Thread Number: 71881
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD 7/31/2017 |
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Post# 950864 , Reply# 1   7/31/2017 at 04:28 (2,432 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Stores used "we give S&H Green Stamps" (or whatever) to attract customers. I recall only Green Stamps and Gold Bond stamps in our household. Stores of all kinds---especially, as you mentioned, Bruce, grocery stores and gas stations---gave them out. My mom had a drawer where she kept hers and it was usually my job to lick the stamps and put them in their books.
We never accumulated enough books of stamps to purchase a major appliance. Mom would look through the catalog and decide what she wanted. We'd go to the redemption center and she'd pick out a particular serving dish, a piece of Corning Ware, a small home furnishing or a toaster/coffeepot/electric knife, etc. This POD was really a blast from the past! |
Post# 950871 , Reply# 3   7/31/2017 at 05:49 (2,432 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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We also had Top Value stamps. |
Post# 950875 , Reply# 4   7/31/2017 at 06:48 (2,432 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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The dishwasher and some of the small appliances look pretty good. That lame Combo would piss me off if I had collected all those books of stamps and then got a washer that couldn't extract water and a dryer that ran forever because of it. |
Post# 950877 , Reply# 5   7/31/2017 at 06:54 (2,432 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )   |   | |
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Green stamps and Family stamps, my Aunt saved Raleigh cupons and got a Raleigh catalog, Raleigh was a cigarette.Mother bought our 1140 Dial A Matic in 1969 with Family Stamps. |
Post# 950878 , Reply# 6   7/31/2017 at 06:56 (2,432 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )   |   | |
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Westinghouse Ambassador range I have been trying to get in Pa!!! |
Post# 950879 , Reply# 7   7/31/2017 at 07:27 (2,432 days old) by foraloysius (Leeuwarden, Friesland, the Netherlands)   |   | |
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Post# 950880 , Reply# 8   7/31/2017 at 07:53 (2,432 days old) by Wvkenmore (Wv)   |   | |
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This is a great post for me. I have the Ambassador stove and have never seen any ads for it ever. This stove is a heavy beast that cooks wonderfully. What year was this ad from? |
Post# 950881 , Reply# 9   7/31/2017 at 07:56 (2,432 days old) by henene4 (Heidenheim a.d. Brenz (Germany))   |   | |
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Has anyone ever used one of these combos? Judging from the seperate laundromat washers and dryers, one would suspect they basicly could have just slapped them both together into one cabinet, sharing a lot of the basic design ideas. |
Post# 950883 , Reply# 10   7/31/2017 at 08:30 (2,432 days old) by ken (NYS)   |   | |
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I believe the Westy Combo is a 1957 model so the catalog page would be from that year.
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Post# 950938 , Reply# 11   7/31/2017 at 15:47 (2,432 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)   |   | |
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I believe that's the exact Westy Ambassador range that ovrphil recently posted in the Vintage Finds Online Part Twenty Seven thread. It's for sale in Lancaster, Penna. Twenty bucks.
CLICK HERE TO GO TO Supersuds's LINK on Lancaster Craigslist |
Post# 950939 , Reply# 12   7/31/2017 at 16:04 (2,432 days old) by ken (NYS)   |   | |
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