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<\/a><\/p>\nI postulate that one reason that the cabinet refrigerator never caught on was because of standardization.\u00a0 Most new homes are built to accommodate a stand-up fridge.\u00a0 Home builders would have to choose: stand-up or cabinet level?\u00a0 Whatever home builders chose is what most home buyers would go with, unless they re-modeled their kitchens.\u00a0 Standardization, while quite useful, can also kill innovation.<\/p>\n
NEW (Apr. ’10)!<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> Another example (bottom left):<\/p>\n (Both images from Vintage ads: here<\/a> and here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n ALSO NEW (Apr. ’10)! <\/strong><\/span>In the comments, ckilgore linked to a photograph<\/a> of her grandma’s kitchen… that totally had, and still has, one of these fridges! People in the comments had lots of good reasons for why it was impractical… but I still think it’s cool:<\/p>\n They engineered this, it seems perfectly reasonable (all that squatting for the crisper?), so why does it seem so bizarre! I postulate that one reason that the cabinet refrigerator never caught on was because of standardization.\u00a0 Most new homes are built to accommodate a stand-up fridge.\u00a0 Home builders would have to choose: stand-up or cabinet […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2124,290,293,23705],"class_list":["post-21044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-foodagriculture","tag-sciencetechnology","tag-social-construction","tag-vintage-stuff"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21044"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60390,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21044\/revisions\/60390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2010\/03\/2j0ytxg-1024x735.jpg\" "\\"2j0ytxg\\"")
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<\/a><\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"