My Handy Kitchen, c. 1950-55

In this film a woman discusses and demonstrates the features of her up-to-date kitchen.
From the record series NRS 18657 Films [Division of Information and Extension Services, Department of Agriculture] (SR Film 416 + 417). These films were produced for, or obtained by, the Department's Division of Information and Extension Services and cover a wide range of topics of interest to primary producers. Subjects covered include pasture production, livestock management and animal nutrition, control of diseases in plants and animals, milking techniques, milk production and processing, farm equipment and general farm management. There are also a number of films covering matters of general interest (short newsreel and 'magazine' items).
Source: MIA Extension Services, with Women's Extension Service, NSW Dept. of Agriculture

[@raggedyann8762]

My kitchen is set up almost exactly like this one.. I have an old home with its original kitchen..my cabinets are white..I even have the two pull out cutting boards in the same exact places. And so are my pots and pans..My stove is a late 1940 ‘s with 4 burners a cute attached metal shelf above it with a built in clock. Guests that visit my home either like it or make fun of it, but I don’t care because I love it...it reminds me of my grandmas and their kitchens...I have been blessed to inherit some of their kitchen items which I display in mine...I’m an old soul who appreciates the beauty of old things.

[@danielthoman7324]

you are just too cheap to upgrade. 🤭

[@larrywakeman4371]

LOVELY I am the same way. Kim

[@sarahshouse1890]

Sounds amazing!! I'm just like you, I appreciate the same exact things. Yes, I'm definitely an old soul, too.🫠

[@Snazzyzazzy99]

I have a later 50s kitchen kind of set up like this too, but my cabinets are wood. I love my kitchen too, I have a built in spice rack above my stove.

[@cherokeegotti4903]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@jimbearone]

My grandmother had a Kitchen very similar to hers and I remember her making bread and she said EVERYONE had to bake their own bread because you couldn't just run to the store to buy it and for many years store bought bread was NOT pre-sliced. She had to cook fresh or canned vegetables (Frozen food was practically unheard of) and no pre-packaged mixes - at least not many and nobody could afford most of them. She had to ADD coloring to Margarine and knead it in to make it yellow. Boil water on the stove for cleaning and bathing - no hot water heater. Sweep the floors with a broom and mop by hand. Strip and wax the floors once a month (what a chore that was) Wash by hand with a scrubbing board and hang the clothes to dry. Boil starch to put on the clothes to make them 'crisp' and wrinkle - free. Then Iron by hand with an iron heated on the stove. Dust polish and clean everything in the house, do the shopping, can fruits and vegetables for storage. People today HAVE NO IDEA what our grandparents and their great - grandparents did EVERYDAY just as a matter of daily routine. And this doesn't even include what all you had to do on a farm - YIKES!!!

[@rochellesonza6505]

All the things u hv mentioned are still being done by some people including me except the iron being heated with a stove. You can buy all modern appliances and short-cut foods but sometimes you prefer the old fashioned way. I rarely eat frozen and canned veggies. I don't buy premixes. I sometimes do my laundry by hand. I use a broom and a mop (they clean better and cheaper). I still boil water on the stove for cleaning and also sometimes boil starch for laundry (bedsheets n pillows). Old fashioned but very effective.

[@jimbearone]

@@rochellesonza6505 You are in a very rare minority, most people today haven't a clue.

[@chase5682]

I wasn’t even born yet when people did most things by hand but I was raised and taught to hand wash dishes and hand mop floors. I’ve always done it that way.

[@NotSoCrazyNinja]

Even modern sliced bread sucks. People just don't know what they're missing when they opt for ready-to-eat bread instead of fresh-baked bread.

[@kristenheatherei-star8254]

Wow sounds awful

[@pennysmith6657]

as a full time homemaker I appreciate how much work is done in the kitchen. even with modern appliances I'm beat at the end of the day. God bless our grand mothers!

[@nvaranavage]

Penny Smith yup! But there is something about a home cooked meal that makes me smile from ear to ear.

[@ldyluv6988]

Very true...very tiring work. Its exhausting just cleaning a bathtub 😩

[@momof2momof2]

I've been a sahm Mom for many years, and yes, even in today's world , with all of our conveniences, its still a big job :)💗

[@cindersmolloy6584]

And mothers

[@kerryjames6312]

​@@nvaranavage same

[@etuckedfg]

I'd love to have a pots and pans cupboard like that!!

[@lindahandley5267]

@et, I've never seen pots and pans kept up high like that! One thing I really do appreciate is the pull out drawers for them now. It used to be horrible having to get on your knees to hunt for something!

[@Briannafrancis-e9g]

Just put some nails on the back wall

[@jennibennecke1346]

You and me both

[@Mxyzptlksac]

@@lindahandley5267 I’m 6’9” I love things up high… and I detest the bottom shelf

[@BosaBogans]

Love this! I love how everything is up high. I hate low cabinets and the useless ones over my fridge I can’t reach!

[@PaTudie]

I wish the kitchens today were like this. This one is fabulous. I'd love it.

[@kathrynhuckeba7593]

People are so stupid about the past. I remember those days. The spoiled women of today have no idea. I prefer the people and ways of the 50's

[@carolecook1116]

kathryn Huckeba ~I'd go back to 1950s this minute. "Calgon take me away!"

