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Post# 206592   4/26/2007 at 22:03 (6,181 days old) by jeb (Mansfield Ohiio)        

Has anyone every seen one of these? The advertisment is from 1955.




Post# 206600 , Reply# 1   4/26/2007 at 22:21 (6,181 days old) by pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI)        

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Almost looks like a 1955 Frigidaire...

Post# 206608 , Reply# 2   4/26/2007 at 22:35 (6,181 days old) by scott55405 ()        

Yes, esp. the knob makes it look very Frigidaire. But I'm betting its a Beam derivative. There is another one called "One Minute". I think these were old wringer washer brands that didn't stick around too much longer after automatics came in vogue.

Post# 206610 , Reply# 3   4/26/2007 at 22:43 (6,181 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
Find It!

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It would make a wonderful find.
Peter


Post# 206611 , Reply# 4   4/26/2007 at 22:43 (6,181 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Perhaps one of the Iowa guys will know for sure, but I think Laundry Queen and One Minute were Iowa-based companies. I've seen more than a handful of One Minute wringer washers. I would also venture to guess that there was a very similar Coronado branded washer. All of their early washers were straight from the Beam factory too, like Hotpoint, Speed Queen, etc.


Post# 206613 , Reply# 5   4/26/2007 at 22:45 (6,181 days old) by pturo (Syracuse, New York)        

What is interesting is that in all other co-0p ads with Tide they talk extensively about the washer features too, but this one talks about only Tide, nothing about the washer Maybe it was a strategic adv. plant by Tide to get other real manufacurers to put Tide in thier Machines and create the famous pairing. I can find no references to a machine called Laundry Queen. Maybe they were trying to court Speed Queen into a Co-op ad?

Post# 206614 , Reply# 6   4/26/2007 at 22:46 (6,181 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        
1955

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Look what I found lurking in the recesses of My Documents.

Post# 206617 , Reply# 7   4/26/2007 at 22:53 (6,181 days old) by partscounterman (Cortez, Colorado)        

I wish the baby and the gramma would MOVE the box of Tide so we can see the agitators!

Post# 206618 , Reply# 8   4/26/2007 at 22:57 (6,181 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
MOVE the box of Tide

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I wish I could see everything the interior and the control panel. For that matter I want to take it out for a Spin.
Peter


Post# 206626 , Reply# 9   4/26/2007 at 23:27 (6,181 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        
It;s OK ladies, THIS is the one you want.

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Interesting that there is a man in each ad, as if some kind of authority figure.

Post# 206645 , Reply# 10   4/27/2007 at 00:01 (6,181 days old) by golittlesport (California)        

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The Coronado has "magic spin!"

Post# 206684 , Reply# 11   4/27/2007 at 08:14 (6,180 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)        

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The plant idea is interesting, also it could be a simple mistake. It looks awfully cheesy (like a paste-up job) and the hinge isn't the same as the Coronado.

Maybe, this was a mock-up used for approvals, the Speed Queen co-op contract called for a placement, the product manager called for "that queen" advertisement, and presto...Speed Queen became Laundry Queen.

What publication was this in?


Post# 206688 , Reply# 12   4/27/2007 at 08:46 (6,180 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)        
Jeb you didn't get the whole ad in the scan....

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Guys,
If you look at the bottom of the Laundry Queen ad you can see that there is some copy that didn't make it into the scan. I bet that is the blurb telling about the features of the Laundry Queen since I have never seen one of this style Tide COmmercial that did not include a plug for the manufactures washer pictured in the ad.. PAT COFFEY


Post# 206701 , Reply# 13   4/27/2007 at 10:13 (6,180 days old) by decodriveboy (FL, US)        

Why, all of us are laundry queens!

Post# 206702 , Reply# 14   4/27/2007 at 10:25 (6,180 days old) by manoravenue ()        
Queen of the House

"Laundry Queen" reminds me of the woman who put out that clever record in reply to Roger Miller's hit song, KING OF THE ROAD, where she turned the same melody into QUEEN OF THE HOUSE, complaining about doing nothing but housework all the live-long day.

Post# 206706 , Reply# 15   4/27/2007 at 10:55 (6,180 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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I had that exact Coronado washer once, that is where I got my "Big Red" agitator from that I use in the Speed Queen at times.

Post# 206764 , Reply# 16   4/27/2007 at 16:11 (6,180 days old) by jeb (Mansfield Ohiio)        
Laundry Queen

I rescanned the picture. It is from a Ladies Home Journal, May 1955. The magazine is oversized and hard to scan. (I'm not very computer savy either).Oh and to Decodriveboy I knew that one would be comeing from someone.

Post# 206792 , Reply# 17   4/27/2007 at 18:24 (6,180 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago)        
HYDRO-POISE

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HYDRO-POISE sounds like another name for DEPENDS undergarments.
..."YOU TOO will feel dry MIRACLE-QUICK when you wear
HYDRO-POISE undergarments. "


Post# 206796 , Reply# 18   4/27/2007 at 18:31 (6,180 days old) by decodriveboy (FL, US)        
Jeb

hehehe I'm suprised no one beat me to it!

Post# 206841 , Reply# 19   4/27/2007 at 22:51 (6,180 days old) by pturo (Syracuse, New York)        

The woman's hair in the picture is a disaster, and grandma's dress in previous post looks like a used nautical patchwork bedspread in the steerage comparment of the Titanic. What a horrible ad. We hope the Tide washes them all away.

Post# 206855 , Reply# 20   4/28/2007 at 01:59 (6,179 days old) by golittlesport (California)        

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How about that little baby lifting a five-pound box of Tide out of the washer with one hand!

Post# 206952 , Reply# 21   4/28/2007 at 12:41 (6,179 days old) by exploder3211 ()        

ROFLMAO... Yes most of us here are Laundry Queens, I think Grams needs to see Stacy and Clinton.. LoL.. She looks like some curtins i threw out recently..

I would love to find a bare bones thing like this at some point in time..


Post# 206973 , Reply# 22   4/28/2007 at 15:59 (6,179 days old) by stainfighter (Columbia, SC)        
give her a break!... :-)

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I mean, c'mon, Betty's got "Bam Bam" in her arms there holding a 5 lb. box of detergent. Plus she's got her makeup on...says a lot for a mother with an active (apparently strong ;-) ) child


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