Home Improvement History: For the kitchen 1930s style.
Saw this on TCM early this morning... It's a promo demonstrating "the culinary tools that women can receive as free gifts for going to the movies twelve weeks in a row." Now I know where the Chef of the Future writers got their inspiration. (The apple corer is a little after 9:30. BTW, my dad's sister had a melon baller. Used it to make fruit salad served in the half shell of a watermelon.)