I love these ancient gadgets. My grandparents got a toaster about this old when they finally got electricity, but it didn't pop like this one- instead it had two heating elements that you had to fold up around the bread. The problem with purchasing an old electrical appliance is that the cord is usually covered in fabric and is either nonfunctioning or dangerous. This guy has replaced the cord, but I'm not up to doing that. (via Everlasting Blort)
Monday, March 16, 2026
1929 Toaster
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Very cool! I haven't seen one before that actually flips the bread while toasting. My grandma had an old toaster similar to this when I was a little girl (i.e. more than 60 years ago) but the side panels had to be opened and the toast turned by hand. The toaster worked pretty good though, all things considered.
Jill Taylor told me a story about the fancy toaster they had when she was a little girl. You'd put the bread in and an electric motor pulled it down inside. Her brother told her to make him toast once when she was already walking away with her toast, and two pieces of white bread to put back in the box, and his tone bugged her, so she threw the bread at him. Both pieces landed perfectly in the toaster and went down, and she spun back around and strolled out as if she had intended that.
I have a G.E. Focalypse 600 watt electric reflector heater from, I think, the 1940s, it might be even older. It finally failed! I kept it so I can fix it with the heater wire from another heater; I keep an eye out for something with the proper length and style of coil whenever I go to the dump. And I'm still using a Korean-war-era G.E. vacuum cleaner with a cloth bag. It looks like a muffin-shaped flying saucer and it sucks like a ShopVac twice as big. I'm looking right at it as I type.
Heywood Banks - Toast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CDJUoMayVdU
Thanks for the Heywood Banks mention, Marco!
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