Melmac

Most popular back in the 1950s and '60s, plastic melamine dinnerware, known as Melmac, took the place of paper plates at backyard barbecues and picnics in the park.

Postbulletin.com Local News 2010

BELOW: Russel Wright's "Residential" line was the first successful Melmac plastic dinnerware.

Star Trek and Sixties Design, #19: Easier Living Fresca 2010

Sadly, the old Melmac daily ware my folks'd had since before my '57 birth, was a pallid, sickening, vaguely beige-ish grey that made anything upon it look unappealing.

Star Trek and Sixties Design, #19: Easier Living Fresca 2010

BELOW: Russel Wright's "Residential" line was the first successful Melmac plastic dinnerware.

Archive 2010-02-01 Fresca 2010

We got burned pretty bad Alf's autobiography "From Melmac to You" back in 1986.

Kevin Smokler: The Shelf Talker: Hip-Hop, Watchmen and New Zealand 2009

Could He have moved on to a new plaything, say the planet of Ork or Melmac, and has tossed aside our 'Big Blue Marble'?

Archive 2009-03-22 Toby O'B 2009

Still, cool, blue as a sea of Melmac, and completely out of touch.

the pool, parc laurier Lemon Hound 2008

Still, cool, blue as a sea of Melmac, and completely out of touch.

Archive 2008-08-01 Lemon Hound 2008

Malamine or Melmac dishes are made from plastic with recycle number 7 which contains Bisphenol-A or BPA, a hormonally active chemical in this plastic Health Canada, the Canadian equivilant to the FDA, has formally designated it as a dangerous substance.

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I turned over one of the plates and read the name on the bottom: Melmac.

The House on the Gulf Margaret Peterson Haddix 2004