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Kitchen Aid DW as seen in the Summer/Fall 1967 New Homes Guide
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Post# 840067   9/7/2015 at 16:14 (3,146 days old) by 1952Crestwood ()        






Post# 840079 , Reply# 1   9/7/2015 at 17:29 (3,146 days old) by stevet (West Melbourne, FL)        
Thanks for the memories!

That was a really early model KDS-15, with the screwed together wash arm hub. The one we had was the next series up and had the hub that was glued together. I have to laugh as I inspected every inch of the machine when it came out of the box and then after it was installed, I tore it apart just to see how it all worked. We had that machine for many years and sold it to a friend when I came home with a KDSS-16 in the early 80's with the stainless tub. Sometimes I still wish I had those two machines. They would probably still be running today if I had them.


Post# 840088 , Reply# 2   9/7/2015 at 18:03 (3,146 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        

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You gotta love all the specifics put into that ad.  I liked the one about notches and cut outs in the racks , which I remember GE did that I think for years so the detergent got flushed out of the dispenser. I wanted my Mom to get that machine sooooo bad, but she was happy with her GE Princess. And back then, it worked so why replace anything if it worked ??? Right ? And also my parents owned a restaurant so a Hobart for the Home ???  Gawd !!! a neighbor a few doors down had a Custom from that year. I would think of just about anything to get in their kitchen to hear that thing ROAR as it filled up. Nothing like the sound of a KA pump going through the Prime segment.


Post# 840175 , Reply# 3   9/8/2015 at 06:45 (3,145 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

I was so attuned to the sounds of our 15 that there were rock songs on the radio that I discovered had some similar rhythms, like the surging as the machine filled and the pump was gulping water and air, making those little pulsating fountains above the jets in the 4 way HydroSweep, if you held the door safety switch and watched the start of the fill. Woe to anyone who released the switch and then pushed it in again when the pump had all water and not air and water over the intake! You got a power facial, and shampoo along with a partial ceiling and floor washing. One place I could hear it was in the Doors Light My Fire as the music builds in the lead up to the opening vocal passage. The smooth steady sound of the circulation could be heard in Scott McKenzie's If You're Going to San Francisco and near the end of the song, there is a passage where he sings, "If You're going to San Francisco" without all of the instruments behind him that sounds like after the drain valve opened when the sump is empty and it's just the hum of the motor.

The 15, installed in 1966, was still in the house and still working when we sold it around 2004 or so.



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