I was going to say that you might want to think through the logic of that sentence, but I see CookingWithGas has beaten me to it.
Ouch!
Looks like something Randall Peltzer came up with.
I just want to say that it makes me inexplicably happy to think that, among all the wondrous things in the world that I have never even dreamed of, there are people who collect kitchen mixers.
Our house had one of these as I was growing up in the sixties. At the time I thought this was how all mixers worked. If I remember correctly, it also had an orange juicer and meat grinder attachments. It permanently took up space on the counter (it was not totally flush), tended to collect crud when not in use and was not easy to clean.
We had one too, it was a Nutone like this.
That’s it! We had one of those.
So I talked to my Ma. She said the thing was already there when they bought the house in 1966. So I was about 6 years old. She didn’t recall exactly which model it was but thought it had a mixer attached.
She did remember that it never worked properly. The mixer had some kind of short in it and the rest of the apparatus leaked. Bad gaskets or something or other. After screwing around with it on & off for a couple of years my Dad decided it was unfixable and removed it, probably around 1969 when he set up a stereo system based behind the bar.
So that was that. But it shows my memory of it was at least mostly accurate. And I was only about 9 when they got rid of it.
ETA: Every picture my folks took in the 60’s and 70’s got turned into slides. There are a gazillion of them in my Mothers basement. I probably won’t go through them to see if any are a picture of behind the bar and of that sink.
And that’s why Nancy, our forum founder, named it WACEM. We Actually Collect Electric Mixer.s Most mixer collectors are men, by the way. They are a cool, gadgety type of appliance. Early ones are more like machinery with exposed gears. And very difficult to piece together as you have the base, motor, beaters and various bowls and accessories which can all get separated over the years. Sunbeam had over a dozen accessories. Juicer, blender, pencil sharpener, knife sharpener, apple peeler, bean Frencher, pea sheller, meat grinder, sausage stuffer, rotary colander, veggie slicer, ice crusher and ice cream machine that I can think of right now. Some are worth hundreds by themselves. There are vintage mixers that have sold for over $2000.
WACEM grew out of KOOKS - Kollectors Of Old Kitchen Stuff. Other appliances like fans and toasters have been collected for a long time.
By the way, I have over 120 different mixers, one of the three largest collections existing.
Dennis
I now understand your user name. 