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YES! And still worked!!

I belong to a Mid Century Modern group on Facebook and a member there showed a picture of not only her vintage NuTone hood over the stove, but also a Frigidaire range whose design looks just like the control tower washers with the way the clock is positioned on the top left hand corner. It was...

The classic Kmart (think the big red K and turquoise mart) sold GE appliances in the 70s. I remember seeing the filter flo washer and matching dryer and the GE refrigerators and ranges being sold there. Their appliance departments were usually along the back wall near the layaway department and...

Grant's did indeed have an in store restaurant called Bradford House. The one in the town I grew up in served everything on real china and I remember the food being so good. I felt like I was eating in a fancy restaurant when Mom would take me there to go shopping and then eat lunch

The first hotel I worked at had one of those in the laundry. Ours wasn't coin operated. We just set the dial for the cycle, hit the start button, and off she went. It made those banging sounds when it went into spin and that buzz whenever it switched directions during the wash. It could clean...

A Frigidaire 1-18 set. Preferably in Poppy or White. Speed Queen set with the banging solenoids as it switches from agitate to spin. Had to give up my A412 when I moved as my SO already had a washer and dryer in the house and moving what I did across country was NOT cheap

An avocado green Speed Queen dryer. The ignitor kept going bad on it. We even had a backup burner system ready to be put in, it finally went to the scrappers. Mom got tired of it going out all the time

I remember Kmart selling GE washers and dryers at one point in time

My sister had an RCA washer that was very much along the lines of a GE Filter Flo. She bought it new and got a good 8 years out of it before passing it down to my niece for her first home. It lasted another 3 years after that

We had this machine in Coppertone. Mom bought it from a used appliance dealer for 75 bucks....I remember it having the gold agitator with the fabric softener dispenser on top of it. When she used it, Mom always used the "B" cycle. Our house was old and the hot water pressure to the basement was...

This might not belong in this forum but Im willing to take a shot! When I was cleaning in my laundry area, I noticed that some fabric softener had somehow dribbled onto the top of my dryer, I immediately wiped it off but it left behind some faint blue stains where the drops had landed....ACKK...

owners manual I just need to find an owners manual or use and care guide (whatever they call them nowadays). And Im on the lookout for a DE412 to go with my machine....(knock on wood) my Kenmore dryer is still plugging along even though it has its moments!

I love my good ole A412. Got her almost a year ago to replace a dd 90 series Kenmore and I havent regretted it!! My clothes are cleaner, dont have a problem washing heavy bedspreads in it like I did with the Kenmore...never a problem with it walking or becoming out of balance! I would rather...

Lesto that was what was on our machine was Wizard Citation. Of course ours was newer than 57 but still it was a workhorse....we must have gotten lucky on that one....going through a famiy of 12 doing laundry pretty much every day and it plugged along.....what wasnt drying in the dryer went on...

an afterthought maybe...just MAYBE, one of those machines is still out there somewhere, waiting to be claimed and restored....now THAT would be a Holy Grail machine in my book