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Post# 561309   12/5/2011 at 13:54 (4,519 days old) by ingliscanada ()        

Marquette - never seen this brand before. Was it it's own company, or a clone of another make?




Post# 561315 , Reply# 1   12/5/2011 at 14:29 (4,519 days old) by amyswasher ()        

I think it's in the same line as Apex.

Post# 561316 , Reply# 2   12/5/2011 at 14:29 (4,519 days old) by kenmore71 (Minneapolis, MN)        

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It was a Beam/Franklin design.

I don't personally know anything about the Marquette company in Minneapolis, but the address in the ad is a part of town that was a major retail and small business hub in Northeast Minneapolis in the 1950s.


Post# 561481 , Reply# 3   12/6/2011 at 08:46 (4,518 days old) by ingliscanada ()        

The dryer certainly matches the Franklin design from the 60's with the top-mounted lint filter, but I didn't know the Franklin washers ever had a fibre glass tub.

Gary


Post# 561508 , Reply# 4   12/6/2011 at 12:48 (4,518 days old) by Jsneaker ()        
Beam/Franklin offshoots

I know that the Beam/Franklin brands included AMC, Bradford, Coronado and Wizard. While I have seen Bradford and AMC sold at local Long Island W.T. Grant, and A&S & Gertz respectively, I never saw any in action.

Post# 561561 , Reply# 5   12/6/2011 at 18:02 (4,518 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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The Gambles hardware store in my hometown sold quite a number of Coronado washers in the 1960's and '70s. I recall the crazy sounds they made (Robert calls his Wizard, quite aptly, "The Pig"), and that the solid tub models usually had a Partial Fill button to push when you wanted the fill to stop and agitation to start for smaller loads. They were my introduction to indexing tubs, as well.




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