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Article: Museum will have a touch of home; Kitchen products made locally will be focus of exhibits
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- June 29, 2008
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West Bend -- A 20th-century history of American kitchenware
manufactured in Washington County -- from the introduction of
lightweight aluminum pots and pans to the convenience of waterless
cookers, electric corn poppers, hot dog steamers and salad spinners -
- will be displayed at a new museum to open in November.
The world's first whistling tea kettle as well as the Flavo-
matic automatic coffee percolator -- with a then-innovative
thermostat that earned it a showing at the 1958 World's Fair in
Brussels, Belgium -- will be among the housewares exhibited at the
West Bend Company/Regal Ware Historic Museum, 18 E. Washington St.
Products made by the West Bend Company and Regal Ware were ...