Live Better Electrically Retro 1950s TV Commercial

http://sturly.com/electricliving It's hard to believe that back in the day people had to be sold on the idea of electricity. Thus was born the "Live Better Electrically" campaign in the late 1950s. This early commercial touts the wonders of using electricity in the kitchen, specifically with one of those new-fangled kitchen stoves!

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[Sheri451]

@kerryincolumbus I wasn't insulted. She didn't know what she was doing, She had saw her older sisters and her Mom cooking and was trying to imitate them. She turned on the knob , not to light, but low, it didn't ignite . It just made the gas come out from the nozzle and the house smelled like gas, Her Mom smelled it and turned off the knob and opened the windows, They put the knobs in a tumbler now and put them on a shelf where she can't reach them.

[kerryincolumbus]

@Sheri451 oh.. ok, sorry.. I hope she didn't hurt herself.. I didn't know

[Sheri451]

@kerryincolumbus That's what the little girl I care for did last year. They ought to make a gas stove with the knobs on the top near the burners so little ones can't reach them, instead of near the oven door

[kerryincolumbus]

@KrystalKowalas .....whatever u frickin' LESBO! It's wasn't considered sexist back then.. it wasn't until you GD LESBIANS got the notion to try and make America more like that TRASH that lives in Europe, where they embrace the sickness called LESBOLOVIN' !

[kerryincolumbus]

@Sheri451 LOL!!! those last 2 sentences cracked me UP!! good job!

[radientmarlo]

"more and more women are changing to elctric cooking." why don't the men change?

Oh right, they didn't cook then.

[67tr876]

@calimar28 Most today still look like that to. from the 50s

[Sheri451]

@bob4analog It's the same here too. We're prisoners of Duke Energy.

[bob4analog]

@Sheri451

Gas is probably the better way to go now anyway, considering that electric power costs have now gone up, or at least it has where I live.

[Sheri451]

@bob4analog If you can afford an expensive generator there won't be any more power failures. Anyway. I believe I'd rather have a gas stove. The ones they sell now have no pilot light, they plug into the outlet and when you turn the knob, it makes a tick tick sound and your flame is on. And you can't smell gas from them. Except if you have a two year old who accidently turns the knob on low so the flame won't come on. Then you hide the stoves knobs in the cabinet