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Post# 118022   3/27/2006 at 12:15 (6,576 days old) by lightedcontrols ()        

....well, I've got to say, that's the first time that I've ever seen a manufacturer elude to suds lock in an ad....Mark




Post# 118031 , Reply# 1   3/27/2006 at 12:51 (6,576 days old) by cybrvanr ()        

You'd never be able to get away with an ad like that today...it would be considered child porn. I never knew Norge appliances were made by Borg-Warner till I saw that on the ad. B-W makes some good stuff! They are especially known to make good vehicle transmissions! That washer looks very well designed, and easy to service.

Post# 118043 , Reply# 2   3/27/2006 at 13:27 (6,576 days old) by cvillewasherbo ()        
shocked

Wow! I'm completely shocked about the boy holding the dog. I can't believe they allowed that back then. Someone must have slipped that in at the last minute. Speaking of the washer, some of my relatives had this kind of Norge and Signature washers, but I never got to see them in action. Did they have good rollover?

Post# 118053 , Reply# 3   3/27/2006 at 13:45 (6,576 days old) by rinso (Meridian Idaho)        

I've owned both the Norge and Signature versions of this machine. The agitator action was very aggressive, being rapid and having a large arc. Oddly, the rollover was excellent on full loads with the high water level set. Small and medium loads tended to slosh back and forth violently rather than roll over. These machines had,(and needed) active lint filters, meaning water was forced through the filter pan by pump or agitator action. (burpolator)

From a motor and transmission standpoint, these were very sturdy washers. Their biggest weakpoint seems to have been their timers.

I'm guessing that the reason there are so many people (and the dog) hanging around the machine is because they haven't yet all been frightened away by the brake solenoid.


Post# 118096 , Reply# 4   3/27/2006 at 19:35 (6,576 days old) by burpalator ()        

We had this washer (or one glaringly similar) until 1969 when it (and a mismatched Hotpoint dryer of similar vintage that my dad probably bought used) was replaced with a brand new matching Kenmore 70 set. I'm not sure whether the Norge washing machine was purchased new. My parents got it sometime in '65. It was in the early years of their marriage when they was po. I vividly remember that Hotpoint dryer (I was born in '63). Appliances then weren't designed for child safety and my natural appliance curiosity compelled me to climb up on the dryer to get a better look at the controls. My mom came in the laundry room and startled me and I slipped and gashed my eyebrow on the sharp corner of the console. I was around 4 at the time and I still have the scar!

Somewhere in Mom's vast photo collection, there is a Kodak color Instamatic shot of me at about 2 and a half, standing on a chair in front of that Norge washer with my Dad's pipe in my mouth, our old black telephone receiver at one ear and a box of Dash on the counter to one side. I am going to HAVE to get a copy.


Post# 118097 , Reply# 5   3/27/2006 at 19:38 (6,576 days old) by burpalator ()        

OH MY GAWD!!! I just looked at the picture again. You know that kid holding the dog has to be the same one who grew up to pose for Sears men's underwear in '76 with his thingy hanging out the leg of his boxers!

Post# 118116 , Reply# 6   3/27/2006 at 21:00 (6,576 days old) by brettsomers ()        

can we have a scan of this catalogue, so i can know exatly what you mean, David

Post# 118117 , Reply# 7   3/27/2006 at 21:03 (6,576 days old) by cvillewasherbo ()        
Oh My Gawd

Every time a new catalog from Sears, Monkey Wards and others came in the mail, I went straight to the appliances, and then to the boy's and men's underwear.

Post# 118118 , Reply# 8   3/27/2006 at 21:19 (6,576 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Rinso, yes I totally agree about the smaller load settings simply sloshing back & forth. I just simply raised our infinite water level up a bit. The true roll over didn't happen until it was on the 3/4 high level setting. And also, how can we not forget the initial agitation period where the tub rotated until it clunked into the locked position from then on in agitation.

Post# 118119 , Reply# 9   3/27/2006 at 21:28 (6,576 days old) by timborow (Georgia)        
I agree

that we need a scan of the Sears Catalogue so we can compare the two pics. Tim

Post# 118122 , Reply# 10   3/27/2006 at 21:45 (6,576 days old) by scott55405 ()        

Interesting Bob, I didn't know Norges did that. They have that and the spin brake in common with GE.

