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Post# 126203   5/3/2006 at 13:03 (6,566 days old) by bwoods ()        

I was watching the first episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies (1963?). Their washer and dryer were clearly Maytag, having the big round timer in the center of the control panel. Anyone know what brand dishwasher was used?

The 1965 "Gidget" show, with Sally Field, had a neat episode where Gidget is at her sisters apartment. Her sister had just gotten a new Frigidaire Jet Action washer. It was operating with the lid up and you could see the up & down agitator working away. Her sister was saving up trading stamps to buy the matching dryer and had them sitting next to the machine. Gidget (if I remember correctly) scares her sister's cat which jumps onto the cabinet and knocks all the books of trading stamps into the washer and you can see the agitator action pulling them under water.

It's always nice to see "guest" appearances by major appliances!






Post# 126204 , Reply# 1   5/3/2006 at 13:14 (6,566 days old) by mixfinder ()        
TV Appliances

In an early Ma and Pa Kettle episode Ma has a Thor automatic and Sunbeam Mixmaster model 7. They have hit it rich and moved into the House of Tomorrow. A swindler is trying to get their money and Ma and Pa are gone. The kids rig a booby trap and rope is tied to the agitator of the Thor. It snags the robber by the ankle, hoists him into the air and the raises and drops him as the rope loosens and tightens around the agitator.
The Nelsons had Hotpoint
Donna Reed Had Lady Kenmore
Dennis the Menace had a Bendix Combo
Samantha had a kitchen filled with Frigidaire Custom Imperial and Larry Tate had a coppertone Maytag set.
I'll ponder and see what my mind conspires to remember. I was also so interested in mixers, I spent more time trying to spot them.
Kelly


Post# 126207 , Reply# 2   5/3/2006 at 13:38 (6,566 days old) by mixfinder ()        
What ever Happened to Baby Jane

Bette Davis and Joan Crawford had a Maytag AMP and a Sunbeam model 11

Post# 126208 , Reply# 3   5/3/2006 at 13:42 (6,566 days old) by mixfinder ()        
Beverly HillBillies

In the first years granny had a matched set of Maytags, with dials, then a Maytag washer with pushbutton control and dialed dryer and then finally both washer and dryer were Push Button. Her Fridge was a Subzero and the dishwasher was a WasteKing. In the early shows the fridges were next to the opening to the laundry and later were moved across the "kitchen and were behind the table.

Post# 126232 , Reply# 4   5/3/2006 at 14:19 (6,566 days old) by unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        
Darling I Love You But Give Me Park Avenue

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Least we forget...

Post# 126244 , Reply# 5   5/3/2006 at 14:36 (6,566 days old) by lesto (Atlanta)        

On an episode of "The F.B.I." a woman had a 52 Kenmore in the basement.
Does anyone remember what machine The Baxters had on "Hazel"? I seem to remember all their appliances were sunny yellow.


Post# 126245 , Reply# 6   5/3/2006 at 14:38 (6,566 days old) by bwoods ()        

I recognize Lisa's Maytag front loading washer/dryer combo, but what brand is her dishwasher?

Barry


Post# 126247 , Reply# 7   5/3/2006 at 14:45 (6,566 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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*LOL*

You GO lisa.
The ultimate in load management.
Use one appliance/load at a time.

*LOL*


Post# 126250 , Reply# 8   5/3/2006 at 14:46 (6,566 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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Is that a percolator with a clear glass dome?

Who made that gem?


Post# 126259 , Reply# 9   5/3/2006 at 14:57 (6,566 days old) by mixfinder ()        
Lisa'a Dishwasher

Lisa's dishwasher in a 1960's Mobile Maid, by General Electric
Kelly


Post# 126268 , Reply# 10   5/3/2006 at 15:18 (6,566 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.)        

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It has been discussed in the past that the Clampett's dishwasher at one point was a gas-heated Preway.

Post# 126277 , Reply# 11   5/3/2006 at 15:42 (6,566 days old) by cybrvanr ()        

I'm suprised nobody's mentioned the classic center-dial Alvacado Maytag 608 that always a star in basement scenes on "That seventies show" on Fox TV.

