Thread Number: 72016
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
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Post# 952498 , Reply# 1   8/10/2017 at 10:32 (2,449 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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An appliance dealer I knew had one of these first Maytag automatics on the showroom floor. His father bought it and wanted to keep it on the floor as a conversation piece. When the son took over the business in the 1980s I tried a number of times to get him to sell it, but no go. Eventually, I moved away and a few years later I heard the appliance store closed. Wonder whatever happened to that old Maytag...
I can only imagine how revolutionary automatic washers must have seemed when they began to appear after the war. By the time I was born (1959) they were fairly commonplace. Some people still had wringer machines, but most had switched to automatics by that time. We had a Visimatic Kenmore wringer that was only a couple of years old when my dad bought the Kenmore Model 80 pair for my mom in early 1960. As did many others, she kept the wringer. For the first year or two, she'd wash the clothes in the Visimatic, wring them and put them in the automatic on the Rinse & Spin cycle. Eventually she was cajoled into using the automatic exclusively, but the wringer remained with us until 1967 and was used when the automatic broke down. |
Post# 952506 , Reply# 2   8/10/2017 at 12:15 (2,449 days old) by brucelucenta ()   |   | |
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My father bought my mother a 1957 Norge set right after I was born in September of 1956. I think she was more than happy to exclusively use her automatics, since I never saw anything else she used before that. |