Friday Flashback

May I suggest an asbestos shroud?

Wait—maybe I'm being too quick to judge this 1966 ugly duckling of an appliance. It does sport some redeeming functional features. The eye-level controls, for one; they're easier to reach than many of today's back-panel designs. And the warming shelf would prove quite handy, I'm sure. But that color, those coils and the alarmingly flimsy 'wood' handle: the Gallery range lays an aesthetic goose-egg.