Thread Number: 74105
/ Tag: Vintage Dishwashers
Holiday brand dishwasher - what the ??? |
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Post# 978851   1/18/2018 at 13:21 (2,260 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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While happily attempting to find further information about the years the James dishwasher was in production, I stumbled across this article in the March, 1958 edition of Popular Science describing and rating the 1958 home dishwasher line-up. The James-Universal is mentioned (perhaps this was the last year of production....) but there is also a mention of a brand I've never heard of before - Holiday. In the article it is described as a two-wash-arm model but get this: "Holiday has one on each side of the tub; they revolve on a vertical plane".
The first thought I have is that perhaps this was an early incarnation of the Preway that used a gas-fired water booster heater. But I have never heard of this brand... Anyone here know anything about them?? CLICK HERE TO GO TO turquoisedude's LINK This post was last edited 01/18/2018 at 15:02 |
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Post# 978856 , Reply# 1   1/18/2018 at 15:11 (2,260 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 978858 , Reply# 2   1/18/2018 at 15:26 (2,260 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 978859 , Reply# 3   1/18/2018 at 15:32 (2,260 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 978860 , Reply# 4   1/18/2018 at 15:39 (2,260 days old) by coldspot66 (Plymouth, Mass)   |   | |
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That's a Roper dishwasher. BOL |
Post# 978865 , Reply# 5   1/18/2018 at 16:02 (2,260 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA)   |   | |
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Holiday in the current iteration (the exploded view) is a Lowe's private label--no more no less. I vaguely recall a Wards Holiday dishwasher tested in Consumer Reports of this vintage--maybe in the 1959 time-frame. Also, Holiday was at the time I believe a Tappan name. Although they were in bed with Youngstown at the time, Youngstown had only that big 30" dishwasher and perhaps they needed something a bit smaller.
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Post# 978905 , Reply# 6   1/18/2018 at 21:40 (2,260 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Post# 978919 , Reply# 7   1/19/2018 at 00:19 (2,260 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada)   |   | |
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Here are two links to the full pages:
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Post# 978937 , Reply# 8   1/19/2018 at 07:04 (2,260 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)   |   | |
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Post# 978938 , Reply# 9   1/19/2018 at 07:09 (2,260 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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So I guess other than that 1958 mention in Popular Science, the Holiday machine described there probably never made it to market (much like the 1959 gas-fired Whirlpool dishwasher). Anyone else notice that the listed retail price of this was lower than any of the other known name brands? Further suggestion that this was a 'concept' - but as I mentioned in the original post, it is interesting that the machine was described as having side-mounted spray arms. |