16 hours ago, lindag said:A lot like the one my folks had in the late fifties, don't remember what the make was but I do think the deep-well was on the right in the back. Mom made some mighty fine meals on that stove.
chexking photos of these stoves on Google tells me my memory is off; the deep wells are all on the left side.
Not really. My stepmother's was on the back right. It was a Westinghouse with two ovens and a broiler under one of the ovens plus a warming drawer. Like this one. It also had a florescent light which put out a weird blue light. She never used it because it bothered her (migraines).
My dad mounted one of the jointed "architect's" lamps on the wall above the stove so she could have good lighting.
The other photo is a late 1930s Westinghouse that I came across while looking for info on an electric roaster.
This was the stove we ended up getting. Roper Town & Country. We had to do a lot of entertaining because of my husband's job and a regular range just did not have enough output. It has two ovens and a broiler which can be converted to an oven by locking the lift mechanism down and installing one or more racks - it came with extra racks. The griddle is much larger than on most ranges and we used it a lot. We did have to get a larger gas line put in because that thing demanded a lot of gas. We did not have a range hood - it was on an exterior wall and my dad (he was a contractor and built our house) installed two 12" exhaust fans with a small copper "hood" that was only about 8' deep. There were louvers on the outside that opened automatically when the fans were on.
