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Thread Number: 32370
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| Post# 488267 1/11/2011 at 17:51 (4,843 days old) by verizonbear (Glen Burnie ) | ||
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Post# 488271 , Reply# 1 1/11/2011 at 18:08 (4,843 days old) by combo52  (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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GE KITCHEN | ||
| Post# 488274 , Reply# 2 1/11/2011 at 18:12 (4,843 days old) by supremewhirlpol () | ||
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I thought a member here installed a complete GE kitchen in their house. Does anyone know who that member is? Got any pictures? | ||
| Post# 488276 , Reply# 3 1/11/2011 at 18:16 (4,843 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
I, too, am wondering | ||
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Post# 488299 , Reply# 4 1/11/2011 at 19:19 (4,843 days old) by akronman (Akron/Cleveland Ohio) |
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GE Kitchen
My folks built a small ranch in 1960, with a GE kitchen. Wall oven had a window and a rotisserie attachment and a thermometer for roasts that displayed temp on the control console. Next to the oven was a 4 burner cooktop, stainless. The sink had a GE disposall, and there was a GE built-in dishwasher, the tub pulled out and it had a metal blade impeller. The fridge was nothing special, no ice dispenser or anything. Both the wall oven and the dishwasher were very pale pink, nothing extreme, but for some reason I remember a white fridge. With 7 kids and Mom and Dad, appliances didn't last too long, not their fault. Laundry was in the hall to the garage, I don't remember the original GE washer but we had a Frigidaire 1-18 by the early 70's, when my appliance memory kicked in.
The weirdest thing about the house, which I've never seen again, was the hot water tank. It was under the kitchen counter like a dishwasher, white metal appliance front with a formica top matched to the counters. It was electric like the whole house, 50 gallon. By the time it had to be replaced after at least 15 years, we had to get a standard tall-boy tank and take up a nearby closet instead. I don't have a picture of any of the GE stuff, just kid's memories. | ||
| Post# 488302 , Reply# 5 1/11/2011 at 19:26 (4,843 days old) by westingman123 () | ||
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Paging Turqouise Dude! I do believe they are referring to your beautiful Ogden kitchen. | ||
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Post# 488311 , Reply# 6 1/11/2011 at 19:51 (4,843 days old) by yogitunes (New Jersey) |
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Heres his famous kitchen......outstanding and beautiful.....I wish they still made kitchens like this....especially having the washer back in the kitchen again
CLICK HERE TO GO TO yogitunes's LINK | ||
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Post# 488334 , Reply# 9 1/11/2011 at 21:16 (4,843 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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As a child, my points of reference were Houston or Dallas. we had friends who lived near NASA that bought like a 1948 or 1949 new house. The washer (a Unimatic) was located at the opposit end of the kitchen, along with the Frigidaire Ironer. Now it seems like there was a period in the early to late 1950s where ranch-style houses built in Dallas, if the laundry was inside, many of them were with the washer in the kitchen, at least. And several of my mom's friends had the washer at least in the kitchen. Friends of mine from college had friends from church who bought one of these period houses in Dallas. You guessed it, the LK set was in the kitchen, I just drooled because (1) they were in the kitchen and (2) it was a harvest gold LK set--and this was well after DDs had been on the market for 10 years. My cousins bought a mid 1950s house just a couple of miles from where we lived. The house had it's original KD12 or KD14 still in the kitchen. There was also a washer connection in the kitchen and a dryer at one time had been put in the garage. they were now located in an alcove in the hall bath that took over most of the adjoining bedroom's closet. In some ways I wish my kitchen and laundry room were all continuous flow open instead of a wall/door giving semblance of separateness. Saw several condos with SpaceMatse in the kitchen that were built in the 1970s. And I've noticed some apartment floorplans have the laundry in the kitchen, albeit at the end, next to a wall, and washer and dryer each on opposite sides facig each other.
