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Thread Number: 49814
Avocado Tappan built-ins (including a dishwasher) at ReStore Oakland |
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| Post# 719618 12/6/2013 at 15:22 (3,786 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
 There's even a Tappan vent hood. I really like the oven with the avocado inserts behind the glass!
$495
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| Post# 719621 , Reply# 1 12/6/2013 at 15:35 (3,786 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
This Reminds Me.... | ||
Post# 719623 , Reply# 2 12/6/2013 at 15:50 (3,786 days old) by chachp  (North Little Rock, AR) |
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WOW! | ||
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Post# 719630 , Reply# 3 12/6/2013 at 16:37 (3,786 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut) |
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Post# 719633 , Reply# 4 12/6/2013 at 16:42 (3,786 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Tappan Dishwasher | ||
| Post# 719635 , Reply# 5 12/6/2013 at 16:45 (3,786 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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Post# 719640 , Reply# 6 12/6/2013 at 17:25 (3,786 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Were the newer ones made by D&M?
Phil, the one above was the last of the true Tappan product. One of my best friends from high school dated a girl whose parents' house had these same appliances, in avocado, and the house was built in the very early 1970s. I remember they had a early 1960s SQ set that was beginning to make ominous noises while agitating that made me cringe a bit. First family I'd ever known who had a matching SQ set. It had a peachy type of color on one section of the dial if I remember correctly.
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| Post# 719641 , Reply# 7 12/6/2013 at 17:26 (3,786 days old) by washdaddy (Baltimore) | ||
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My parents moved into a house in 77 that had that DW. It was an extremely poor performer and mom couldn't get to the store fast enough when she came to that decision to get a replacement. | ||
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Post# 719653 , Reply# 8 12/6/2013 at 19:14 (3,786 days old) by jamiel (Detroit, Michigan and Palm Springs, CA) |
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Interesting...that cooktop in coppertone was in the house my folks bought in 1978 (labeled Youngstown-Tappan)...that house was built in 1958 or so with Youngstown appliances and cabinets; when my parents bought it it had that cooktop (with 7 click heats); a newer Hotpoint self-cleaning wall oven, the original 30" dishwasher and the metal cabinets. The dishwasher didn't last a month after we moved in (it was truly pathetic, but the previous owner was a "wash before you wash" type). My mom replaced it with a KA coppertone Imperial (the generation with the short upper arm) and re-did the kitchen in about 1986-7.
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Post# 719660 , Reply# 9 12/6/2013 at 20:10 (3,786 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Frequent prize on game shows & seemed so luxurious back then | ||
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Post# 719695 , Reply# 11 12/7/2013 at 02:04 (3,786 days old) by tolivac (greenville nc) |
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Why would some NITWIT replace equipment as nice as that???And replace it with modern CRAP?????These nitwits need to have their pointed heads examined!! | ||
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Post# 719737 , Reply# 13 12/7/2013 at 09:11 (3,786 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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I am pretty sure that is a reversa jet
My parents bought our house in Youngstown in 1969. It was new. The neighbors across the street were already there but only by a year or two so that would mean their house was built in 67 or 68. If memory serves me correctly this is the dishwasher they had and I thought it said Reversa Jet on the front somewhere.
It just seems to me their model had more chrome on it but as soon as I saw this photo it really took me back. Maybe it didn't have all the chrome I remembered. | ||
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Post# 719905 , Reply# 14 12/8/2013 at 10:03 (3,785 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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The Reverse-a-Jet patent application appeared in 1963. The nice thing about aw.org is that features like this have been covered before. So, here's a former discussion with a really a great thread of photos of this dishwasher. I miss those old appliance ads almost as much as the appliance designs(minus the lemons and spotty other flaws).
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| Post# 719934 , Reply# 15 12/8/2013 at 13:02 (3,785 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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Thanks for finding that thread Phil!
The dishwasher looks like the basic model (61-1111) shown on this image that Peter posted:
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Post# 719944 , Reply# 16 12/8/2013 at 13:58 (3,784 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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Bargain Basement So true.
Our '77 Monkey Ward microwave turned out to be a Snappan. Enough said. To its credit, it was still working fine when sold at the estate sale in 2008, and it had an actual browning element, though that feature never saw any use.
I don't know what it is about that Oakland ReStore. They get a lot of nice stuff coming through there.
