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Thread Number: 63915
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A Westinghouse Deal Even Betty Furness Would Love |
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Post# 864886 1/31/2016 at 04:32 (3,002 days old) by Launderess  (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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My grandmamma had the Spacemate W&D set in this color. Her range however was Caloric with a self cleaning oven. *Think* the refrigerator may have been Westinghouse as the color looks familiar.
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Post# 864888 , Reply# 1 1/31/2016 at 09:14 (3,001 days old) by DaveAmKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Instant Westy Kitchen! Just Add Pleasure! Wow! That "Like" there is from me! Even though the fridge & dishwasher are very BOL (much like what my "ain't" had in her appartment--harvest gold & all w/ a low-broiler Caloric gas range) that range at least isn't; maybe lacking a window, but at least has timed-bake & it self-cleans!
Betty Furness (& Charles Klamkin--my appliance hero!) definitely to a heart's delight (Mine, too!)...!
-- Dave | ||
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Post# 864911 , Reply# 2 1/31/2016 at 11:00 (3,001 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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They must be from a seldom-used vacation property. The range top has seen surface unit replacements, but the oven looks like new. The range seems to be an odd builders' model: an unterraced terrace top. I had a refrigerator like that in my place in Annandale. It kept stuff cold. | ||
| Post# 864947 , Reply# 3 1/31/2016 at 15:39 (3,001 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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The LAST Of the real Westinghouse stuff, this could not have been too long before the WCI takeover. | ||
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Post# 865046 , Reply# 4 2/1/2016 at 08:13 (3,000 days old) by ovrphil (N.Atlanta / Georgia ) |
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a DEAl
Surprised it isn't gone!
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Post# 865070 , Reply# 5 2/1/2016 at 11:55 (3,000 days old) by DaveAmKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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In all Honesty, but in being Devil's Advocate: Only logical reason could be that the fridge needs to be more "deluxe" in that one would like more drawers, bins 'n' shelves--particularly one in the freezer; remember my small GE in the apartment--but the lack of was sometimes fun "stacking", as long as everything didn't fall out... And perhaps, larger capacity...
The dishwasher obviously looks like it doesn't do more than dishes, silverware & maybe utensils, too--so something to also wash pots & pans!
As for the range, the coil top elements have long given way for the (let's face it) more desirable smooth-top, right down to even a classic range being less desirable, as ceramic tops have come a long-way towards improvements in heating better and being sort of easier to keep clean... But the coil-tops are still lamented and missed... I've had three 6" and one 8" and found myself as able to easily utilize as most do w/ two + two, of each...
Surely the simpler automatic baking and the self-cleaning are what you praise this range for having especially compared to today's products, both give much more better results, as does the baking and broiling...
Otherwise, I wish the seller good luck as I do the buyer; that one Harvest Gold fan out there, should surely still be easy to come by...
-- Dave | ||
| Post# 865109 , Reply# 6 2/1/2016 at 18:42 (3,000 days old) by norgeway (mocksville n c ) | ||
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A matter of opinion I DESPISE smooth tops, bought a new one a few years back, went back to vintage in less than a year! | ||
| Post# 865165 , Reply# 8 2/2/2016 at 09:19 (2,999 days old) by glomain (tuscarawas cnty. (eastern ohio)) | ||
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Post# 865188 , Reply# 10 2/2/2016 at 11:15 (2,999 days old) by countryguy (Astorville, ON, Canada) |
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I've had my smooth top stove for 9-10 years and it still looks as good as it did when I got it. I find it is very easy to keep clean. When anything spills over I clean it up right away and then after it has cooled down I wash it with soap and water and then shine it up with one of those smooth top polishes.
Gary | ||
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Post# 865194 , Reply# 11 2/2/2016 at 11:40 (2,999 days old) by DaveAmKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI) |
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Well, I do prefer the tried-and-true ordinary rod-type elements, on an electric range, myself, though I mainly am a gas guy--and really find it hard to take off my nearly-singular-three-piece grating off my stove to clean & retrieve spilled food/items...
This is a nice set & well, although for a cottage, apartment or rental property, it's from back when even a Builder Special meant dignity and class--surely something today no Hope Depot or Lowe's or what's left of Sears can give you...
-- Dave | ||
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Post# 865222 , Reply# 12 2/2/2016 at 16:07 (2,999 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area) |
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We are way too busy while having a church dinner to wipe up every spill as it happens. They really aren't very practical in a commercial setting. Front mounted controls would have been much easier to use. | ||
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Post# 865228 , Reply# 13 2/2/2016 at 16:58 (2,999 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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If one examines the floor if the kitchen where appliances are located it all makes sense. The color of appliances coordinates totally with that pattern of flooring; saw this time and time again during the 1970's. *LOL* Indeed when Grandmama had her kitchen redone and those aforementioned Westinghouse appliances installed yes, they matched her new floor.
Though not up everyone's street today shades of avocado green, harvest gold, Tuscan red, brown and other earth tones were all the rage in 1970's. | ||
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