Push-button cooking still works

Back in December, I posted on pushbutton cooking, including the following ad from 1950 for a GE pushbutton oven.

Reader Rob then realized that was his grandmother’s oven, and it’s been working fine for over fifty years! He promised to take pictures the next time he visited, and he did. Here are some highlights to entice you.

My favorite part:

The best thing about the buttons was the fact that they were clear and lighted up when pressed (except for the OFF button, it was dark). Each button, from WM to HI was lit by a progressively hotter color, from blue for WM through yellow and orange to deep red for HI. This meant that you could tell the state of the oven from across the room, something you can’t do with many modern ovens. Amazingly, the lights behind all but a couple of the buttons still work after nearly sixty years.

Thanks Rob.