I do know that if one of our members still lived in Oakland, that dishwasher would have likely been irresistible. | ||
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Post# 720025 , Reply# 17 12/8/2013 at 21:06 (3,784 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Tappan Appliances
Tappan continued to use the Revers a-Jet name on their later wash-arm DWs like this one. The lower wash arm had a spring in it and after so many turns in one direction a little part flipped that caused a set of propulsion jets on the ends of the arm to close and an opposite set opened and the arm went the other way for a while. I never saw one that worked, LOL. Tappan DWs were NEVER any good, the best thing they ever did was to source their last units from WP in the late 1970s.
If I had bought the house these appliances were in they would have out the door quickly and not because they were avocado, LOL. That cook-top is a ridiculous design with the controls in the rear and both big burners in the front, I use small burners far more often that big ones. And the wall oven [ probably the best of the three ] does not offer top heat for baking, If one wanted vintage appliances there are much better choices. | ||
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Post# 720028 , Reply# 18 12/8/2013 at 21:57 (3,784 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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Sage and free advice - large burners up front? I didn't take notice, focusing on the dishwasher.
Combo52- John, if you never saw one of these dishwashers work, how in Tappan's world did they sell them with this ill-fated(?) engineering design. After a year's run of failure, wouldn't the customer return them and the news would be out? I can't imagine they managed to sell anything..with a flawed design...but then there was always.. Lets Make a Deal and new mid-priced new homes were the channels of unloading? | ||
| Post# 720032 , Reply# 19 12/8/2013 at 22:36 (3,784 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
Ha! | ||
| Post# 720035 , Reply# 20 12/8/2013 at 23:29 (3,784 days old) by PhilR (Quebec Canada) | ||
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John, are the controls on this cooktop really meant to be at the rear? I thought that the two front burners were the 6" ones, not the opposite! I know that some models had two large burners at the front but weren't the controls also at the front on these?
I'm not saying this is any good! I know someone who used to have a late-1960's Tappan cooktop and she told me it caused her a quite a few problems until she decided to replace it about 20 years ago... She still has her wall oven (similar to this one but a few years older I'd say, and no color trim on the oven door) but the door handle broke and had to be replaced. | ||
| Post# 720039 , Reply# 21 12/9/2013 at 00:19 (3,784 days old) by alr2903 (TN) | ||
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Very nice. The oven has the cool side swing door, hinged on the left. Westinghouse had a model like this in the late 1960's. | ||
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Post# 720055 , Reply# 22 12/9/2013 at 05:42 (3,784 days old) by combo52 (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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Tappan Appliances
Ops, I could have goofed on the CK, I had a customer years ago in NW WDC that had an electric Tappan installed this way, but she was also paranoid about her young kids and they may have installed it this way on intentionally, however most Tappan Gas and electric CTs did have the controls in the front around this time.
Tappan Revers a-Jet DWs, I am sure this feature must have worked [ at least in the lab, LOL ] But we only ever saw a few of these DWs around here and what we saw was not good. I would love to have a mint one for the Museum, and this one might work, as these appliances certainly were not used much if at all. It would be a great DW to turn Nate loose with, if you want to get it Nate we will buy it for the museum when you are done [ if it actually works ]. Side-Swing oven doors were a bad idea, you would need to wear elbow pads to keep from burning your arms and can you imagine the disaster of spilling a roast chicken or turkey on yourself while removing it from an oven, Emergency Room, here we come. | ||
| Post# 720057 , Reply# 23 12/9/2013 at 06:19 (3,784 days old) by danemodsandy (The Bramford, Apt. 7-E) | ||
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Side-Swing Oven Doors
My objection to them was that they looked cheap, like someone wanted to emulate the look of something expensive, but wouldn't spend the money to do it right.
I can also see how keeping one off your left arm while rooting around in the oven would be a hassle. The only benefit I could ever see from them was easier access to the back wall of the oven while cleaning, and there were better ways to accomplish cleaning, like Pull 'n Clean and P*7. | ||
| Post# 720215 , Reply# 25 12/9/2013 at 16:50 (3,783 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
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It would be a great DW to turn Nate loose with | ||
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Post# 720224 , Reply# 26 12/9/2013 at 17:34 (3,783 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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| Post# 720225 , Reply# 27 12/9/2013 at 17:43 (3,783 days old) by roto204 (Tucson, AZ) | ||
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It appears they want to sell everything as a set. | ||
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Post# 720235 , Reply# 28 12/9/2013 at 19:05 (3,783 days old) by rp2813 (Sannazay) |
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