Post# 126279 , Reply# 12   5/3/2006 at 15:45 (6,566 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        

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That's a Sunbeam rotisserie.

Hey, I didn't know there were matching cups for the West Bend Fiesta Perc! Better start looking for 'em.

veg


Post# 126289 , Reply# 13   5/3/2006 at 16:06 (6,566 days old) by washendry (pinconning,mich)        
Baxters Appliances

I believe that on the service porch (as Hazel called it) there was a Philco Bendix 27 in. like Steve in Atlanta has,
Kim


Post# 126304 , Reply# 14   5/3/2006 at 16:59 (6,566 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        
Toggle-----

That is a wonderful old Sunbeam "Carousel" Rotisserie. I had one and and used it plum to death and just loved it. Oh, that thing could roast a capon to perfection. Perfect duck too----nice and crispy on the outside and full of juice inside. I'll never know why they stopped making those things----too good I guess.

LeFever has one I've admired for years now but just can't get him to let go of it. Hint, hint, hint!


Post# 126315 , Reply# 15   5/3/2006 at 18:02 (6,566 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        

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I love you people! How the hell can you tell that that's a GE mobile maid in Lisa Douglas' kitchen?

Does any one remember that Samantha and Darrin started out with Coppertone Maytags and then switched to offset-dial GM Jet
Action Frigidaires as soon as Chevrolet became the sponsor? (Not to mention the dreamy Frigidaire Flair that was used in many SE shots throughout the show).

Even Gladys Kravitz and Abner had a nice pair of Maytags...


Post# 126317 , Reply# 16   5/3/2006 at 18:11 (6,566 days old) by frontaloadotmy (the cool gay realm)        
Ken

It's very simple, you just look at the details, the timer
dial on the top left front of the cabinet is a giveaway!!!


Post# 126323 , Reply# 17   5/3/2006 at 19:43 (6,566 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        
Sunbeams of Cooking

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Post# 126619 , Reply# 18   5/4/2006 at 21:34 (6,565 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)        
There are even appliances in music videos!

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I have a link in "Look what Hobart made" for a Switchfoot video that has a KitchenAid dishwasher. Now, here is another video that has 80's English appliances, including a countertop dishwasher.

Click on "Master and Servant"


CLICK HERE TO GO TO neptunebob's LINK


Post# 126639 , Reply# 19   5/5/2006 at 00:29 (6,565 days old) by frontaloadotmy (the cool gay realm)        
With Out A Trace

On tonights episode was a scene where a kid was sitting on
a vintage Avocado Maytag and it looked like the Fockers
turquoise Bendix was in the same row. It was a fast scene,
I couldn't identfy any others, great, the day after this thread started!


Post# 126692 , Reply# 20   5/5/2006 at 08:31 (6,565 days old) by veg-o-matic (Baltimore, Hon!)        

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On last night's "My Name is Earl", there was a very brief flash of a coppertone stacked (one-piece) washer/dryer in Joy's trailer.

veg


Post# 126699 , Reply# 21   5/5/2006 at 09:09 (6,564 days old) by mint46 (North Eastern Pennsylvania)        
Roseanne

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I think Dan and Roseanne Connor had a set of harvest gold maytags on their back porch/laundry room. I also noticed the avocado green on That Seventies Show, Cybrvanr!
Thanks, NeptuneBob for taking me to Depeche Mode's Master and Servant, they are one of my favorite bands!


Post# 126723 , Reply# 22   5/5/2006 at 10:15 (6,564 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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My Name is Earl - I've seen that WCI stack set a couple of weeks ago, Joy was doing laundry. They must have painted it coppertone to match the trailer. I've tried pausing and slow-mo to get a glimpse of the dishwasher in the kitchen, I think it's avocado but not sure what it is.

Roseanne - I think in the beginning of the show, they had a Frigidaire 1-18 with a missing timer knob on the washer. The Maytag set came a little later in the series. Roseanne's sister put a load of wash in it and used a pliers or vice grip to turn the timer. Don't forget the Poppy Frigidaire refrigerator in the kitchen! Much later in the series Dan bought Rosanne a GE Mobile Maid dishwasher - she was as thrilled as we all would have been...


