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Post# 630274   10/8/2012 at 16:58 (4,210 days old) by retropia ()        

Some of you may be familiar with the movie "Bachelor in Paradise." This youtube clip, featuring Janis Paige and Bob Hope, has a washer in it that demonstrates what happens when you don't pay attention while you add the laundry detergent.

What kind of washer is it?


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Post# 630280 , Reply# 1   10/8/2012 at 17:21 (4,210 days old) by Whirlaway (Hampton Virginia)        
Fun!

Thats when movies were fun,took your mind off of everyday things.Just enough flirting to know where people were coming from,instead of in your face sex.Some really good lines.I like the line,Ive never seen a kitchen with a head on it.

Post# 630282 , Reply# 2   10/8/2012 at 17:39 (4,210 days old) by stainfighter (Columbia, SC)        
just a guess?...either

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either it's a Philco or a Bendix. My money is on Philco :-). Discuss!

Post# 630293 , Reply# 3   10/8/2012 at 18:45 (4,210 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

It's an O'Keefe & Merrit like the oven. Is that typical of California neighborhood or was it especially ugly? What a hideous Dodge! Wonder if the combo is still in the properties dept.

Post# 630296 , Reply# 4   10/8/2012 at 19:01 (4,210 days old) by Jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers)        
Yes Toms' right

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and it has an early Bendix door and two timer dials that I can see, one looks like the dial off a 1959 Frigidiare.

Its a mutt!



Post# 630297 , Reply# 5   10/8/2012 at 19:05 (4,210 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

The O'K & M was one of three made by the Automatic Washer Co. The other two were The Automatic & the One Minute. Both of those were wringer washer makers. This was the combo that did not spin at all and had something like a 90,000 or a 100,000 BTU burner for drying. I would imagine that it could not be vented with flexible plastic tubing. I wonder if it required double wall flue pipe. I did not know it came in yellow. The only other one I saw on TV was on the Donna Reed Show and that was in black and white.

Post# 630313 , Reply# 6   10/8/2012 at 19:43 (4,210 days old) by stainfighter (Columbia, SC)        
...did not spin at all (!)

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oh wow, that must have been some steamy laundry trying to dry/bake !!!

Post# 630315 , Reply# 7   10/8/2012 at 19:51 (4,210 days old) by fnelson487 (Palm Springs, CA)        
I Love Janis Paige!

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What a figure!


Post# 630360 , Reply# 8   10/9/2012 at 00:03 (4,209 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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O&M for sure. I found a gas burner and control service manual that had the O&M combo - this is it. The specs show it has a 29,000 btu burner, a misprint? Perhaps it was 129,000 btu and the typesetter "corrected" it for the manual? Operating temp. was 188F when control was set to #5 position on the dry-dial.

Pretty machine! (They were pouring the soap powder into the lint-trap.)


Post# 630385 , Reply# 9   10/9/2012 at 06:59 (4,209 days old) by drewz (Alexandria, Virginia)        
Mid Century Modern

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I recently purchased this movie on DVD I love it, reminds me of my neighborhood, 1961-1962. Love everything about this period!

Post# 630388 , Reply# 10   10/9/2012 at 07:28 (4,209 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md)        

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Bachelor in Paradise

 

That was a funny movie Doug, our car club watched it a few years ago, and that is indeed an O & M Gas combo, in fact these non spinning combos were wisely made only in gas drying models. [ The electric models could not be installed more than one half mile from the Hoover Dam due excessive voltage drop they would cause in all of southern California. ]

 

 Thanks again for posting it Doug


Post# 630669 , Reply# 11   10/10/2012 at 14:56 (4,208 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)        
Seriously?

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No spin at all? It just tumbled with sopping wet clothes?

Post# 630701 , Reply# 12   10/10/2012 at 17:24 (4,208 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Seriously, it went from the drain after the last rinse into dry. That 100 or 129 thousand BTU burner came on and just burned and blasted the moisture right out of there. Look on the plus side; it was wonderful for wash 'n wear, no chance for wrinkling caused by spinning. Of course, none of the early combos except the Duomatics spun fast enough to wrinkle wash 'n wear. What a shame it was never tested by the consumer mags so that we would have some idea of the drying speed. It probably was pretty fast given that the BTU input was almost 3.5 times as great as the next highest burner input, that of the WP gas models with 37.5 thousand BTUs and the OK & M's operating temperature was somewhat higher on the maximum setting and this max temperature could be achieved faster with the larger burner. The OK & M should have been an efficient dryer since it was basically built as a water tight dryer.

Post# 630716 , Reply# 13   10/10/2012 at 18:52 (4,208 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)        

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Amazing. I guess no suspension worries, no bolting down...what's a tract house builder not to love?

Post# 630898 , Reply# 14   10/11/2012 at 16:22 (4,207 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c )        
61 Chrysler!!

300G...413 two four barrels, 375 horsepower!!!!!Ram Induction, pushbutton torqueflite!!!! and that georgeous Dodge!!!!!Oh to go back in time when gas was 30 cents for 100 octane high test and REAL cars ruled the road!!

Post# 630946 , Reply# 15   10/11/2012 at 20:31 (4,207 days old) by Supersuds (Knoxville, Tenn.)        

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The 300 convertible would be worth a small fortune today.

The Dodge reminds me of the days when you could identify cars at night just by looking at the taillights. Not so easy now.



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