Thread Number: 71476
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 6/29/2017 |
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Post# 945817 , Reply# 1   6/29/2017 at 05:15 (2,464 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany))   |   | |
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Imagine the amount of abuse these would get today. No way there would be any chance of remakeing something like that today... |
Post# 945828 , Reply# 3   6/29/2017 at 06:33 (2,464 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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College: A coin-op Whirlpool washer was in the laundry room on our floor in the dorm. This would have been the late '70s. I missed the GE Filter-Flo in my freshman dorm and felt it was typical that I couldn't seem to get away from Whirlpool-made belt drives, having grown up with a 1960 Kenmore.
Was surprised there was no kick-out function for unbalanced loads. I would step off the elevator and see a couple of guys staring at the cabinet-banging racket, not knowing what to do about it or why it was happening, LOL. Coin-op dry cleaning: Did Westinghouse have them? Three coin-op machines were in the local laundromat when I was growing up, but never saw them used. Didn't pay much attention to them, really. It was a Westinghouse-filled 'mat, so I wonder if the dry-cleaning machines were Westys, too? Love the 'high-class' look of the ad as part of the message Whirlpool was trying to push. Don't recall seeing anyone dressed up at a laundromat when I was a kid. |
Post# 945838 , Reply# 4   6/29/2017 at 07:32 (2,464 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Several laundromats had coin-op dry cleaners here, but don't remember al of the brands. The Norge VIllage had three that we went in to use once but I was far more fascinated with the roaring and banging top load washers than the dry cleaners. We never used the dry cleaning machines again, I don't think mom was happy with the results vs. the drop off dry cleaners. (i was in Norge heaven though!)
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Post# 945841 , Reply# 5   6/29/2017 at 07:52 (2,464 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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"The lady in aqua checking her coiffure on the left had her hair done just to come to this high class gathering place. It sort of looks like the way people used to dress to fly or to go downtown shopping before malls allowed people to just roll out of bed and go to the store. "
It is amazing if you did grow up in that time when people did get dressed to go shopping, out to dinner, or Church and what you see now in stores, restaurants, etc. I couldn't leave the house with out shining my shoes. My Dad would have a fit !!! Kiwi Paste Polish, brush them, and then buff them with a cloth until they shined like the top of the Chrysler Building. |
Post# 945851 , Reply# 6   6/29/2017 at 08:32 (2,464 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Same here, Eddie. Always dressed up to go out shopping, etc. My mom, who came here from Italy in 1946, insisted that I change out of play clothes and into a nice shirt for dinner. Always a tablecloth and linen napkins. She never left the house without getting dressed up a bit.
It was a different time. Remember having to wear a hat? I flew with my Dad for work a few times in the 1960s and we'd both wear a jacket and tie. He'd say, "People dress up when they fly so they look sharp if the plane goes down." I miss his dry English humor. I play in brass groups at churches occasionally and it's primarily the 55-and-older bracket that still get dressed up in their Sunday best. |
Post# 945854 , Reply# 7   6/29/2017 at 08:43 (2,464 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Westinghouse did, indeed, have the drycleaners. The styling was based on the model with the trapezoidal door window. |
Post# 945855 , Reply# 8   6/29/2017 at 08:50 (2,464 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Post# 945860 , Reply# 9   6/29/2017 at 10:03 (2,464 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)   |   | |
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I can't remember how old I was, fairly young I assume, but I remember going into a local "Norge Village" one time and seeing these large front load "washers" with a small window door. There was a small-ish round button next to the door and I of course pressed it. The solenoid clicked and the door unlocked. I opened the door and looked inside, but the smell was horrible! I now know that was the dry cleaning fluid "perc". At that point someone, either the attendant or one of my parents (don't remember) whisked me away from the machine and out the front door.
Here are a couple coin-op dry cleaning ads for Norge and Westinghouse. I hope these are not in the POD rotation, if so I apologize Robert, please remove them.
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