[@theMiraculousAngelic]

kathryn Huckeba Agreed

[@Mk101T]

I always thought it a shame when I demolished old kitchens like this still in workable shape. Simply because they were dated . Say about mid 90's to mid 2000's in US . And now days we're tearing out the granite and matching cabs of that era to put in a farm sink and matching counter cabs to resemble this era. I guess that's progress for ya ;) ?

[@ophthodoc]

Yeah try to fry chicken or make spaghetti sauce on that small stove. Not only is there no room but there’s no exhaust fan. Imagine the grease and food that would splash all over. Sign me up!!

[@OldschoolBoards99]

These films are so interesting

[@laminateallama1977]

I can’t get past the music, it creeps me out.

[@annjulee500]

LaminateALlama But for better creepy effect, Laminate, try watching this video at 3 am in a dark room and just think that ALL of the people in it are dead already...and the film maker manually cranking the slides is resurrecting them back to life! :)

[@paintinganimalsonrocks7633]

@@annjulee500 oh, that helps.

[@annjulee500]

Painting Animals On Rocks Sure it does! :) Otherwise, where else would you find children/ daughters...standing at over 6 foot tall (at 7:50) and helping their mom put away dishes in their kitchen cabinets?!

[@Rhenadhis]

@@annjulee500 😀😀 i am watching this at 3am

[@ian_b]

The sad thing about living in Britain, 60 years later, is that housing is now so expensive that most people can't aspire to a kitchen like this. My pots and pans are stacked in the tiny amount of cupboard space I have. I can touch both walls of the kitchen at the same time. This is after 60 years of economic growth, most of it consumed by ballooning interest payments on a spiralling property market driven by inflationary central banks and stringent "green" policies preventing the building of sufficient housing stock and the expansion of towns. It's heartbreaking to see how all the post-war enthusiasm for improved domestic circumstances ended up.

[@ventipane]

This film was made in New South Wales, Australia.

[@bighands69]

@@ventipane The original comment still applies to Britain.

[@ginajones1003]

jaxxstraw part of the lack of affordable housing stock is down to Maggie Thatcher and her policy of selling all the council houses at cheap prices and not replacing them. Another reason is that the richer people have brought second homes in rural and seaside areas for holidays thereby reducing the amount of housing stock for local youngsters and those moving in with jobs in the area. :-(

[@lindahandley5267]

@jax, oh you answered my question! I thought it was in England.

[@phoeberaymond8781]

Sounds exactly like my kitchen in ny state. People just dont want their tenants to be happy cause that wouldn't make them money

[@pursuingancientpaths8131]

I love this to death. And for real- when you think about what most women's kitchens wer e like before the war... this would have felt like heaven to them, God love them.

[@missintentional8777]

I love it too. I've watched it so many times. We are so spoilt today!

[@___LC___]

What country is this?

[@mindimoom9142]

Christy T Australia.

[@___LC___]

Mindimoo M Thank you, I wasn't sure if I'd missed it, and I'm not very good with dialects in that region of the globe.

[@JoeKaye-hn5dt]

My grandmother's kitchen still had a wood burning stove until 1960 when we finally gave her my mom's old gas stove. The poor thing died 2 years later. Talk about "too little, too late."

[@meiermeyer774]

I love those kitchens of the fifties. Also seeing women working in the kitchen and dressing in nice and feminine clothes is very pleasing.

[@exaudi33]

I like that, too. It reminded me of my mother who, regardless of what a mess her life was, always wore a pretty dressing gown.

[@Nina52117]

Welcome to the present where we all want to go back to the past ❤

[@monicas2269]

I'm in the market for a new kitchen. I've had 2 people round so far to help me design it. They can't seem to understand that I want a practical kitchen rather than one that look nice but isn't much use. Perhaps I should show them this video.

[@gaillofdahl5220]

It's called a "compact work triangle." You should never have to walk more than three steps between the sink, stove, refrigerator, or dishwasher. The most efficient kitchen I ever had was one in an apartment that was L-shaped with the sink between the refrigerator and the stove. I only had to take two steps to move food from the fridge to the sink, or from the sink to the stove. One kitchen I saw in a model home was gorgeous, but was clearly designed by someone who has never cooked a meal in his life! I would've had to walk ten steps between the sink and the refrigerator (on the other side of a huge island). No wonder people with kitchens like that eat out so much! By the end of cooking Christmas dinner, I would've had to have been carried out of there on a stretcher!

[@deniseherud]

Sheila Spencer seriously having had this kind and then going big house/big kitchen, this was so much better!! Turn, reach, bend...not walk a frikkin mile to get a pan, walk a mule back, realize need more stuff 'way over there'...tiny kitchen was super easy and smart too...the dish holder,dryer, wash down area was sheer brilliance if I had no dishwasher which we didn't down in Australia

[@kimmimcknight3417]

+Denise Herud -- i know you meant to type "walk a mile back", but "walking a mule back" makes it even funnier & it still makes sense! LOL! Thanks for that, it made my day!

[@carolecook1116]

Kimmi Mcknight ~😂If you havta' take a mule back...

