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Sunbeam Toaster, 1960s. This toaster has silkscreened glass sides. |
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For bread the merchant labors long and late; For bread the beggar goes from gate to gate. For bread the sailor loses hearth and home, A thousand, thousand miles bread-seekers roam. For bread the wild birds fall in nets and gins; For bread do men commit a hundred sins. For bread the soldier dies in seige and fight; For bread the minstrel carols day and night. For bread men study all that man may know. The house that wanteth bread if filled with woe; For bread unites the family as one, Its lack divides the father from the son. For bread are weddings made and sermons said; Of all good things, the first and best is bread. -- From Lyric Laughter by Arthur Guiterman |
| The disposable era comes -- as it becomes cheaper to buy a new toaster than it is to have one repaired. Still - the toaster remains an accurate reflection of design trends. |
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Sunbeam Toaster, 1960s. This toaster has silkscreened glass sides. |
| General Electric from the early 1960s. Turning a knob on this unit allows one to either direct the heat up to the toaster or down to the warming tray/broiler. |
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Sunbeam "Vista" Toaster,Model VT-40-1, 1960s. The 1960s version of Sunbeam's very successful "fully automatic" design that began in the late 1940s with the Model T-20. Read an article detailing the evolution of this toaster. |
| TravlToast, by Empire. Annoyed by people driving and talking on their cellular phones? How about driving behind someone making toast? Here's a toaster designed for car use -- it plugs into a car's lighter socket. |
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Coghlan's SURE GRIP Camp Stove Toaster, made by Coghlan's LTD. of Winnipeg, Canada. This toaster is still being made today - the pictured illustration is from a 1971 box. We like that it looks like the toast is dancing. |
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The Roly Toaster model RT-1, circa 1970 by Munsey Products, Inc. of Little Rock, Arkansas. This model swings the bread around in a circular fashion, allowing for production toasting. Photo courtesy Joe Lukach. Read the article: The Rollicking Roly Toaster |
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Toastmaster Bicentennial Toaster -- from 1976. Odds are it is red, white, and blue. This illustration courtesy Toastmaster. This toaster is WANTED! |
| Mary Proctor Snoopy Toaster! model T621WA, Type T6, early 1970s by Proctor-Silex, Philadelphia, PA. Good ol' Snoopy, he can sell anything! |
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