Hi Amy, It s very nice of you to tell us of you love for watching these machines run. 

Any of us of a certain age have lost so many people in our lives but there can't possibly be anything worse than losing a child, I am so sorry.

My first memories of watching a FL washer was with my Aunts children watching her 1955 WH Laundermat in Pennsylvania when I was also a young child.

I have spent my adult life working on appliances for a living and I ave also been collecting and restoring vintage washers and dryers. 

I have three sets of vintage WH washers and dryers from there golden age, A pair of 1955 machines in great shape that was donated to our museum project by another member named John, we also have a TOL 1959 pair and a year ago I added a TOL harvest gold 1971 Westinghouse Front Load machines.

I have also had a 1966 Lady Kenmore Gas Combination W-D hooked up and running in my basement for the last 40+ years, I can't imagine how many hours of my life I have sat there on the floor and watched that machine run, I just never get tired of it.

At the museum we have 8 combinations hooked up and running, eventually we will have about twice that many, if you ever find you way to the Maryland side of DC please come and watch some run.

John L.

Hi Amy.  I watched Westyvision too.  TV wasn't very good back then.  The slant let the room light in. 

Then there were the machine noises right on schedule.  The show was never the same.  The splashing, the colors.   

Put a spoon of detergent in a cup of microwave water and it will duplicate the smell.  But don't microwave once it's mixed, it will foam over.  Like the time I put washer soap in the dishwasher.  Had to mop it up, floor was never that clean LOL.