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Thread Number: 55464
Strange / obscure fridge files...RCA. Who knew? |
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| Post# 778614 8/22/2014 at 07:41 (3,528 days old) by funktionalart (Rison, AR) | ||
Someone here probably knew...but I sure didn't. RCA was making fridges in the 70s and 80s? At first glance, I thought it was a GE....the only giveaway was the factory label inside the door.
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| Post# 778617 , Reply# 1 8/22/2014 at 07:59 (3,528 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT) | ||
These weren't classic RCA/Whirlpools... | ||
| Post# 778619 , Reply# 2 8/22/2014 at 08:03 (3,528 days old) by funktionalart (Rison, AR) | ||
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RCA/Whirlpool.... | ||
| Post# 778627 , Reply# 3 8/22/2014 at 08:10 (3,528 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT) | ||
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It does look like GE... | ||
Post# 778632 , Reply# 4 8/22/2014 at 08:16 (3,528 days old) by ovrphil  (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Another one
If you're just looking for black....this won't be of interest:
RCA Side by side fridge great condition - $150 (frayser) CLICK HERE TO GO TO ovrphil's LINK on - memphis Craigslist | ||
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Post# 778634 , Reply# 5 8/22/2014 at 08:18 (3,528 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA) |
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| Post# 778636 , Reply# 6 8/22/2014 at 08:19 (3,528 days old) by funktionalart (Rison, AR) | ||
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Hmmmm..... | ||
| Post# 778640 , Reply# 7 8/22/2014 at 08:26 (3,528 days old) by funktionalart (Rison, AR) | ||
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Ben, thanks-- | ||
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Post# 778641 , Reply# 8 8/22/2014 at 08:27 (3,528 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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| Post# 778650 , Reply# 10 8/22/2014 at 09:03 (3,528 days old) by funktionalart (Rison, AR) | ||
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Fab! My faves next to my '63
Frigidaire Custom Imperial! Those guys knew how to put some visual punch into their products.
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| Post# 778653 , Reply# 11 8/22/2014 at 09:09 (3,528 days old) by moparguy (Virginia) | ||
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That's a beautiful Frigidaire... beautiful design, but probably my favorite design element in those is the color strip with the handles, the blue and aqua insert is just beautiful design! | ||
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Post# 778673 , Reply# 12 8/22/2014 at 12:29 (3,528 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Post# 778761 , Reply# 13 8/22/2014 at 17:54 (3,527 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions) |
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| Post# 778771 , Reply# 14 8/22/2014 at 19:38 (3,527 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
Ben:
"GE whored out the RCA name on products they should not have"
I think "whoring" is a pretty dignified word for what was going on at GE/RCA during the Jack Welch years. My dad spent most of his career with RCA's service division, and had intended to finish it there. After a few years of Welch's "initiatives," he became so disgusted he took retirement - at quite the little financial drubbing - at 62. Just couldn't stomach it any more. | ||
| Post# 778808 , Reply# 16 8/22/2014 at 21:41 (3,527 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT) | ||
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The RCA name
was clearly appended to the Whirlpool name to lend credibility, as RCA was without doubtly THE leading name in radio, TV, and essentially anything electronic in the 1930s to '60s era, advanced satallite and radio telemetry included.
Oddly they never excelled in truly high quality home audio, the one area that one might have expected. | ||
| Post# 778881 , Reply# 18 8/23/2014 at 09:19 (3,527 days old) by A440 () | ||
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I remember seeing the RCA logo into middle 2000 on GE Appliances. I never saw it on "Big Box" store appliances. I would however see it on "Mom & Pop" store GE's. I am guessing it was exclusive for the M&P stores. | ||
| Post# 779192 , Reply# 19 8/24/2014 at 21:45 (3,525 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
 In Canada, there were still some Whirlpool clone appliances that were branded RCA in the mid-seventies. But later, just like in the US, they were GE clones. There were also RCA dishwashers that were Westinghouse but I never got how that happened. My aunt had an RCA dishwasher that looked just like an early/mid seventies Whirlpool. The first picture shows the Westinghouse clone dishwasher. I still need to find a RCA-badged Whirpool clone dishwasher from the 1970s like my aunt had... | ||
| Post# 779734 , Reply# 20 8/27/2014 at 15:42 (3,522 days old) by brib68 (Central Connecticut) | ||
RCA
Waaaayyyyy back in the day, RCA had a home appliance line called Estate, which they sold off to Whirlpool in the 50s. part of the deal gave Whirlpool the rights to market their appliances as RCA-Whirlpool through the mid-60s.
In the mid-80s GE bought RCA (GE and Westinghouse had originally had ownership interest in RCA, but the DOJ broke it up in the 30s, due to anti-trust concerns). GE also used the RCA name as a second-line of appliances, either a 'discount' label or a 'control' label to give a small retailer a recognizable brand that was 'unique'--that is, not sold at Sears/Fretter/Silo/etc.--and therefore enabling a small store to not have to have a competitive product without having the customer get all the good sales attention and then go to the mall where the same model is being sold for way less with no customer service. Estate, of course, is Whirlpool's lower-end line now. And Inglis is Best Buy's 'exclusive' line from Whirlpool, the way Siemens is Best Buy's label from Bosch. | ||
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