Post# 126764 , Reply# 23   5/5/2006 at 12:32 (6,564 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        
Have you folks talked about this already?

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Are we the only ones who are supposed to notice that in the weird "Dharma" hatch (supposedly set up in the Seventies) there's a brand new Whirlpool Duet pair? Is this supposed to be significant because I noticed them after Hurely mentioned that "the washer and dryer seem newer than everything else here"?

So somehow the Whirlpool people got to this stupid island before the plane crashed? Oy.
Are "the others" disgruntled Whirlpool repair people?

and how many of you actually know how to pronounce, "Adewale Akinnouye-Agbaje"?


Post# 126991 , Reply# 24   5/6/2006 at 11:35 (6,563 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)        

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Fascinating boys.

Thanks for the info and linkie on the carousel roaster ..........


Post# 127004 , Reply# 25   5/6/2006 at 12:50 (6,563 days old) by davy1063 (Pennsylvania)        
I can't believe you all missed the most obvious one....

HOME IMPROVEMENT...what appears to be a set of '68 Rollermatics, and then switched to White Westinghouse later in the episodes.

Davy


Post# 127006 , Reply# 26   5/6/2006 at 12:52 (6,563 days old) by davy1063 (Pennsylvania)        
Oh yeah, almost forgot....

Yours, Mine and Ours (older one with Lucille Ball), she had what appears to be her own Maytag laundromat in the basement.

Post# 127353 , Reply# 27   5/8/2006 at 08:38 (6,562 days old) by irishwashguy (Salem,Oregon.............A Capital City)        
Maytags, beautiful maytags!!!

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I actually have the movie that I picked up reciently. It looks as though she has two sets of 1968 Maytags. BTW, On Rosanne, they had gold ( sunburst yellow if you want to be technical) at first, and then later in the series, Gold Frigidaires.I had thougt that the Conners had given the Maytags to Jackie when she bought her house and they bought themselves another set????It is a thought`````right:)

Post# 127481 , Reply# 28   5/8/2006 at 22:13 (6,561 days old) by spiralactivator ()        
And now for something completely different

There is a Monty Python episode where Mrs. Premise and Mrs. Conclusion (John Cleese and Graham Chapman) discuss "how to put your budgie down" in a laundromat full of turquoise Speed Queens--lots of top-loaders and one big dryer, brand name clearly visible.

Post# 127543 , Reply# 29   5/9/2006 at 09:55 (6,560 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)        
Actually Roseanne's Maytag's were a color called Cal

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which replaced Castillian Yellow approx. 1968......They also could have been Cordoba Copper or Spanish Avacado...as Maytag used Spanish/Latin names for its colors starting with the 06 series. PATRICK COFFEY

Post# 127645 , Reply# 30   5/9/2006 at 20:26 (6,560 days old) by programcomputer (Ann Arbor Michigan, USA)        
On The Parkers

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Yeah,

So I was watching a newer episode of the Parkers on Monday and noticed on the later series, after MO'Nique and her annoing voiced daughter moved to a house...that off in the corner of the kitchen, by what appears to be a backdoor; there is a set of stacked Coppertone, or coffee colored, stacked front load White-Westinghouses. And...if you get a real close glimpse...the window is not really opaque as it should be, looks painted over.

It would be my guess that they are gutted and used primarily as a "prop" and much easier to use and move as such without all that Cement block weight that is common to their innards.

Anyone else see this?

Chad


Post# 127648 , Reply# 31   5/9/2006 at 20:57 (6,560 days old) by cehalstead (Charleston, WV)        
Roseanne's washer and dryer

In the beginning, the Conners had Maytags. They got a "new" set of Frigidaires, with the timer knob missing on the washer and a set of pliers in place of it. When they were trying to sell the Maytags (no, Jackie didn't get them), a door to door salesman died in their kitchen. This is also the episode where Dan is repairing the Frigidaire refrig. I always thought it was poppy red, but in another thread, long ago, someone said it was Coppertone. I didn't disagree, but always thought it was too new to be Coppertone.....

