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Default The House the 50s Built

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Jules Richardson writes:
On Thu, 07 Jun 2012 15:03:50 -0700, jgharston wrote:
And I've always wondered how valid this "men never went in the kitchen"
thing was.


The kitchen is for cleaning engine parts... everyone knows that!


I was thinking that too, but I guess that probably took off more
in the 1960's and 1970's, than 1950's.

Those wipe-clean formica worktops would certainly have been easier
to clean than getting the engine oil off an wooden worktop of earlier
times;-)

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