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That refrigerator is really beautiful!

lawrence

David and I had this same refrigerator in Harvest Gold.  We bought it used from the Salvation Army Thrift Store for about $150.00 in 1982 and used it until 1985 when it conked out. Then we treated ourselves to a  brand new Hotpoint 17 cu ft. top freezer.  Both of them were nice refrigerators, some of the last that weren’t all plastic inside.  I really  liked the two tone blue enamel interior of the Westinghouse.

Eddie

WH had very nice design and styling in the 60s-early 70s but unfortunately were not very reliable and often had performance issues like a freezer section that was never quite cold enough while the fresh food section would like to freeze the produce. 

It is always great to see one that actually survived.

John L.

An Avocado like that was seen across the street with fairly similar capacity as that one, outlasting the rest of the appliances in that house briefly replaced with a notoriously unreliable '80's Almond GE that still stuck around a similar amont of time, to see a Frigidaire or two, and now a Kenmore in the succeeding years/decade/era take its/their place...

-- Dave

John, we had a top mount Wards Signature that behaved that way.  My mom was fed up with my dad who wouldn't replace the '49 Westinghouse, which by the early '70s was woefully inadequate and the oldest fridge among those of neighbors, friends and family, so she used her own money to buy the Signature, which was billed as a 1965 model, from a co-worker.

That fridge made a real racket compared to the purr of the '49, and it froze contents in the fridge while not keeping ice cream hard in the top freezer, likely due to a single cold control.   I hated it for those reasons, and my dad hated it because the doors opened the wrong way.  I still don't know if it was a Frigidaire or Westinghouse re-badge. 

I pushed my mom into buying a low-end (but clean backed/forced draft) Coldspot 19cf side-by-side new from Sears a couple of years later.   That fridge was still running quietly and keeping perfect temperatures in both sides when she went into skilled nursing in 2008.

I don't think I'd trust any Westinghouse frost free fridge made after 1960 or so to function properly.

Hi Ralph, Your Moms would have been a WH built Wards model if it was built before around 1965, and then most Wards Refs were Admiral built [ not much better ] Frigidaire did not start making some Wards boxes till around 1970.

John L.

Many used an electric heater under the drain pan because there was no condenser fan or condenser coil under the ref to cause the water to evaporate.

It was a cheap way to build a ref, but cost a lot o run, WP and GE either had a condenser fan blowing warm air from the condenser or a pre-cooler coil under or above the water pan to cause the water to evaporate.

John L.