We have a Panasonic microwave bought in 1990. It's still going strong. We're giving it to Goodwill, though, as part of the renovation, because I'm not sure the shielding on 20-year-old microwaves is as good as it should be.

We just "retired" our 1938 Chambers B range. It still worked perfectly well except that the temp was no longer regulated by the dial.

My Maytag electric clothes dryer....12 1/2 years old and still going strong - *fingers crossed*

32 years, knocking wood heavily! I'm still using the 1978 Maytag washer/dryer pair that my folks gave us in 1984 when they moved into a house with a washer /dryer and we moved into our first house that didn't have a washer/dryer. Top-load and its big deal is a Permanent Press setting, woo hoo :) . The electric dryer is either Regular heat (molten lava) or Delicate (merely incendiary). I love them both more every time I read about issues with new electronic models.

a measly 26 years is the Amana fridge that's in the cabin we just sold. It's a bottom-mount freezer and the only reason it's not in our current house is the narrow-aisle galley kitchen where the door couldn't open all the way, requiring a french-door model.

I grew up in Iowa so we were even buying local, way back then :)

Some of those numbers are impressive- it's a shame I don't expect any new purchase to rack up those ages. But a Chambers stove from 1938 and a GE refrigerator from 1930! It's one thing for an occasional use appliance like a blender or mixer to last long but for something like a refrigerator which is in continuous use is something else.
Maire

I have a General Electric top freezer refrigerator that was the original equipment for my 1963 rambler. It is in the basement and is used mostly for beer and Costco storage. It is a lovely cocoa color! It runs quieter that my main refrigerator...a 1994 Kenmore (Whirlpool). Also...I just replaced a Whirlpool washer and dryer the were 26 and 24 years, respectively.

I have 3 of the mid 70's Cusinart DLC7 pros. I bought one for me one for my MIL and one for my Mom. I got the 2 back when they passed. I am about to " loan " them to my DD and DIL. I hope they take care of them.

I have a Dayco nonstick waffle iron too from the 80's that still makes perfect waffles and we use it almost every Sunday.The Teflon also is so good...they don't make it that way anymore. Oh and my old old electric Hitachi rice cooker...we use it several times a week and it is still going strong.

I also have Mom's Amana microwave from 1982 and it is perfect. My MIL's Hamilton Beach blender from the 80's just died tonight. DIL and DS had used it this summer and they did something to it...sigh.

I posted on here about Mom's Maytags. They were 30 + and still going strong. The washer developed a leak due to rust inside and wasn't able to be fixed. The dryer was still perfect. I sure miss them but I got used Kenmores that are 5 yrs old and boy do they work wonderfully.

It sure is a fun thread. Thanks for starting it ! c

My old kitchen was 25 years old. The only appliance we had replaced was the DW. My Amana SxS refrigerator, JennAir convection oven, Jenn air electric downdraft, and Panasonic (built-in) MW are all still working - well maybe not the cooktop/downdraft so much. My son is taking my oven and my KA DW which is about 12 years old. My Panasonic microwave is staying in the new kitchen remodel. Everything else is being replaced. How lucky were we?

GE hand mixer 1961 - 49 years old and still running! It was the first appliance we bought! (Replaced the cord about 20 years ago)
My mother's portable Singer sewing machine from 1939. Works better than the 1961 model. A bit of oil now and then and it is good to go!

Good old Yankee thrifiness - nothing gets thrown out here!

We have a 30 year old 48" jennair downdraft that still works great, however we are about to do a little kitchen update and will replace the counters, so the jennair is going to go and be replaced by a 36" Miele induction cooktop.

We had updated the jennair by getting the glass inserts for the burners about seven years ago. I would love to give them to anyone who could use them. I hate to throw good things away. The rest of the unit is not worth saving.

ME!! although sometimes I think I'm only limping along ;) But seriously I would have to say my Welbuilt Bread machine. It is one of the early round ones. The plastic ring around the top has a crack in it. I have tried replacing it, but haven't found any that work as well. The machine still works and I do use it.

ktmast- LOL! Funny to think one's appliances are older than the owner!

I recently sold my 1953 White Westinghouse range- electric coil (which I hated), large oven and 42 inches wide. It was the best stove for canning- tons of space to hold my jars while I filled them. Everything on it still worked, and the smooth, porcelain like finish was gorgeous. It was from the era where everything had tons of chrome, and the chrome just shined!

