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Was Blackstone's market confined to the Northeast? I've never heard or seen them here in New Orleans.

Just wanted to find out everyones' opinion on this. Sure seems like it is,with indoor air quality concerns,the increased costs and supply concerns of natural gas and the increased sales of smooth top electrics.And I mean not right away,but maybe in the next 10-20yrs. Also I found many builders...

Sears Kenmore ranges In the late 1800s and early 1900s Sears had a stove and range foundry in Newark,Ohio named the Wehrle Company that built coal,wood,and gas stoves and heaters. Roper built Sears gas ranges for many years-who built their electrics? I think some were built by Preway.Also read...

A correction,Toggleswitch Whirlpool got into the stove business in 1952 when RCA purchased the Estate Stove Company.Estate was known as Ameica's oldest stove manufacturer. They became known as RCA Estate ranges and in 1956,when RCA merged with Whirlpool, became known as RCA Whirlpool. I...

My father worked for GE in the mid 1950s and said that GE supposedly experimentally test-marketed a GAS range in the Northeast in the 1950s,to see if one would sell under ther name.Supposedly they had one of the well-known stove manufacturers build it then put their name on it. Obviously it...

Blackstone Never heard or have seen a Blackstone machine here in New Orleans-were they a regional brand in the Northeast?

Might this be what the nw Maytags will look like? Found this on the Staber web site-looks like a modified Whirlpool dryer.

Edgestar combo. http://www.edgestar.com/wdcombo.htm

Not very familiar with Wards No Montgomery Wards in New Orleans except for a catalog store in a shopping center recently demolished. It later was moved in the mid 70s to an upper floor suite in a building that housed one of New Orleans old-line department stores(that was later bought out by...

Here's another one. Electric stove owners,eat your heart out. You can't do this.

You can't do this on electric.

Gas service in apartments in metro New Orleans n most areas of metro New Orleans,gas is not allowed to be used in apartments because of fire codes. They don't want to have a leaky pipe under a floor or in a wall in between apartments to cause an explosion. So most apartments are built all...

Some time ago,I noticed something. I looked at Frigidaire and GE top loaders(and their dryer counterparts)and also compared their exploded parts views.To me,they mechanically look almost the same(except for the positioning and type of water inlet valve). I did hear a while back that Frigidaire...

I'm noticing a trend on modern washers and dryers-most are getting away from the basic cycles and manual control and moving towards preprogammed cycles. I don't know about you ,but I don't particularly like computerized programmable washers and dryers with 50 million preprogrammed settings. Not...

1948 kenmore requirements Here's the article.

Another pic Timer closeup pic (console right).

Close up of this model's console. This model was NOT like ours.

Another Philco Bendix Automagic Here's a later model Philco Bendix. The year shown in the pic is wrong.Must be a late 1961 or early 1962 model because it has a console similar to the 1962 Philco Bendix "Miss America" model.

Duomatic consolepicture#2 Here's console (left).

1961 Duomatic console I downloaded these pictures from the website.