[@SpiritBear12]

A kitchen should be designed like a work shop. You store tools where you're going to use them, near benches and things. Pots and pans stored near the stove (where you need them). Dishes and table where stored near the sink, where you wash them and put them away. The fridge should be near the counter top where you are most likely to prepare the meals at. Food storage should be near there too. So on and so forth. I find it is most often men who don't cook who design kitchens, esp for apartments. Not much makes sense and there is never enough room for storage of anything. I don't know why they seem to think that people in apartments don't cook as much as people who live in a house do. A kitchen is a busy place. Make it sensible and sturdy!

[@seattlebeard]

TWO CUTTING BOARDS?! That is extravagant. Maybe you could have afforded a dishwasher, but no, you had to have two bloody cutting boards, Mrs. Astor.

[@lenisbennett3062]

And did you notice the tiny little two-burner stove

[@marysmith7765]

😂😂😂😂 👏🏼

[@lalajohnson7194]

I love the cupboard organization! Plus the two cutting boards. Even though this is a 1940s kitchen design it would be great even today. I think two people could work to prepare a meal without getting in each other's way even though it's a small kitchen.

[@cindersmolloy6584]

My Great Aunt's kitchen was exactly like the "before" one shown at the end of the film! The stove and hot water all run on wood even in summertime in Australia! She even had an old charcoal fridge. Yet she always cooked up a super spread when anyone came to visit. Those were the days.

[@krystalpresland3723]

I live in 2014 and I am so jealous of this kitchen! What on earth! I have a tiny kitchen and this seems like an amazing kitchen compared to mine! Puts me to shame!! So interesting!

[@mgk357]

I live in 2017 and this is better than my kitchen..lolol

[@sanjafilipovic8584]

its 2018 and im very jealous,this is luxury for me

[@nvaranavage]

Krystal Presland the way houses are built now is to accommodate all of the modern conveniences of today. The video games, the overly larges flat screen tvs, the larger vehicles, more clothes, more shoes, also to hold the mass amounts of food because now we want to buy in bulk. The kitchen was the center of the home in the fifties (and earlier), there was only one tv, and before then it was the radio. Kids played outside more rather than cooped up in the house. So therefore the bedrooms were small because there weren't a lot of indoor toys because they were mostly outside with their friends, the bedroom was for the sole purpose of sleeping and getting dressed, nothing more than that (well, getting homework done too).

[@bighands69]

@@nvaranavage It depends on where are living. Simply they are not building houses anymore. Families are having to live in cheap small houses but pay top price for them.

[@stevenmartinez5531]

It can't be any tinier than mine!! It's 9x9....so my walking area is 4x9.

[@ArcherOO78]

The colour and the cabinets in that kitchen are gorgeous !

[@minniemouska4320]

I love the way the pots and their lids were stored, wish I had that, and that cutting board,

[@johnnyvalter940]

I lived in Germany for a summer (1978) and lived in a studio apartment for a short while. There was a curtain that you could pull across to hide the "kitchen" which was up against a wall. The kitchen consisted of a refrigerator that was waist high and a sink. The stove was actually built onto the top of the waist high refrigerator and only had two burners, so of course there was no oven. However, I made do. It's amazing how you can adapt to a situation when you have to. I now have a galley kitchen in a condo where everything is within reach. I wouldn't want a larger one, because it's difficult enough keeping a small kitchen clean.

[@NovaKJ138]

WHY do I find these films so mesmerizing? Its like vintage ASMR.

[@Chikimsan]

I love this film so much 😍 i'm an old soul and i'm just 16 yrs old. Am i weird because people around me keeps on thinking that I am. Maybe that's why I'm having a hard time searching for a friend that has a same interest like mine.

[@dusterdude238]

dont worry about it, I have always felt like I should have lived in the 1940's /1950's I cant explain it either, but I am so into that period of time for some reason. maybe we lived in those times in former lives. who knows. . .

[@bighands69]

It is up to you people to build the next generation. At present you have allowed the global warming crowd to take over your youth culture.

[@lowesonia8551]

you sound sweet. You like it because of the 50's family atmosphere laid back in comparison to today .

[@lowesonia8551]

Read ( PEYPES DIARY ) Written about life under Charles II of UK talks of every day life . The plague. And the Great Fire of London. Not one moments boredom.

[@girlroomglitz]

You lived thousands of lives.

[@Sheri451]

My grandma had one of those egg beaters. I loved it as a small child. After she passed away my Mum got it. We used it for years. It disappeared about fifteen years ago.

[@inekedusseljee3093]

Sheri451 they are still for sale 👍🏻😁

[@ariesmorrison123]

I want one

[@Capybaraism]

1:36 I wish that I had this for my pots and pans. That's really useful!

[@karinjeffrey7981]

I love this kitchen. Those shiny steel turquoise cabinets and counters are gorgeous. I'd love a kitchen like this except for the two burner windowless stove. How did she ever manage ?

[@deniseherud]

When I moved to SA with my now exH, our first flat had a kitchen exactly like this only a diff color. It was actually very well laid out for cooking and washing up(no dishwasher either). When I came back to the US and bought a much bigger house the kitchen was enormous. There's a lot to b said for these smaller handy kitchens!

[@DeathByFashion1]

Such lovely homes. I dream of this era.

[@douglasasselstine7497]

When I was a kid my mom cooked our food in a caldron on a fire we that we made on the floor of our kitchen. I had to walk half a mile just to fetch water for our family from the lake in my bare feet. What mother would have done for a kitchen like this one.

