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Post# 78059 , Reply# 2   8/13/2005 at 13:44 (6,802 days old) by tlee618 ()   |   | |
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That is the same set that my room mate in college parent's got. I begged them to adopt me but it just didn't happen. You should have seen that set with both of the console lights on. Terry |
Post# 78077 , Reply# 3   8/13/2005 at 15:01 (6,802 days old) by golittlesport (California)   |   | |
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My mom had a Westinghouse laundromat with a side opening door like that - it was a middle of the line model and a few years older than the machine in the POD. I think hers was a 65 or 66. It replaced a 57 slant-front Laundromat. The side opening doors did look very nice with the matching dryer, but I always thought the drop-down door was more functional. I always liked the TOL Laundromat models with the fabric softener and bleach dispensers. The best thing about the side opening doors was the fact that the door pushed in the external safety switch button, so you could press it in and run the machine with the door open, much like you could trip the safety switch on Kenmores of that era. I used to spray water in the machine with a hose during spin ...what fun! |
Post# 78095 , Reply# 5   8/13/2005 at 15:59 (6,802 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 78097 , Reply# 6   8/13/2005 at 16:11 (6,802 days old) by FilterFlo (Chicago Area)   |   | |
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I had one of these not long ago and sold it. Wish I would have kept it, but didnt quite seem like a Westinghouse without the drop down door. Was neat to see it wash tho...... |
Post# 78114 , Reply# 7   8/13/2005 at 18:12 (6,802 days old) by golittlesport (California)   |   | |
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Hi Tom...I bet our families had the same Laundromat. Did yours have four wash/rinse temps and five water levles? The next model up was about the same but with push buttons on the water temp. I remember looking at the Westinghouse brochure my parents brought home while they were washer shopping. It showed the four models of front loading Laundromats and newly-introduced top loading washers. I was quite taken by the top loaders, loved the black spiral vaned agitator with a big W on top. But my mother loved her Laundromats...said a top loader would not clean as well and used too much water. (She could have made a commercial for Laundromats and Salvo tablets.) I tried to sell her on the suds saver feature the top loader had, but she turned her nose up at "washing clothes in dirty water." Many years later, she switched to a top loader for her next washer...a Westinghouse, but the spiral agitator was now pistachio colored.
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