These are the cabinets under the kitchen sink in my parents’ old home in Kahala. The house, built in 1941, hasn’t been ungraded much if at all over the years apart from necessary repairs. The kitchen is virtually unchanged from the day they moved in.
So why were the slots cut in the doors of this particular cabinet?
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Moisture ventilation – sinks always leaked. ??
My grandmother had a cabinet that had screening on the bottom, which vented to the cellar. There she kept butter and other items that needed a cool area.
Yup, ventilation. I guess they expected it to always be a little damp under a sink.
And my house, built in 1947, also has a cooler cabinet with screen top and bottom and slatted shelves. It is supposed to pull cool air from under the house and vent it to the attic. The proverbial cool, dry place for storing food which does not require refrigeration.
Our house had (we just remodeled, yay!) a wooden-mesh door in the space next to the one under the sink, where the garbage bin was kept. Same idea, I suppose — let the odors vent a little so they don’t build up.
In Hollywood – that was also where one would keep onions and potatoes.(in an efficiency apartment)….so ventilation