Post# 118123 , Reply# 11   3/27/2006 at 21:52 (6,576 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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That oldest kid, next to the washer, he looks familiar too.

Other than this ad, I've never seen a norge with a filter stream that went into an agitator mounted pan (ala GE FF). All the norges of this era I ever saw had the little tray mounted at the back of the tub with the water stream pouring down into that tray.


Post# 118134 , Reply# 12   3/27/2006 at 22:58 (6,576 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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OMG, now I see what everyone is talking about.

Post# 118142 , Reply# 13   3/27/2006 at 23:21 (6,576 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        
Scandolous!!

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Sears 1975 Fall & Winter

Post# 118150 , Reply# 14   3/27/2006 at 23:41 (6,576 days old) by brettsomers ()        

tell me what im seeing, pls. is something exposed here? perhaps another more *illustrative* example?

Post# 118157 , Reply# 15   3/27/2006 at 23:58 (6,576 days old) by hoover1060 ()        
Dude...

flippin RAY CHARLES can see what everyone's talking about!

The catalog I'd heard about, the Norge ad was discussed before.

The most interesting feature of the washer is that light under the control panel. That would honestly light the tub??


Post# 118162 , Reply# 16   3/28/2006 at 00:08 (6,575 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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You have to look rather closely at the hem of the boxers on the inside left leg...

It's most likely a lighting/photo/printing phenomenon, but it is fun.


Post# 118165 , Reply# 17   3/28/2006 at 00:12 (6,575 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Here are some photos of the Signature and Her Majesty washers/dryers I've had. They are beautiful machines, but both washers had bad seals that leaked oil into the washbasket. Fairly common failure with Norge designs I've heard, it may take 15 or 20 years but someday you could open the lid to find a washload full of oil - I've seen machines with this affliction and it's not pretty!

CLICK HERE TO GO TO gansky1's LINK


Post# 118205 , Reply# 18   3/28/2006 at 05:17 (6,575 days old) by burpalator ()        

I haven't seen that picture in like 30 years! Doesn't he look at lot like David Hasselhoff?

I read somewhere not too many years ago that he sued and won a fortune from Sears over that picture. I should be so lucky! Although I don't know that I'd care for that kind of "exposure." I'm kinda modest.


Post# 118233 , Reply# 19   3/28/2006 at 07:29 (6,575 days old) by cybrvanr ()        
OMG! bare nipples

With all those bare-chested girls in that ad, I am having flashbacks to the hype over the Janet Jackson superbowl incident. That's what I thought about when I saw that ad...I didn't even notice the boy with the dog till you guys mentioned it! I guess that was an instance of "Queer eye for the Straight Guy" ;)

Post# 118248 , Reply# 20   3/28/2006 at 08:02 (6,575 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Sears stopped mailing that catalog and removed the page before resuming distribution.

Post# 118260 , Reply# 21   3/28/2006 at 09:02 (6,575 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        
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Oh, please. That doesn't look like a peepee at all! Just a little ol' swirl of leg hair, methinks.

Dirty, dirty minds!

But that Norge kid. It has to be a trick of light or a weird shadow or something.

Now that looks like a peepee!

veg



Post# 118263 , Reply# 22   3/28/2006 at 09:06 (6,575 days old) by lesto (Atlanta)        

Scandalous! Shocking! Even more indecent than an Ambercrombie and Fitch ad! LOL.

Post# 118315 , Reply# 23   3/28/2006 at 15:12 (6,575 days old) by cvillewasherbo ()        
Sears Ads

In the 70's (I think) in the Topeka Kansas newspaper was an ad for the new Lady Kenmore sewing machine "with automatic butt holer. I wouldn't have believed it except that a friend of mine in Topeka had saved the actual newspaper ad. Yup, it's true. Wish I had a copy!
Courtney


Post# 118339 , Reply# 24   3/28/2006 at 16:46 (6,575 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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In about 1990 or 91, the Phoenix, AZ newspaper had a men's underwear ad on one page and on the facing page was a big swirl of script printing. If you held the page up to the light, it looked like the underwear model had a giant sausage exploding from his shorts. It was the talk of the town for a day!

Post# 118410 , Reply# 25   3/28/2006 at 20:34 (6,575 days old) by timborow (Georgia)        

Nice pic, but I really don't think it should have caused such an uproar. Thank you for posting it for us to see. He would have really been endowed to go below those long boxers. Tim


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