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Post# 488380 , Reply# 11 1/12/2011 at 07:19 (4,843 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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GE KITCHEN COMBOS
I certainly agree Dave that I don't want my main laundry facilities in the kitchen, I don't ever think having the laundry in the kitchen was considered great planing but certainly worked well for smaller homes, families vacation homes etc. Paul I loved seeing your kitchen video set to music what a great way to wake up, you do seem to have a GE theme going on there you should send this video to GE maybe they would give you a new GE kitchen LOL. All that said I do enjoy my 1966 black GE kitchen combo, after we hosted our car clubs Xmas party I washed & dried over 80 cloth dinner napkins in just over 1 hour folded them and put away, so it does come in handy.
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Post# 488411 , Reply# 14 1/12/2011 at 10:18 (4,843 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Most of the GE combo's of that vintage that I actually saw had been installed in NYC co-op kitchens uptown, where people had the money and ability to run the lines for it. Their were two or three kitchen companies that used these units as a way to augment their proposals and pocket books.Ironically, almost all of them, by the time I saw them, had been broken for years and remained, built into the kitchens and unused because the owners didn't want to bother with them. The rich bitches would just load their "girl" up with one more job.
You guys do know that those kitchens in the illustrations actually existed as mock-up modular kitchen somewhere in Appliance Park (they had one in NYC too). They'd move the appliances in and out according to the designs and what year it was. St. Charles did the same thing for a while with their showrooms in the Architect's building on 58th Street. | ||
| Post# 488444 , Reply# 15 1/12/2011 at 12:23 (4,842 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Appreciate the Inputs
Where I was born, the homes had no basements; all laundry was either kitchen- bath- or alcove, etc-bound. Where we moved when I was 7, the homes all had basements; no one I knew did laundry anywhere but there.
The TV shows--I know, it's TV-- had machines in the kitchen, and from what I've learned here, thanks to your generous posts, laundry placement is indeed regional. When I joined Aworg (5th anniversary 1/1/11, yes we had cakes, both reg'lar AND suds), seeing Mike's kitchen beauties and Louis's bathroom gems, I remembered the joy of being with my beloved aunt Margaret and washing in the kitchen in her Easy, and then in her huge bathroom where a Multimatic was plumbed in. With the deck right off the kitchen, and clothes lines at the ready, I immediately moved a machine into the kitchen, and have had one or more in operation there ever since, cycling them in and out depending on the season and mood. Prefer having them in the center of the action, much more intimate and fun. But so is the basement and so is the garage. Why not have it all?! ;'D Thank you | ||
| Post# 488495 , Reply# 16 1/12/2011 at 15:22 (4,842 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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:-O | ||
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Post# 488499 , Reply# 17 1/12/2011 at 15:31 (4,842 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Washers in kitchens or rooms other than the basement laundry were rare here. Sometimes they were installed in kitchens or bathrooms in very old homes with no basements or dirt-floor root cellars. As a kid looking through old magazines, I always a TOL Whirlpool set with the wood paneling trims for my bedroom - I had a big walk-in closet and they would have fit perfectly!
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| Post# 488508 , Reply# 18 1/12/2011 at 15:58 (4,842 days old) by cornutt (Huntsville, AL USA) | ||
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Laundry in the bedroom It was a fad here in the '80s in higher-end homes to have the laundry within the master suite. It would usually be in the master bath, but I recall seeing some installations with it in the master closet, and some that just had an alcove opening off the bedroom itself. | ||
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Post# 488511 , Reply# 20 1/12/2011 at 16:09 (4,842 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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| Post# 488671 , Reply# 21 1/13/2011 at 12:01 (4,842 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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The things you learn here, and so tempting
when you have a walk-in closet, complete with a window for venting;-> off the master bedroom, just begging for one of these huge machines we've seen here lately,
a 50 or 75 pounder to tackle the heavy winter sheets, robes, and towels right where they gather, all in one load. How sweet. Do I dare? Ah...to dream! | ||
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Post# 488707 , Reply# 22 1/13/2011 at 14:32 (4,841 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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| Post# 488720 , Reply# 23 1/13/2011 at 15:34 (4,841 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY) | ||
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Livin' the life....how cool | ||
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