Thread Number: 68654
/ Tag: Wringer Washers
Wringer washers at Woolco? |
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Post# 914301   1/6/2017 at 12:49 (2,638 days old) by rpms (ontario canada)   |   | |
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I did not know they sold big appliances? I have only been in the local Woolco in the 90's and it was just blenders and vacuums.
At first glimpse I thought the square wringer looked like my Mcclary. Googled and it looks like it. |
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Post# 914319 , Reply# 1   1/6/2017 at 14:40 (2,638 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Post# 914331 , Reply# 2   1/6/2017 at 15:42 (2,638 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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There was a Woolco a couple blocks from my aunt's house in Jackson, MS. I remember them selling GE major appliances. |
Post# 914334 , Reply# 3   1/6/2017 at 16:12 (2,638 days old) by pulsator-power (connecticut)   |   | |
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Yes, the one near us, in Brookfield CT opened in the early 70's and sold major appliances. It was right next to the cafeteria, where they sold their own version of cheesecake. (Yum). I remember them selling GE washers. |
Post# 914342 , Reply# 4   1/6/2017 at 17:15 (2,638 days old) by Pierreandreply4 (St-Bruno de montarville (province of quebec) canada)   |   | |
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Post# 914344 , Reply# 5   1/6/2017 at 17:26 (2,638 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Yep they had a limited selection. In the early 70s I worked there briefly after school hours and a bit one summer. They sold Emerson window a/c and a ton of them on hot sticky nights..We were open til 10pm and people were coming til near closing and carting them out. I disliked working there,, not because of the people but the overhead lighting was blinding to me, a huge sea of fluorescent tubes.
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Post# 914398 , Reply# 6   1/7/2017 at 07:24 (2,637 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Post# 914404 , Reply# 7   1/7/2017 at 08:09 (2,637 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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I remember they had a 'store brand' line of some major appliances called Brentwood back in the early 70s. I had a Brentwood twin-tub style washer at our first house in Mountain Lakes back in the 90s. The Brentwood name did not seem to last - I remember seeing Canadian RCA appliances in the Woolco stores here in La Belle Province in the late 70s. I remember a friend's family buying an RCA dishwasher there - here's the kicker - it was an Inglis clone, just ever so slightly different from a Whirlpool. What the RCA - Whirlpool deal was in those days is foggy. PhilR has some cool service documentation on Canadian RCA appliances from the 70s, I think. |
Post# 914481 , Reply# 8   1/7/2017 at 18:43 (2,637 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Post# 914482 , Reply# 9   1/7/2017 at 18:54 (2,637 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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Post# 914487 , Reply# 10   1/7/2017 at 19:13 (2,637 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 914490 , Reply# 11   1/7/2017 at 19:29 (2,637 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Ohhh yes.
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Post# 914495 , Reply# 12   1/7/2017 at 20:08 (2,636 days old) by petek (Ontari ari ari O )   |   | |
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Post# 914509 , Reply# 13   1/7/2017 at 21:25 (2,636 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 914523 , Reply# 15   1/7/2017 at 22:24 (2,636 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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We had 2 Grants stores and my mother and I fought over getting Grants pants vs. higher priced Levis for school. You were not cool in anything other than Levis. Grants had it all back then and cheaper than the rest. Too bad they priced so low it killed them. I had a Bradford stereo and the first washer given to me was a Bradford Empress 18 that leaked oil, water and should have gone to the crusher before I got it. I still have the 6 ft. WT Grants artificial Christmas tree of my parents in my attic in the original box. Anyone want it?
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Post# 914538 , Reply# 16   1/8/2017 at 01:52 (2,636 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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Post# 914546 , Reply# 17   1/8/2017 at 04:39 (2,636 days old) by Gpevas (Parma Heights Ohio )   |   | |
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