I finally parted with it for the kitchen remodel and a top of the line KA smooth top range (no gas line to my house). But, I am continually lusting over the Wolf and Viking ranges- just wonder if they would last that long, and look as good as my old one did! I'm still wondering if my new range will last.......

In our kitchen we have:
Toastmaster toaster - vintage mid-1950's
Sunbeam Mixmaster - manufactured in 1946 or 1947 based on model number
Both are working fine, although they do not receive heavy use. They were inherited from family members.
In addition we have an Amana Radarange microwave oven purchased new in 1977. It's built like a tank (Raytheon - a military contractor was the actual manufacturer). It is used daily, and the only repair it has ever needed is recent replacement of some parts on the circuit board for the touch-panel display.

saw this thread and just had to answer.....I have a Kelvinator refrigerator in our lake cabin that is original to the cabin, so a late 1950's model, and is still working great. and the stove is orginal to the cabin also, white GE, 4 drawer...small oven, small broiler, 2 storage drawers, the clock still works on this. So these appliances just get used in the summer, but they are great and I love the retro style of both. Hate to think of the energy used, however.

Similar to oldhousegal, I just retired a 1954 RCA Estate range. Same size, same chrome, same fabulous enamel and large "holding" surface. Unfortunately, same oven temp regulation issues. Broiler oven and stovetop still worked. Griddle element replacement couldn't be found. The whole family misses the coolness, but I am totally in love with my BlueStar and Vent-a-Hood. Everything is so much easier now. Searing used to only be a dream...
Still haven't been able to give up my fifties cupboards and counters yet. Change can be hard :-)

My 1930 Kitchenaid Model G mixer is my oldest working appliance.

It was serviced a few years ago and is a powerhouse comparable to the Hobart N-50 mixer.

Mom's Thermador cooktop/oven are 55 years old, she's replacing the oven due to insulation concerns....

In my kitchen, we still have the original range from the year the house was built, 1950. It is a 40 inch GE with 2 ovens. I have Never even had to have a service call. It will not die!

We were waiting to re-model, but now know this range will out- last us humans- we are currently remodeling and a local church is gracefully going to give this old lady a new home!

Too many to list, but i will try.

1956 Hotpoint dishwasher, also have a 1947 GE dishwasher in laundry room for party overflow.
1961 Frigidaire flair electric range, automatic everything, you don't know what your missing!
1947 Ge Toaster, 1956 Westinghouse Fryer, 1952 Sunbeam Slow Cooker/Saucepan, 1954 Sunbeam Skillet, 1957 GE electric Can opener, 1948 Sunbeam Mixmaster, 1960 Proctor
Silex Juicer, 1958 Sunbeam Waffle Iron, I could go on, but
you get the idea, all work perfectly and I wouldn't trade them for the anything.

My only concession to modern is a 1995 Asko washer and dryer, great machines but If I were to find a decent '50's
Frigidaire Unimatic washer and filtrator dryer they would be gone.
Also have a a 2009 Whilrpool Refrigerator that replaced a
1965 GE due to electricity usage.

I have still in use a GE almond refrigerator over 30 years old.
A JCPenney chest type freezer 36 years old and still going strong.
My Cuisiart is 32 years old and still chopping away.
My Maytag dishwasher is 40 plus years old and still works.
None of these appliances have had any repairs.
I cringe to think that the new appliances have such a short life span....
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A Sharp II half-pint micro from about 1982. It is now in my office: the carousel hasn't gone around for some years, but it still works. Can't tell you how many microwaves have come and died in our kitchen, but the little office one chugs on.

33 year old Maytag Dryer (nice looking beige color.... still looks like a new machine and dries a load of jeans in 35 minutes. I'll shed a tear when it goes.
It's mate (the washer) lasted 28 years.... never a repair on either and with 4 sons, they've seen a lot of use.

and I shouldn't forget my 33 year old Robot Coupe food processor and Sunbeam hand mixer!!

I posted my list on a thread about Blenders in the cooking forum, but I will copy it here. I bought my "post-divorce" home about 6 months ago, a Victorian from the 1870's...and decided to do all the main living areas in authentic antiques...including the kitchen (now that I don't have a wife to complain about using 50+ year old appliances - lol!) Most of my furniture is from 1900 - 1940, but I went with slightly more modern in the kitchen for "usability" reasons.

My friends think I am nuts (I'm in my 40's...just really like old stuff I guess).

In my kitchen:

- 1954 Osterizer beehive blender...got in on ebay for 40 bucks, and the motor was just refurbished.

