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Apparently that particular product is made by a specific third party producer and that producer has decided it's too much trouble to make any longer. Ronzoni is now part of a group of companies under the same parent company ownership with sister brands like San Giorgio and Prince. I think a...

I too am cursed with an overly sensitive nose and notice that same issue with eggs and raw poultry (chicken and turkey) whether washed in the DW or by hand in the sink. We have soft city water so it isn't the water heater or the water or it would happen all the time. my solution is to keep a...

That pic of the City of Paris tree and rotunda was stunning. Another store famous for its holiday windows was the iconic, and now sadly defunct Lord & Taylor. People would line up on Fifth Avenue for hours just to look. And in typical L&T fashion, someone brought out complimentary coffee to...

Saw the windows at Bergdorf Goodman last week when I went in for the Radio City Christmas Show and they were magnificent as always! Saks flagship Fifth Avenue store still also has beautiful windows and they have the light show on the front of the Fifth Avenue facade across from Rockefeller...

And let's not forget the brief and not so successful 1997 introduction of Jenn-Air washers and dryers. Those were nothing more than rebadged Magic Chef/Norge units but were meant to capitalize on the Jenn-Air name since at that time, Jenn-Air was still considered more upscale. Apparently that...

I definitely agree with the durability comment. I had one of those from 1997-2000 and while it performed well enough, it felt much flimsier than its Filter Flo predecessor, and I didn't notice that it's performance was that much better then the unit it replaced. I ended up with on-going...

Cheer powder is still available on line at WalMart.com at least as of yesterday, so you can order it. However, it smells nothing like the original Cheer from the 50's through the late 80's.

Early Philco Bendix models, like the Automatic and up through the design change of the wash plate, cleaned well. When the wash plate was redesigned and capacity increased, the wash plate was more curved downward like a helmet as opposed to the earlier wavy plates. According to Consumer...

Let's see: poor general washing practices - not sorting, improper water temp, bargain detergents that don't really do anything (but insisting that they are as good as Tide or Persil), excessive use of heavily fragranced detergents, liquid fabric softeners, dryer sheets and scent beads...

Definitely Philco from the mid-late 60's, but a lower end model since there is no fabric softener dispenser and the loading port is white instead of the speckled robin's egg blue as on the higher end models.

I have used liquid starches like Linit (a Best Foods brand sold primarily in the East), StaFlo, which is now a Henkel brand (and combined the East Coast StaFlo and West Coast Vano brands) as well as Faultless brand which has apparently been discontinued. I had decent results with all of them...

Did a little research and found out that apparently several local branded markets are already part of Albertsons/Kroger, so my statement that Albertsons won't be in Connecticut was kind of off base. First off, there is a New Jersey based group of markets, known as King's which has been part of...

Interesting about Shaws/Star. Sometime in the 90's, Shaws made a half hearted attempt to enter the Southern Connecticut market. I say half hearted because they mostly just took over abandoned Grand Union and Finast/Edwards stores, and just slapped their nameplate on the store - no clean up or...

The "ultra powders" that were first introduced in 1990 or so did contain phosphates depending on where they were distributed in the US. The boxes usually said something like "if the code on top of the box begins with P, then it contained x% phosphorus. If the code begins with 0, then there was...

Glad to help with the information. I guess one of the reasons we can't find NuSoft in any store is that there is a limited market for anything that doesn't overwhelm with a heavy scent (or something that isn't constantly being remarketed as new), combined with limited shelf space and the sheer...

You could order some NuSoft from the Malco Products (based in Barberton, Ohio) website. I don't often use fabric softener, except on fleeces since they are synthetic and this really helps with the static and the cat hair that my sister manages to bring here from her house. Like you. I was...

I have the AWN432 Model and that particular issue, along with the ridiculous low level full fill (only comes up to the bottom of the third row of holes from the top) are the most frustrating things. First, your cycle choices are few and the only two that offer regular agitation speed are the...

To clarify, I meant the GE Filter Flo generation of washers, not the new GEs. And the sound of my Speed Queen doesn't bother me at all. Very smooth...

Probably an unpopular opinion but I hated the noise of the Kenmores from the late 50s through the mid 60's. We had a 1958 Lady Kenmore and a 1966 middle of the line model that my parents bought at a Sears "scratch and dent" outlet in 1969 (apparently they sold older models that weren't...

Wow - what a find. And in gas no less - If I am not mistaken, the 1963 model gas dryers still had standing pilot lights but my memory may be faulty there. Any Philco is a rare, almost impossible find. They just weren't a big name in laundry. Never saw one before moving from NY to...