[@annjulee500]

More so...for a son like you! :)

[@bitterbeauty711]

You had a caldron and you cooked in the house? We had cook on a flat stone over an outdoor fire and pray that it didn’t rain or snow.

[@653j521]

@@bitterbeauty711 You had fire? :D

[@Kubulek17]

@@653j521 ?! back in my day we were still bacteria who would reproduce asexually

[@creamofthecrop8286]

I so enjoyed this. I was just telling a girlhood friend of a 1950's kitchen that I had before moving to this new area. It was much like the kitchen shown here, only I had built-in oven, a dishwasher, & a cook-top with four burners. My medal cabinets were pink (yes, "pink"). It was a lovely kitchen & although I like my new kitchen here, I miss the old!

[@Caelidh]

It is nice to see how people USED to cook and organize their kitchens. We have lost a lot of that knowledge adn now only the uber rich can afford super organized kitchens..

[@celimendez7620]

That is complete bollocks. Everyone can have an organized kitchen, no matter the situation. And the lay out depends on the cook, not on fashion. Even when I lived in an apartment with a fridge, a table and an individual induction stove for a kitchen it was still organized. And things were placed in accordance to my movements when cooking. You streamline it as you go, to decide on the optimal placement of things. A million "container store" plastic tubs that will end up in a landfil or heavy glass jars and a lable maker does not an organized kitchen make.

[@rochellesonza6505]

@@celimendez7620 i agree. I actually was somewhat surprised at her comment.

[@DRT813]

I actually think the uber rich tend to have HUGE kitchens that look impressive and might be spaceous enough for catering style food preparation, but for everyday life they're not very handy, because you have to walk a lot to get everything done. Look how small a 1950s kitchen is compared to a luxury kitchen nowadays, but the advantage is that everything is within convenient distance, which ensures an efficient working process.

[@Yesica1993]

This was like going back in a time machine! Loved it!

[@Nonsequitoria2010]

I love how precise and accurate she is in all her movements. She's just BOOM-BOOM-BOOM-BOOM with everything she does. For sure it was no different in her old kitchen, but you can tell she's upped her game.

[@kinetsievarvenfloot1237]

Some truly Oscar-worthy camerawork and transition effects in this. 👏👏👏

[@sharegreats2157]

I could also feel well in that beautiful kitchen. Everything is on the right place and at hand and it is not over-electrified.

[@rosemarywilliams9969]

😮 I really like the hanging pots in the cupboard, never thought of that. I don't like to have things out so keeping them in a cabinet still displayed yet hidden seems so smart.🤗

[@rah62]

They ran out of money for a dishwasher, but also for globes to cover the naked light bulbs! Also, I'm totally confused about the two cutting boards. She sits down to slice bread at the lower one, but then pulls out yet more bread and uses the upper one for bread again.

[@usmale4915]

It's so interesting to see how people in other countries lived. Love the Australian accents. I'm assuming that "NSW' means New South Wales. P.S. Some of the nicest people I have ever met were/are from Australia, would love to visit their wonderful country some day! Also, the kitchen is pretty cool!

[@theMiraculousAngelic]

usmale 49 I thought this was a British documentary.

[@I_know_it_I_sew_it_I_grow_it]

Thanks for your lovely comment. Sending love from Western Australia.

[@heatherhall3452]

👋🏼😁 G’day from Queensland 🌴☀️🧉🍹👙🙋🏼‍♀️ I left England end of 69’ never been back 🚢 🎉 🇦🇺

[@mewhor]

Yeah except the accent reminds me of prisoner cell block H. I picture her and Bea Smith bashing a lagger! Lol

[@danielthoman7324]

the kitchen looks like a dump.

[@terigeorge3944]

My grandparents kitchen was in home n gardens magazine as the modern kitchen of the 50s it was ranch style huge with marbled red formica contertops huge O'Keefe n Merritt stove. I loved that house !!❤❤❤❤😊

[@Juju-l3o]

That’s a genius set up better than today.

[@pujang0]

50's kitchens were so revolutionary! it has been great seeing it! and even though modern times have come with a modern society, a woman was very lucky and proud to have a good kitchen!

[@sarahsmith9084]

I love how the pull-out cutting board was such a new idea in the 50's. My grandparents and parents homes have these built-in boards. My kitchen isn't nearly as pretty as this one. Modern conveniences are still changing how we cook in the kitchen today. I adore the ease of using my electric pressure cooker! I still have the stove top one, but I haven't used it in over a year. *chuckle* I also cook far more than I did before I got a dishwasher - one less time-consuming chore. Since I work to pay for things like my dishwasher, I can justify the expense as my time has $$ directly attached to it. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

[@1Andelina1]

Lot's of other work to be done between meals, we all helped, had fun, learned about working in our own home. Raised our kids the same way, sad how the home seems life a place you are just passing through for many families. Our son's boy is raised like this, a big help, loves the family. We like the kitchen as well!!

[@carolecook1116]

William Stuller ~ Those were the days & smart parents/grandparents pass it down.

[@MM-NolascoPH]

Woah... That's why I love the good old films/videos/footage!

