Ricky seems to be enjoying doing the ironing on the Season 2, Job Switching episode of I Love Lucy. He uses a non-steam iron hence the need for a separate laundry water sprinkler bottle to dampen the clothes while ironing. It appears to be a CLOSPRAY—Plas-Tex-Corp Laundry Sprinkler bottle. In the pre-steam iron era laundry sprinkler bottles were available in all sorts of shapes and designs and are now collector items.
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Lucy’s 1951 Westinghouse Frost Free refrigerator appears on several episodes from that year. The Westinghouse Frost Free Fridge was widely promoted in print publications and on TV during 1951 and with prominent positioning in the kitchen of I Love Lucy.
A Sound Scriber dictaphone makes an appearance on In the I Love Lucy 1951 episode S04E05 “Mr. And Mrs. Tv Show”.
SoundScriber is a dictation machine introduced in 1945 by The SoundScriber Corp. of New Haven. It records sound with a groove embossed into soft vinyl discs with a stylus.
Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundScriber
In a previous post we looked at the bedside clock radio on I Love Lucy. This week I see a similar one on eBay as pictured below:
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Seen on eBay this week a working Westinghouse T-4 Vacuum Cleaner called the “Handy Dandy” on the I Love Lucy episode. Click picture for details on the eBay listing.
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Ricky Ricardo and Orson Welles meet at Ricky’s Babalu Club for rehersals on the I Love Lucy episode Lucy Meets Orson Welles. Ricky serves the coffee in a Sunbeam Automatic Coffeemaster.
These nautical wall sconces are on ebay this week – just like the nautical ships wheel wall lamp in Lucy’s kitchen which we looked at in a previous post. They also convert to a table lamp.
Ricky Ricardo is seen on his home projection screen in the I Love Lucy episode Home Movies. A closer look at the logo tells us it is a Radiant DeLuxe Champion Projection Screen from the Radiant Manufacturing Corporation. The original Radiant Champion model was renamed as the Radiant DeLuxe Champion in 1949 and was advertised at a price of $15 that year. It was described as made from a new glass beaded fabric called Vyna-Flect “which overcomes the hazards of fire and mildew“.
In the video clip above there is a section of the western sketch in Lucy’s home movie where the video and sound in some of the segments run backwards, on youtube there is anther video clip from the show that reverses the video so you can find out what they are saying at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57oENa8VeXc
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In the Season 5 episode of I Love Lucy entitled Lucy Hates to Leave Lucy is awake at night worrying about the move to their new house in the country. On the bedroom shelf there is a hexagonal alarm clock.
The shape and dial of the clock is an exact match for the white dial verson of the Telechron “Dorm” alarm clock. A closer look at the clock in the screen capture reveals it to be missing the cover in front of the dial. With the cover removed we notice clips at edges of the clock face to keep it in place. Pictured below is a black version of the same clock on Etsy (US) and from the photo we see how the window in front of the dial is curved and catches the light and would be too reflective for the studio lights- a practical reason for removing the front cover on set.
Telechron Alarm Clock on Etsy (US)
Lucy and Ethel use a Crestwood Tape recorder on the episode Oil Wells (15 Feb. 1954). The Ricardo’s new neighbors claim to be Texas oil tycoons and a tape recorder features prominently in the story line. The Crestwood tape recorder was a new model that was widely promoted that year. Reporting on the appearance on the show an article in the popular Tape Recording magazine 10-1954 p. 42 followed with a picture of Lucy and Ethel on set.
On eBay recently I came across a listing for a vintage Crestwood tape recorder that looks very like the one used on the I Love Lucy show – click on the picture below to see the listing.
The Crestwood is the second tape recorder we have seen on the I Love Lucy show – previously we looked at the Webcor tape recorder used by Ricky to record his song “There’s a Brand New Baby in Our House“.
