Recent content by jamiel

Did this perhaps come out of the Quebec Electrolux plant near Montreal (which closed in the last 10 years)?

I did. A shared house on Dixmyth just north of the hospital, then an apartment a couple blocks further west on Dixmyth down the hill.

and with a little work looks like Minneapolis was a Seeger/WP refrigerator plant.

That looks like an interesting combination of stuff---locally sourced refrigerators; that narrow-looking stove may be from Canada or Australia (likely not coming from the US), spinner definitely locally sourced, dishwasher and the big washer/dryer from Dayton....

This was an amazing technology for its time. Problem is that it wasn't very adaptable to wider slots (so bagels are a problem both because of thickness and the sensor seems to target the hole...). There was one in the condo we bought....I had the realtor hide it at our walkthrough...lol

Saw an interesting advertisement on a FB group that popped up in my feed on WT Grant. In 1966, it looks like WT Grant acknowledged that: Refrigerators/Freezers sourced from St. Cloud, MN (Studebaker-Franklin) Washers/Dryers from Webster City, IA (ditto) Other appliances from Minneapolis...

Another couple of things to check: Chambers made/labeled refrigerators in the mid-to-late 50s but was more of a Southern brand. Sears (and perhaps Wards---don't quite recall) also had some of those types of built-in refrigerators in the same period----take a look at the catalogues which are...

I think you are going to have to -not- snap the towels between taking them out of the Samsung and putting them into the dryer----just bung the lot in to get a fair comparison. I'd bet that is 3/4 of the answer there----from TL to dryer, each towel gets opened up/shaken out. In the all-in-one...

Rikes/Shillito Rikes sold major appliances at least until 1987...their warehouse store wasn't far from where I lived in Cincinnati in grad school and had rows and rows of returns. Don't think it was much after that that they discontinued them, though.

Fascinating how pricing differed depending on the distance from the plants....

I'd be tempted if I was going to be in town for the end of the auction. Love me some phosphates!

Imagine there are pushbuttons (5 per element; plus the OFF button) somewhere on that backsplash. Keyboard at that point....

I would be rather skeptical about finding the Thermador version of that (recall that Thermador was LA based and it would be quite unusual to have something as big/bulky shipped cross-country) and concentrate instead on (as mentioned) Sub-Zero (Wisconsin) or Revco (built in Deerfield, MI). You...

No, they want a Frigidaire refrigerator because that is what the family had in their kitchen. As mentioned upthread, they are having the daughter consult on the exhibit to get it right.

intrigued that WP's fetish for un-customized bottom racks (bed of nails all over) got this early start and was a feature to be touted---they have continued 50 years later!