{"id":8875,"date":"2009-11-29T11:23:36","date_gmt":"2009-11-29T18:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=8875"},"modified":"2009-11-29T11:23:36","modified_gmt":"2009-11-29T18:23:36","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-1950-s-ice-o-mat-ice-crusher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-1950-s-ice-o-mat-ice-crusher\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day &#8211; 1950&#8217;s Ice-O-Mat Ice Crusher"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8879\" title=\"iceomat_1307\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1307.jpg\" alt=\"iceomat_1307\" width=\"442\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1307.jpg 442w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1307-265x300.jpg 265w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 442px) 100vw, 442px\" \/>\n<p>Long before it was de rigueur for refrigerators to come equipped with automatic ice makers a contraption like this hung in almost every kitchen in the world allowing homemakers to crush fine or coarse ice without lifting a hammer, the previous method of accomplishing such a thing.<\/p>\n<p>9 1\/2&#8243; tall, this most revolutionary of kitchen appliances was made by by the Rival Corp. of Kansas City, Mo., the company that also relieved kitchen misery with their forward thinking Can-O-Mat, Juice-O-Mat, Broil-O-Mat and other O-Mats which graced the product line until production ceased in the 1960&#8217;s. Thankfully I still have this one to remind me of my excellent past ice experiences. It&#8217;s been in full use this Thanksgiving weekend as many drinks preceded the bird and it&#8217;s leftover flock.<\/p>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8887\" title=\"iceomat_1313\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1313.jpg\" alt=\"iceomat_1313\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1313.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1313-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8881\" title=\"iceomat_1310\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1310.jpg\" alt=\"iceomat_1310\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1310.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1310-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8883\" title=\"iceomat_1311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1311.jpg\" alt=\"iceomat_1311\" width=\"338\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1311.jpg 338w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1311-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8885\" title=\"iceomat_1312\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1312.jpg\" alt=\"iceomat_1312\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1312.jpg 450w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/iceomat_1312-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long before it was de rigueur for refrigerators to come equipped with automatic ice makers a contraption like this hung in almost every kitchen in the world allowing homemakers to crush fine or coarse ice without lifting a hammer, the previous method of accomplishing such a thing. 9 1\/2&#8243; tall, this most revolutionary of kitchen &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-1950-s-ice-o-mat-ice-crusher\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[317,385,191,87,193],"tags":[61,805,3232,3245,807],"class_list":["post-8875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-bar-accessory","category-drink","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-allee-willis","tag-ice-o-mat","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-rival-ice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}