Recent content by norgenocker

there may have been one, but I haven't found a reference here to Mad Men's Betty Draper and her Maytag moment. Anyone watch the show? It's a great yellow pair, presumably 1960 or so models....

how did it work, exactly?

I noticed the picture of the day--a 1963 Westy slant-front. (Not that I wouldn't kill to have one, or even have a chance to see one, but it looks a bit like an old lady trying to dress too young.) What year did Westinghouse drop the slant-front design and go to the flat-front? What year did the...

beautiful--- growing up had a GE dishwasher with that control--loud, as they all were back then. But I loved going to sleep to that distant roar--

I am weeping, I am pea-green with envy-- so many overwhelming emotions. It is just too much. I swear I could sit on that agitator, but I'm not even sure that water or Tide or clothes should ever even touch it, or that it should even Roto-Swirl an inch. Congratulations, Robert--who better to...

very interesting, thanks Lawrence-- so maybe "Coldspot" was inspired by "Hotpoint", not the other way around--

Meteors and Monarchs The Meteor started out as the Mercury 114--basically a 114"-wheelbase Ford with Mercury grille, later with Merc dash etc--something cheaper for Canadian Lincoln-Mercury dealers to sell. Then for something ritzier for Ford dealers there was the Monarch--a Mercury with...

derivation of "Hotpoint" do we think it was inspired by "Coldspot"? I've always wondered if it was. Serious research needed--inquiring minds want to know. Great videos--we had a HP d/w, with the chrome knob with red center--always wanted to see that impeller in action but never could make the...

"Appliance Division May Be Sold By G.E.": Headline in today's NYT Business Section. Is nothing sacred?

so my dream of someday finding a never-used ca. 1955 Westy with a box of All in it is not impossible?

HE detergent-- I use All 3x "Small & Mighty Free & Clear" HE in my Bosch Axxis--it works well--although at first I had trouble with the condensation dryer (matching Axxis) not drying well, but that was my fault. I was using too much HE, not believing that only a little more than half of that...

my ASKO dishwasher cleaned incredibly well compared to the Miele it was replaced with (HATE that top silver drawer) --BUT it only lasted 6 years--and in those 6 years the "motherboard" or whatever it was called had to be replaced. Bought Bosch washer & dryer rather than ASKO because I felt...

I think I watched the same bra sit on the top for five minutes.

Great ad--OK, OK, I'm convinced that the Blackstone is the the world's best everything. On a more serious note, I think it is a shame that Lucy McGillicuddy Ricardo had an "Epernay" up on 68th Street rather than a Blackstone, considering that she and the "World's Finest Automatic" were born in...

I was just in Home Depot and peered in the glass window of new Maytag top loader--huge tub, with only the tiniest thing you might call an agitator at the bottom. How does this machine work?