{"id":4150,"date":"2018-10-06T19:24:35","date_gmt":"2018-10-06T23:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/?p=4150"},"modified":"2018-10-06T19:24:35","modified_gmt":"2018-10-06T23:24:35","slug":"vintage-kelvinator-trimwall-foodarama-refrigerator-freezer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/vintage-kelvinator-trimwall-foodarama-refrigerator-freezer\/","title":{"rendered":"Vintage Kelvinator Trimwall Foodarama Refrigerator \/ Freezer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the internet is a neat place.<\/p>\n<p>We hit a local antique store today that does a monthly market called Brocante Vintage Market. One of the unique things they had was a vintage Kelvinator Trimwall Foodarama side-by-side fridge\/freezer. It was in amazing condition so my guess is that it was probably installed new in a home around here and the house stayed unremodeled all these years &#8211; until likely recently, when the owners might have passed away and the house was updated and\/or sold. <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/146097904@N02\/45144422001\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"foodarama\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1929\/45144422001_4ed0054d6c_c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"foodarama\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/146097904@N02\/31270646848\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"foodarama2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1968\/31270646848_9eb67d4694_c.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"800\" alt=\"foodarama2\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So, I was curious about it and did a little googling. Turns out the Kelvinator Trimwall Foodarama was advertised as a new product in LIFE magazine in 1966. (The one in the ad is &#8220;Avacado&#8221; but it&#8217;s identical to the one for sale at the antique store.) Ok, so we had a date for it&#8217;s release. What about price?<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/146097904@N02\/45144421921\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"kelvinator\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1953\/45144421921_8de1401f85_c.jpg\" width=\"662\" height=\"800\" alt=\"kelvinator\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I was also able to find a Consumer Digest Guide listing three models. From the advert I know it&#8217;s the 22 cubic inch version and this one is &#8220;no frost&#8221; but I didn&#8217;t see an automatic ice dispenser meaning it&#8217;s likely the mid range version. That gives it an original retail somewhere around $679. Using an inflation calculator, that makes it $5,263.83 in today&#8217;s money. This was certainly a luxury, high-end appliance!<\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/146097904@N02\/45144421751\/in\/dateposted-public\/\" title=\"kelvinator2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm2.staticflickr.com\/1963\/45144421751_759864ba14_z.jpg\" width=\"627\" height=\"575\" alt=\"kelvinator2\"><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>If, based on my logical deduction that it&#8217;s been in a home since 1966 (otherwise, it would have long since been thrown out!) it also likely still worked (because a fridge is not the kind of thing you can do without), that investment certainly was worth it for 50+ years of usage!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty neat that with about 20 minutes of research, I was able to find out so much about this vintage piece. I love learning things like this; just random bits of admittedly mostly useless knowledge, but still very satisfying to uncover.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes the internet is a neat place. We hit a local antique store today that does a monthly market called Brocante Vintage Market. One of the unique things they had was a vintage Kelvinator Trimwall Foodarama side-by-side fridge\/freezer. It was in amazing condition so my guess is that it was probably installed new in a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,1],"tags":[2365,2364,2363,1823],"class_list":["post-4150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","category-general","tag-antique","tag-brocante","tag-research","tag-vintage"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4150"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4152,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4150\/revisions\/4152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/giveneyestosee.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}