Kitchen Gadgets

I need to buy a new can opener for the beach place. Would you believe the one that is failing is only 10 years old? They just don't make 'em like they used to!

When using this electric "wizard" now, it grinds and skips then grinds some more and skips again, making mind bending loud irritating sounds. It is NOT dirty! The one put aside for hurricane evacuation use is a hand cranker and a bit difficult for these old hands to turn, but actually works better as a temporary substitute until a trip to Walmart.

Now I gotta tell ya, the one on the old cabin wall in Pennsylvania works perfectly - every time, and it's only about 85 years old. It's a SPEEDO!

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TRADEMARK REG

CAN OPENING MACHINE

MADE IN ST. LOUIS, MO. U.S.A.

CENTRAL STATES MFG. CO.

USA PATS: 1558372 - 1573969 - 1581958

Oct. 20, 1925 - Feb. 23, 1926 - Apr. 20, 1926

CANADIAN PATS: MAR 23, 1926 - FEB 22, 1927

OTHER FOREIGN PATENTS

Popular Mechanics Magazine, Feb 1928, Page 75

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I remember it in the home I grew up in being used frequently by my mother and grandmother. It was attached to the kitchen cabinet side, facing outward. Many times it served as a hanger for a bag of cheesecloth filled with boiled grapes, dripping their marvelous smelling and purple juices into a pot below that was placed on the kitchen chair. Twisting out the final juices was something I loved to do. Jelly making followed. It also was often used to hang sour milk in a similar bag, draining away the whey and forming the cheese curds!

Ah! Sweet memories. Does anyone know where I can find another SPEEDO? Can opener, that is! I look, but never find!