[@seths1997]

things were so much simpler back then. today you need at least twice as much counter space for all your appliances - toaster, microwave, coffee maker/keurig machine, bread maker, toaster oven, blender, mixer, food processor, juicer, air fryer, rice cooker, waffle maker, espresso machine...

[@rayhanes1347]

This was a womans work bench while mens workbenche was in the garage or on a job site. There was so much pride in the kitchen.

[@sstephens2175]

My dad built us a new house in the 70's. Our kitchen had two pull out cutting boards, and a metal bread drawer. The bread drawer had a wooden lid that slid shut over the bread. There was a small hole for your finger to fit in to slide the door of the bread drawer open. There was a lazy susan in the corner by the fridge. The upper corner cabinets were full depth. Unlike how they are made today. My mom was very happy with that kitchen.

[@warrax111]

'70s or 1970s. not 70's. 70s is also correct, but '70s is more grammatically precise. 70's doesn't have sense. only, if someone would be called "70", it was his name, and he owns something. Example: It's 70's pizza. Meaning, the pizza belong to guy named "70".

[@sstephens2175]

@@warrax111 of course, lol. Thank you. I wasn't fond of the '70s. I thought the styles, colors, cars, and architecture were so ugly. I guess I'm more traditional at heart, than the decade I was born into.

[@warrax111]

@@sstephens2175I'm just grammar police. I don't care.

[@n3bethet]

I have to say, her kitchen is more practical than mine (minus the 'washing up machine' that I have). I loved the hanging pots inside of the cupboard, and multiple cutting board pull-outs, and how one was the perfect height for sitting at a chair, for making kids lunches. The way her appliances were organized, and storing utensils that went with associated cooking tasks was smart. Her pot was by the stove, as was the oatmeal and measuring spoon for the porridge. She had a cutting board right beneath where she stores the toaster, with a bread bin in a cabinet right beside it.

[@HowsaBowsaYowsa]

How did those pint sized parents make a daughter that tall?

[@carolecook1116]

HowsaBowsaYowsa~We didn't see GrandPa & Ma. Sturdy Wales genes.Maybe built like Clydesdales.😀

[@annamelanie5151]

Carole Cook is the narrator Welsh?

[@alexandrea73]

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@josephgaviota]

That kitchen provides good nutrition to the young'ns.

[@jb6712]

Just now seeing this video, 5 years after your comment; these are nothing but actors, and that "girl" was an adult woman, not a schoolgirl by any means. All you have to do is look at her face the couple of times there's a fairly close shot, and it's easy to see that she's at least in her mid 20s.

[@sarahbencken4318]

I actually love the old kitchen with the fireplace.

[@lindalane1166]

I'd give anything to have an old kitchen. I remember some of the things used in the film being used in mum's kitchen. Those old toasters and kettles. She still had hers in the early 1970s.

[@copyrightfreevideobyttf]

This is such a delight and so dreamy! 😍

[@uberyoutuber3892]

I expected a retro-futurism film, but I wasn't disappointed that it wasnt.

[@odelyalevy]

This is a dream kitchen of every woman in the 50s. This couple seems to live above the ordinary average. Dishwasher was not even a dream back then. Simply great thought to plan every thing handy.

[@albertodillon]

What nostalgia to see the 50's

[@94567]

Супер, все продумано до мелочей

[@racurv1]

What a nice kitchen! I wish I had a kitchen like that.

[@Stephen2846]

Hey Dad, Sit down with your feet up, reading the paper, with the radio on while the women fix your dinner! Only kidding. For the youngins this was set in a time when most women stayed home to work, while men worked 5 or 6 days a week at their jobs and then fixed their houses and cars after work or on the weekends. Yep, Cars had to be repaired almost weekly, tires lasted less than 20,000 miles, and you had to tune up your car every 8,000 or so, or you'd just be wasting gas and barely moving. Keep in mind that during this period of time that one job was generally sufficient to live a decent, middle class life.

[@eratoisyourmuse659]

Stephen2846 My dad came home from work in time for my mom to go to work on the evening a few days a week. He cooked ,and cleaned then often took us to the park afterward. If it was rainy, my dad told us scary stories he made up. Some of my best memories come from dad taking care of,us,the evenings. Both my parents did their best to equally share financial responsibility and domestic duties.

[@scarletfluerr]

My dad could barely make a sandwich. With mom working the cooking dinner passed down to me at 12.

[@dianacrass8867]

scarletfluerr Sounds familiar. It was passed on to me at age 10. My parents had very high expectations too- higher than a 10 year old could achieve.

[@bighands69]

+Stephen2846 You do not mean cars were repaired weekly what you mean is that they were maintained unlike todays cars that people simply do not look after. I wash and clean my car once a week and give it a quick vacuum every second day. And I keep it well maintained.

[@Kirstieleigh-j6b]

I simply love these vintage vids❤

[@AussieDJRemixes]

Love this kitchen, it's a feel good kitchen and you don't need a washing up machine, I am the washing up machine. Alot of what she was using we had at home. I still use a jug similar to the one she has, wouldn't use any other.

[@I_know_it_I_sew_it_I_grow_it]

I can totally relate to the school uniform with the hair in long plaits and ribbons on the ends. Classic Australian school girl attire.

[@ashley3k]

The "Got Aids Yet?!" Sign wrecked me, truly a cinematic ending

[@Mandy-gi3nb]

i have an old kitchen with a lapboard, i love it!!!

