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Thread Number: 89275
/ Tag: Vintage Automatic Washers
"Midnight Cowboy" laundromat washers |
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| Post# 1138708 1/8/2022 at 04:08 (839 days old) by toploadloyalist (San Luis Obispo, CA) | ||
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I'm watching "Midnight Cowboy" on Flix, and I've just seen the laundromat scene. What model were those washers there? | ||
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Post# 1138847 , Reply# 1 1/9/2022 at 17:49 (837 days old) by WhiteWhiskers  (Silicon Valley, California) |
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Westinghouse Commercial Laundromats. Rico distracts woman so that he can place Joe Buck's clothes into the washer. Joe sits naked in a chair wrapped in a blanket, waiting for his clean clothes.
I grew up with Westinghouse Laundromats. Around the mid 1960's the washer was failing regularly. The final straw was when it flooded the whole downstairs because a piece of plastic tubing pulled off the water fill pressure switch. We got new Westinghouse top loaders in avocado, the one with a weigh-to-save lid. The lid would lock during a spin and a few minutes after the cycle ended. If you pulled up on the locked lid it would make a loud buzz sound. | ||
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Post# 1138849 , Reply# 2 1/9/2022 at 17:57 (837 days old) by peteski50 (New York) |
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Post# 1138850 , Reply# 3 1/9/2022 at 18:11 (837 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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| Post# 1138865 , Reply# 4 1/9/2022 at 20:21 (837 days old) by toploadloyalist (San Luis Obispo, CA) | ||
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"Joe Buck naked" I guess that's where the term "buck naked" comes from! ;) | ||
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Post# 1138894 , Reply# 5 1/10/2022 at 08:47 (836 days old) by WhiteWhiskers (Silicon Valley, California) |
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two more pictures
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| Post# 1139573 , Reply# 6 1/17/2022 at 04:30 (830 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.) | ||
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Post# 1139689 , Reply# 7 1/18/2022 at 02:30 (829 days old) by mrboilwash (Munich,Germany) |
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Liquids only
Put powders through door probably means it`s ok to add liquid additives like bleach or softener through the designated hole as not to mess up the washer as it is in picture # 1.
What I never get is how could a run down place like this have been in business? Of course those washers were old in 1969 when the movie was made, but for heaven`s sake is it so difficult to use a wet sponge or whatever it takes to clean the exterior of this poor washer? | ||
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