Thread Number: 20643
Tallulah Bankhead's Washer & Dryer |
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Post# 327869   1/30/2009 at 23:22 (5,535 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)   |   | |
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Post# 327879 , Reply# 1   1/31/2009 at 00:28 (5,535 days old) by pturo (Syracuse, New York)   |   | |
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Very cool. Perhaps Westinghouse? |
Post# 327880 , Reply# 2   1/31/2009 at 00:31 (5,535 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E)   |   | |
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Post# 327884 , Reply# 3   1/31/2009 at 01:14 (5,535 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 327886 , Reply# 4   1/31/2009 at 01:29 (5,535 days old) by programcomputer (Ann Arbor Michigan, USA)   |   | |
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I'm sitting here thinking to myself...wow those look VERY Hotpoint'ish to me .So I cracked a nearby magazine. They kinda look like the 1957 Hotpoints in LIFE magazine from June 1957. Now I know that nothing like that was being made by Westinghouse at that point. They were still on the Program Computer and like model slant front's during the Comedy Hour days. And hawkin the fact that thier "revolving agitator" washers were better than most top loaders. Westinghouse's top loading automatic came out in late 1963 produced by Easy, and their flat front Laundromat machines debuted in 1964, the same year they released their own automatic design as well.. Deciding to do a little footwork, this pic on here is a crap scan from a flea-bay sale that offers the 1958 Wonderinse washer. In 1960 they went to the "Touch Command" series machines that had the floating control panel. So looks like 1958 Hotpoints it may well be... Chad Ann Arbor Michigan |
Post# 327903 , Reply# 6   1/31/2009 at 06:52 (5,534 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii)   |   | |
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Post# 327911 , Reply# 7   1/31/2009 at 09:27 (5,534 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 327913 , Reply# 8   1/31/2009 at 09:42 (5,534 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 327931 , Reply# 9   1/31/2009 at 11:25 (5,534 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago)   |   | |
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Our first washer was very similar to the above. The Hotpoint unit didn't have the goofy overhang light, nor the lefthand badge nor the corrugated front decorations. Did we have a 1956 Hotpoint? Otherwise, our washer was identical. The white translucent top half of the plastic control panel was full-lighted fluorescent backlit. It had a red coffee-can-like filter that fit over the black straight-vane agitator. Do you recognize this? Just baffled a bit. Never saw a picture of the washer we had on this forum. Perhaps Dad took home a prototype or a sample that was on test for a few years. I do know that as a test Hotpoint would rig the timers to never stop, fill the units with towels and run them until they broke. After fixing them the employees could obtain them somehow. Maybe we just had an old sample... |
Post# 327937 , Reply# 10   1/31/2009 at 11:58 (5,534 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)   |   | |
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Post# 327957 , Reply# 11   1/31/2009 at 13:22 (5,534 days old) by tlee618 ()   |   | |
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Just wonder what the Wonderinse was? |
Post# 327972 , Reply# 13   1/31/2009 at 18:20 (5,534 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Wonderinse was Hotpoint's first version of a rinse dispenser. Back then, the rinse additive was as likely to be Calgon Water Softener as Fabric Softener that we're familiar with today. In fact, I don't remember fabric softener being used in our household until the mid-60's and then your only choices were blue: NuSoft and pink: StaPuf. Others followed very quickly.
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Post# 327973 , Reply# 14   1/31/2009 at 18:27 (5,534 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 327999 , Reply# 17   1/31/2009 at 20:42 (5,534 days old) by alr2903 (TN)   |   | |
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Thanks Mike, that redhead instictively knew how to make a buck. thats a good thing :-) |
Post# 328009 , Reply# 18   1/31/2009 at 22:20 (5,534 days old) by tlee618 ()   |   | |
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Ken thanks so much for the information on the Wonderinse. I just wonder if you had to get the product from your Hotpoint dealer? Terry |
Post# 328071 , Reply# 20   2/1/2009 at 09:44 (5,533 days old) by paulg (My sweet home... Chicago)   |   | |
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Post# 328302 , Reply# 23   2/2/2009 at 09:18 (5,532 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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We have to remember that in 1958, television was still a toddler and I'm sure producers and sponsors didn't have their arrangements as tight as they have them today. And with what I know about Desi Arnaz, if they needed a washing machine in the background for a scene, he didn't wait around for any given sponsor to provide one. Remember, Bewitched started out with Maytags in the background and then switched to Frigidaires when Chevrolet became their biggest sponsor, not just one of many. I still remember the late, great Agnes Moorehead being reduced into changing herself into a poodle so they could promote Ken L Ration. Although, right now, if they offered to pay me what they must have paid her back then, I'd do it in a cocaine heartbeat. |
Post# 328399 , Reply# 25   2/2/2009 at 17:17 (5,532 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)   |   | |
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but they shared the same town......The Mitchells, Wilsons, and the Stones all lived in the same town...if memeory serves it was called Hilldale. I know this because there is an Episode of Donna Reed where Dennis Mitchell shows up when Donna is trying to paint the living room or they dining room...I can't remember which one and of course he crates havoc for Donna.....PAT COFFEY
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