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Post# 160998   10/17/2006 at 21:17 (6,371 days old) by drewz (Alexandria, Virginia)        

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Brand New! Just out of the box, made June 1961!
Yes, it's a Wolverine Rite Hite Tin Washer!





Post# 160999 , Reply# 1   10/17/2006 at 21:21 (6,371 days old) by drewz (Alexandria, Virginia)        
Frigidaire Three Ring Washer

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Control Panel,

While found in a sealed box I am missing two control knobs, and crank handle, otherwise complete.

It has washing action just like the real thing!


Post# 161001 , Reply# 2   10/17/2006 at 21:32 (6,371 days old) by cehalstead (Charleston, WV)        
toy washer

Such memories this brought back....I remember "drooling" over one of these as a child. Many years later (2005), I saw one in an antique store in Indiana and to this day, regret not bringing it home with me. Maybe I'll find another some day.

VERY NICE FIND!!!!!


Post# 161004 , Reply# 3   10/17/2006 at 21:45 (6,371 days old) by pulsator (Saint Joseph, MI)        

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Now THAT is a truly awesome washer toy! I remember when I was little searching and searching and searching for a toy washer that used water.... Then I turned 10... and mom and dad got me my first real washer!

Post# 161005 , Reply# 4   10/17/2006 at 21:49 (6,371 days old) by bobbyd32l ()        

That is awesome! Does it really pulsate and spin? I want one!!!

Post# 161007 , Reply# 5   10/17/2006 at 21:54 (6,371 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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That's awefully cute!!!

Post# 161013 , Reply# 6   10/17/2006 at 22:23 (6,371 days old) by washertalk ()        
It's adorable

Now that toy is truly special. What do you think became of the knobs? Especially if sealed box. perhaps shipped incomplete.? Is there an instruction manual?


Who got there first real washer at age 10.

I had to wait until I was 14. That was a 1969 Avacodo GE with sudsaver that had a sock caught in the pump. (easy fix)



Post# 161034 , Reply# 7   10/17/2006 at 23:46 (6,371 days old) by mcmodern ()        
An Imperial, no less!

I once heard these were available at some Frigidaire dealers. I remember seeing a Frigidaire range and refrigerator too, as a kid. Someone we knew had one of these little beauties - right in the laundry room across from the Real Thing!

I'll bet toward the holidays, this would bring more on E-bay than a lot of working washers ;=)


Post# 161051 , Reply# 8   10/18/2006 at 04:32 (6,370 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)        

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I saw that in the department store(Hechts)as a child.Wolverine had a huge display showing off the FRIGIDAIRE Imperials from 1962.My mom was not too thrilled about me seeing them and i cried as she pulled me away saying "No you can't have them.they're for little girls.Let's go look at the Tonka toys."In 1987,I found the washer and sink at an antique store for $20 and almost had a stroke when I saw them.The washer worked great!I was surprised at how much I could fit in it.

Post# 161054 , Reply# 9   10/18/2006 at 06:21 (6,370 days old) by kenmore58 (Rhode Island)        

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Had the same one as a kid. I think I was around 5. If I only knew then what I know now, maybe I would have kept it.

Ron


Post# 161063 , Reply# 10   10/18/2006 at 07:39 (6,370 days old) by chestermikeuk (Rainhill *Home of the RailwayTrials* Merseyside,UK)        
A First!!!

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A neutral drain Frigidaire!!!

Many a male heart has been broken because of "Its a girls toy"...LOL

Mike


Post# 161069 , Reply# 11   10/18/2006 at 07:56 (6,370 days old) by tlee618 ()        

Oh Mike you can say that again!! Terry

Post# 161073 , Reply# 12   10/18/2006 at 08:12 (6,370 days old) by frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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A vintage Frigidaire with agitator fins?! Heresy, LOL!

That is just about the coolest toy I've ever seen. What a great find!


Post# 161075 , Reply# 13   10/18/2006 at 08:20 (6,370 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Too cool! I've seen these on ebay, not a lot but I'm sure you'll find another to get the parts you need - just like restoring the real thing!

Post# 161086 , Reply# 14   10/18/2006 at 09:05 (6,370 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
Here, here Mike!!

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Many a male heart!!

Nice find now we need to locate a rinse dispenser for it!!


Post# 161114 , Reply# 15   10/18/2006 at 11:54 (6,370 days old) by sudsman ()        
What a cool find

I got my first washer at 9 I bought a old Speed Queen Wringer washer for 10.00 I got the riding lawnmore and tied it up to it and took it home... I thought Mom was gonna have kittens, She told me i am ashamed to show my face in town.. I said "Well you shouldn't be thats why there is Revlon" I caught it for 2 weeks for that one.

Post# 161140 , Reply# 16   10/18/2006 at 16:20 (6,370 days old) by jamman_98 (Columbia, SC)        
Awsome!

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Just love it!!!!

Jamman_98
joe


Post# 161143 , Reply# 17   10/18/2006 at 18:05 (6,370 days old) by christfr (st louis mo)        

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aww way cool..

Post# 161170 , Reply# 18   10/18/2006 at 20:47 (6,370 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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Love it!

Post# 161191 , Reply# 19   10/18/2006 at 22:18 (6,370 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)        

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Total heresy as noted by Frigidaire Frigilux, but absolutely gorgeous. So does it go up and down or back and forth or both? The colors of the agitator are so beautiful you want to eat them, n'est-ce pas?

Post# 161286 , Reply# 20   10/19/2006 at 09:46 (6,369 days old) by drewz (Alexandria, Virginia)        
Up & Down of course!

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mickeyd,

In washing position, it moves up & down. In spin position whole basket spins.


Post# 161299 , Reply# 21   10/19/2006 at 10:20 (6,369 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)        
With a crank

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you can make it work like a unimatic or warp it up to a pulsamatic. How fun! You'll have a ball when you get the part. I bet you could affix a nice slim chrome mini-wrench.

Thanks.



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