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Post# 354215   6/2/2009 at 19:40 (5,441 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)        

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ahhhhhhhhh, July 1953




Post# 354218 , Reply# 1   6/2/2009 at 19:53 (5,441 days old) by qsd-dan (West)        

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No Maytag, no care!

Just kidding............:D


Post# 354242 , Reply# 2   6/2/2009 at 21:21 (5,441 days old) by norfolksouthern ()        

The dryer has a window, and I'm willing to bet the washer has some good splash action! Don't you wish you could find a set that's in mint condition in somebody's old farm house?

NorfolkSouthern


Post# 354243 , Reply# 3   6/2/2009 at 21:21 (5,441 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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Those were Bendix washers & dryers with square doors lol

Post# 354263 , Reply# 4   6/2/2009 at 22:30 (5,441 days old) by toggleswitch2 ()        
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Was the Sears Catalogue.
(Of course the underwear section was a close second).

Was there ever a time (once automatics were introduced) when one could not get a front-loader at all in this country? Seems like there was a brand or two avaialble for the most part.

Does anyone remember Sears' first ones offered and by whom they were made?


Post# 354312 , Reply# 5   6/3/2009 at 06:04 (5,441 days old) by toggleswitch2 ()        

...which I beleive was in the early 90s.

Post# 354317 , Reply# 6   6/3/2009 at 06:50 (5,441 days old) by mr_jms ()        

Not sure when Sears introduced the first automatics, however, it was sometime in the early 60s that we had purchased the Lady Kenmore Washer-Dryer combination machine (vented gas dryer model).

Post# 354337 , Reply# 7   6/3/2009 at 09:16 (5,440 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)        
Was the Sears Catalogue..underwear section a close second?

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Only when I was 13.

Post# 354338 , Reply# 8   6/3/2009 at 09:19 (5,440 days old) by everythingold (Grand Rapids, Michigan)        

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It is funny how people think that there are new ideas in the appliance world. Most (regular) people are amazed when you tell them that front loaders were around in the early 50's. Who made the first front loader and when? matt

Post# 354373 , Reply# 9   6/3/2009 at 11:55 (5,440 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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Could that have been Bendix?? That's my best guess based on advertising that I have seen from the 1930's when automatic washers were still a newfangled notion.

Post# 354400 , Reply# 10   6/3/2009 at 14:13 (5,440 days old) by whirlaway (Hampton Virginia)        
Bendix

Sears came with top-loaders in 47or8,made by Whirlpool,These were bolt down models.Bendix front loaders in 1936ish.Bolt down also GE top-loaders around 45or6.My aunt and uncle had one the agitator looked like a silver rocket. Bobby


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