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Shopping in the past: the old “Maruni Shoten” Kitchenware Store. Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, Koganei. Tokyo, Japan. © Michele Marcolin, 2023. K1ii + MOG Trioplan 35+ 35mm f2.8.
This is a household goods store built in the early Showa period (1926-1989). It was originally located in 3-chome, Kanda-jinbocho, Chiyoda Ward. It features a front wall covered in small copper plates ingeniously combined, while the interior is a reproduction of how the shop was in the 1930s. Tenement houses have been moved to the back of the shop to produce the street atmosphere that existed in those days.
My wife loves to browse kitchenware at Williams Sonoma. So when we went into this store, I saw these cute Santa mugs and a X'mas tree outside the store. I decided to compose a shot here as my camera was equipped with the Meyer Optik Trioplan, which is famous for its bubble bokeh. It was fun using this lens. My wife likes this lens too as it smoothens her skin.
Lens: Meyer Optik Gorlitz Trioplan 100mm F2.8 II
Shopping at a unique vintage houseware and kitchenware store. I bought two aprons with matching dish towels and pot holders! I just loved this retro kitchen in pinks they had set up. If I had this kitchen at home I would spend so much time in it, aproned cooking, roasting, and baking all sorts of goodies as I am a good homemaker ! I also love wearing my cute pink & black polka dot mini skirt out and about !
One of my latest finds at the local thrift -pretty turquoise & white cookie canister. I'm really starting to love retro plastic kitchenware.
By James Ballance
It's not uncommon to wonder what a place was like before it became what it is now. What did our houses or homes, or places of work, look like a century or two ago? This kind of history is deeply personal: having acknowledged our own attachments to a place, we start to wonder who else might have thought that same place dear to them, either in the recent past or the more distant.
Anyone walking through the doors of Kitcheners, the Cheltenham kitchenware shop, will see that there are more particular reasons to wonder what the shop has been. The internal architecture is particularly unusual in two respects. On the one hand, facing customers who walk in the front door, about two-thirds of the way across the main shop floor, is an ornately carved lateral wooden beam, which acts as the support for a clock-face. On the other hand, there is a cash desk, on the left-hand side of the shop, which is demarcated by wooden half-walls and vertical beams, creating a sort of enclosed, private space. Who built these peculiar features, and what was their purpose?
It is hard to tell with any certainty, of course, where these structures originated, or for what usage; but it is at least possible to give a relatively complete account of when the premises—No 4, Queen's Circus—were first built, and what they have been used for since then. This brief history will trace the development of the place into its modern form, and offer a few, highly speculative suggestions as to how it came to possess its internal features.
Cheltenham's transformation from a relatively poor backwater town to a thriving spa centre is well-documented. In 1800, J Shenton's Cheltenham directory wrote: “[t]his town has been greatly enlarged and improved within these few years by the addition of many elegant and commodious new buildings erected in the principal street…” Although quite complimentary, the directory paints a picture of a small town, whose “chief dependence…is on [its] lodgings”, and which flourishes only in the summer months. Only one church is mentioned, and from the description of the town there seemed to be almost no buildings worth mentioning south of what is now the High Street. This corresponds with maps of 1804 and 1827, copies of which can be found in Cheltenham public library, showing that the entire area of Montpellier, where Kitcheners is located, consisted then of little more than fields and open spaces. By 1820, Gell & Bradshaw's Gloucestershire directory could write in much more glowing terms, both of Cheltenham's reputation, which by then apparently stretched to “the British East and West Indies”, and of its architecture and town spaces. The town had clearly been the subject of rapid growth for “the houses are generally well built…occasionally, however, a few old dwellings obtrude themselves to the eye, to remind us of its former simplicity…”
The reason behind this transformation lie in the patronage of the nobility and gentry of the 18th and 19th centuries, and in particular royal patronage. The National Gazetteer wrote in 1868: “The medicinal virtues of the Cheltenham waters were accidentally discovered in 1716, and a visit from King George III, who was directed by his physicians to try the waters, in 1788, established their reputation and brought visitors from all parts of the world.” The 1820 Gloucestershire directory similarly claims that the King visited in 1788. (Whether George III did in fact visit the town might be questioned: Shenton's 1800 Directory describes a Royal visit of 1788, but mentions only that the Princesses Augusta and Elizabeth took up residence locally; and also that the Duke of York visited the two Princesses during their stay. The account makes no mention of a visit by George III. Surely, having named these three important members of the Royal Family, this early publication would also have included a reference to a visit by the King himself, if this had taken place?)
I have no idea what this basic piece of 1940s aluminium kitchenware is called – but throughout my childhood in the 1950s I remember my mother using it for squeezing excess water from cooked cabbage and spinach. It’s not a colander, it’s not a sieve… so what’s the correct name?
Whatever it may be, today it still occasionally performs the same function it was designed for, although this time I’m doing the spinach, not my mum. Well, it's the memories as much as the practicalities, isn't it?
As you can see, it’s fairly primitive; the handle is held to the ‘saucer’ by two pairs of rivets. It bears the legend ‘Long Life British made’ in capital letters, and between the first two words is a parrot (see below). And that’s all I can tell you about it. I you’ve any ideas, I’d love to know!
WEEK 33 – Carrollton, GA, Target (IV)
Somewhere in the general area of the kitchenware and home goods departments – I think at one of the little cut-through areas between them, as a matter of fact – I spotted another one of these classic Target handbasket corrals, except unlike the one I showed you previously, this one actually shows an icon of a Target handbasket. Both are neat in their own right, but obviously I think I lean towards liking this one better. Which one do y’all prefer?
(c) 2021 Retail Retell
These places are public so these photos are too, but just as I tell where they came from, I'd appreciate if you'd say who :)
Traded!
I realized after buying this that I already have the 472, and I in fact need the 471 in this pattern.
Picked this up from my favorite antique store, This n That.
I do not really polish this copper kettle as such other than the occasional run over with half a lemon which brings back some of the pink gleam as you see here.
The kettle has sat on that small side plate of the stove for over a year and has never boiled dry.
We've just landed in the kitchen, one of the upper deck galley's of the British Airways A380, where the magic happens, keeping everyone fed & watered.
British Airways Airbus A380 G-XLEF operating the daily BA 462 from London Heathrow to Madrid @ 15.15 hrs.
British Airways have been begun operating their A380's again since grounding during the Covid-19 pandemic, using them on daily trips to Madrid & Frankfurt, a real treat for enthusiasts during November/ December 2021.
Special thanks to Sophie, Marie & Philip, BA cabin crew for taking great care of me that day, what an experience.
Great to see the BA A380 back again #WelcomeBack