[OT] Memories from the 50s

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Date : 11. Jul 2025, 21:57:27
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This article showing 20 photos of things from the 50s came up in my news feed today and I rather surprised by a couple of them:
https://www.buzzfeed.com/ajanibazile/1950s-photos
Photo #8, showing a refrigerator mounted sideways on the wall was brand new to me. I never saw anything like that at any time in my life. I suspect this must have been a fad that vanished very quickly after it started.
Photo #9 showing the ad for cigarettes that were recommended for pregnant women actually shocked me. I know that cigarettes were being widely endorsed in those days, both by real doctors and actors who pretended to be doctors but the idea of a cigarette marketed specifically to pregnant women with the tag line "When you're smoking for two" was worse than anything I'd seen previously.
The medical bills for a birth and for a week in hospital after an operation were also a surprise. I shudder to imagine what that would cost an uninsured person today in the US....
I was struck by the ignorance of the person writing the article when they chose Photo #12 and described the item as a typewriter when it is clearly an adding machine. It actually SAYS adding machine in the ad blurb but that was apparently not a big enough clue!
I'm perplexed by Photo #17 which purports to be a "double oven". I'm not sure what a "double oven" but the name suggests that it would have TWO separate oven compartments in it; perhaps each could be set to a different temperature if you wanted to cook two separate items that needed different temperatures. I don't see anything resembling a second oven in the picture: it looks just like pretty much every stove I've ever seen with a stove top containing several burners, an oven, and finally a drawer for various cooking supplies like pans or whatever.
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Rhino

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