Thread Number: 41943
What Was YOUR First Dishwasher |
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Post# 617959   8/17/2012 at 20:14 (4,241 days old) by jakeseacrest (Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Post# 617968 , Reply# 1   8/17/2012 at 20:33 (4,241 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 617969 , Reply# 2   8/17/2012 at 20:33 (4,241 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 617972 , Reply# 4   8/17/2012 at 20:34 (4,241 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 617973 , Reply# 5   8/17/2012 at 20:34 (4,241 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 617974 , Reply# 6   8/17/2012 at 20:35 (4,241 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 617975 , Reply# 7   8/17/2012 at 20:36 (4,241 days old) by peteski50 (New York)   |   | |
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Post# 617976 , Reply# 8   8/17/2012 at 20:36 (4,241 days old) by qsd-dan (West)   |   | |
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Post# 617984 , Reply# 12   8/17/2012 at 20:59 (4,241 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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The 1961 Waste King that's had owners manual & sales literature available for download 1968 Waste King 1974 Rotorack model just under the LK Then dishwashers in college: 1965 to 1967 BOL Hotpoint--inside looked just like the one above 1967 Westinghouse with normal & rinse & hold buttons brand new BOL 1974 GE--same machine in my apartments after graduating and getting on my own 1980 Kenmore 1985 Tappan (sourced by GE, great cleaner) 1984 MOL Hotpoint 1987 GE GSD1200 2007 next to TOL Kenmore Elite Tall Tub |
Post# 617991 , Reply# 14   8/17/2012 at 21:50 (4,241 days old) by cehalstead (Charleston, WV)   |   | |
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Ours was a 1952 HotPoint Electric Sink. We bought the house in 1962, and the dishwasher was used until 1973. There have been several others, but that is not the topic of this thread, so I won't comment..... |
Post# 618013 , Reply# 15   8/17/2012 at 23:44 (4,241 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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My parents were dyed in the wool, card-carrying Wards aficionados. Their first dishwasher, and subsequently my sister's first dishwasher and then my first dishwasher, was an absolute BOL 1970 Wardgidaire single cycle portable top loader.
I can't find a picture of one, but located this shot of Mike's (dishwashercrazy) Frigidaire of similar vintage. Our Signature was even more spartan, without a speck of chrome. Just an on/off knob that doubled as the lid lock & (push to) release, and a cheap timer dial (not even a knob) that popped out at the end of the cycle and was pushed in to start a new one. |
Post# 618045 , Reply# 16   8/18/2012 at 02:59 (4,241 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 618058 , Reply# 18   8/18/2012 at 07:49 (4,240 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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The first dishwasher I bought went into the family home (where I was living) a few months after my mom's passing---so, late 1984 or very early '85. It was a TOL Kitchen Aid with the rapid-advance timer. It stayed with the house when I sold it two years later. Loved that it heated the water before the 1st wash began. Noisy bugger by today's standards, but quieter than the rusted-out 1974 Lady Kenmore it replaced.
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Post# 618124 , Reply# 20   8/18/2012 at 16:28 (4,240 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)   |   | |
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was a ~1962 Frigidaire MOL model liberated off the back loading dock at Luskin's Joppa Road (Baltimore) store around 11 PM on a summer evening in 1971. A "crime of opportunity" if you will, although it was a take-out machine destined for the scrap yard no doubt... we'd cruise through unguarded back docks on a regular basis looking for likely "victims", usually GE Filter Flows destined for my friend Tom's place for parts. After fixing a stuck drain solenoid it was hooked to a kitchen sink via a auto heater hose home-brew poratble conversion of a built-in, and used free standing with no top or sides for 2 years. Love to find another '60s Frigidaire!!!
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Post# 618239 , Reply# 22   8/19/2012 at 00:14 (4,240 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)   |   | |
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BOL builders model Hotpoint in an apartment house.High rise building in DC area.Building engineer replaced the one in my apartment becuase it leaked with a new one.For my first house-another Hotpoint. |
Post# 618281 , Reply# 23   8/19/2012 at 03:59 (4,240 days old) by mark_wpduet (Lexington KY)   |   | |
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Seeing the inside of that Hotpoint portable make me think of a really dumb question:
That inner tub material and color - the blue speckled stuff I always thought looked so cool and almost all dishwashers seemed to have that kind of interior to some extent! Why? I don't know. But now, all the non-stainless interior dishwashers are just plain old white boring plastic. Was there a reason for this? Were manufacturers just trying to make the interior look "more cool"? The first dishwasher I remember having was a portable. I can't think of the name of it but it was top loading and had one silver dial on it I think and it had the name "maid" in it? Boy did it clean! |
Post# 618317 , Reply# 24   8/19/2012 at 06:52 (4,239 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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First DW...a 1950s James which we got from my great-grandmother in Tulsa, OK. White with stainless interior and racks. Smaller than the normal 24" box...would say it was probably 24" wide by 20" deep. Portable on wheels. The lid did lift up to dry. Just like the PoDs which come up, except I don't recall that it had either the 180 degree rinse or a dispenser.
