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Hot Gas Bypass If indeed early automatic defrosting refrigerator/freezers utilized hot gas bypass for defrosting, would have to assume the change to electric heating coils was to save money and increase reliability.  Although hot gas bypass is reliably used in many refrigeration applications...

Yup Still have my Nakamichi Dragon, which continues to work like a charm.

Muntz Wasn't the Only One... That sounds like something Earl Muntz would do. LOL.  But in actuality that story is usually attributed to RCA.  The engineers would design "proper" circuits and then the "bean counters" would force them to remove components until the level of picture degredation...

Great Memories and Info from All There was no question that Zenith made the best (mechanical) TV tuner. Their Super Gold Video Guard Tuner could run circles around the competition. And Zenith's reputation for reliablity was well-deserved. But for all the hoopla surrounding "hand wired...

This ad covered just about all the washers available in 1955. http://www.classictvads.com/classicwvx1/FabDetergent1955.wvx

Precise Heating Okay, I give up.  Why specifically 163° for the wash 'n wear setting on the dryer-?  Why not 165°, fer instance-?  And perhaps more to the point, what do you suppose the deadband range of the temperature "sensor" is: ±5°, at least, I would think-?

The Shape of Tomorrow-?? How's about making that The Forward Look from our friends at Chrysler Corp, and their designer Virgil Exner - back in 1955.

This is as Vintage as I've Got - A fabulous WE 510, 2-line phone complete with metal dial, G1 handset and rubber coiled handset cord from June, 1960.  It also sports a plastic phone dialer from WSRS Radio 1490 Cleveland - "The All-American Family Station".  Needless to say it still performs...

Everything That's Old is New Again Personally I prefer the Kelvinator <span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: 'Calibri','sans-serif'; color: black;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Magic Minute Dirt Loosener</span>.</span>

Sears Ad Lines <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">And as long as we're walking down memory lane...</span>   <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Sears where America Shops</span> <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">You can't do better...

High Temperature Wash <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">I see the 1966/1967 models in the 230-volt version offer 180° high temperature wash cycle.  Nice-!</span>

Flying Spot Scanner It ain't cheap - although I honestly don't know the hourly rates, but there's always the professional route using high-quality transfer gear, such as a telecine unit with a Flying Spot Scanner or even a Spirit Scanner. You'll yield fine results with that method, but that...

Lighter Fluid I have no idea how this would work on rubber, but it has amazing qualities for removal of sticky stuff on paper, cardboard, etc. (It's an old record collectors' secret for removing markings and sticky labels from album covers, labels, even vinyl). And it's cheap.

It Really is Too Bad Bleacho's experience seems (unfortunately) to add one more nail in the coffin. In another article appearing in the NYTimes announcing the double in profits for the latest quarter (enjoy it while it lasts, Eddie) Chairman Edward Lampert argued for 'less government spending...

Boy, Does This Say it All... "Spokeswoman Kimberly Freely says the closings are part of Sears' normal operations". Precisely; that's how well-functioning businesses operate: closing down locations as management has a product/service which is unwanted by a buying public! What a joke. There's...

For the ZIp Code Nickpickers Amongst Us... It was introduced on July 1, 1963 - not 1964.

Records & Clean Clothes The AMi washer is one and the same of jukebox fame.

Picture of Richard Walton and the 'Little Washer' And here's a picture I forgot to include...

I found this in a December, 1966 Popular Mechanics Magazine article, re: inventor Richard Walton... "...A company turned down a small portable washer Walton once offered because the motor wasn't powerful enough... "His first invention was the small electric machine that washes clothes in any...

Too bad Michael Jackson isn't around to be the "spokesmodel" for this washer. Just add a few sequins to the one already being sent in for a swim and it could be a dead-ringer for the one which just sold for $350K (+ taxes/fees). Boy, what the copywriters could have done with that...