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The washers of my life... |
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Post# 724103 , Reply# 1   12/31/2013 at 15:28 (3,768 days old) by hippiedoll ( arizona )   |   | |
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welcome to the group!! i'm pretty new here too!!
i don't have the greatest memory but i do remember an avocado green hoover twin tub washer that started out as my godmother's (mom's oldest sister), that my mom traded her 1963 volkswagen for this avocado green hoover twin tub washer. then, my dad gave it to my aunt & grandma (my dad's older sister & mom, who lived in a tiny duplex style house [that came with a murphy bed {how cool is that!}]). and i think it's my grandma that i remember, using the twin tub washer. then my aunt gave it to my other aunt, younger than her. from what i've heard, that avocado green hoover twin tub was given to my cousin in the mid-80's. from there, i don't know what ever happened to that avocado green hoover twin tub?? i know when i was in elementary school, my mom had a whirlpool washer (probably from like the mid-70's, i'm guessing 1975 or so?). it was white with a black control panel. but i don't remember anything else about it. i don't know what happened to it when we moved out of town & then, out of state. i don't even know what kind of washers we had from then on. now as an adult, and buying my own washing machine, i've only had 2, a white hoover 0510 twin tub washer (which i gave to my aunt {mom's younger sister}) and i bought me a maytag GA208 from 1978. my mom has a newer whirlpool at the moment too. we had a newer maytag before the whirlpool. but i don't know what model or anything? that's it for me..... welcome to the group cycluxe!!! hippiedoll ;o) |
Post# 724223 , Reply# 2   1/1/2014 at 02:52 (3,768 days old) by arbilab (Ft Worth TX (Ridglea))   |   | |
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Late 40s Westinghouse FL and the one after that, where I learned to fix them. Hung out at commercial laundries but those machines couldn't be domesticated.
Grandma's Easy Spindry, my own '73 Panasonic twintub I wish I still had. A couple BD Whirlpools, not bad except changing the belt, ugh. Several Maytags, not bad either. Rented a couple GEs and Frigidaires, the old ones worked fine. Still own a ElectroFrigiWhite FL from the late 90s but can't use it in this government building, stuck with the 00's coinop Maytags, disappointing. That's right, I've been washer-conscious for 60 years. Blessing and curse, considering what the industry has become. |