My Handy Kitchen--1950's Australian:

[Kingofalldems]

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[pangaia]

1. Looks pretty much like mine..

[frazzled]

2. In a late 1940's-era house we once owned

There was a pull-out chopping board just like the one in this kitchen. I used it a lot, but it never occurred to me to pull up a chair and sit down to chop! Maybe it was because I was fairly young then (it was in the late 80s and the 90s), and didn't need to sit down for such a task. Now, in my very modern kitchen, I keep a variety of chopping boards in a slotted tray cabinet. But if I have a lengthy task (shelling a bunch of fava beans or skinning hazelnuts), I take it over to a table and SIT, so my hips don't hurt.

I think the kitchen in the film is very well planned, especially for being so small. I wish I had that pull-out chopping board now!

[Lars39]

3. That may have been a pastry board instead of a chopping block.

My MIL has one in her kitchen. Perfect height to work dough.

[Croney]

4. My '70's era kitchen has a pull-out board but I rarely use it.

The kitchen has been reconfigured and that cabinet abuts the refrigerator. In same cabinet is a deep drawer with a sliding metal perforated lid; maybe a breadbox. This is one reason I've refused to get new cabinets.

[msongs]

5. tiny sink basin nt

[mitch96]

6. Did you notice.......

There was no up rising inflection/up speak at the end of her sentances? You hear it alot from Ausies now and the American kids do it also.. So I think it started after 1955???
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[Kingofalldems]

7. We had one of those toasters.