Post# 127661 , Reply# 32   5/9/2006 at 21:50 (6,560 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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Never understood what joy Samantha Stephens found in housework. Even being a witch and discovering how modern "mortal" housewives did it, the joy must have soon wore off. If one could snap one's fingers or twitch one's nose to get the housekeeping done, you'd pretty much have to burn me at the stake to prevent it! *LOL*

Now Jennie had the right idea, any time she was seen doing housework like hoovering, she was floating up in the air, reading while the hoover ran itself. Now THAT is what powers are about! *LOL*



Post# 127663 , Reply# 33   5/9/2006 at 22:04 (6,560 days old) by washerlover (The Big Island, Hawai’i)        
Lucy Show Maytags

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And don't forget in the Lucy Show episode "Lucy in the Department Store," Lucy and Mary Jane spot an avocado Maytag washer/dryer set that just has the push-button console and Lucy even looks into the washer! This episode aired in 1967 or 1968.

Post# 127985 , Reply# 34   5/11/2006 at 08:10 (6,559 days old) by appliguy (Oakton Va.)        
It was not a pushbutton set

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both the washer and the dryer had dials an were in gleaming spanish avacodo....the sign above the washer called it the Washtrend Launderette and the sign above the dryer called it the Duchess Dryer...I remember that episode Lucy went to the store to look at fridges and Mary Jane came along to get a Juicer for a gift for someone but of course Lucy being Lucy ends up breaking a bunch of expensive dishes and the display they are on trying to see if the unbreakable dishes really are unbreakable as the sign advertised (she grabed the ones on the wrong side of the display the ones she grabbed were bone china and breakable as the flip side of the sign advertised) as well as breaking the door of the fridge she was looking at (which I believe might have been a Kelvinator but I am not sure)...I even remember the slogan for the juicer that Mary Jane bought..... " The Little Squeeze Juicer...Men surpise your wife, give her a Little Squeeze in the Kitchen." PATRICK COFFEY

Post# 877207 , Reply# 35   4/15/2016 at 15:28 (2,931 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        
Roseanne's GE Dishwasher

I just saw part of episode 10 of season 8 where they are making a tape for the new baby. That is doubly funny now when you consider how short a time video tapes were video storage media because the baby would not have been able to watch the tape for long before the tape stuck together or the machine broke and in that house, it seemed they watched a lot of videos.

Anyway, Becky and Darlene are sent out to the porch/storage area to get stuff they want before it is thrown away and next to the Frigidaire dryer is the gold dishwasher so it was kept out there and hauled in to load and run. Maybe they passed plates and saucers from the sink through the windows to load when there were just a few. Every chic kitchen had a pass through at one time or another; what if it is a jalousie window? I have never seen those windows closed.


Post# 877941 , Reply# 36   4/20/2016 at 17:11 (2,926 days old) by bendixmark (Winchester Mass)        
Bendix

There is a diving bell bendix on Dennis the Menace where he starts his own laundry service.

Post# 879595 , Reply# 37   5/4/2016 at 18:49 (2,912 days old) by mtn1584 (USA)        
How about the Brady family and.......

their avocado Whirlpool washer and Dryer? Especially after Bobby washed his Sunday Best and added a whole box of detergent!!!!
Mike


Post# 879598 , Reply# 38   5/4/2016 at 18:57 (2,912 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        

That was always one of my favorite episodes of "Brady Bunch". I just always wished it was Peter who stripped to his underwear instead of Bobby, though!

Post# 879599 , Reply# 39   5/4/2016 at 19:02 (2,912 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan)        
For sure

Tom. Peter still looks good.

Post# 879603 , Reply# 40   5/4/2016 at 19:30 (2,912 days old) by whitetub (Montreal, Canada)        

Here is the link to the Lucy show episode at the department store.

The Maytag washer, dryer and top loading Maytag dishwasher are all there.

Really cool.


CLICK HERE TO GO TO whitetub's LINK


Post# 879604 , Reply# 41   5/4/2016 at 19:38 (2,912 days old) by whitetub (Montreal, Canada)        

And when she wins them, around the 13th minute of the show, they roll them out, and they are push buttons. Different set then the ones in the back of the store.



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