Thread Number: 57077
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
East German WM 66 Washer and Communist-era Consumer Products |
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Post# 793703   11/13/2014 at 16:25 (3,422 days old) by joe_in_philly (Philadelphia, PA, USA)   |   | |
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Made in DDR: When Communism Met Consumerism
In East Germany, engineers and designers proved that necessity is the mother of invention. Interesting read. CLICK HERE TO GO TO joe_in_philly's LINK
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Post# 793739 , Reply# 1   11/13/2014 at 19:38 (3,422 days old) by hydralique (Los Angeles)   |   | |
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Nifty article, thanks for the link. |
Post# 793761 , Reply# 2   11/13/2014 at 21:33 (3,422 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Great link. I visited the DDR museum mentioned in the link and was absolutely fascinated...I expected to be in and out in 45 minutes and 2 hours later wasn't done. The museum has grown considerably (I was there about 15 years ago) and has a cool website as well. If you're in Berlin it is WELL worth a visit. The last display which really hit home for me was a simple bankbook from the East German Bundesbank showing someone diligently saving each week/month, then at unification the amount of Ostmarks was cut in half to be Deutschemarks. Pretty amazing.
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Post# 793787 , Reply# 3   11/14/2014 at 04:20 (3,422 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Post# 793798 , Reply# 4   11/14/2014 at 07:15 (3,422 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 793980 , Reply# 5   11/15/2014 at 06:05 (3,421 days old) by gizmo (Victoria, Australia)   |   | |
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interesting! Did the WM66 spin too, or just wash? Any chance of an inside photo? thanks. |
Post# 793981 , Reply# 6   11/15/2014 at 06:14 (3,421 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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