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Post# 1147680   4/29/2022 at 09:22 (727 days old) by Mrsalvo (New Braunfels Texas)        

Philco washers were not very common, think I saw only 1 or 2 when I was a kid back in the 60’s. Was wondering who was their distribution network, who sold them? I do not recall seeing them in any Dept store. I know they were tied to the Ford Motor Co.
I recall seeing one in a household, again as a young kid. My most vivid memory of them was at a large laundrymat around 1965-66 on the edge of a town we commuted through. We stopped in and I looked inside the washers expecting to see a Frigidaire or something, it was NOT. The agitator was so totally different I couldn’t figure out how it worked, thought maybe it might go up-and-down like a said Frigidaire! The column of the agitator was just a stainless steel thin post with round top, with the business end of it rubber....and there wasn’t much of that either. A person could wash more clothes in it as it didn’t have any sort of sizeable shaft. It blew my mind!!!!
That was the only laundrymat I ever saw that had them. It was located in California.

Thoughts?

Barry





Post# 1147683 , Reply# 1   4/29/2022 at 10:33 (727 days old) by DADoES (TX, U.S. of A.)        

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Family friends had one in the late 1960s into the 70s.  I peeped in a couple times when it was running.  The agitator cap was a top-hat kind of design and was stationary but the water and clothes were roiling furiously.  I was mystified how that could work.  One of my first questions was about it when I joined-up to the early Yahoo group.  Mystery solved!


Post# 1147689 , Reply# 2   4/29/2022 at 12:59 (727 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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