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Post# 560425   11/30/2011 at 15:30 (4,502 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon)        

Here are some more pictures, as I dig deeper....-





Post# 560426 , Reply# 1   11/30/2011 at 15:32 (4,502 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon)        
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Post# 560427 , Reply# 2   11/30/2011 at 15:33 (4,502 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon)        
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Post# 560428 , Reply# 3   11/30/2011 at 15:35 (4,502 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon)        
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Post# 560440 , Reply# 4   11/30/2011 at 16:34 (4,502 days old) by firedome (Binghamton NY & Lake Champlain VT)        

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Ooooo that '62 (?) clamshell Frigie actually looks restorable, unlike most of the others... wait, is that just the top???

Post# 560444 , Reply# 5   11/30/2011 at 16:56 (4,502 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        

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Wow, I didn't realize that there were coin op Frigidaires! Ooohhhhh, Robert... Rented the U-Haul yet?

RCD


Post# 560445 , Reply# 6   11/30/2011 at 17:21 (4,502 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        

The coin-op Frigidaire looks like the ones on the Andy Griffith Show, when Andy bought a laundry.

Post# 560446 , Reply# 7   11/30/2011 at 17:26 (4,502 days old) by peteski50 (New York)        
Coin Op Frigidaire!

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That was the same ones they installed in 1964 in the dry clean laundramat and they were aqua and complete cycle was 18 minutes.
In 1968 they went to the square window models in yellow and they worked basically the same except had extra water temperature options.
Great Find
Peter


Post# 560449 , Reply# 8   11/30/2011 at 17:46 (4,502 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
What's the nearest airport?

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Very, very tempted right now to board a plane and fly out there to see all this for myself. Probably like everybody else here who missed Aberdeen I've been praying that another graveyard would show up in my lifetime. Just like a lot of members complain that all the "good stuff" shows up on the Least Coast, I'm going to whine about this being on the West Coast. Oh well...

 

Have fun! I know I would.

 

If you find any blue, copper or blue with metal cap GE Filter Pans, please, PLEASE, grab them for me, if you don't want 'em yourself.


Post# 560476 , Reply# 9   11/30/2011 at 20:11 (4,502 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
LOVE that pink

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Frigidaire CoinOp! It has the unimatic mechanism I believe!

Just the Maytag I have been looking for to add to the collection a 101!

 

 


Post# 560503 , Reply# 10   11/30/2011 at 22:14 (4,502 days old) by swestoyz (Cedar Falls, IA)        

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The Frigidiare coin-op machine has a Rollermatic cabinet - wondering if it isn't a later (non-Unimatic) mechanism.

Do you have a money-shot (tub shot) of the 101P Maytag?

Ben


Post# 560506 , Reply# 11   11/30/2011 at 22:24 (4,502 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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A Super-Duty rollermatic in that cabinet? Looks like a Jet Cone agitator.

Post# 560515 , Reply# 12   11/30/2011 at 23:11 (4,502 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Yes that's a 1965 Super-Duty Mechanism coin-op (1010rpm spin Multi-Matic). Frigidaire started using the Deep action agitator for their coin-op machines late in 1962. It wasn't introduced for home machines until 1965.

Post# 560645 , Reply# 13   12/1/2011 at 14:31 (4,501 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon)        
Todays batch...

Few more shots.

 


Post# 560646 , Reply# 14   12/1/2011 at 14:35 (4,501 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon)        
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Post# 560657 , Reply# 21   12/1/2011 at 15:00 (4,501 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon)        
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some dials...

 


Post# 560659 , Reply# 22   12/1/2011 at 15:02 (4,501 days old) by marty (Central Point, Oregon)        
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In a bunch of leaves!


Post# 560682 , Reply# 23   12/1/2011 at 17:21 (4,501 days old) by PeterH770 (Marietta, GA)        

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oooOOOooo!!!!

 

I know someone who needs the medallion from the front of that SQ coinop... (Bygted)

 

And that front loader is a Gen 2 Wascomat, I believe...

