Hoosier Cabinets and the Dream of Efficiency

[liuzhou]

Interesting article here on "innovation that helped change the status of the kitchen in the American home".

 

From a 1916 advertisement for Hoosier Kitchen Cabinets via Wikimedia Commons

 

 

Edited Friday at 01:22 AM by liuzhou (log)

[donk79]

Hmmmph!  Just enough to make me want to come back to it with a university account!  😛

 

 

[liuzhou]

3 hours ago, donk79 said:

Hmmmph!  Just enough to make me want to come back to it with a university account!  😛

 

 

 

What do you mean? Why do you want a university account?

 

[Tropicalsenior]

My grandmother had one of these. It didn't help her cooking any but I loved it and I always wanted one. Instead of the food grinder on the right, hers had a great big old can opener.

[liuzhou]

34 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

My grandmother had one of these. It didn't help her cooking any but I loved it and I always wanted one. Instead of the food grinder on the right, hers had a great big old can opener.

Yes. My grandmother in France had something very similar, too. The article has an American viewpoint but they were all over Europe, too.

[Maison Rustique]

I can't read the article (no account), but I would kill to have a Hoosier.

[chromedome]

37 minutes ago, Maison Rustique said:

I can't read the article (no account), but I would kill to have a Hoosier.

There's a free signup (just your email address, nothing else) that allows up to 100 JSTOR articles/month. I frequently find myself looking for non-paywalled versions of papers and articles, so it was well worth it to me.

 

[liuzhou]

1 hour ago, Maison Rustique said:

I can't read the article (no account), but I would kill to have a Hoosier.

I'm confused by this and @donk79's comment. On the link I posted, at least for me, there is a download button which should show you the complete 30-page PDF of the paper.

If you can't download it and are still interested. please let  me know. I can post it here or send by PM.

[YvetteMT]

I would love to have one! Have found 2 for sale and the first I waited too long to purchase and it was gone (at a very reasonable sum!). The other was at auction and an eye-opening bid of several hundred more than I was willing to part with. I picked up an old Le Creuset piece for $10 at the same auction so not all was lost.

[AlaMoi]

this was my great aunt's - a McDougall / Frankfort, Indiana - altho she kept it a bit more neater . . .

the breadboard is missing, but the rest is in very good condition.