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Post# 781948 9/6/2014 at 17:15 (3,513 days old) by washman (o)
Checkrate/Likes No, I don't remember this episode but FF to 7:59. Anyone have a set? CLICK HERE TO GO TO washman's LINK

Post# 781954 , Reply# 1 9/6/2014 at 17:29 (3,513 days old) by Yogitunes (New Jersey)
Checkrate/Likes that dryer is just on a pedestal, a match to the front load westinghouse washer that stacked, or placed under a counter.... yours for only $500.00.....

Post# 781956 , Reply# 2 9/6/2014 at 17:34 (3,513 days old) by washman (o)
Checkrate/Likes *I used to watch it* regularly back in the day of bell bottoms and shag carpet. However I never could get over the sky high CA prices, I mean some things were double what they were in Indiana.

Post# 781958 , Reply# 3 9/6/2014 at 17:39 (3,513 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)
Checkrate/Likes Interesting they paired a top-loading washer with a dryer made to match a front-load washer. Westinghouse was apparently marketing the raised dryer with all of their washers. Little did we know White Consolidated Industries's takeover of Westinghouse appliances was only three years away... Always fun to see the vintage appliances, cars, etc., from these shows. Thanks for the link, Ben.

Post# 781969 , Reply# 4 9/6/2014 at 18:23 (3,513 days old) by washman (o)
Checkrate/Likes *Welcome Frig* I dig the these kinds of things because they remind me of when I was a kid. And I dig Bob's groovy suits too. I spent nearly an hour trying to find an episode where a particular brand of W/D was featured but I gave up after my eyes started bugging out and going bloodshot. Speaking of trip down memory lane, Dad did remind me mom had a washer when we lived in a National home in Mooresville. Those were cookie cutter houses on a slab and 1 bathroom right behind the kitchen ( to save on plumbing runs). It had a lazy suzan and the stove was right next to the sink. I do recall the JC Penny portable dishwasher (complete with wooden chopping block)in coppertone brown along with a harvest gold JC Penny sxs. What I cannot recall was the darn washer! It was also in the kitchen right next to the stove. The dryer was out in the back of the family room that had been converted from a 1 car garage. Anyway, the washer came with the house from the prior owner and Dad thought it was a Norge. It broke down and with dad laid off from his overpaid, underworked position as machine operator in a union factory, we did not have the funds to repair it. Thus we wend to Mares Meadows laundry on High street and did laundry there till we moved to the bookdocks. We went to the laundromat in Martinsville ( I do recall the large Melnor FL machines there) and did w/o our very own machine until 1981 or so. Then we got a used GE Filterflow. It was boss let me tell you. Washed like a demon. Spun like one too. And that was the problem. Our mobile home was on concrete blocks and that GE shook soooo bad, we were afraid it would literally shake the place apart. So back it went. The replacement was a Kennmore with a lighted control panel and variable water level selector. It too was second hand. That was the machine I replaced the pump/lint filter on. To this day I curse those effing hose clamps that don't play well with Channelock pliers. It worked fine until 1983-84 or so when the whole gear case split wide open. By then dad was working full time, even pulling overtime so no more used for mom. Went to Waymans appliance and mom picked out a Whirlpool with the bed-of-nails lint filter. That machine was in the mobile home and then our manufactured home for a grand total of 18 years. All on hard well water too I might add. It washed factory clothes full of oil, grease, and probably metal shavings. It washed Indiana clay. Sawdust (we cut wood to heat with and sold some too). When I came back from helping cut hogs or bailing hay, in the clothes went. With lots of BOLD3 powder; my mom swore by it! IIRC, I think we put a belt on it and nothing else except cleaning the inlet screens when the sediment from the well water clogged them up. That washer and the GE dryer were in the house in 2002 when they sold out and relocated to sunny FL. In sunny FL, mom and dad became the not so proud owners of a White Westinghouse stack unit. It was a five star POS. The tub indexed like no tomorrow. Small capacity too. The dryer took about 2 hours to dry a load. Well, they sunk a ton of cash in redoing the house like carpet, paint, back patio, so it had to do. Which it did until 2003 then the motor in the washer burned up. Literally. Smoke galore. Since neither of them liked it from the get go, I put them on to Amana (shame on me) because of the stainless tub. At the time, I did not know Maytag had mucked with things to make it a loser of a machine. At any rate, it worked well for a few years until the tub seal bit the dust, thus laying waste to the tub bearing along with the tranny. Mom had passed on at this point so dad dutifully went shopping. I happened to be there on a visit and he went to Jetson. Looked over the feature laden FL machines, all the gee whiz stuff that left him confused and somewhat frightened. When he inquired about the pedastal and was told those are extra, he blew his stack like any retired Marine would and was ready to walk out. So was I. The salesguy was a total joke. He was more interested in what fascinated HIM rather than trying to understand what my father wanted. You think I'm old school? Dad wrote the book on it! As we were walking out, I spotted the SQ. I grabbed dad and after some profanity laden comments about how things were going, he shushed and let me speak. Once he saw it pretty much worked like the Amana, he was sold. He even attempted to rock it forward and was pleased that he was unable to do so w/o busting a gut. Well the erstwhile salesguy saw all this going on and bolted over like a hungry dog. He went on and on and on and on and on about how much water it uses, they don't really sell all that well, blah blah blah blah and if dad would just hang around he was certain they could work out a "deal" on the pedestals for the FL machines. Well dear old dad was having none of it. He told the sales jockey to try a can of STFU and said, how much. Taken aback, the sales jockey said he'd have to look it up. Quoted dad the price. Delivery included, dad asked. Uh well, sure if you want. Take the old one with? Uh I guess so. No, don't guess so, answer yes or no. Finally we got definitive answers that I had him put in writing. Dad proceeded the peel off several one hundred dollar bills, confirmed the delivery date. 3 days after I left, he's the proud owner of the very machine that I would end up getting. He's happy as a clam, which says a lot as appliances just don't light his fire like they do for some of us. With the water level properly adjusted to a genuine full tub, he' pleased a punch with how much he can stuff in there and still have it come clean. More to the point, he does not recall where he put the owners manual. In fact, he never read it. Just looked at the knobs, figured it out, and away he went. And now you know the rest of the story.

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