 

Very cool!!!


Post# 560699 , Reply# 24   12/1/2011 at 19:10 (4,501 days old) by bendixmark (Winchester Mass)        
wascomat

In 1986 I had a temporary job in Newton Mass at a Laundromat called Auburndale Coin Cleaners and it had all wascomats like that.The owner told me before that it was a Bendix Sunshine Center with all Bendixes.

Post# 560701 , Reply# 25   12/1/2011 at 19:37 (4,501 days old) by bendixmark (Winchester Mass)        
Spare Parts

A thought woke me up in the middle of the night,the fat solenoids!What a rare opportunity, how many places like this are left?The only chance we have of restoring the few decent 1950s-60s Kenmores that are left is to rob the dead.We need to rustle up a posse and descend on that place like locusts and pick those Kenmores clean.Just think of the priceless inner and outer tubs that could be there in addition to the fat agitators and solenoids?

Post# 560707 , Reply# 26   12/1/2011 at 20:23 (4,501 days old) by westingman123 ()        
question...

Is it only laundry equipment? I'd give my favorite body part for some Westy corox units.

Post# 560738 , Reply# 27   12/1/2011 at 22:28 (4,501 days old) by qualin (Canada)        

The Speed Queen with the Emergency Switch is really close to the models which I remember the local laundromat having.

Some of them also had the "Teardrop" style switch which they still use on their machines today for the water temperature switch.

The one distinct thing I remember about them was that they had the stainless steel solid tub.

Imagine all of the loads that old Speed Queen must have done before they retired it. Can anyone identify what the vintage of that machine may have been? I'm guessing late 60's?


Post# 560808 , Reply# 28   12/2/2011 at 11:01 (4,500 days old) by redcarpetdrew (Fairfield, CA)        
TWO Frigidaire coin ops???

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I expected to see Robert and Fred standing next to them in the picture with a handtruck!!! WOW Coin Op Heaven!

RCD


Post# 560809 , Reply# 29   12/2/2011 at 11:05 (4,500 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)        
TWO Frigidaire coin ops???

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When I saw the photo of those two together, side by side, I thought "WOW, that would be awesome to have BOTH of those side by side in my collection"!

You have to admit, it would be pretty darn cool!

Kevin


Post# 560810 , Reply# 30   12/2/2011 at 11:20 (4,500 days old) by mickeyd (Hamburg NY)        
Marty,

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Those pink and blue Frigi's looks so elegant/decadent sitting there in their majesty, like something at the mansion in "Grey Gardens." Amazing.

 

But that stainless steel beast in #17. So striking, what is it? Hope Eddy doesn't see the once beautiful Speed Queen #19, like his still is, in such dire straits. Too traumatizing.


So many coin-ops! Looks like everybody's there, even a Whirlpool. Thanks for the tour.

 

EDIT: Was gonna call this coin-op Heaven, but Purgatory would be more apt, certainly not Hell--it's way too cool for that! Cool




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Post# 560899 , Reply# 31   12/3/2011 at 01:25 (4,500 days old) by SeamusUK (Dover Kent UK)        
The Coin Op Frigidaire....

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Hey Guys

That is the model that was in Frigidaire Equipped Washeterias over here, one of my earliest appliance memories is Mum sitting me on top of one and letting me pour the powder down the agitator in our local one.....

Seamus


Post# 561213 , Reply# 32   12/4/2011 at 20:42 (4,498 days old) by 70series ( Connecticut.)        

Some great commercial finds there. Especially the SQs and the Whirlpool.

Post# 561409 , Reply# 33   12/5/2011 at 21:53 (4,497 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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The Frigidaire coin-op machine in the first photo is the same as the one in the 8-plex apartment building my sister and brother-in-law lived in from 1967-69. This was in Sioux Falls, SD. I was 8-11 years old. Used it many, many times, as I used to stay with them for weeks at a time during the summer. Two dimes bought a half-hour of viewing time, LOL!

I recall the agitator cap was gone, and I was always amazed that it went from pulsating straight into the spin cycle with no pause.

