Hotpoint Touch Command

It was the Space Age, and a lot of auto and appliance manufacturers let their engineers and designers go wild with references to rockets, high technology and the anticipation of Robbie the Robot. It was the wonderful age before the little prick bean-counters were given command and ordained the ordinary.

It's also the age, slightly before the advent of 20th century feminism, that convinced me and others that the appliance manufacturers were spending much more money and energy courting the husband(buyer) than the wife (user). I think a lot of people involved in these decisions had a mistaken idea that if you made household chore appliances "cool" wives would consider the housework less onerous. All of the women in my childhood, without exception, couldn't have cared less.

The Kirby corporation still hasn't caught on that only Amazons with extraordinary upper-body strenght find their well-made, expensive vacuum cleaners desireable. Most women I know want lightweightedness over every other feature, including suction, in a vacuum.


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Post# 668041 3/24/2013 at 09:41 (4,050 days old) by moparwash (Pittsburgh,PA )
Checkrate/Likes 1 With the discussion of the W Program Computer timer and the Hotpoint version...here is the ad for Hotpoint Touch Command that hangs in the laundry room...anyone have one or seen this machine in person?

Post# 668097 , Reply# 1 3/24/2013 at 14:51 (4,050 days old) by appnut (TX)
Checkrate/Likes My "other mother" had the dryer, she "inherited" it from her sister after the washer bit the dust and she wanted another matched set. Replaced a starburst Frog Eye.

Post# 668123 , Reply# 2 3/24/2013 at 18:12 (4,050 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago)
Checkrate/Likes *Haven't seen.* What year were these made?

Post# 668130 , Reply# 3 3/24/2013 at 18:47 (4,050 days old) by appnut (TX)
Checkrate/Likes *Years made* Ephemera has 1961 brochure.

Post# 668213 , Reply# 4 3/25/2013 at 01:54 (4,050 days old) by qualin (Canada)
Checkrate/Likes This is from my favorite era of washing machines, because the consoles were just absolutely beautiful back then. I'd say 1957 to 1962 was kind of that "Magic" era where some of the most beautiful consoles were engineered. Just kind of like how fins on cars just kept getting bigger and bigger until 1962 when they all just suddenly disappeared.. Out of all of the washer consoles, 1961 was my favorite year for consoles. Strangely enough, it also is my favorite year for Automobile Design. (That and 1966, but in 1966, Washer consoles weren't much to look at. Unless you count Frigidaire...)

Post# 668249 , Reply# 5 3/25/2013 at 08:42 (4,049 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)
Checkrate/Likes 1 *1957 -61 designs* were no doubt the peak, cars and appliances, and some of the consoles were indeed amazing. But by '61 auto design? like the 'Plymouths and Dodges? My neighbor the Dodge Sales Manager actually came up with this gem: "You ride on the inside, not on outside" because they were sooo ugly! Sales plummeted accordingly. Today they are cool becuase they are so bizarre -we've a former '61 Plymouth Belvedere owner. IMO Frigidaire had the coolest consoles, but that '61 Hoptpoint is bodacious!

Post# 668501 , Reply# 6 3/26/2013 at 12:33 (4,048 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)
Checkrate/Likes 5 It was the Space Age, and a lot of auto and appliance manufacturers let their engineers and designers go wild with references to rockets, high technology and the anticipation of Robbie the Robot. It was the wonderful age before the little prick bean-counters were given command and ordained the ordinary. It's also the age, slightly before the advent of 20th century feminism, that convinced me and others that the appliance manufacturers were spending much more money and energy courting the husband(buyer) than the wife (user). I think a lot of people involved in these decisions had a mistaken idea that if you made household chore appliances "cool" wives would consider the housework less onerous. All of the women in my childhood, without exception, couldn't have cared less. The Kirby corporation still hasn't caught on that only Amazons with extraordinary upper-body strenght find their well-made, expensive vacuum cleaners desireable. Most women I know want lightweightedness over every other feature, including suction, in a vacuum.