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Yes, the store started in the late 1940s in their home on Red Bank Rd. Later on, Mr. and Mrs. Swallen lived above the Wooster Pike store where appliances were sold. One of my neighbors worked at Strietmann, and knew them, as he bought numerous items from them. Even though we lived 20+ miles...

Swallen's - now that's a store I miss! They had just about anything. I loved to go there. If your washer was purchased there in 1960, that would have been at the Wooster Pike store. I remember going there with my parents about that time to buy a Westinghouse dehumidifier, that lasted until well...

It would be more wasteful if they made me sick, or spoiled my appetite for the other food I was having.

As for cellphone use, one of the reasons I stopped associating with a certain friend was his obsession with looking at it. We would go to a restaurant, and he would have it out over half the time. Between that and his obsessive hate for someone he didn't even know, I had enough, so no longer see...

I don't understand why anyone needs a special cleaner for either dishwashers or clothes washers. My mom had two front load, and one top load washers. We also had two dish machines. None of them got nasty odors. Then again, she used good detergent and hot water, and didn't close them until they...

I almost always eat all my food, unless I'm feeling ill. Occasionally I'll buy something that sounds good, but when I begin eating it, am not pleased with the taste. I recently got a can of baked beans that I thought I'd like, but the flavor was not something I cared for. I ate part of them, and...

Unfortunately, the original post is from 2012, and the last time Mike P. was on here was in January 2014.

My neighbor Thelma got a 24" set in the Toast color about 1985-1986. The dryer was electric. These replaced the late 1960s GE Versatronic set. By that time, their youngest daughter was a senior in high school, and the older two were married.

My first cellphone was a Kyocera (on Verizon), bought about 2005. I really liked it, and even named it Kyo. I rarely used it at home, as I had a landline, but was nice when I was out somewhere, and needed to make a call.

I've noticed that the neighbor without a dishwasher has Pyrex that is over 60 years old, and still looks new - no fading of the color finish. The same with her Regal cookware. Another neighbor (now deceased) who also did hand dishwashing had new looking 50 year old Pyrex and Ekco Flint cookware...

It was a GE from around 1965. Not sure what was done with it, as that was over 25 years ago. I think it was out of order. Cabinets went to basement and garage.

There are lots of houses in this area that had, and still have, Scheirich cabinets. A local dealer sold them for many years. They were a good line of "stock" cabinetry, but Kemper was their better line. Custom cabinets from Mutschler Brothers or Coppes-Napanee were considered as top of the line.

I had a rather expensive GE that I bought around 2006, and the interior started to rust about a year later. Then it blew up a couple years after. My current MW, a cheap Sunbeam I got on sale at Target three years ago has a couple small spots, but nothing major.

There are at least three houses I know of in my block that don't have dishwashers. When my neighbor Marilynn and her late husband renovated their kitchen they took out the machine that was there when they moved in. They preferred the cabinet space.

Barbara Hale was also in "Higher and Higher", a 1943 RKO Radio Picture starring Frank Sinatra.