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Thread Number: 65947
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
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Post# 885055 , Reply# 1 6/14/2016 at 07:35 (2,865 days old) by combo52  (50 Year Repair Tech Beltsville,Md) |
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 Hopefully they skipped the HOH dryer and got a Kenmore Match-All gas dryer with a 37,000 BTU modulating burner, imagine how much coal you would have to dig from the ground and burn a year to dry that much clothing with an electric dryer, thousands and thousands of pounds for sure, no wounder the planet is in the shape its in. | ||
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Post# 885060 , Reply# 2 6/14/2016 at 07:58 (2,865 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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Imagine how long it would take to dry that much laundry each day in a HOH dryer and the gas models were slower than the electrics. | ||
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Post# 885111 , Reply# 3 6/14/2016 at 12:40 (2,864 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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Well, in 1966, if you were devout Catholic...
People had a lot of kids. In my neighborhood back then, there were several engineers who were rude surly men who were active in the church who had like 7, 8,and 10 kids. I guess the women just went along with it. There were Planned Parenthood centers back then, but when you are Catholic, the priest tells you that place is evil. By the way, these families all had Kenmores and they would go through several before the kids left the house. Unless an engineer for Westinghouse, in which case they went through several WH top loaders.
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Post# 885166 , Reply# 5 6/14/2016 at 19:58 (2,864 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA) |
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Actually, some of these people with large families had wringer washers so the wife spent the whole time in the basement washing, as referenced in the wringer washer thread above. Maytag should have advertised their wringer washers with this family.
Which also brings up: Maytag was more expensive than other brands, perhaps to the point that large families could not afford them, but a couple or a smaller family could. | ||
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Post# 885173 , Reply# 6 6/14/2016 at 20:26 (2,864 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine) |
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There was a family with 18 kids on the next street, and they were Catholic. Old man sent the kids to work at 15 and claimed their pay to pay the household bills, including a new GE filter flo every other year and that the kids were to do all the laundry. They did have a Whirlpool gas dryer and in the winter their dryer vent constantly was steam. He had a brand new Chevy Impala every September that no kids got near. I am sure he never made it upstairs, where we hope we can go.
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