Recent content by circlew

Automatic Washer - The world's coolest Washing Machines, Dryers and Dishwashers

Help Support AutomaticWasher.org:

  1. C

    Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-two

    The proper way to provide power to such an item is to install a floor receptacle, which is best done when building or doing major renovations. These are commonly used in libraries, offices, and such places. Running a cord under a rug is not recommended, and is a well known cause of fires. My...
  2. C

    Vintage Food Advertisements: Part Twenty-five

    I saw a "Pie-Oh-My" baking sheet at our historical museum recently. I can't remember if it was in our collection, or something we had out for our yard sale.
  3. C

    Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-two

    That Proctor Roast-or-Grille look like it was probably made by Westinghouse. The lid and handles are exactly the same.
  4. C

    Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-one

    Peter Pan was a show I always looked forward to when I was little. I think I was 4 the first time I saw it.
  5. C

    Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-one

    I remember seeing AMC (Associated Merchandising Corp.) appliances at Shillito's downtown store. They also sold GE at the time, and even as a kid I thought the AMC models looked cheap in comparison.
  6. C

    I'm so in love..

    It's from between 1959 and 1963. Anything earlier had a round clock, and after had a grounded receptacle on backsplash. The model and serial number will tell the details.
  7. C

    Frigidaire/Holden stove/oven in Victoria

    It looks narrow, like it's a 24" wide unit. I don't remember it being in the catalog when I worked at a Frigidaire dealer in the late 1970s. It must have been discontinued in the US by then.
  8. C

    Modern Living: Part Seventeen

    When I worked at a paint and wallcovering store around 1990, we sold Hunter Douglas Flexalum blinds. We also sold a couple other brands, but these were the best. Most people ordered the 1" mini blinds, but we also had 1.5" and 2" wide versions.
  9. C

    NORGE 20lb SET

    I very rarely ate any paste. From what I can find out, white school paste was usually make from wheat flour or cornstarch, sugar, water, and possibly alum and clove or mint oil. Nothing that would make anyone seriously I'll.
  10. C

    NORGE 20lb SET

    That's what we thought, too, and the janitor was none too pleased. However, we did go out to the playground for an unplanned recess.
  11. C

    NORGE 20lb SET

    My friend and classmate in elementary school, Mary Jo W., would eat her paste. In second grade we usually did art things in the afternoon, however one day were doing such right before lunch. She, Mrs. Morton (teacher), and the entire class regretted her appetizer of paste before her lunch of...
  12. C

    Here's one you don't see much of anymore

    Sunday afternoon I went to a car show at my sister's church. They had about 60 cars on display, mainly from the 50s to 70s, but a few as old 1927, and new as 2000. Saw a really nice 68 Chevrolet Malibu, a 66 El Camino, and a 57 Bel Air. Also saw a 56 Chevrolet Townsman station wagon, but it was...
  13. C

    Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Thirty-one

    I've never had a Stromberg Carlson radio, but the elementary school I went to had a PA system by them. Their telephone division became Comdial, which is now Cortelco.
  14. C

    Kmart Grand Opening in 1975

    I don't remember cabinets and countertops in any K-Mart I was ever in. The appliances in the ones around here were GE if I remember correctly - don't think I ever saw Frigidaire there. My parents bought a Kodak slide projector at one of the first of their stores in the Cincinnati area sometime...
Back
Top