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A "Charm" School Graduate,,,, ALA Monty Wards.......
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Post# 297218   8/16/2008 at 17:21 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Appears to be a graduate of Miss Emerson's Charm School......
Got to give credit to Montgomery Wards marketing department, to at least try and make a plain old everyday Westinghouse appear "different".........Why, it completely coordinates with those 70's "Early American" laundry rooms, in country "charm" Harvest Gold! (YUK!!!!)





Post# 297219 , Reply# 1   8/16/2008 at 17:23 (5,703 days old) by fridgiman ()        

I think you should make a skirt out of it and wear at the next wash-in

Post# 297220 , Reply# 2   8/16/2008 at 17:24 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

This is the set that was listed on ebay a couple of times, by a very difficult to deal with seller.........I tried to bid the first time and he removed it at the last minute of the auction, for no reason given.........I finally won the bid the second time.........but he didnt get any bids on the dryer. So when I went in person to pick up the washer, he sold me the dryer too..........
He was actually very nice in person,,,, but but but.........kind of a nut case too.......oh well, alls well that ends well!


Post# 297221 , Reply# 3   8/16/2008 at 17:25 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Washer control panel.........in Country Charm.......

Post# 297222 , Reply# 4   8/16/2008 at 17:26 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Operating Instructions.........

Post# 297223 , Reply# 5   8/16/2008 at 17:28 (5,703 days old) by goatfarmer (South Bend, home of Champions)        

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I like it!

Post# 297224 , Reply# 6   8/16/2008 at 17:28 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Im not quite sure, but I dont think the Montgomery Wards versions of the Westinghouse washer had the flowing lint filter. At least this model does not. Instead it had the removable center from the agitator with the lint filter built into it...........

Post# 297225 , Reply# 7   8/16/2008 at 17:29 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Center Lint Filter, removed.......

Post# 297227 , Reply# 8   8/16/2008 at 17:29 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Two piece lint filter........

Post# 297228 , Reply# 9   8/16/2008 at 17:30 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Naked Agitator.......

Post# 297231 , Reply# 10   8/16/2008 at 17:31 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

A "Mr. DeMille" close up of the washer timer.....

Post# 297233 , Reply# 11   8/16/2008 at 17:32 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

7 Wonders Of the World.......!

Post# 297235 , Reply# 12   8/16/2008 at 17:33 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Dryer controls..........

Post# 297237 , Reply# 13   8/16/2008 at 17:34 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

The dryer has one button (safety start), and a rotary timer.....and yet we get ALL these cycles from it!!

Post# 297239 , Reply# 14   8/16/2008 at 17:35 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Big door, and lint filter.......

Post# 297240 , Reply# 15   8/16/2008 at 17:35 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Manuf and dryer rating.......

Post# 297241 , Reply# 16   8/16/2008 at 17:36 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

The backs.........washer back is NOT original.......

Post# 297242 , Reply# 17   8/16/2008 at 17:37 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

Make a shirt out of it???? Nah! Thats a completely different Lucy episode from Miss Emerson's Charm School! (One doesnt slimply lump along like a sack of meal!!)

Post# 297245 , Reply# 18   8/16/2008 at 17:44 (5,703 days old) by fridgiman ()        

NO NO NO must be a SKIRT or SKORT which ever you're into.
Love that Wards set. I've never seen anything like that control panel. I just feel all Tammy Wynette now---- Stand by your agitator......


Post# 297246 , Reply# 19   8/16/2008 at 17:46 (5,703 days old) by filterflo (Chicago Area)        

How about "Harper Valley Gold, PTA".........

Post# 297251 , Reply# 20   8/16/2008 at 18:21 (5,703 days old) by jons1077 (Vancouver, Washington, USA)        
Oh my

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That is the funniest set I've ever seen!!! I never knew...definitely a piece of Americana right there!

Post# 297253 , Reply# 21   8/16/2008 at 18:40 (5,703 days old) by cleanteamofny ((Monroe, New York)        

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The control panel looks like country kitchen needle point embroidery kitchen curtains.
What were they thinking?


Post# 297260 , Reply# 22   8/16/2008 at 19:12 (5,703 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)        
Oh Tammy help me, you big blond tease!

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The first shot is SO Kitchen Candy Cupboard? Candy Cupboard Kitchen ? It was a box of chocolates, local or national? Long Beach Mike, come to the rescue!

Only you would have the comedy and the campiness to get machines so tricked out. Non-stop smiles, Jimmy-- when's the next warsh-in?


Post# 297275 , Reply# 23   8/16/2008 at 20:30 (5,703 days old) by timonator ()        
Gold!

Ha! you really do like Gold! I can tell! psst....thats all im gonna say about that!

Post# 297299 , Reply# 24   8/16/2008 at 21:23 (5,703 days old) by tlee618 ()        

Jimmy that is really amazing, looks just like counted cross-stitch!

Post# 297312 , Reply# 25   8/16/2008 at 22:21 (5,703 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Amazing and interesting. They should be saved on the control panels alone!!! I've never seen anything like it. I had extremely limited monkey wards exposure growing up. Jimmy, thak you for all the close-up shots too!!!! Bob

Post# 297313 , Reply# 26   8/16/2008 at 22:29 (5,703 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)        

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Jimmy - this set is just over the top. I do wonder though, where ever would you put a set like this at?!?

Ben


Post# 297318 , Reply# 27   8/16/2008 at 22:45 (5,703 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas)        

That is one of the strangest things I have ever seen on a washer. Maybe it was made with those in mind who due to space limitations have to have their washer & dryer set in their kitchen. The control panel looks awfully kitchen-kitchy.

Post# 297320 , Reply# 28   8/16/2008 at 22:48 (5,703 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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I remember these in the stores! The Harvest Gold just makes them even sweeter ;-)


Post# 297389 , Reply# 29   8/17/2008 at 08:02 (5,702 days old) by stainfighter (Columbia, SC)        
one couldn't tell...wow!

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from the fleaBay pic posted that the washer control panel would look anything like this!!! MW's attempt to jazz up the appliance line when maybe they didn't have the cash? OT...anyone else remember in the 70s how AMC, strapped for cash, went and gussied up it line of 2 and 4dr Hornets and rebadged them 'Concorde' - stuffed the seats to make them look like Lazy Boy style recliners, padded vinyl roof, heavy shag carpet and faux wood on the dash, etc. Back on topic...the dryer vent screen and interior door resembles a Frigidaire's of that era...


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