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Post# 53803   1/18/2005 at 08:57 (7,031 days old) by retromom ()        

I could never do laundry in pointed shoes! However, with a gas dryer like that, I could stand a little suffering! LOL




Post# 53808 , Reply# 1   1/18/2005 at 12:42 (7,031 days old) by pulsator-power (connecticut)        
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I'd take an axe to those cabinets, though

Post# 53811 , Reply# 2   1/18/2005 at 14:50 (7,031 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN)        

My aunt's house has those funky western looking cabinets. I remember how those really stick out especially with the way hers are doone. Pine wood with those black trims. Yikes. Not the kind of mood I'm trying to evoke.

I'm more into the dark panelling, dark wood cabs with avacado or copper. or harvest gold if there's gold pattern wallpaper. Gimme some 70s baby!


Post# 53824 , Reply# 3   1/18/2005 at 18:14 (7,031 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)        

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Family friends had that dryer in white, electric.

Post# 53825 , Reply# 4   1/18/2005 at 18:38 (7,031 days old) by danelto (State College, PA)        

My grandmother on my dad's side had a washer just like this one--only her's was in white.

She hated me; therefore, playing with her washer was simply out-of-the-question.

However, I can tell you that the agitator was black--with the top looking more like a Speed Queen.

It did have a waterfall lint catcher. It was cleaned by pulling this horse-brush thing out of the top, rather than hitting a release button and pulling the apparatus out of the machine.

As far as water levels go--there were only two: Low and High.

And I'm not sure about wash/rinse temps. It may be every rinse was automatically cold--but I just can't remember. . .isn't that awful?

But four kids'll do it to your brain everytime!


Post# 53827 , Reply# 5   1/18/2005 at 19:02 (7,031 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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I know I'm blashpheming here, but I always thought teh tower top and these small WP control "boxes" were so cheap looking simply because there wawsn't a full-width control panel.

Post# 53830 , Reply# 6   1/18/2005 at 19:12 (7,031 days old) by kenmore1978 ()        
Funky Western cabinets

AKA Early American

Post# 53831 , Reply# 7   1/18/2005 at 19:14 (7,031 days old) by kenmore1978 ()        
Cheap

I suspect the styling of the controls on those machines was meant to evoke the "off-the-shoulder" look that was fashionable in the late 50's. I've seen it in car uphoulstery, too, around that time

Post# 53880 , Reply# 8   1/19/2005 at 09:30 (7,030 days old) by agiflow ()        

I remember as a kid,a neighbor also had a very similar looking washer in white,same control setup,the waterfall lint flter with the see through window and a black surgilator with the chrome cap.

I kinda feel the same way appnut does about WP during this period,this style seemed very bland and BORING.The early slant back models were nicer i thought.


Post# 53886 , Reply# 9   1/19/2005 at 10:21 (7,030 days old) by retromom ()        
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Even though they're not the greatest, wouldn't we all like to stumble on to a set? :)

Post# 53889 , Reply# 10   1/19/2005 at 10:28 (7,030 days old) by agiflow ()        

Oh most definitely retromom. :)

Post# 53939 , Reply# 11   1/19/2005 at 20:35 (7,030 days old) by partscounterman (Cortez, Colorado)        
Pointed Shoes

My Mother did EVERYTHING in heels, just like the ladies on TV. One time she slipped in the driveway and broke her arm and she blamed it on the flat shoes she was wearing at the time. Mom is now 77 and still always wears heels-always!


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