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Post# 935426   4/30/2017 at 05:42 (2,525 days old) by brucelucenta ()        

This advertisement appears to be from the very late 40's or early 50's. I cannot truly say whether I have ever seen a Crosley Dishwasher or for that matter, a Crosley appliance from that era, but it looks to be much like all the other impeller type dishwashers of the same era. The built in sink with dishwasher was a common set up back then. I have seen that in several older homes from the 40's and 50's. I think most dishwasher manufacturers made them. Dishwashers started catching on in the 50's, but were not in most households until much later. Automatic clothes washers caught on much more quickly.




Post# 935438 , Reply# 1   4/30/2017 at 06:38 (2,525 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        

Bruce, I think the dishwashers caught on slowly because people in those days either had plenty of children to do them, or they had a "girl" that they paid to do housework.

My folks had a "goil". My best friend had a long-suffering younger sister.
When my folks finally got them,along with a major kitchen re-model in 1956 or so, they were KitchenAids. They never strayed away from them. From then on the ONLY dishwashers they ever had were Kitchenaids. My friend's sister had to wait until she had her own home to get one in the early-seventies----a box-top Frigidaire Portable. She was delighted!


Post# 935442 , Reply# 2   4/30/2017 at 06:54 (2,525 days old) by brucelucenta ()        

I'm sure you are right and probably another reason is because most dishwashers of that era were just sanitizers of dishes and pots and pans. The impeller machines really didn't do a great job scrubbing or cleaning the dishes like dishwashers with spray arms. They were good for de greasing the dishes and making them and the glasses shine, but little else. I know in about 1959 or 1960 my family moved into our first house that had a GE draw type dishwasher with the bowtie impeller and my mother always rinsed the dishes and basically washed them before loading it. She never put pots and pans in it at all. It wasn't really loader friendly. Kichenaid really had it over all other machines of that era.

Post# 935462 , Reply# 3   4/30/2017 at 09:49 (2,524 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Maybe your mother did not trust a dishwasher; her loss. We had a GE bow tie impeller machine. Cast iron skillets were the only cookware that did not go in and, unlike the KA, large pans could go in the lower rack. I remember the drain after the first pre-rinse after a spaghetti dinner and it was a spectacular red with bits of lettuce from the salad and little bits of pasta. It was neat when we had company and when the meal was over, first time female guests said that they wanted to help mom with the dishes. She would tell them that there was nothing to help do and then she would show them her dishwasher. They would then want to know if the dishes had to be washed or maybe rinsed before going into the machine and she would tell them that she just got rid of things like potato skins then loaded the dishes. Mom was responsible for many of her friends who did not already have a dishwasher buying a GE. Unlike earlier dishwashers, the GE had a disposer-type pump, not the little drain pump with a cup-like strainer to trap food particles and keep them in the machine. KitchenAid did a similar thing with a larger filter but it did a bit of self cleaning when the drain valve opened and, by its design, tended to keep larger particles from recirculating.

 

How many people have found the Crosley dishwasher advertising plate with the question "How about you doing the dishes tonight or how about buying me a CROSLEY automatic dishwasher?" It has 22 K gold border. They turn up in flea market settings and on eBay.


Post# 935485 , Reply# 4   4/30/2017 at 11:53 (2,524 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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I know I must sound like a broken record but I think impeller machines can do a fine job of dishwashing.  GE really did 'get it right' with their late 50s dishwahers.  Here's some photographic evidence (yes that was one load...a Bob Load if I do say so myself! )


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Post# 935531 , Reply# 5   4/30/2017 at 17:26 (2,524 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        

It is only in the last twenty years or so that I have paid much attention to dishwashers. When I was young I hardly paid them any mind at all. I learned to load my parents machines in the 1960's and those had a bottom spray. No matter how heavily loaded they were they always did a great job.

Relatives had some impeller machines. Some in Miami had a roll out Westinghouse I think was mid fifties. Another had a Hotpoint. A Youngstown Kitchens machine had the first revolving upper rack I remember. I don't recall using a GE back in the day. I do remember when we all pre rinsed everything before we loaded it to help reduce the tiny bits of residue. Then there were the ones in different old apartments, including numerous Frigidaire machines spray tube to sprayer. I was not impressed with the spray tub machine however the spray arm type did a good job. At one time I had an Imperial with the little sprayer thingy on one arm.

The things I remember most is the KitchenAid machines dried things very well and did not leave bits of food residue on the bottoms of cups and glasses on the upper rack.
I also recall having the best results using Dishwasher All or Calgonite detergents.
The All was very good with the hard water in Florida.



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