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Post# 221128   7/6/2007 at 20:04 (6,131 days old) by trainguy (Key West, FL)        

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Since my house is full as is my storage unit, I decided to only bring one nice piece home today. I admired this dryer when it was on eBay as it brought back a childhood memory for me.

My grandparents operated a tourist home but had one family rent a room year 'round. The husband was a coal miner and the wife a homemaker. Monday was her wash day. She had a Kenmore wringer washer but had it paired up with this dryer.





Post# 221129 , Reply# 1   7/6/2007 at 20:05 (6,131 days old) by sharples ()        
Beautiful

Congrats....I just love this dryer...

Post# 221130 , Reply# 2   7/6/2007 at 20:05 (6,131 days old) by trainguy (Key West, FL)        

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It's a 1959 Lady Kenmore dryer with a rapid advance timer and 8400 watts of drying power!

Post# 221132 , Reply# 3   7/6/2007 at 20:07 (6,131 days old) by trainguy (Key West, FL)        

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It has the lady's hose option instead of the lint bag!

Post# 221133 , Reply# 4   7/6/2007 at 20:09 (6,131 days old) by trainguy (Key West, FL)        

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And when I spotted the partially full bottle of freshener and smelled the aroma, I was taken back to 1959. All in all, the memories it brought back were priceless! What a find!

Post# 221134 , Reply# 5   7/6/2007 at 20:11 (6,131 days old) by trainguy (Key West, FL)        

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And of course, the lone sock option was on here, too.

Post# 221137 , Reply# 6   7/6/2007 at 20:26 (6,131 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Hi Rich, thats a great find. I may have a lead on the matching washer.........BTW I also have a full carton of the dispoable lint filter bags in my parts storage. I found them a while back in an old house I was doing an estate sale at and saved them hoping a dryer would surface, and now here it is. Yeah!

Post# 221140 , Reply# 7   7/6/2007 at 20:30 (6,130 days old) by powerfin64 (Yakima, Washington)        
WOW!

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what a gorgeous Dryer! She's a keeper for sure!

Rich


Post# 221142 , Reply# 8   7/6/2007 at 20:56 (6,130 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        
1959 Beauty!

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Oh Rich that is just a wonderful find. I love the 50-amp Kenmore dryers from the late 50's. These are great, fast-low temperature dryers. I use mine constantly and I love it.

Post# 221147 , Reply# 9   7/6/2007 at 21:34 (6,130 days old) by mayfan69 (Brisbane Queensland Australia)        
Nice Dryer!

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That is such a nice looking dryer Rich!
Congrats!
Leon


Post# 221151 , Reply# 10   7/6/2007 at 22:29 (6,130 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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Beautiful dryer and a technological marvel in its day. I had a LK '59 pair for about a year, but never hooked up the dryer. Mine was electric and I had only gas hookup in my warehouse apt. Hope you find the dryer's mate, too!

Post# 221173 , Reply# 11   7/7/2007 at 03:18 (6,130 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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Great save! So many appliances, so little room......

kennyGF


Post# 221174 , Reply# 12   7/7/2007 at 03:23 (6,130 days old) by washertalk ()        

(In my best 8 year old boy-who-has-an appliance fetish voice. Yes, It's the REAL me here.)

I want,
I want,
I want, ta, go, ta lowes and, order a new dryer in "Harmony House Sunshine Yellow"! or "Candy Pink" ,if they are out of the - - - Harmony House Sunshine Yellow ---ones. And get it in gas!
Not Natural gas.
Not bottled(presumably LP gas).
no, MIXED gas !!. ??
hmmm.
What, is there other uses for helium I wasn't aware of? Perhaps there was an early method of reusing methane gas from the local landfill. (stinky)
Do I dare ask what ever became of "mixed" gas?


Post# 221202 , Reply# 13   7/7/2007 at 10:57 (6,130 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Beautiful dryer, Rich. That is a such a nice feature - 50 amps of drying power!

Post# 221203 , Reply# 14   7/7/2007 at 11:56 (6,130 days old) by exploder3211 ()        

Love the lint bags.. That would great for us here, cause my husband doesn't udnerstand the concept of a lint filter

Post# 221226 , Reply# 15   7/7/2007 at 14:45 (6,130 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Congratulations Rich. I am still hoping for a nice Hamilton. That is the only Kenmore dryer ever with a porcelain drum so that makes it a treasure for another reason. The drum also makes it a lot heavier than similar KM dryers. If you do not have the 50 Amp circuit, moving a wire on the heater box will take that extra heater out of the circuit, but it really affects the speed. Remember that Consumers Report article on dryers that rated an earlier Kenmore unacceptable unless it was on the 50 Amp circuit because the timer only went up to 60 minutes and that was not enough for a cotton load? I wondered what they were using for water extraction. I guess the WP dryers had timers that went beyond 60 minutes because they did not offer the heater step up, or at least it was not mentioned.

Did the miner's wife have the gas or electric dryer? Were they living in a part of the house or in a cabin-type accommodation? Did they have children? When I think about the brutal poverty,danger and ignorance of so many miners' lives, I find a whole lot more to be grateful for.


Post# 221300 , Reply# 16   7/7/2007 at 22:11 (6,129 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)        

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Wow Rich - what a great save. 59 Kenmores are just beautiful.

Ben


Post# 221332 , Reply# 17   7/8/2007 at 08:14 (6,129 days old) by tlee618 ()        

Rich that is one beautiful dryer. Will this be one that you use often. I was amazed when I saw and used Robert's 50 amp Lady. Thatis one fantastic dryer. Congratulations and enjoy it!!

Post# 221341 , Reply# 18   7/8/2007 at 09:00 (6,129 days old) by thirtyater ()        

Beautiful!!!!!

Post# 222176 , Reply# 19   7/12/2007 at 13:04 (6,125 days old) by spats ()        

Wow! That is a beauty there Rich.

Post# 222185 , Reply# 20   7/12/2007 at 15:30 (6,125 days old) by nmaineman36 ()        

I couldnt believe that the wattage was well over 8000 watts and 37,000 btus for the gas dryer. Talk about flash drying. My Whirlpool dryer is 5400 watts and I think its plenty fast. I just couldnt imagine and I am sure you had to make sure that the vent for the dryer was short and clear. If it wasnt I think it would be barbecue time for the clothes.
The fastest dryer I had ever used was in a laundromat that had I wanna say the Hubesch dryers. The ones that used axial airflow from back to front. I put a load in and in 15 mins the load was bone dry. And I remember that after 30 seconds I could see the water that was left in the clothes turn to steam and clouded the door. Thats the closest I had ever come to seeing flash dried clothes.


Post# 222191 , Reply# 21   7/12/2007 at 16:39 (6,125 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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They needed that blast-furnace drying to keep up with the competition. 525 rpm is not a good spin for heavy cottons and denims but the higher heat output made up for it a little.


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