Thread Number: 31474
Hotpoint - Lady Executive Washing Machine |
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Post# 474763   11/13/2010 at 06:17 (4,883 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 474769 , Reply# 1   11/13/2010 at 06:53 (4,883 days old) by sambootoo (Moody, AL)   |   | |
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Me too! This (or a similar model) would be my dream machine! It's been a looong time since I've seen anything like that around here |
Post# 474877 , Reply# 2   11/13/2010 at 17:05 (4,883 days old) by danelto (State College, PA)   |   | |
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I think this is one of the most sexy pics known to washer advertisement. I hope the execs at Hotpoint gave the person who thought this one up a big raise! |
Post# 474886 , Reply# 4   11/13/2010 at 19:51 (4,883 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 474961 , Reply# 6   11/14/2010 at 06:50 (4,882 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 474962 , Reply# 7   11/14/2010 at 06:54 (4,882 days old) by mrb627 (Buford, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 474979 , Reply# 8   11/14/2010 at 08:49 (4,882 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 474981 , Reply# 9   11/14/2010 at 08:52 (4,882 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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Post# 474982 , Reply# 10   11/14/2010 at 08:55 (4,882 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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I too, am waiting for a Silhouette Hotpoint to fall in my lap. I fear I will wait some time as it seems they weren't terribly well made and have gone the way of the dinosaur. We may indeed need to dig.
I know where there's a nice Silhouette Hotpoint dryer in Connecticut for sale, Malcolm, if you're interested email me. |
Post# 475065 , Reply# 12   11/14/2010 at 13:43 (4,882 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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My neighbor across the street had the matching dryer to that washer, including the color. It was a "hand-me-down" from her sister who wanted a new matching set when the washer died. This arrived around 1972 or 1974, replacing a 1957 Frog-Eye Kenmo. I believe this Hotpoint was from around 1961 to 1963. BUT, Frigidaire came out with their charcoal grey color (essentially black) for the 1958 model year I believe. The color I believe was available for laundry equipment too.
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Post# 475089 , Reply# 13   11/14/2010 at 17:51 (4,882 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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Frigidare came out with charcoal black with the 1957 sheer look line. Butch Weavers dad from Weavers Maytag in Rockville Maryland once told me that he saw a pair of all push button MTs in black but I could never find anything in MT sales or parts literature to confirm that MT ever made that color. I would guess that some one had a set painted.
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Post# 475098 , Reply# 14   11/14/2010 at 18:59 (4,882 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Thanks John, I just couldn't remember if it was 1957 or 1958, so I went with 1958. I don't know of anyone here who has the charcoal laundry pair. I think it would have been so cool to have a whole Frigidaire house back then in that color. Given the rage for pastels back then, that would have been quite avante guard--a beatnicks house lol.
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Post# 475102 , Reply# 15   11/14/2010 at 19:21 (4,882 days old) by RE563 (Fort Worth, Texas)   |   | |
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Post# 475159 , Reply# 16   11/15/2010 at 01:58 (4,882 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 475171 , Reply# 17   11/15/2010 at 07:07 (4,881 days old) by alr2903 (TN)   |   | |
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Were the mechanicals in these about the same as the "Ozzie & Harriet", Hotpoints. Probably the solid tub issues, along with the capacity wars, doomed them. alr2903 |
Post# 475187 , Reply# 18   11/15/2010 at 09:27 (4,881 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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They weren't bad at washing; just not great. And yes, there were solid tub issues, sand and grit disposal were negligible even with their purported "sediment ejector tube". But they were reasonably quiet and the clothes got clean.For me, they are unique old machines with lots of bells and whistles. For women like my Granny they would have been a good choice because she always kept her Filter-Flo on slow speed (I think she knew even back then that the wash action would shorten the life of her clothing) and, like most automatic washers of the Fifties, it would have been a HUGE improvement over her wringer machine.
John Combo52 said something to me that made a lot of sense: for some customers, especially women washing more delicate clothes, the lame spin speeds on some old vintage machines (and in some cases the lame washing action) was a bonus because the house dresses and nighties would come out of the washers in good-looking shape, ready for an ironing or a line drying, not twisted and wrinkled and bunched up as in a Norge, say, or a Frigidaire. In some ways the Hotpoints were a good choice for "ladies'" laundry. These were not machines that would have cleaned gritty dirty work clothes well. |
Post# 475188 , Reply# 19   11/15/2010 at 09:29 (4,881 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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