Love today's POD, this is the 1953 model. Did anyone notice it came in three models, the sink/dw combo, the cabinet model (like the one I have) and there is a third model call the "Drop in Model". I wonder exactly how you "drop-in" a top loading dishwasher into your countertop???

Robert,
That is a great ad!
I wonder why they did not make it with a round window so you could watch all of that fantastic action?
I don't remember any post on this subject of your Apex, and the heater. Where you able to fix the heater and tank that was in it?
Brent

Remember that one for sale that was installed in the corner of the kitchen - we had a picture of it on the club I think... Didn't GE have a drop-in like that in the early days too? I remember seeing something about it in one of the GE manuals, looked like a huge sink, cut a hole in the counter and pop it in!

It's good to know I wasn't imagining things; in the mid 50's I
remember going to the home of a neighbors daughter and her kitchen had an in counter unit. I don't remember if there was metal cabinet front, but it had a round window for sure. I have a fairly vivid recollection that I was intrigued by what seemed to be the impellar; it seemed quite substantial, almost as large as the bottom of the tub, looked kind of turbiney. Since I was only seven I was too timid to get too pushy about if I could see it swirl. Of course brand names weren't part of my research at that age!

early GE's and Youngstown dishwashers were available for "custom installation" in-the-counter, as opposed to dishwasher-sinks and free-standing cabinets, since they both had pop-up lids... (I gotta get a scanner......)

Frontaloadotmy, it sounds like you are rembering a cabinet model Apex Dish-a-Matic, the impeller is the largest impeller I have ever seen in a DW.

So was the impellar not prop/screw style? I vaguely remember that the racks were a kind of off white yellow putty color, but I swear the impellar looked more like a 1958 Buick Brake Drum than any thing that belonged in the bottom of a dishwasher!!

You can see the impeller in this picture album...