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I would like to know what era this refrigerator comes from to date when this section was operating.
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i would say the late 1950's to early 1960's because of the large opening underneith it - for the motor. As years went on, that opening got smaller and smaller .....but thats a guess.....
silkster40z
Mon 05-30-2005
p.s. .. Another reason I believe its that time era is the thickness of the doors, shelving and types of handles.
silkster40z
Mon 05-30-2005
The preceeding reasons are why I'd guess the 40s or early 50s. Note the lack of any plastic parts or decor. Plastic was developed during WWII.
Mnementh
Fri 06-10-2005
Don't know when they started using plastic in refrigerators, but the first plastic was patented in 1907 by Leo Baekeland, who developed Bakelite, the first synthetic material of this type.
Lynne
Fri 06-10-2005
1920's...here's a link. http://www.historychannel.com/exhibits/modern/fridge.html
ragdolledwahine
Fri 07-01-2005
Wow! That refrigerator is an antique! And it's just sitting there going to waste!
Nancy
Tue 06-13-2006
Ragdolledwahine that is an ICE BOX not a rigrigerator.... That refrigerator is probably from 60/70 because it does not have a big cylindrical box on top of it and the corners and sides are not rounded typical of earlier models.
Tom
Sun 06-18-2006
Looking at the baked enamel interior and the type of door hardware and door gasket I'd guess it was made in the 1950's. Albeit I'm a fridgy from Australia but back then there weren't that many hardware manufacturers. The shelves are still made that way in commercial fridges.

Fantastic photos by the way. I only wish I had access to such historic buildings here. The oldest buildings I've been through date back to the 1920's.
Mark
Sun 06-25-2006
Motts was this a small facility? Did you have a little bit of history on this place?
CSA fr USA
Mon 11-20-2006
No, this was once the largest TB hospital in the USA for a while... I haven't posted much information about this location to keep the place on the down-low.
Motts
Tue 11-21-2006
its you lucky day motts i actually worked for sears and sold refrigerators, your lokking at early to mid 60's.
johnnn
Wed 08-29-2007
If that fridge (or ice-box) truly is from the 60s - 70s, I'm impressed. My mom's fridge is a mostly-functioning one from the 70s with the freezer on top. It's an awful reddish-orange (almost rust) color, is maybe 5'9" tall (about my height), and while the icemaker doesn't work as well as it used to and the water dispenser in the fridge no longer works at all, it's still functioning. I doubt, however, that it would be sold as an antique. Past the obviously horrible color, my mother's fridge looks NOTHING like this one - granted, this would have been medical-grade, unlike Mom's.
CataclysmicStar
Wed 04-30-2008

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