shortstack

They use to make those right here in my town!!

hazeljane

Yep. It's a thermowell. You can bake in it, or put a pot in it. Like a 1940's version of a crock pot. It will stay hot for hours after the gas is off. Beautiful.

argranny

I rented a house some 40+ years ago that had a stove like that and there was a pot in the well, Love it and it was the only I had ever seen, would have loved to owned one

aussie bella

Wow what a great looking stove, you lucky thing you, by the way what did you cook on in between?

hazeljane

Well, in my last couple of houses, I had newer gas stoves. Didn't have the money or the space for her. Since last year, when she went into the stove hospital, I have been cooking on a 1970's electric stove. It worked well, but it was butt-ugly, and electric. Here in tornado alley, it's good to have a gas stove when the power goes out. And just because gas is better for cooking.

Annz

wow the stove is a beauty. How about telling the cute guy sprucing up the stove in the picture to fix the air conditioning

hazeljane

He tried. He's my sweetheart. And handy. My ex-husband was also a sweetheart, but not handy. It was out of freon, no one seems to know why, after one season. but it's working now, and so is Buttercup! We made cookies and a barbeque feast today. Yeah!

zz-pd

that is really neat. what did you do without your stove for so long? Thank you for sharing a piece of history. God bless. Penny

Jingle

It looks great, good for you, hard to believe they couldn't clean it up in less than a year.

hazeljane

They are very slow, but very thorough. I had the top re-chromed, and it does have a cover for the top, which has a big gouge in it, but that's the only damage to the porcelain, and since I cook every day, the top would just be an annoyance to me, so it's in the garage. And they replaced the thermostat. Just in case, and all the tubing, etc.

I wasn't ready right away, but a couple months ago, started getting impatient and bugging them.