen did popularize the phrase though.👍🏽

I have a bread box and like the butter molds.

Clothes chutes, top floor to basement. No more carrying dirty laundry downstairs.

we had the formica with the boomarang design and turquoise appliances

Dumbwaiters really weren't for heavy loads. After all, you had to hand-crank them.

My counter top on has faded and has old.stains from past residents. The house was built in 1952. I will have to put removable lino on it. The floor has been changed and no longer matches the counters. I believe it was a red. Which I don't like red. Flour/potato draws aren't around anymore. In Australia we still have rhe hand mixers.

We have a bread box and bread board. Lol my husband bakes 🍞 bread yummy 😋

Feels a bit weird to see things I use daily as 'faded into history.' Bread board+ box, check. Tupperware. check...

Still have the original turquoise countertops and I had a laundry shoot! Bring those back

How about wall mounted ELECTRIC can openers built into a recessed alcove in the wall? And the same thing for toasters! When we were kids, my parents looked at homes that they wanted to build (1960's) and the model home had them!

That's not a bread board. It's a pull-out cutting board. Standard equipment in the 1950s housing development i grew up in. If you kneaded bread on it, it would put too much pressure on it and wear the wood supports.

New stuff does not hold up.

Steve Allen was a panelist on What’s My Line. Not the host of the show.

The trash compacters made me wonder how many kids killed the family pet by putting them into it unfortunately. Some of us still have bread boxes. And Tupperware still exists. As well as the ones selling them.

My mom still has jello moles.

We had a clothes chute in the bathroom going to the basement where the washer and dryer were.

My Grandmothers house had a dumb waiter 😀

Both of my cousins have trash compactors in their kitchens.

Steve was not the host, he was a panelist.

@retroguy9494

15 күн бұрын

You are 100% correct. John Charles Daly was the host back then. Steve Allen was the first host of 'The Tonight Show.' My late father considered him the best. Even when Carson was the host my father used to say 'I liked Steve Allen better.'

Yes still eat Jello.

@sandybruce9092

10 күн бұрын

Yes, but I only eat plain Jell-O - I hated it with fruit or veggies!

Had when poor. Breaded helped keep in one place.

Excuse me, but Tupperware is having a resurgence. I actually saw sets being sold at Target a few weeks ago.

Still use Tupperware.

I’d rather have my laundry on the same floor as my bedroom(s). I want a bread box! My antebellum home has an elevator.

It was so different in Portugal 😅😅 😘😘🇵🇹

Those wall and jams can openers were horrible - the kids could slice a finger. I much prefer my hand can opened thst doesn’t do that (safety kid type from Kuhn Rikon)!❤

We had tiles.

You make me laugh as we just put in a gray mottled Formica countertop and no one uses granite around here. Practical is more important. I still use vintage things because they never wear out. Saves money.

Good grief, all those awful colors! I didn't like them then and I still don't like them! All those gadgets, my grandma had. Thanks for the memories! She was a great cook.

Can openers faded into history 😅😅😅😅

I have them all

By the way, I'd consider liking and subscribing if this content didn't have AI narration.

Horrible AI voice. The jello molds were wall decor. My mother and grandmother had them on the kitchen wall (copper ones) as decor. The TV shows All in the Family and Golden Girls among others have those molds decorating the kitchen walls as well.

As far as I know yo can buy one. Hand .ixers.

That's not a bread board. It's a pull-out cutting board. Standard equipment in the 1950s housing development i grew up in. If you kneaded bread on it, it would put too much pressure on it and wear the wood supports.