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I missed this Which panel are you referring to? I came to this post late.

Love it! I made myself a few of these with a key saw and a butane torch. With the Maytag low-post drive shaft it works pretty well in any of the automatics.   I did it because the first time I ever saw a Maytag washer in action I was fascinated by the fact that the agitator was completely...

Meh (an era of lousy GE DW's) A Builders' machine; better than nothing, but that isn't saying much. And it's not because of the much-maligned-Plasticsol coated tank, more the clown-shoe wash arm and the infernal noise.

The Sixties Once they changed the Center-Dial panels to gold, it was downhill from there, especially in comparison to other machines, and even then it wasn't a big fall until the family divested. They deserve respect for those plastic lid ball hinges alone.   There was something of...

I think I have the service manual for the "P"'s Check the Archive first; I may have already scanned it and submitted it to the Webmaster. While you do that, I'll look for it. Congratulations on getting this beautiful pair; I have them as well, but they aren't in anywhere near as good condition...

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...

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...

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.  ...

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...

I'm interested in the washer If this is in Connecticut, I'd appreciate an opportunity to see it and make an offer.

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...

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".

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.

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...

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...

Thanks for this Wonderful!

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...

Gee, What a magnificent beast.   Probably used by the kitchen staff of Stately Wayne Manor.

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...

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...