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Post# 163125   10/27/2006 at 08:00 (6,390 days old) by bajaespuma (Connecticut)        

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Thank you for that wonderful ad with Jane Wyatt(Wymann? oy I always get those two mixed up). I expect you know that she passed away just last week so this posting was not only vintage wonderful but very timely.




Post# 163127 , Reply# 1   10/27/2006 at 08:21 (6,390 days old) by lesto (Atlanta)        

It's Jane Wyatt in the ad. Miss Wyman is still with us.

Les

Post# 163136 , Reply# 2   10/27/2006 at 09:16 (6,390 days old) by golittlesport (California)        
Jane Wyatt

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On the show "Father Knows Best" Jane had a Westinghouse Laundromat

Post# 163137 , Reply# 3   10/27/2006 at 09:26 (6,390 days old) by dalangdon (Seattle, WA)        

Now that's my kind of laundry room!

Post# 163138 , Reply# 4   10/27/2006 at 09:27 (6,390 days old) by bobofhollywood ()        
dryer in today's pod

 I have the dryer from today's POD, lying in state under a cover in my basement.

It's been in my family since new, and I remember we got it right before I went to first grade in 1969, and I think it was last year's model...so I guess that makes it a 1968?
The bubblegum scent bottle was in this machine and I used to love that, but the buzzer scared the crap out of me until I realized I could turn it down so it wouldn't be so loud. A frog eyed kenmore (a 1955 or 56) is what it replaced.

This was always a great dryer, but somehow the interior wore off so badly that it turned brown and I took it out of use, replacing it with a Kenmore Elite pair about 3 years ago. I bet it still works but it's just not my style anymore. I've been begging some folks to come & take it for a while ...and here it still sits! Anyway...no big hurry.

Yes, it's avocado too, exactly like the one in the photo.

Bob

Post# 163140 , Reply# 5   10/27/2006 at 09:31 (6,390 days old) by hoover1060 ()        
Pictured machines...

 Are beautiful. IMHO Sears always had very classy looking machines!
Nothing they sell today looks that nice!

Post# 163141 , Reply# 6   10/27/2006 at 09:48 (6,389 days old) by dalangdon (Seattle, WA)        
I love Sears

 That confession goes against my usual distrust of corporations, but I just loved going to Sears when I was a kid - the doorbell department, the refrigerator department (with the plaster food!!!), the tent department, the riding mowers, and the smell of popcorn and cotten candy everywhere: What's not to like?

Plus the Christmas catalog. Ah, the Sear's Christmas catalog....

The Sears by my house is the oldest Sears in the country, and I go there whenever I can, both to support the store (which is in a weird neighborhood, but getting better) and because Sears pays the difference in salaries and maintains benefits for their called-up military reservist employees. That's class, in my book.

And they still have the refrigerator and riding mower department!

Post# 163152 , Reply# 7   10/27/2006 at 10:42 (6,389 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

She is dressed so appropriately for gardening in those pink shoes. No, wait, the gardening sneakers are in the washer and she is just doing a bit of posing, maybe. Certainly a lady of quality like Margaret Anderson would never have placed her laundry equipment in front of floor to ceiling windows with all of the exposed couplings, err, couplings exposed to anyone who walks by.

Post# 163155 , Reply# 8   10/27/2006 at 10:54 (6,389 days old) by washertalk ()        

Wow, Dan, all those references to Sears, I so agree.
I remember in 1981 they still had candy and popcorn, the dishwasher dept, and the compact washers.
Oh and yes the vacuums.
It was like an amusement park.

The Christmas catalog. It seemed like they had more animated figurines and variety in Christmas lights. They used to have furniture too.

Post# 163161 , Reply# 9   10/27/2006 at 11:15 (6,389 days old) by dalangdon (Seattle, WA)        

Erik, when I was a kid the big Sears in Omaha (which was loads better than the one in Council Bluffs) was in a mall that had amusement park rides in it, and one of those gigantic slides next door.

My Aunt Marilyn had a Kenmore washer/dryer that was TOL and Avacado just like this set. When she and my Uncle Bob moved into officer housing at Offutt AFB (outside Omaha), she had to surrender her appliances to the Air Force for the duration, because people tended to trash the base housing appliances. Boy, was she steamed.

Post# 163196 , Reply# 10   10/27/2006 at 14:01 (6,389 days old) by washertalk ()        

the ad.
Apparently, washers and dryers were only intended for "women"

Paa-leese, What WERRREEE they thinking? LOL

Post# 163265 , Reply# 11   10/27/2006 at 18:53 (6,389 days old) by dalangdon (Seattle, WA)        

My Dad, God rest his soul, would never THINK of doing the laundry. It wasn't "beneath" him, he just literally wouldn't think of it.

He could cook if he had too, but just frozen stuff. He went from living in his mother's house, to the Army, back to his mother's house, then in with my Mom when they got married. Pretty much always had a woman to take care of him.

He was very much a product of his times in that respect, but in others he was very progressive. My mom said her friends were always amazed that Dad would get up to feed the babies at night, change us, etc. A lot of men considered that strictly "women's work"

But my dad and a washing machine... It makes me laugh just to think of how that would have worked out. Probably something like that episode of the Brady Bunch with all the suds :-)


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