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I don't currently have air conditioning, and I'm staying in the lower level. It's about 82, and the humidity is 40%. I have a fan and dehumidifier, which I run while I'm here. I unplug it if I leave for any length of time. I've done this ever since my neighbor's unfortunate experience several...

I looked up the address of the Lustron house in Ft. Worth, and found a current picture of it. It's the light blue color, and still looks really good.

We had Celotex ceiling tile in our basement for many years. My dad put it up when I was about 6 or 7, so around 1962. I remember going with my parents to a place about 20 miles away to get it, then watching him put it up with the Arrow staple gun, which I still have. The tiles were stapled to...

It's supposed to be Trimline, not timeline.

1959 ad. The phone with the dial in the handset became the Timeline, after some restyling. The one shown with pushbuttons was a modified model 500. The production model released was the 1500 (10 button), then the 2500 (12 button).

Our church has a large GE window air conditioner that can sure put out some cold air. It was installed when one of the prominent church members owned a store that sold GE appliances, so would have been sometime around 1980, as they closed shortly thereafter. As for the GE central air and...

Chet, I'm not sure where I put the light. It could be at storage, or here somewhere in the basement. In addition to the integral battery packs in fixtures, there are central battery/inverter systems that provide full power to fixtures 120 or 277) of any type. They come in various capacities I'm...

Sometime back in the late 1970s I installed an emergency light in the hall by the basement stairs, and I'm thinking it was a Dual-Lite EZ-2. It lasted for about 8 years before the battery went bad. As the battery was about as expensive as a complete unit, I decided to replace the fixture. The...

That was fun to see! They were a little off when they showed the refrigerator and washer that were supposed to be 1937, as that refrigerator looks just like the 1947 Frigidaire I have. And of course, they weren't making an automatic washer that early. Would have been even better had they filmed...

As for cheese, Maytag Dairy was never part of the appliance company. They were just owned by the same family.

I've never seen one in person, only in ads. Frigidaire came out with "Tahitian Green' in 1966, and it was still featured in their ads in 1967. I'm not sure if they changed it to Avocado in 1968, or if they did so the next year. Does anyone know what the differences are in the colors, other...

They should be listed for download on Automatic Ephemera.

The line is "freestanding ranges"; there should be service manuals for one or more of the years mentioned.

Before the pull chain light socket with 3 prong receptacles, people would use one of those grounding adapters to plug a 3 wire cord into one. For some reason, my mom thought it was OK to plug a dehumidifier into one in my bedroom closet (she was usually much smarter than that). I came back...

The 1954-55-56 models are essentially the same. They are built on the same frame, and vary only slightly in trim and features. Service manuals are not issued for a specific model, but rather for all models of a particular line, such as freestanding ranges, for that year. A manual for any of...