[@terrimurray9466]

God Bless you. Enjoyed your video!

[@mariekatherine5238]

I love those lap boards. They should bring them back. As someone who cannot stand for long periods, but enjoys cooking, it’d be perfect along with a rolling stool or small chair!

[@rebeccarorie313]

I was born in 1949 and is I can remember it and I was 5 years old all kitchen cabinets were made of metal I do remember refrigerators that had a pull out freezer department

[@Kelly-tj8xv]

Wow, only two elements on the stove! I couldn't cook with that stove.

[@AlexandraLynch1]

They used to sell pots that had a division down the center, so you could cook two different things in the pot at the same time for the same meal.

[@michaelshields7777]

I know. I gotta have at least 8, lol!

[@Petra44YT]

I couldn't cook with more than two elements. Too much to watch at the same time, and too many used pots and pans.

[@deniseherud]

Kelly Maguire the temps are all in some weird measurement too...not Celsius, something weird...I never got it right...ruined 3 cookie sheets cuz it was hella hot!!😂🤷🏼‍♀️

[@kimmimcknight3417]

Fahrenheit?

[@josephgaviota]

I like the bare bulbs under the cabinets and over the stove ...

[@iphoneanth]

Two burner stove top. Is funny how we convince ourselves new is better. We are doing a retro kitchen why I watched this video

[@louiseeathorne-mellow9105]

A lovely family unit - sitting at table, all laid up - big breakfast. Kitchen is smashing. Love it all ! I wish I had grown up in that family and home.

[@kimmimcknight3417]

Did anyone notice her dish drainer? I've never seen one like that..and it's totally cool! (Not to mention, it saves counter space. Oops, guess i DID mention it...oh, well.)

[@kerryjames6312]

I live in a renovated 1950 home

[@ventipane]

This film was made in Sydney, Australia, in 1954.

[@eric_in_florida]

"Metallic Pea" was the perfect choice for those cupboards.

[@vap0rtranz]

@1:38 The pegs in the wall cabinet for cookware is genius! Folks hang cookware as exposed but I like the hidden idea. And who said stainless steel countertops are "new"? Here they are some 70 years ago.

[@lisalu910]

She's so thrilled with her two burner stove, and a sink at the right height for washing up. Wow.

[@FarmsteadForge]

Very neat to watch! We are putting together a bunkhouse on our farm to use as a vacation rental and want to outfit it from the 40's/50's.

[@rebeccaofsunnybrookfarmfar303]

My auntie had a farm kitchen. She had no electricity, she had two kerosene refrigerators. She and her husband were very wealthy, with Wheat farm land. But cash poor, every year the had harvest income. But electricity company wanted about £400.oo. To bring electricity to their property's house. .that was a lot of money's in those days. One could buy a house in Sydney for that much. My uncles house, acquired in 1960 was £300.oo 4 bedroom in Balmain. (Family sold that house fifty years later). Today that house is valued at £1.6 mil. Anyway the "big boys" children kitchen of Auntie brought fire wood 🔥 to the kitchen and the living room. They put a whole tree root trunk in the fireplace for one evening's sitting about. It burned more than all night. The fireplace was do big, it was like sitting around a bonfire. Everything in that house was super big. I had a lovely holiday there; I loved my auntie, I was nine years old. She had seven children - my cousins. Have A Nice Day.

[@paulazemeckis7835]

How wonderful these old films are! My mother grew up in this clip's era. I love how time moves on to the next generation and the next generation and so forth. Thank god that women nowadays can have thier own source of income (think women getting college degrees and having thier own source of income). If we end up with children and no other income sources we can rely now on ourselves. I feel bad for our foremothers having to put up with abuse, disrespect, physical beatings. etc. because she had no other source of income. Thank god times have changed.

[@Stephen2846]

As an electrical engineer I gotta say, "That unprotected light bulb above the mixer isn't a real good idea." But, apparently people were smarter and didn't need to be warned not to put a gun to their head and pull the trigger! Ah, the good ole days.

[@midelato]

2:59 And... ACTION! Thank's for sharing this video.

[@sl4983]

I love these old kitchens

[@51Lorie]

We used to give Mom a kiss before heading off to school, too. Those were the days! In a lot of respects, I wish we could go back to these simpler times.

[@mpaxton8991]

I do love the old kitchen though, and i think I could have gotten along in it!

[@cmiller415]

Sounds like they might be in Australia or New Zealand so that might account for the two burner stove.

[@sherryaleshire9187]

I really liked her old kitchen 😊

[@karinjeffrey7981]

Now that is an organized kitchen. The chrome counter top is super cool, and the color is great.

[@albear972]

How cute, I've never seen a two burner stove and an airplane sink in any kitchen! Light bulbs sticking out of under the cabinets? The green cabinets are hideous too!

[@LukeLovesRose]

I dont care what anyone says. This was the best era for America and the UK.

[@jacquelinegrice7311]

Is it just me, or does the daughter look to be about 35 years old?

[@ursulasmith6402]

Jaquelene, they looked older back than, all those ugly clothes they had to wear. the hairstyles, horrible. other than that, good times.

[@MarijeK]

+Ursula Smith She does look old, but I don't think it's because of her hair style... She has two braids with bows at the end! Her clothes and her uncheeryness are not helping her though. Love looking at the kitchen, and hearing about how happy they are with it!

