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    how much do you think a ge filter flo washer dryer set like this would be worth today?

    If it's the washer model WWA-8500 N, a lot It's hard to tell from the screenshot. It would have AMERICANA on the panel over the Water Level dial.   We owned this machine briefly. What was great about it was that it had a complete dispensing system so you could load the machine, set it for an...
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    It's Miele Time In Canada

    An "infamia" Sadly, what you're saying is that an upright European brand has adopted the current USA business philosophy of planned obsolescence via bad/insufficient service. Pity. None of this BS would be accepted in Germany.   I suspected as much when the current dumbed-down Miele American...
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    It's Miele Time In Canada

    Mieles are the best I have that dryer; it's my daily driver. It's the most accurate, quietest and most user friendly dryer I've ever experienced. I hand iron my bed sheets and the Damp-Dry settings are very precise. I think the machine is more than 30+ years old but it is still going strong.  ...
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    Discontinued detergents/products that you remember

    I will always miss Dash As mentioned in the post above, the detergent scent took me back home in the sixties. For a while, Tide with Bleach had the same scent but they kept changing it. Dash was a great detergent that would have had a future but P&G had to make all of its vintage brands into...
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    Frigidaire washer and Roper range

    I'm interested in the washer If this is in Connecticut, I'd appreciate an opportunity to see it and make an offer.
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    Free Vintage L&H Stainless Wall Oven (SF Bay Area CL)

    Where's the built-in obsolesence when you need it? My Uncle and his partner had this L&H oven that was part of an early Fifties kitchen.  There were also two L&H twin thick coil burner cooktops and one of those early Fifties GE refrigerator/freezers with the semi-circular metal shelves that...
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    Kitchen Features Of The 1960s

    Yes, thank you for posting this. Some of those images made my heart ache with what I can only describe as homesickness.   I keep thinking about that Margaret Mitchell line, "...look for them only in books for they are gone with the wind".
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    Vintage Norge Fridge & Gas Range

    Yes, but... That's a very skilled application of a vintage pattern called "Cracked Ice". That might be the original finish on the stove but likely not the icebox. I remember that contact paper and Formica from the Sixties had that pattern in different colors.
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    Name That Refrigerator!

    And it fit perfectly in the space made for previous fridge without an inch to spare. The previous fridge was an early Fifties "Lucy Ricardo" model (same vintage as the kitchen {it even had the pass-thru}). This was the refrigerator in my Parents' last house. They loved it; it lasted for more...
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    Got myself a new GE for free

    Mes deux centimes I'd liked to have asked GE why Australian and Canadian versions of Filter-Flo's were made with cool white and blue porcelain washbaskets when most of our US GE's had the cheaper-looking speckled gray ones. Somehow the foreigners just look better made.   My sister and...
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    GE Agitator

    Easy This GE Activator known as the "Straight-6" was designed primarily for a larger Mini-Basket with less consideration for the machine as a conventional washer (although I wonder if they didn't switch to this straight-vaned agitator to help them claim a larger capacity from less water...
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    Large GE range

    Gee, What a magnificent beast.   Probably used by the kitchen staff of Stately Wayne Manor.
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    Questions about a Waste-King dishwasher

    Interesting racks; nice front/control panels The bottom rack looks like the kind of racks used in Pull-out dishwashers. Why is the bottom rack hanging on the top rack runners?   Also, how are those wood panels secured to the door? I like that there's no visible metal trim, but usually that's...
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    GE Filter Flow

    Not bad for a ~35 year old machine Here in CT, a store called Caldor's had GE's with this styling (with wood grain "touches", yickk) and that washbasket with the weird perforations (I'm not a hydrodynamics expert but would the pattern ever make a difference?)   Still, if you are a FF fan, you...
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    Samsung and Patagonia??

    Interesting article but I will never buy a Front Loader without a pump filter access door. https://www.fastcompany.com/90904159/why-patagonia-helped-samsung-redesign-the-washing-machine"
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    Do maytag A608 clean just as good as a direct drive Kenmore/Whirlpool ?

    Respect must be paid In my humble opinion:   The Maytag family won US service awards for aircraft parts that helped the WWII effort; don't forget the significance of that when talking about their appliances which were some of the finest stuff the US has had to offer. And Maytag made and sold...
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    GE Dishwasher

    Looks more like "Brushed Chrome" That basic design of  GE FL dishwasher was around for many years; some of the iterations were MOL's and different panels, including Stainless Steel and Brushed Chrome were available. This one has/had a Rinse Agent Dispenser; looks like they misplaced the cap...
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    05.28.23 P.O.D.

    That Hamilton Woman Yes, a quick plug for one of my heroes, the late great Margaret Hamilton.   That said, we moved into a farm house once (heaven) that had a 1953 Frigidaire Unimatic Custom Imperial and one of the first Hamilton electric dryers. I was too young and too callow to appreciate...
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    Hotpoint 40” Harvest Gold - $40 - Lakeland

    Difference? They weren't even trying here. The only things I can spot are that they used the Hotpoint-style knobs and I think I can make out a "Hotpoint" badge.
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