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Thread Number: 41914
Is that a Hotpoint Dryer |
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Post# 617474 8/16/2012 at 07:40 (4,264 days old) by Jetcone  (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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like the one in the recent brochure on automatice?
CLICK HERE TO GO TO Jetcone's LINK on Westernmass Craigslist | ||
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Post# 617478 , Reply# 1 8/16/2012 at 07:53 (4,264 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 617479 , Reply# 2 8/16/2012 at 07:59 (4,264 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Brain's as rusty as the dryers. Quite an assortment. | ||
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Post# 617490 , Reply# 3 8/16/2012 at 09:09 (4,264 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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1960s Hotpoint Gas Dryer | ||
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Post# 617501 , Reply# 4 8/16/2012 at 09:56 (4,264 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio) |
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for the archives | ||
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Post# 617503 , Reply# 5 8/16/2012 at 10:04 (4,264 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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A rare bird. Yeah, that's a 1966 Silhouette Gas Dryer. Pure Taylor Avenue Chicago. I would have charged up there had it been a washing machine. Nicely and cleverly designed control panels. The Hotpoint girls certainly weren't color-shy. The one pictured below belongs, I think, to TrainGuy.
My Aunt had a lower price model that did their laundry for about 11 years before it shed the bit. They replaced it with a Whirlpool Gas dryer that they liked a lot better (same niggardly-sized door and opening though).. The washer, sadly, only lasted 9 years and, it too, was replaced by a Whirlpool that they liked better.
One of the best things about GE dryers was they had large doors and openings from very early on and unlike Searpools, they positioned them high on the cabinet so you didn't have to bend down too much to see what was left in the drum. The drum light was in the right place too, aimed at the load, not your eyes. En Garde! Monsieur Le Fevre!!!! 
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Post# 617934 , Reply# 6 8/17/2012 at 17:41 (4,262 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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Well I just learned something | ||
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Post# 617971 , Reply# 7 8/17/2012 at 20:34 (4,262 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago) |
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Agreed
That Hotpoint dryer is indeed a Silhouette and indeed came from Taylor Street.
Pops picked one off the line in 1968 and it came home in a truck. By then the Silhouette name had been dropped off but he still referred to it as "Silhouette". The pretty colors were gone; replaced with brown and bronze tones. BTW I have a Silhouette 16mm film to play. If someone has a Kodak Pageant or FILM-O-Sound I'll bring it along. It's a comedy believe it or not... | ||
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