Help me identify a microwave

[Nikia]

I was talking about a microwave that my grandmother had throughout my life until my early adulthood. I was trying to describe it to my husband and said that it was really old.
It had dials on it, no buttons. You had to push a metal lever down to get it to start. I saw the 1967 Radar Range in a picture online. That one didn't seem to have to metal level that you pushed down. My grandmother's microwave seemed a little bigger too.
I know that she embraced this new technology early on. Ironically, in her older age, she still hasn't gotten a computer.

[GoCubsGo]

1. Are you referring to the Amana Radar Range?

[LynneSin]

2. Back then I bet that thing sold for like $2000

And to think I bought my new one for $69.

Go figure

[Nikia]

4. I know that they were relatively expensive

Which is why I think that when my uncle said that they were a poor family that he was full of crap.
I think that in some ways, they were very thrifty. On the other hand, they did spend money on things that they considered useful and that they thought would last.
The microwave probably lasted around 35 years. My grandmother only stopped using it when my uncle suggested that it was probably unsafe and that modern microwave were now inexpensive. It still worked. I don't know if it was really leaking radiation or not.

[Nikia]

3. It looked sort of similiar

I don't think that there were any colored writing on it though and I was pretty sure that there was something that you has to press down.
I know that she said that she bought one shortly after they were being sold in town. Her friend worked at a local appliance store that had just begun selling them. Although it was by no means a big city, it was fairly prosperous and progressive in that era.

[rug]

5. Here's one.