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Well into the space age, appliances were advertised as "wifesavers" that would give women free-
dom to pursue hobbies or just kick back while dinner practically cooked itself.
The first electric home appliances are literally museum pieces today. Among the exhibits at Mani-
toba Hydro's Manitoba Electrical Museum & Education Centre at 680 Harrow St., there's an old-
time kitchen outfitted with a 1940 McClary stove, a curvy Westinghouse refrigerator and many
small appliances and devices of the day. At the time, the former Manitoba Power Company was on
a mission to bring electricity to farms across the province, and appliances were a lure.
"The exhibit is a replica of a 1940s kitchen, which is the time when electricity was first being intro-
duced to farm homes in rural Manitoba," says Janet Rak, the museum's public safety and educa-
tion coordinator.
'During the 1920s, cooking "by wire" prised to
transform kitchen drudgery into an absolute pleasure...'
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