Frigidaire's Kitchen of Tomorrow, as seen in the amazing "Design for Dreaming," 1956.

[IcyPeas]

I really like that spherical oven or whatever it is.

Frigidaire's Kitchen of Tomorrow, as seen in the amazing "Design for Dreaming," 1956.

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[kimbutgar]

1. I like the refrigerator !

[Wicked Blue]

2. The circular refrigerator is a great idea

Those rotating shelves would make it so easy to find things.

[hedda_foil]

3. There's really no reason refrigerator shelves aren't lazy susans.

I'm forever losing things in the back of the fridge.

[csziggy]

8. That is why we got a counter depth fridge

We can still lose stuff, but not as much. We got a all-fridge, all-freezer set. With all the discounts and deals I got they cost less than a side by side or French door refrigerator and hold much more. I am just dreading when they break down since I won't be able to shop around for such a great deal for a set to fit my space.

[MissB]

16. Same

I don’t lose stuff in my fridge anymore.

[TexasTowelie]

9. Aside from the fact that over 21% of the refrigerator would essentially be unusable

or would require placing items in the corners that are outside of the lazy susan. That is the area remaining from a circle inscribed within a square. That percentage would grow if if is a circle inscribed in a rectangle.

[MissB]

15. My dad had a half circle one

Really it just had half circle shelves in it that did the lazy susan thing. I think it was from the 50s. It was pretty cool though not exactly energy efficient next to today’s fridges.

[Wicked Blue]

22. Nothing was really energy-efficient in the 1950s

Oil, gas and coal were relatively cheap, as far as I know. Windows were single paned and few people thought about insulation or energy efficiency. Cars got terrible gas mileage, but gas, when I was a teenager, was 25 cents a gallon.

That said, I suspect a well insulated circular or semi-circular refrigerator today, with modern controls, might work very well. Refrigerant would go up the central pipe and be more evenly distributed. Double or triple paned glass would also help.

This is just an opinion - I don't have any technical background. I did write some case studies ages ago about energy efficiency and natural gas-powered refrigeration and air conditioning.

[TexasTowelie]

4. More motors to break down.

That will keep the maintenance person busy.

[procon]

5. That guy is sure dreaming if he thinks he can

Just dump his wife off in the kitchen so she can cook him a feast in her evening gown, high heels and sturdy apron while he dances of to a stripper bar.

That was the mindset of that era. Yet here we are, 70 years later, and the division of household labor hasn't changed all that much. Why is that?

[NotAPuppet]

7. And I thought

she was still in her wedding gown.

[NotAPuppet]

6. How funny

that the wife’s first destination post wedding is the kitchen where she proceeds to bake a cake. They didn’t know just how much the world would change.

[onethatcares]

19. we alll know

her first destination was to fetch his pipe, slippers and a Manhatten.

[The Genealogist]

10. Needs more tailfins

Yes, I know that they typically went on cars in this era, but surely they could work some in here.

This just makes me want to have a nice mid-century kitchen. Well lit. Sleek. Durable surfaces that are easily cleaned. Nice small appliances. Countertop range. A double oven, or even better, a Frigidaire Flair range/oven combo like my recently-deceased cousin left behind. And PLEASE not one of these modern kitchens where people are supposed to hang out. I can tell you, if I am having a dinner party, I am NOT going to want guests puttering around a kitchen made messy by cooking up a storm all day for their pleasure!

[snowybirdie]

11. Ha!

They couldn't conceive of the man working in the kitchen! My dad did, but we didn't tell anyone back then. He did laundry too!

[Miguelito Loveless]

12. Much better with MST3K

[IcyPeas]

13. oh wow. there's more than just the kitchen

[Miguelito Loveless]

17. Yes, weirdly

car companies used to make these huge productions for the new model year, and then show them to dealers at a holiday party.

[Roland99]

20. Nice!

[area51]

21. lol! n/t

[tibbiit]

14. This looks modeled from

American in Paris with a Leslie Caron ballet dance and look alike! Well done! I want that kitchen!

[abqtommy]

18. In the 1949 movie The Further Adventures Of Ma And Pa Kettle the Kettles move into a

modern house. One of the kitchen appliances was a "radar range" or as we know it today,
a microwave oven! I know I wouldn't part with mine!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_and_Pa_Kettle_(film)