Thread Number: 73370
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
POD SQ Commercial Equipment |
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Post# 969076   11/20/2017 at 09:44 (2,320 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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Look for the mention of the "procelain" tub. I wonder if the two speed machines were largely sold to on premises laundries in upper scale housing units.
Who made the front loader for them? |
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Post# 969135 , Reply# 1   11/20/2017 at 18:16 (2,319 days old) by washman (o)   |   | |
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Dig those groovy colors |
Post# 969168 , Reply# 2   11/20/2017 at 22:50 (2,319 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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There were two laundromats near us, a Maytag equipped "Highlander Center" and an older store with a mishmash of machines in a constantly changing rainbow of colors.
The Highlander Center had SQ Front-Load washers, they were always good washers and really fun to watch compared with the overly-secretive Maytag top loaders. |
Post# 969205 , Reply# 3   11/21/2017 at 03:56 (2,319 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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These SQ coin-op commerical machines were in laundromats, apartment buildings and dormitories all over Minnesota and South Dakota in the 1970s. Loved that they had two speeds--quite fancy for coin-op. One of these was in the laundry area of an apartment building my sister lived in. Was intrigued by the motor/pump running during fills and, of course, the clanks of the solenoid. Probably the first time I used a machine with a lid lock.
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Post# 969213 , Reply# 5   11/21/2017 at 06:15 (2,319 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc)   |   | |
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The apartment house I lived in-Forestville,MD-in the Wash DC area had the SQ laundry gear shown in the POD-was very nice-then replaced by WP. |
Post# 969216 , Reply# 6   11/21/2017 at 06:22 (2,319 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)   |   | |
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The place I lived in in Silver Spring had the same laundry history. |
Post# 969484 , Reply# 7   11/23/2017 at 01:30 (2,317 days old) by Mrsalvo (New Braunfels Texas)   |   | |
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These machines were the absolute no nonsense beasts. I remember the short spin between the wash and rinse. And that agitator design was no nonsense also, they stayed with that design as long as whirpool did with the surgilator. |
Post# 969532 , Reply# 9   11/23/2017 at 10:23 (2,317 days old) by cfz2882 (Belle Fourche,SD)   |   | |
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went to a Laundromat in Wyoming in 1989,and was delighted to find turquoise mid 1960s era SQs still on the job :)They were identical to a commercial SQ I drug home in 1980-that one made in 1966.I still have the unique toggle switches from it somewhere. |