Second DW...a 1968 or so Sears front-load roto-rack portable (2 buttons, aqua interior, white formica top) which we connected permanently soon thereafter next to the sink Third one: a 1959 Youngstown 30" in a house we moved in to...the one which comes up in the PoD. We kept it for all of 30 days before my mom said "out with it". It was spectacularly useless...we couldn't figure out how to load it, either. 1978 KA Imperial built-in in beeyoutiful coppertone (which my father and I had to jerryrig the build-in within the 30 inch space. Only lasted about 7 years, needed at least 1 motor replacement 1986 GE Potscrubber 1000 (had the good wash system and the turn-dial). My brother and I picked this one up at Slyman Brothers and just slung it in the back of the 1978 Accord he was driving at the time. We were amazed how lightweight it was (PermaTuf to the rescue). My mom really liked this one--it was a very good performer. |
Post# 618318 , Reply# 25   8/19/2012 at 06:54 (4,239 days old) by AquaCycle (West Yorkshire, UK)   |   | |
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Post# 618340 , Reply# 26   8/19/2012 at 10:58 (4,239 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 618477 , Reply# 28   8/19/2012 at 19:05 (4,239 days old) by Rolls_rapide (.)   |   | |
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First one that my parents ever had, was bought by me in 1987, a Zanussi DW400. The first one that was owned by myself in my own flat, was a Hoover "Optima" D820. |
Post# 618570 , Reply# 29   8/20/2012 at 07:05 (4,238 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 619037 , Reply# 31   8/21/2012 at 19:23 (4,237 days old) by peterlondon (london uk)   |   | |
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Mine was a mexican called jaun,but thats another story! |
Post# 619121 , Reply# 32   8/22/2012 at 06:16 (4,237 days old) by fido ()   |   | |
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I've not yet got my first dishwasher or tumble dryer although such machines have passed through my sheds to be sold on or broken for spares. |
Post# 619140 , Reply# 33   8/22/2012 at 08:27 (4,236 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)   |   | |
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I see we are almost the same age :)
My parents first and only dishwasher was a later version of your parent's Colston - the Jetstream 303. It was OK I suppose ..... From posting on here I believe that your Swanmaid is based on early Kitchenaid models. You know, this machine featured loads of times in magazine and yet I have never seen one crop up on ebay. Surprisingly although a few 1950s have, I can only think of one from the 1960s - ChesterMike's Hoover/Rex/Janussi Autojet. Whilst I appreciate they were not very popular you would have expected the odd Kenwood (FL not TL) to show up. My first dishwasher was a 1980 Philips 2000SL, lasted 8 years. And believe it or not my current daily driver is a Miele 646SC, not sure if it a plus or not Al |
Post# 619191 , Reply# 35   8/22/2012 at 12:10 (4,236 days old) by Docker (Cape Town, South Africa)   |   | |
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that I had from 1985 until 2006. I still think that it cleaned better than the Bosch that replaced it. |
Post# 619244 , Reply# 36   8/22/2012 at 15:27 (4,236 days old) by super32 (Blackstone Massachusetts)   |   | |
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Post# 619347 , Reply# 38   8/22/2012 at 23:44 (4,236 days old) by JoeEkaitis (Rialto, California, USA)   |   | |
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House came with the cheapest Hotpoint builder's special, replaced it with a Maytag 3-rack (call me naive) and when that one gave up the ghost, bought a Kenmore model 1389 with my final bonus from work. Kenmore's still cleaning like a champ. We let it have some me-time with a quart of white vinegar every four weeks. |
Post# 619397 , Reply# 39   8/23/2012 at 03:14 (4,236 days old) by DishwasherRules (Italy)   |   | |
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My parents' first dishwasher, which came with the kitchen furniture they bought just before getting married, was a 1974 Rex (Zanussi) Special S2-85 more or less like the one shown in the YouTube video I'm providing below my post, although ours was a higher-end machine without central feeding to the upper rack and a built-in water softener. It lasted till 1990 and was a good performer despite being as noisy as a steel mill.
My first was an AEG Oko_Favorit 80850 I bought in 2002 when moving out of my folks' place. It was the TOL model for that dishwasher range but only lasted 4 years... CLICK HERE TO GO TO DishwasherRules's LINK |
Post# 619443 , Reply# 40   8/23/2012 at 09:03 (4,235 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)   |   | |
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Post# 620734 , Reply# 41   8/27/2012 at 20:46 (4,231 days old) by mixfinder ()   |   | |
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My first dishwasher was a 1964 Frigidaire portable spin tube with a wood top. It cleaned well if loaded correctly. |
Post# 767223 , Reply# 42   7/1/2014 at 11:11 (3,558 days old) by BEHZAD (Home Appliances Lab)   |   | |
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HEY my first was AEG-TELEFUNKEN FAVORIT TS, extremely powerful and good |
Post# 767380 , Reply# 43   7/2/2014 at 06:19 (3,558 days old) by richardlxixxx (Old Westbury, New York)   |   | |
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Post# 767382 , Reply# 44   7/2/2014 at 06:22 (3,558 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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