Toasters of Yesteryear
My aunt Marilyn Karlsen has the neatest toaster! She and Uncle Marvin got it for a wedding present in 1955. Toasters back then were crazily expensive compared to now, a true luxury. This has a curved side door--when you open the door after the toast is done on one side, it slides down the door, and when you shut it, the other side toasts! Amazing ingenuity. Way back (waaay back--the Romans got the idea of toast in 500 BC from the Egyptians) people started making toast as a wa