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Post# 73913 7/17/2005 at 00:04 (6,857 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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YELLOW KENMORE DRYER RETRO MID CENTURY MODERN *MINT* Launderess CLICK HERE TO GO TO Launderess's LINK on eBay | ||
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Post# 73938 , Reply# 1 7/17/2005 at 07:26 (6,857 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY) |
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| Post# 73939 , Reply# 2 7/17/2005 at 07:29 (6,857 days old) by kenmore1978 () | ||
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lint bag A short-lived system that KM used (don't know if WP used the system, too) where the lint was collected in a bag like a vacuum cleaner and thrown away when full | ||
| Post# 73944 , Reply# 3 7/17/2005 at 08:16 (6,857 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN) | ||
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Where's the washer? Ohhhhhh... I'd like to see the LK washer that goes with it. The rare all-pushbutton Lady. I like it. | ||
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Post# 73984 , Reply# 4 7/17/2005 at 14:11 (6,857 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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This is a 59 or 60 model - very nice! I saw this in white at a thrift store once, seemed to run very quiet and heated quickly. The thrift store model had a Hoover vacuum bag on the lint collector tube - obviously they ran out of bags long ago and they're NLA but the Hoover bag would do the trick. This dryer would have matched a washer one or two steps down from the Lady Kenmore - note the dial control. Don (jetaction) in Minnapolis has the washer. | ||
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Post# 73992 , Reply# 5 7/17/2005 at 14:54 (6,857 days old) by PeteK (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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Is it really that old?  | ||
| Post# 73993 , Reply# 6 7/17/2005 at 15:04 (6,857 days old) by lavamat_jon (UK) | ||
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Mmmmm... Loving that Sunny Yellow!! The lint bag is just one example of all the great innovations that came about in appliances back then. Jon :-) | ||
| Post# 73994 , Reply# 7 7/17/2005 at 15:09 (6,857 days old) by fixerman () | ||
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It is difinetly late 50's or Very early 60's. I don't think the "buttons" do anything. I think they are there just to match the Washer that had the auto advance. Could be wrong but this is what I remember. I'm sure someone will correct me if I am wrong. | ||
| Post# 74003 , Reply# 9 7/17/2005 at 16:30 (6,857 days old) by fixerman () | ||
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If memory serves, the "buttons" were Lettered to match the letters on the timer dial. The letters indicating a cycle, eg Wash and wear, cottons, dainties etc. you get the idea. You set the timer on the letter that matched the letter on the "buttons" | ||
| Post# 74007 , Reply# 10 7/17/2005 at 17:08 (6,856 days old) by agiflow () | ||
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squared off cabinet This looks like a 59 model, but when did KM square off their cabinets? around 61? | ||
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Post# 74012 , Reply# 11 7/17/2005 at 17:56 (6,856 days old) by fnelson487 (Palm Springs, CA) |
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That was the machine my mom had!!
I am crushed! I thought it was a Lady, but now that I think about it, it didn't say Lady Kenmore anywhere on the machine. She had the matching washer and dryer in white. The dryer was the standard lint filter (not the bag) It was deluxe in that it had the lighted panel. Two buttons on each side of the panel opened the top to give access to the light. It was a suds-saver model as well. The slide switch on the lower left-hand side of the washer was the water-level adjustment. Indeed, the cycles were selected by letter on the dial as indicated on the panel A-K (whites - hot water, colored - warm water, wash and wear, etc.) It was the squared off cabinet. Her first Kenmore automatic was a frog-eye which must have been about 1954-55 after I stuck my hand in her wringer washer at the tender age of 2-3 and my brother broke it open to let me loose. I can't believe that the frog eye only lasted about 5-6 years, although there were 7 in the family altogether. No dryer, in inclement weather, clothes were hung in the basement. The frog-eye was a suds-saver as well. I have been checking out the Sears catalogs to find out what year it was. | ||
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Post# 74088 , Reply# 13 7/18/2005 at 08:44 (6,856 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis) |
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| Post# 74092 , Reply# 14 7/18/2005 at 09:17 (6,856 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
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| Post# 74093 , Reply# 15 7/18/2005 at 09:24 (6,856 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!) | ||
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| Post# 74131 , Reply# 17 7/18/2005 at 14:40 (6,856 days old) by agiflow () | ||
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Very stately looking dryers those late fifties early sixties KM machines were. Pat | ||
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Post# 74170 , Reply# 18 7/18/2005 at 20:05 (6,855 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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