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This week, we go Back to The Future to see what life might be like in 1985 from the vantage of Whirlpool's 1964 World's Fair exhibit. Not just appliances, WP had numerous government contracts at the time in other interests, such as defense, space and even ag. Their Tectrol division was...

I’m needing to make a little room, so this 1961 GE Combo must go. Figured I’d offer it here before the usual places. I bought this from Kevin almost 10 years ago now and in that time replaced hoses and brought it up to snuff. It has not had a mechanical restoration but does wash and dry as it...

Very interesting! Lots of folks (myself included) have been disappointed with LEDs to the point that there's a very lucrative market for NOS incandescents. The Restores I frequent have figured this out and jacked prices accordingly. Ebay is even worse (ex. a 4pk of GE Reveal 100w sold for $31...

I, too, was curious about the fate of that golden dryer. It seems like WP (understandably) chose to focus on Marion as the news story. And considering the growth and chaos from '55-57 with mergers, acquisitions, and production changes, there were plenty of other exciting things taking precedence...

Being May is Maytag Month, it seemed only fitting to track down the oldest working Maytag washer in Canada...(if it were 1960). Wonder whatever happened to it?

Here's a fun one! Follow along with the production of the last dryer produced at Whirlpool's St. Joseph, MI factory. Dec 1956.

I think what some folks refer to as orange are really classified as yel/amber. This is what GM used in the late 70's on their high-end radios, then adopted by Cadillac in 1980+ for the Climate Control and Fuel Data displays. "Fun" fact, those displays were made by HP. Prior to that it was...

Reply #16 One thing I find myself doing while restoring these films is doing a little digging on the people and places captured. This building is one of them, and it still exists! I've attached a link as it's a fascinating story...

This week's special is “The Los Angeles Story”. This marketing film was put together to give Maytag dealers’ a little shot in the arm on the rollout of the new Highlander models in glamorous LA. Wouldn’t it be great to find one of those motorized displays stashed in a store attic?

I just scanned some fun 30 second TV ads for KitchenAid's new KD-14 series, with "king size capacity". Sorry for the corner watermark, my vids have been growing legs lately. Despite the rather avante garde control panel (let's work a rhombus in here), I actually really like these. Get the...

In the last 20 years, POTS lines slowly transitioned to VOIP at local cabinets (without advertising as such), but still had the benefit of battery backup. So you had some recourse from cell phone tower lockup during emergencies up until the batteries expired. In the last 12 months, Verizon has...

"seems to one above and beyond any handshake agreement in workings of Whirlpool" That struck me as unusual, too. Though those are the words out of the Sears' representatives mouth when he awarded the Sears Excellence Award to the St. Joe division in 1965. And it was repeated prior by Elisha...

This week's film is from Maytag, pushing the advantages of *fully-automatic* clothes drying with their new Halo of Heat model with electronic sensing. I believe that puts this film right around 1960. Run time is approximately 5 minutes.

Reply #36: If that's true, I'd love to see some proof, and I do mean that in the most earnest way. Google is silent on the matter, but I'd think it would be disclosed in an annual report some place, especially if controlling interest. Adding to the complication was WP's mergers and...

The story of the WP/Sears relationship is actually quite interesting. (Films are in the queue!) The CNBC link is a little misleading; Sears never really owned part of WP, but they did agree to a mutually-beneficial business relationship. In 1921, Sears approached Upton Machine for a large order...

What to do with those commercial shorts that don't warrant a "major release"? Friday Film Bonus! Here's a fun ad from 1970 for the GE folks...

Don't you just love the rough pine board stuck in there with the knot in the end? Ha!

New this week from The Appliance Archive, it's the story of the 1957 Kenmore Turbo-Matic washer/dryer. I have a hunch Whirlpool wasn't waiting around for Sears to pitch the idea to them, but it's still a fun plot. If you're a Kenmore fan, it doesn't get much better than this.

Only pure, rich, lively suds! LOL Not only an entertaining video, but a real boat-load of work to put together. My hat's off to you!

2 Words: Daniel Krumm The poor decisions Tom mentions were only some of Krumm's bright ideas. He was a CEO in the modern sense: product, history, reputation, people, all expendable if it meant short term profit and happy shareholders. Fred II had battled cancer for almost 2 years when he...