- 1953 Roper gas stove (never used, not kidding..found on ebay also for 375 bucks!)

- 1955 Hamilton Beach toaster that was a wedding gift to my parents when they got married and has been in constant use since then...amazing.

- 1957 Sunbeam Mixmaster 12 mixer...got on Ebay for 60 bucks, looks and runs like new.

- Farberwear coffee peculator from early 1950's.

- Waffle maker from the late 40s - still works fine.

I think they just flat out made stuff to last back then. All these appliances are way heavier than their modern counterparts.

The one thing I don't think I'll go actual vintage with is a fridge....considering one of the conversions though, where they restore an old fridge but use modern components so it is efficient and reliable.

I have a Kitchen Aid food processor that I bought new in the box at a rummage sale in 1983. The plastic bowl is missing the handle, but the blades and motor are still fine! I wish I could get a replacement bowl but I don't think they make them anymore. My Maytag washer and dryer have been going strong without a hitch since 1993.

Cj

Right now I'm missing my 20-yr old, working perfectly Kenmore washer and dryer that we donated to charity. I gave in to lust and just had to have new w/d in our brand new house. And here I sit today, 7 months later with no clean underwear. I was washing them this morning in my new Maytag when it sprung a leak during the wash cycle--thanks to my new kittens for alerting me to the spreading puddle of water on the nearby hardwood floors! So now I have to decide whether to finish hand-washing the entire load or finding out where the local laundromat is located and go there. It's Sat., and I can't even schedule a service appt. until Mon. It's SOOOO not how I wanted to spend my Sat. morning. I've about finished my tea....and now my rant.

I think we don't see the lonely Maytag repairman on commercials anymore because he's busy making housecalls on new Maytags!

25 year old GE side by side refrigerator purring away in the garage - 25 years and counting. Purrs through the heat in the Summer and the cold in the Winter. It had a decent career indoors until 2002 but just didn't match the color scheme of the then new kitchen.

Cuisineart DLC 10 food processor given to me in 1988 still sits on my counter and works very well.

The original In-Sink-Erator garbage disposal installed in the house in 1986 was transfered to a back-up sink in 2002 and still works just fine.

my oldest is an olive green tappan double oven. its very small but still working, circa the '50s. it is going to be replaced soon, honestly, i wont miss it since its too small, cant fit a turkey and i have to switch my cookie sheets around half way thru. my sister has an old frig from the 60's still going strong. i dont think anything we buy today is going to last like that....

I have NO idea how old this is, and the top oven element just recently melted, but the bottom is still ticking. The door doesn't shut completely, light is broken, timer broken, but it sure makes the BEST cookies ever. I tried looking all over this oven to see the model or year with no luck. Anyone have any guesses? It looks like it was originally turquoise, then someone painted it yellow. I think I'll be a little sad when we re-do our kitchen in the next few weeks. But I have a new Bertazzoni range to help me transition :)
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Like others, I have vintage small appliances like my Oster blender which I have no idea the age, but as for larger applances that get daily use it's my Panasonic microwave, 1984.

I have a working 1927 ge refrigerator. It's only upgrade was to the cord (I had the cloth wire changed out). It's a great beverage fridge which we will work into our kitchen remodel soon.

My oldest, working appliance is a Swiss fondue set.

This GE refrigerator.

It came with the house 24 years ago. When we renovated the kitchen this past October we moved it into the garage. It's like the Energizer Bunny, Still Going.

Our service person jumped at taking away our 31 yr old Maytag Washer/Dryer 3 years ago and it is still running to the best of my knowledge (34 yrs).

1949 GE Refrigerator..still have the owners manual too.

My Kitchen Aid 5Qt Professional Mixer. I bought it around 1974 and it has been a work horse and is still going strong. I have replaced many things in the past years but that is one thing I would never part with.

1952 Sunbeam Coffeemaster. It make a wonderful cup of coffee after dinner in the fall, winter and spring.

Probably my coolest (literally) old appliance is a GM/Frigidaire window air conditioner from about 1962. Front grille looks like it came from - what else? - the dashboard of a car from that era.

