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Had they been GE I'd have voted for Cadet Blue . . .

Cool Microwave . . . What a shame Hoover never saw fit to sell their famous Keymatic washing machine here in the US, just imagine a house with both a Menu-Matic in the kitchen and a Keymatic in the laundry and drawers of dedicated little cards to operate them.

For a number of years we had a dedicated fax line which was handy for business but fewer and fewer people use faxes so dumped it and tried to do an internet line instead. It didn't work well, or more to the point didn't work at all, so we simply abandoned faxes.   We are down to one AT&T...

I haven't posted a pic in several weeks but last time definitely did delete and repost a couple of times. Between posts the photo was edited in Paintshop Pro to get the resolution/photo size correct; there was no trouble deleting and reposting using Firefox under Win 7 64 bit so possibly Ken's...

"mountains of lasting suds" That line just makes me giggle, what vintage American sitcom didn't have a sudsy laundry disaster at some point! Maybe Dexter made some surreptitious trips to the studios during his formative years . . .

Nice . . . No wonder you're tickled pink!

If I were shopping for a dishwasher in the period and confronted with two or three identical machines with different branding I would surely pay extra for the one with the starbust on the control panel!

suburbanmd . . . That’s an interesting Portland newspaper article you linked, what it describes is exactly what happens after storms in many places where too much stormwater gets into the sanitary sewer: gross pollution of the ocean, and now there are lawsuits to force improvements at a huge...

wayupnorth . . . Is your niece's local water and sewer department aware that her gutters drain into the sanitary sewer? Normally this is a big no-no, if everyone's gutters were connected this way a major storm could easily cause the total flow to exceed the input capacity of the sewage...

Are You Sure . . . That your hubby really was play acting for an Oscar? He might have just been bowled over by the sheer turquoise beauty of that refrigerator. No doubt I'm not alone here in saying it would have made me weak at the knees to bask in the reflections!   Remember that if no...

I would gently suggest . . . That if hubby does indeed need a few martinis to see the indisputable logic to your ways that those martinis be made with Bombay Sapphire and served in a slightly blue tinted martini glass thus giving the drink a nice turquoise glow that will add a bit of subliminal...

Wish it were mine too . . . That is a stunningly beautiful refrigerator!

Installing a simple gas line extension usually requires a licensed plumber and an over-the-counter permit with subsequent inspection by Building and Safety, though of course plenty of homeowners, handymen and plumbers just do it unofficially.   There is no prohibition to installing a gas line...

I wouldn’t find it odd to see an old Servel installed in a garage. Heaters, water heaters and dryers were commonly installed in garages; running a new gas line from one of them to the refrigerator would have cost very little. Servels were famously long-lived and reliable refrigerators, my great...

Nifty article, thanks for the link.

What a shame no washer manufacturer picked this up for a TOL model! I’d just love to see a console that said “transistorized” in backlit script beneath a row of chrome plated buttons for every possible cycle . . .

When I was a child my grandmother had a Frigidaire MOL washer from the mid '60s and an RCA Whirlpool bottom freezer refrigerator, both in yellow. How I wish I had that washer today!

"washing machine lid to repair a fender " Gotta love that! Now if it was a proper old-school lid with a porcelain enamel finish he could guarantee that part of the fender would never rust out. No doubt it would help if the Nova in question was white, harvest, or coppertone . . .

d-j . . . That Maytag panel looks really, really good! What kind of paint did you use?

Gorgeous . . . Nothing like turquoise and chrome to spiff up any laundry room!