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A few weeks back I made a post about a Frigidaire WO-65 and a Speed queen dryer that I had acquired, but failed to make an introduction post, so now I shall do so!
My name is Elijah, I'm 28 years old and am from Wisconsin. From a young age I have been interested in antiques and mechanical things, so therefore I was always drawn to old/antique appliances. I am excited to be a part of this forum and to gain the insight and knowledge of the many people on here. I hope everybody is having an amazing day, and hopefully an amazing year!
 
Welcome, Elijah,
It's nice to know that someone young appreciates vintage products.
Those "old" products had style, were built with honest quality, and lasted for a long time.
Unlike the crap that's made today that almost everyone complains about.

My home's loaded with "vintage" quality products, and I think of the money that I've saved in the bank, for refusing to succumb to being part of the "upgrade" and "Throw Away" society.
What minor repairs or maintenance that I've had to do on a few products has saved me a ton of money.
 
Welcome to the group. I missed seeing your initial post with about the Frigidaire Washer and Speed Queen Dryer. I had spotted those on Marketplace and had messaged the seller and was told someone else was supposed to be purchasing them. I wasn't too bummed out, since I have way too many washers and dryers as it is. I just didn't want them to get scrapped. Glad they got saved. Looking forward to seeing your progress on them.

By the way, I'm over in southern Minnesota. There are several other collectors in Minnesota as well as in Iowa. Lots of knowledge on this group too.
 
countryford said:
Welcome to the group. I missed seeing your initial post with about the Frigidaire Washer and Speed Queen Dryer. I had spotted those on Marketplace and had messaged the seller and was told someone else was supposed to be purchasing them. I wasn't too bummed out, since I have way too many washers and dryers as it is. I just didn't want them to get scrapped. Glad they got saved. Looking forward to seeing your progress on them.

By the way, I'm over in southern Minnesota. There are several other collectors in Minnesota as well as in Iowa. Lots of knowledge on this group too.
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Hello fellow Midwesterner! I knew I needed to save them. Too many things end up scrapped when people give up on trying to sell what they have.
 
phillymatt53 said:
Welcome, Elijah,
It's nice to know that someone young appreciates vintage products.
Those "old" products had style, were built with honest quality, and lasted for a long time.
Unlike the crap that's made today that almost everyone complains about.

My home's loaded with "vintage" quality products, and I think of the money that I've saved in the bank, for refusing to succumb to being part of the "upgrade" and "Throw Away" society.
What minor repairs or maintenance that I've had to do on a few products has saved me a ton of money.
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I hope there are enough people my age and younger with an appreciation for the past ans antiques to preserve what is left. I know that I'm in the minority but I'd like to think there are a few others out there yet.
 
vintageteddy96 said:
Nothing built now has the style that the appliances, buildings, cars, etc. of the past had.
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Ya got THAT right!

And as I DO of course have some "modern" stuff in the house, there are the times when I enjoy "going back in time" with some of my vintage things...

I love music, so...
A little bit of Pink Floyd, or Patsy Cline, Frank Sinatra even.

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Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Patsy Cline, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme records all in my LP collection. I also have almost every color of Western Electric Bell Telephones (some rotary and some Touch Tone) 1960s and early 1970s. A 1972 avocado green Western Electric Touch Tone telephone is still in use on our kitchen wall. It looks and works perfectly. They were built to last a hundred years. Can’t do without my landline.
 
harvestgold68 said:
Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Patsy Cline, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme records all in my LP collection. I also have almost every color of Western Electric Bell Telephones (some rotary and some Touch Tone) 1960s and early 1970s. A 1972 avocado green Western Electric Touch Tone telephone is still in use on our kitchen wall. It looks and works perfectly. They were built to last a hundred years. Can’t do without my landline.
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John, my home's got quite a collection of vintage too.
About 50 vintage radios, some transistor, other tube types from as far back as early 1950s. - all restored to "like new" by me.
And I also have one vintage phone, a 1970s white touch-tone Princess, which is used quite a bit.
I even have it connected to a small tranformer to power the light inside the dial.
After all, the advertizing for it says: "It's Little, It's Lovely, It Lights!" ;)
 
harvestgold68 said:
Sinatra, Dean Martin, Perry Como, Patsy Cline, Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gorme records all in my LP collection. I also have almost every color of Western Electric Bell Telephones (some rotary and some Touch Tone) 1960s and early 1970s. A 1972 avocado green Western Electric Touch Tone telephone is still in use on our kitchen wall. It looks and works perfectly. They were built to last a hundred years. Can’t do without my landline.
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Do you happen to have a Western Electric 2851, which is the six button multi-line wall phone (Touch Tone) or the rotary dial 851? When my cousins lived in Memphis, TN in the late 70s, they had a yellow one in their kitchen, as all the appliances were Harvest. Later, the paint store I worked in had one. I always liked those.
 
phillymatt53 said:
John, my home's got quite a collection of vintage too.
About 50 vintage radios, some transistor, other tube types from as far back as early 1950s. - all restored to "like new" by me.
And I also have one vintage phone, a 1970s white touch-tone Princess, which is used quite a bit.
I even have it connected to a small tranformer to power the light inside the dial.
After all, the advertizing for it says: "It's Little, It's Lovely, It Lights!" ;)
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50 vintage radios all restored by you. Very cool! Who is (or was) a guy named Doug in Illinois who, about 10 years ago, had amassed dozens of 1960s Zenith TVs that he restored to perfection?
 
circlew said:
Do you happen to have a Western Electric 2851, which is the six button multi-line wall phone (Touch Tone) or the rotary dial 851? When my cousins lived in Memphis, TN in the late 70s, they had a yellow one in their kitchen, as all the appliances were Harvest. Later, the paint store I worked in had one. I always liked those.
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I only have single line WE telephones. I don’t have a WE 2851 but it was a very cool wall telephone design. My doctor’s office had several tan WE 2851s in the early 1970s and they rang with the Bell Chimes system. In 2015 I bought a vintage 1970 Bell Chimes kit that was never used and had my local Verizon tech try to hook it to my 1972 WE and it did not work. He then called his retired father who was a Bell Tel installer in the 1970s and they tried everything but the Bell Chimes system would not work. So back in the original boxes they went and stay put in my den.
 
harvestgold68 said:
50 vintage radios all restored by you. Very cool! Who is (or was) a guy named Doug in Illinois who, about 10 years ago, had amassed dozens of 1960s Zenith TVs that he restored to perfection?
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Well Mike, those 50 radios in my home are nothing compared to the countless thousands of radios, phonos, tape decks, car radios, and stereos that I restored for customers over the decades, among other things at the repair shop.
 

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