[@rochellesonza6505]

Maybe not a real teenager. Just an actress in a documentary.

[@ARedMagicMarker]

As a general rule, conservative people tend to have children who are made to look, dress, and act just like them under authoritarian rule. All a part of the machine. The same holds true today, conservative children in such households around the world just look OLD for some reason. Comes with the culture.

[@annarodriguez9868]

@@ARedMagicMarker I think she looks very mature and competent when compared to the snowflakes and karens out there.

[@brat46]

I can't get over a two burner stove. Some days I need a six burner lol. Today's kitchens need to go back to that streamline design instead of so many feet between them. Yes its better exercise but carrying a pan of boiling water across the room if you have little ones or animals can be dangerous.

[@bighands69]

Size of kitchens today is not the issue. The real issue is that most women simply do not know how to cook so when they are getting their kitchens done it is based on pure looks rather than how they will use them. Also most kitchens are used to cook ready made meals. People just love pasta that they can boil in a few minutes or some slop they can throw in the microwave.

[@venus_envy]

@@bighands69 Plenty of people don't cook because they would rather eat out (or in, as in take out, ordering in) and just get a kitchen for looks if they have an open concept house to "entertain" in, it has nothing to do with sex. A lot more men don't know how to cook than women, why are you picking on women? Everyone, even if you have a penis and testicles, should learn to cook, it is a basic lifeskill, a survival skill everyone should have at least a basic grasp of. As for men who think they can pretend to be competent adults to trap a poor woman in a "bangmaid" marriage because they can't do anything except play on the computer, take two hour long shits as an excuse to avoid their families, and masturbate (if you think I'm being unfair, read the subreddit r/breakingmom for examples of many many men like this). If men like that want to eat, they can learn to cook, or starve. If you are an adult who can't cook, learn. If you are reading this, you have internet access, if you have internet access, you can learn to cook, your genitals should have nothing to do with it, unless you're a moron.

[@ursulasmith6402]

besides all this, everything wss cheaper or affordable, houses were paid off in 5 years at the most, things were made here. there were jobs, and every jb could support a family.

[@gaillofdahl5220]

Five years? Probably not. My parents bought their house in 1941 for about $4600. Their mortgage payment was $48 a month, and they paid $56 with the difference dedicated to paying down the principal. Any money my dad earned from overtime went to pay down the mortgage. (He was in manufacturing during WWII, so he was classified 4-F and was never drafted.) They had the house paid off in ten years, and that was only because they were pretty frugal.

[@davenwin1973]

My maternal grandparents bought their home brand new in 1950, being the original occupants of their home. My Grandpa lived there until his death in 1990, & my Grandma lived there until she had to be put in a nursing home in 2013, & died in August 2015. The house was vacant for 4 years, & I was recently been given this house. The kitchen in this house is far from efficient, but my Grandma managed to make it work all those years. There is not much counter space, & all preparation work had to be done on the dinette table. There's no dining room in this 3 bedroom house. The utility room isn't all that practical either, & especially going to be a problem for my newer front loader washer & matching gas dryer. They paid $7500 for their house, & the loan was for 30 years. When my Grandpa had a stroke, & couldn't work, the insurance he added to the mortgage, was there for when he couldn't work. The insurance decided to pay off the mortgage, rather than make payments, as they found it was cheaper. My Grandma had to go to work, & learn to drive, when my Grandpa had a stroke. When he had a second stroke, he ended up paralyzed on the left side, rendering him unable to work, & was forced to close his business, & collect SSI. My Grandma had to be the bread winner. Luckily my Aunt Nancy was there to help out after she graduated high school, & help my Grandma. As for my paternal grandpa & step-grandma, my grandpa worked hard, & paid cash for their property. The original house on the property in 1952 had a 2 bedroom house with no indoor plumbing, & by 1961, raised 8 children (5 from that marriage, & 3 from my Grandpa's first marriage to my egg donor grandmother. They had to go outside to pump water from a hand pump well. They used an outhouse for going to the bathroom. I don't know how they cleaned up, if there was a porch, or some other place for getting cleaned up. Since my Grandpa didn't make enough to support the family, my step-grandma had to go to work. She did dispatch work for a taxi service, worked as a cashier for a gas station, & for close to 20 years, she worked as a waitress for a small 24 hour diner on the night shift. There were nights she made so much money, that she had that much cash on her. There was one night where she made $700 in tips. Her tips and regular pay was what helped get them a house that would put them in the 20th century. By 1970, they had money to purchase a house that would have been torn down, as it was in the way of a proposed gas station. It costed them more to move it a mile and a half than it was to buy the house itself. They tore down the 1800's house, & placed a 2 bedroom house just behind where the old house sat. They had to put in a septic stank, along with a well that they drilled themselves. The porch that was attached to the front of the house was converted to a living room & a 3rd bedroom. Since natural gas didn't come down their street until 1973, they used fuel oil to heat their home with a radiant fuel oil furnace. They cooked with electric, along with heating water in an electric water heater. They hung out clothes on the line most of the year (including winter, unless it was raining or snowing), & only used the electric dryer when they had no choice. The wash was done in the kitchen, & there weren't many cabinets or countertops in this kitchen. Everything had to be done on the dinette table. My grandparents always smoked at the table, always talking about something. My Grandpa died in 1985, & my step-grandma continued to live there, until 2000, when she moved with my Aunt Brenda & Uncle Vince to Arizona. My Grandpa lived there 'til his death in 1985 for 32 years, while my step-grandma lived there for 48 years. I should mentioned that they lived on the same property, but in 2 different houses on that property, as the original house, except for electricity, they lived like they were in the 1800's, with no indoor plumbing. My step-grandma almost moved back, due to the heat in Arizona, but her health started to fade as soon as she moved there. She ended up dying on the 11th day of the new year in 2013

