Summary
In the early 1950s, one model of a Philco refrigerator featured a huge, V-shaped handle mounted dead center on the door.
No doubt meant to evoke the onset of the jet-travel age, the swept-back, chrome-plated wing of a handle was the control for something the Philco folks touted as a better mousetrap: a door that would open either to the left or right, depending on which "wing" was pulled.See the full content of this document
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Does Your Fridge Door Fall Off?
And if the door wasn't securely latched, and the next user pulled the opposite side of the handle, the door fell off.
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