Funny, the things we remember...


Post# 561512 , Reply# 34   12/6/2011 at 13:18 (4,496 days old) by Jsneaker ()        
Coin-Op Frigidaire Washers and Drycleaners

I used a Frigidaire-equipped Laundry back in 1977 in Hicksville right before we got our 1-18 pair. The washers were aqua, had the round window and "Jet-cone-type" agitator with no cap. I have never seen another modern Frigidaire laundry that I can remember. There was one I remember in Cambria Heights NY with OLD 1952 Frigidaires! I remember the "suds distributor" with the looped-ring removal pull.
Did anyone ever see the Frigidaire Top-Load Drycleaners? I have coin-op magazines, one with photos of one being demonstrated, teaching attendants how to instruct prospective customers how to use it.


Post# 561522 , Reply# 35   12/6/2011 at 14:31 (4,496 days old) by ptcruiser51 (Boynton Beach, FL)        
SQ Commercial

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Was in the laundry rooms of the apartment complex I lived in from 1976-1979. Solid stainless tubs. The rectangular lamps were the same and I remember the toggleswitches also. The complex was built circa 1965, could they have lasted that long? Loads were 35 cents each.

Post# 561525 , Reply# 36   12/6/2011 at 14:41 (4,496 days old) by Jsneaker ()        
Post# 560659, Reply# 22 12/1/2011 at 15:02 by marty

What the heck is that " mini-cesspool-shaped" thingy next to the old Frigie pulsator? (:

Post# 561559 , Reply# 37   12/6/2011 at 17:56 (4,496 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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Jason---I've never heard of the Frigidaire TL dry-cleaning machines! Is there any way you can scan a photo of one into the thread? I'd seen the FL-type of dry-cleaners; the laundromat in my home town had a couple of them. I can still remember the smell.

Post# 563327 , Reply# 38   12/14/2011 at 21:17 (4,488 days old) by bpetersxx (laf in on the banks of the Wabash River)        

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the Speed Queen washer in Thread 15 has to be late 60's because we used that type of SQ at the laundromat until June 73 and we had been going to there ever since the Kenmore washer we had in the 60's died due to lightening damage

And the kenmore washer was not that old to begin with



Post# 563357 , Reply# 39   12/15/2011 at 03:11 (4,487 days old) by qualin (Canada)        
to bpetersxx

I kind of figured that Speed Queen was late 60's. They were fairly basic machines. I recall the laundromat owner always had issues with them spinning and agitating at the same time, which I thought was kind of odd.

I distinctly remember the sound they made when they started the fill and the "Sneezing" noises the timer made as they advanced through the cycle.

I would love to see one in action again, but I have no room to have one of those around.


Post# 564073 , Reply# 40   12/19/2011 at 11:45 (4,483 days old) by Jsneaker ()        
Post# 561559, Reply# 37 12/6/2011 at 17:56 by Frigilux

Hi Eugene!

I don't know if I, as a "basic" member of AW, can upload any photos. What I will do is ask my brother to scan the page of the Frigidaire Top Load Drycleaner, and the Violet Ray water-recycling laundromat, and post those in place of my Samsung. I could also just email you the photos! I sure will try for you guys!

Jason


Post# 564075 , Reply# 41   12/19/2011 at 11:46 (4,483 days old) by Jsneaker ()        
OOPSY-POOPSY!

I CAN upload photos!!!


Post# 565365 , Reply# 42   12/27/2011 at 03:55 (4,475 days old) by alr2903 (TN)        

The old SQ looks like it was vended at 20 cents,  just 2 dimes.  alr


Post# 565612 , Reply# 43   12/28/2011 at 19:14 (4,474 days old) by Jsneaker ()        
To Frigilux...

Eugene, did you get the email I sent with the pages I had scanned? I cannot upload these here myself-only a paid member may do so. Unless there IS a way for me to upload these, I am sorry. The pages were of the top-load Frigidaire Drycleaner and the Violet Ray washers system.


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