[@momof2momof2]

Love it ! They talked so funny then

[@baileighruess4737]

man i love the 50's every thing was modern and new they were so clueless of the future. as we are now. :)

[@annsanimationaddiction8024]

I used to live in my grandma's house (Pre WW2 home) and this gives me weird nostalgia.

[@LadyNicky007]

Good video...but actually useless for those who didn’t live in that era...I was a toddler then.... This is a high-end kitchen that wasn’t really popular with average folks till the beginning of the 60’s... In the 50’s only doctors, lawyers & CEO’s could afford these luxuries. In those days, the average people were still heating & cooking on wood stoves & had ice boxes for fridges. Canada was still a British Colony then....Wow, seems like a lifetime ago when I think on it now. Problem with this video is they should’ve added the average home for comparison. A lot of ignorant people here don’t understand what the fuss is about... with the generations being so accustomed to technical marvels....HOW can they understand??? We had the likes of this here kitchen when I was 12 or 13....My dad got a job at an Insurance Co & my mom finally got a job T. Eaton & I had landed a part time job in a hairstylist salon 💇🏼‍♀️💇🏼‍♂️ washing hair & cleaning 🧹floors. My sister worked part time in a textile factory.....By the time she was 15, she had bought a second hand Singer sowing machine & was making a lot of money making beautiful dresses for rich ladies....while I coiffed them😊 To have a modern home & hope for an education...everyone had to pitch in. We never took anything for granted, I suppose that’s why we were happy.... When my dad could finally afford a nice car, we spent our holidays in Lake George, a popular place in those days. Oh! remembering all this was fun for this 71 year old lady....🧓🏼

[@wlkbeastmode-issiap.346]

LadyNicky007 ty for the extra information

[@sonder222]

Wow I would want to live in the 1950s 60s 70s 80s and the 90s just to see the style and to see how much things changed :)

[@FrankiesFancy]

This video is earlier than the 1950s...this is the late 1930s, judging on the hairstyles, the length and cut of the dresses, the stove and refrigerator and the patterns on the curtains. I've spent 3-1/2 to 4 decades studying interior and fashion design and this is definitely pre-WW2.

[@loray2k]

FrankiesFancy I was thinking maybe mid 40's. I know that toaster is from the 30's-40's.

[@FrankiesFancy]

@Lora Yapp - That toaster was used as far back as the 1920s, one of the first ones made. But do take into account that decades have always "overlapped"...the early 30s were still 20s style, the early 40s were still 30s style, the early 50s was still looking 40s, the early 60s were still kind of 50s, the early 70s were still pretty 60s looking and so on. Refrigerators were small like that up until the 50s but pre-1930 they had those big "fans" on top and stood on legs. Around 1936-37 they removed those big fan-things on top and came out with a more streamlined look but were still small. Like this one.

[@cool386vintagetechnology6]

@@FrankiesFancy I'm not sure if you realise this is Australia, not the U.S.

[@hebneh]

Nope. This is an Australian dream kitchen, not an American one - and just because American promotional films in the 1930s showed kitchens with color-coordinated built-in metal cabinets, for example, does not mean that many people even in the USA had them then. Nor did every American have an automatic toaster then either. Remember that there were still many people in rural areas without electricity; Sears was selling washing machines run by gasoline or kerosene, for example, in the '30s.

[@lostinspace699]

this mother /lady is grateful happy ,,,now 2019 ,,,,,this is...........

[@toddsmith1617]

Bullshit?

[@marylawson6060]

I love it. Doesn't have a shelf like some do. It's a creme color with dark green trim. Son calls it junk. He doesn't realize what it's worth. Also have a Maytag wringer washer going on 48 years old. Other son says everything here is old. It's called quality. Don't have it anymore. Shame.

[@traceymoses2137]

Yeah, my kids have been hollering for me to get a new rice cooker. Mine made 30 years old last year. I tried the new ones but they just don't make things like they used to.

[@toddsmith1617]

Because they didn't have the technology yet to make crap.

[@marylawson6060]

Nothing is like it use to be. And people don't have patience.

[@marylawson6060]

@@toddsmith1617 I would say it's all about money. Always has been. Cheaper labor overseas. And that's why we are in the mess we have now.

[@sincerelystaceykaren]

This is SO cute! 😁✨

[@johneastmond9092]

The one thing that stands out is the refrigerator door swinging to the wrong side. All modern units allow the door(s) to be switched. I've switched many a door in my time.

[@melodiedavis4391]

Sunset beach was the only soap opera I watched. I was 11-13 lol

[@beautifulsky4481]

My mother used salted lard in those days to put on toast, there was no butter.