Thread Number: 41638
General Electric appliances in turquoise from 1962. |
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Post# 614255   8/2/2012 at 13:33 (4,256 days old) by xpanam (Palm Springs California )   |   | |
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Post# 614256 , Reply# 1   8/2/2012 at 13:36 (4,256 days old) by franksdad (Greenville, South Carolina)   |   | |
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Post# 614269 , Reply# 2   8/2/2012 at 15:05 (4,256 days old) by davy1063 (Pennsylvania)   |   | |
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That DW looks more like '66 IIRC..... |
Post# 614274 , Reply# 3   8/2/2012 at 15:36 (4,256 days old) by kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)   |   | |
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So cool! I love that hood also!!!
Too bad that the matching range cook top miss though.... This post was last edited 08/02/2012 at 16:30 |
Post# 614275 , Reply# 4   8/2/2012 at 15:52 (4,256 days old) by perc-o-prince (Southboro, Mass)   |   | |
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Where's the cooktop? Or why couldn't it have been an electric range? These would have matched our fridge!!! Chuck |
Post# 614276 , Reply# 5   8/2/2012 at 15:57 (4,256 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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Post# 614316 , Reply# 6   8/2/2012 at 21:21 (4,256 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Post# 614360 , Reply# 7   8/3/2012 at 06:04 (4,256 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)   |   | |
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That's not a 1962 dishwasher, that may be the age of the house. It's from 1965. We had the BOL from that year and I remember the look of the dial. These TOL's had the notorious decorative metal bars on the rack fronts that caught and retained bits of food particles from the wash. I'm glad to see people who have the sense to put these things up on eBay at least, instead of just sending them to the dump.
Hard to tell with the ovens but I'm betting the same year; the BOL double ovens didn't change much through the Sixties, but I'd love to have those doors. |
Post# 614938 , Reply# 9   8/5/2012 at 16:31 (4,253 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)   |   | |
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As Ken correctly pointed out this is newer than 1962 by several years as is the oven. My parents home in Minnesota[ built in 1966 ] came with a slightly upgraded version of this DW and while our family didn't have many different DWs over the years this was certainly the worst performing DW that I ever used in any home that any of us lived in. Even our repair prone 1966 D&M DW cleaned much better.
GE to their credit sold millions of these cheap DWs to builders which really paved the way for KA, WP, Sears, and later MT to sell replacement machines to home owners. These GE machines, like most DWs of the 1950s-60s averaged only around 10 years of life [ with the exception of KA DWs ] Most of the GEs rusted out even though the machine was still running well. |