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Post# 489559 1/17/2011 at 12:24 (4,840 days old) by pulltostart  (Mobile, AL) |
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Post# 489560 , Reply# 1 1/17/2011 at 12:25 (4,840 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Post# 489561 , Reply# 2 1/17/2011 at 12:26 (4,840 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Post# 489562 , Reply# 3 1/17/2011 at 12:26 (4,840 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Post# 489563 , Reply# 4 1/17/2011 at 12:27 (4,840 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Post# 489564 , Reply# 5 1/17/2011 at 12:28 (4,840 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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| Post# 489580 , Reply# 6 1/17/2011 at 13:54 (4,840 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod) | ||
Fantastic | ||
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Post# 489587 , Reply# 7 1/17/2011 at 14:54 (4,840 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 489618 , Reply# 8 1/17/2011 at 16:46 (4,840 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie) |
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I do love me a good brochure. Thanks for posting it. That utility-top washer/sink is wild! Can you imagine having a sink full of dishes rattling around during an unbalanced spin? I just can't fathom having a spigot and hot/cold faucets on the control panel of my washer. Cool!
One is so taken aback by the novelty of the washer/sink that you almost don't notice the classy, suspended console on the TOL washer and dryer. High style, indeed. | ||
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Post# 489643 , Reply# 9 1/17/2011 at 17:42 (4,840 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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Sink/Washer | ||
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Post# 489644 , Reply# 10 1/17/2011 at 17:44 (4,840 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Thaks for posting Lawrence. I've also seen that utility top washer at John's. Always wondered if thre was some sort of companion dryer, now I know. One neighbor had the WA650 when they bought one of the houses down the street (hubby had a cool baby blue 57 T-bird conveertible). I honestly don't remember whether they had a dryer or not. The washer that replaced this when it died was just like our Kenmore 800. And they ended up with a RotoRack just like ours too. Another neighbor got the DA620, very basic dryer.
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Post# 489645 , Reply# 11 1/17/2011 at 17:46 (4,840 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Post# 489648 , Reply# 12 1/17/2011 at 17:58 (4,840 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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These are great scans.......do you have every year of the 1960's?........
Mom's was close to WA650W.....but only one cycle, 2 wash temps, 2 water levels.....she bought hers in 1964, when I was born, but I don't think that was its actual year.....I'm thinking she got a 63 leftover.....have never seen another one like it since | ||
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Post# 489652 , Reply# 13 1/17/2011 at 18:05 (4,840 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL) |
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I don't have the full collection. I think the others I have are 1963, 1965 and 1966 (already posted the 1968 in another thread).
I do think 1961 was GE's first year for the front-loading dishwashers, and 1962 was the last year for the rollout models (bajaespuma should know for sure). The dryer for the utility sink/washer model was designed to have a plastic-laminate countertop over it, so it could sit adjacent to cabinets/millwork and have one continuous top over the cabinet and the dryer - making it look "built-in". L | ||
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Post# 489660 , Reply# 14 1/17/2011 at 18:31 (4,840 days old) by Combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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1962 GE CATALOG
Thanks for posting this Lawrence I have never seen the specs for my GE sink top washer. I knew that they made an under-counter dryer but have never seen one of these, If someone ever finds one they want to part with I would be very interested in buying it. I also have the GE under-counter combo pictured in the catalog, Thanks again I really enjoyed seeing this.
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| Post# 489673 , Reply# 15 1/17/2011 at 19:13 (4,840 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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I would LOVE to see!! The range section! | ||
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Post# 489678 , Reply# 16 1/17/2011 at 19:33 (4,840 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Thank you very, very much! Lawrence, you're a hero! And yes, it looks like 1962 was the year of the decade that GE went back to offering a front loading built-in dishwasher with a new design. They left the SU-102 as the one pull-out model left for sale (probably to get rid of existing parts) as the year's BOL, and, coincidentally, that was the dishwasher I got from wonderful Mr. Mayer in Worcester which I still have. The two new front-load TOL dishwashers were rated #1 by Consumer Reports for that year, 1962, but they must have changed something drastic because the next year or so, those models plummeted in the ratings.
I'm going to enjoy looking at these! 
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Post# 489683 , Reply# 17 1/17/2011 at 20:05 (4,840 days old) by lovestowash (St. Petersburg, FL) |
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Such fun these are... | ||
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Post# 489696 , Reply# 18 1/17/2011 at 20:46 (4,840 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio) |
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GE Scans | ||
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Post# 489726 , Reply# 19 1/17/2011 at 22:13 (4,840 days old) by turquoisedude (.) |
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Neat! | ||
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Post# 490043 , Reply# 20 1/19/2011 at 07:57 (4,839 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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and what did I spy with my little eye? Thanks to Lawrence and his 1962 scans I have discovered that the next-to-TOL model carried over to 1962 with the fabulous "Rotary Fabric Dial"! Interestingly enough, the perverts at GE discontinued this feature on the 950 in the middle of the freakin' model year!!! A new Holy Grail for me to dream about finding in some church's basement: a 1962 Filter-Flo with a Mini-Basket (first one, in fact), a bleach dispenser, a lighted dial and control panel and a rotary fabric dial (although, Robert's blue one from 1961 is still prettier IMHO): 
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