Coffee and Toast

This past weekend I attended a rummage sale at a local church, St. John's Evangelical in Mehlville, Missouri.  Rummage sales seem the last bastion of bargains.  Unfortunately, their primary way of advertising is by signs in front of the church, so I rarely know of them.  I just happened to be driving the route past this church last week and saw the sign.

It's become an obsession with my daughter to find any coffee pots or toasters before I do, and I have to admit she's pretty good.  Although this time, I found the coffee pot, and she found the toaster.  Both were $1 each.

This time it's a  1960s Toastswell model 148 4-slot toaster in chrome with a fantastic space/atomic design on the side.

I have the 2-slot version of this toaster as well with the same design, but it has a blue, translucent sticker over the design:

  

I'm not sure if this one is missing that or just didn't have the sticker originally.

The downside of this toaster, compared to the Mary Proctor 4-slotter I picked up recently, is there's only one plunger, so you're burning all 4 slots regardless of how much toast you're making.

But I have to say, it toasts well and makes swell toast.

Coincidentally, like the toaster, the coffee pot I found, a Farberware Automatic Percolator model 108 is a larger version of the model 104 which I also picked up this past year.  I'm guessing the 8 vs 4 on the last number of the model reflects the number of cups it makes.

I couldn't find an exact date, but I'm guessing this percolator dates to the 1930s.  The handle is painted wood.

It makes very good coffee surprisingly fast. In fact, it's faster than most of my "newer" percolators.

As much as I write about coffee and toast, I got to wondering if there were any songs about the combo; and of course there is, and it's surprisingly catchy.  By English band James, "Coffee & Toast".

Thanks for stopping by.  And if by chance you come by my house, I'll make some coffee and some toast.