I'm in a short-term (i hope) rental now so I don't have much old stuff except a really tiny (about 20" wide) GE drye from about 1970, a late-70s GE electric can opener, and a 1983 GE toaster oven and woodgrained Avanti cube fridge I originally bought for my first year in college. Somewhere I have a hand-me-down Sunbeam toaster from late-50s/early 60s, hard to tell since they didn't change the design much for several decades, the one later of "flying toaster" fame that automatically, and slowly, lowered the bread when you dropped it in and slowly let it up when it was done. I recently gave away my Hoover floating vacuum cleaner also from 50s/60s to a departing roommate who loved all things retro (he has

iPhone accessory). The vacuum was insane - this round, globe-shaped Sputnik-esque thing that floated around like a hovercraft by exhausting its air down towards the floor. A brilliant design, way easier to tug around than a normal canister vac on wheels.

Alot of old *real* appliances in my recent past - xgf had this huge 48"w 1949 gas stove from a long-gone manufacturer whose name escapes me now - Royal Something iirc. What was this massive stove doing in a tiny kitchen that barely had room for a table, and NO countertops, just a large integrated sink drainboard. Frigidaire washing machine from late 50s, with this real Jetsons-ish control panel that looked more like an old clock that someone left on top of the machine at the far right back. The dial lit up when it was running. It was broken when we first met; I remember us spending a weekend tearing down the machine and fixing it, with the help of this third-party orange repair manual. It was still working when we parted ways. That place never had a dryer - she used clotheslines.

I forgot all about those built-in countertop NuTone things. These had a couple of spinning things under two round discs, about 6" in diameter, flush-mounted into the countertop, and you can put all kinds of accessories on them like blenders, slicers, mixers, food processors, etc. Actually the front one is the speed control; the rear one accepts the chosen accessory. Saved you money since you only needed to buy one motor for everything, and kept your countertop free from dangling electric cords sprouting from the backs of all of your small appliances. What happened to these?

Not sure if this counts as an appliance, but my translucent-blue Galaxy electric fan with piano-key controls is a great '70s period piece. Definitely doesn't count as an appliance, but my Heathkit nixie-tube voltmeter is still routinely used. Unlike ALL the new ones, I can read the display from across the room. You can't imagine how useful that is until you try to get by with anything else.

early 1950s Magic Chef gas range. It's classic stainless steel and white. It came with the house when I bought it in 1995, and the only repair work has been when the burners weren't igniting.

Early 50's toastmaster toaster.

I have a 1946 hotpoint fridge ive been using since 72. The handle is broke and my thumb is getting sore from pushing the little button. Anyone got an idea where I might get parts? Thanks

I have a 1946 hotpoint fridge ive been using since 72. The handle is broke and my thumb is getting sore from pushing the little button. Anyone got an idea where I might get parts? Thanks

There's a clock in a stove in a house that burned in a canyon near us; the burn was 15 years ago at least and the house is gone but the clock still works .... can that have honorary mention? I don't know how old it is though....

We fight with a half propane-half -geez I dunno, kerosene? - that part is gone -- range that predates 1950 every summer.

Parents' waffle iron from the 40's still works. I want it but my mother gets very offended when I ask for it. Her grandkids will be too old to enjoy waffles soon....

I have a hand-held beater from the 60's. Love that thing. It's turquoise - what more could you want? It wont work unless you wear an apron. :)

My 1961 Frigidaire "Product of General Motors USA" double wall oven, with french doors on the top oven. The clock stopped working a while ago, but both ovens are fine.

Subzero 550 18 years
Magic Chef gas 27" micro/ wall oven combo 23 years old
Asko Asea DW had 18 years RIP last month
Please what's up with all these new appliances charging thousands & all have huge issues judging from posts on this forum.
Am updating my kitchen & have no idea what to buy.
FYI replaced Asko with new Asko despite what I read about Asko-bought it for looks alone...

1949 Toastmaster "automatic pop-up toaster". Bought it at a second hand store for $2 in 1984. It can work on AC or DC. Our favorite snack is toast, so this toaster gets used every day. Still going strong, and if it does get tired, it can be rebuilt (so I'm told, haven't tried that yet)!
Also have a Quasar microwave from 1990 that's still working fine with daily use.
Last, but not least- Monarch wood cook stove of unknown vintage. Whoever had it before us filled in all the rusted out spots with brazing rod (welding). It heats our morning tea water, and warms up the kitchen at the same time.

My Mother has a Kenmore Washer that is 51 years old and still running ! Amy frim NC ! I think we may have a record setter

Mine is my Tefal Cook n Stir, bought in the 80’s, I believe.

Just got rid of a Cuisinart last year than had been a wedding present in 1977. Worked fine but the bowl broke.

My GE Electric hand mixer is 60+ years old and runs perfectly.