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Nice machine! Rather different looking from the range LG sells in the US. I love my LG washer and dryer--best wishes on yours!

RCA Waaaayyyyy back in the day, RCA had a home appliance line called Estate, which they sold off to Whirlpool in the 50s. part of the deal gave Whirlpool the rights to market their appliances as RCA-Whirlpool through the mid-60s. In the mid-80s GE bought RCA (GE and Westinghouse had...

Reefers and draws I've long heard of commercial-type refrigeration units being called "reefers". Refrigerated trucks especially, and sometimes walk-in coolers. (My dad did some truck driving, so that's the lion's share of my reference base.) Never heard anyone call the home appliance a...

Jet Dry We have a 2009 KA near-TOL, with stainless tub. Always use a tab detergent (Finish Power Ball or Quantum, or sometimes Cascade) and Jet Dry. The Jet Dry Turbo does leave plastic items a bit drier. The one thing that I have found is that if I spill a bit of rinse agent when filling...

I'm sure you made a sound choice on the Maytag. My mom's first DW was a MOL Maytag from the very late 70s or very early 80s, and it lasted for at least 20 years. Maytags of that era were "upside down"...plates went on top, glasses on bottom, but the washing results were great. We had a much...

Lint You are right, nmassman44! By their nature, terry towels will shed a lot of lint the first several times through the wash. I learned long ago not to mix loads of my good towels because they come out covered with contrasting lint. I have a couple sets of super thick Ralph Lauren towels...

FL pedestal/drawer bases I'm on my second pair of LG WM0642 washer and matching electric dryer (first pair stayed with the house when we moved); second pair in use since 12/2009. The first pair didn't have the pedestals because the dealer was ignorant and/or unhelpful regarding the height and...

Underloading Underloading is a completely foreign concept to me. Even before water shortages became a problem in my hometown, my parents were VERY frugal with water, and I was well-trained to match the load to the water level. It was only well into adulthood that I realized other people had a...

Lint filters My LG front loader (WM0642) has a catcher basket that pulls out from the lower front of the machine (not the washing compartment, it's accessed from the front panel)that catches lint, but seems to be mainly meant to catch coins, buttons and other misc debris before it gets into the...

Colored appliances I remember seeing ads for GE's "Onyx" in my mom's women's magazines as a child. We never had anything but stark white at home, so I thought any decorator color was rather exotic and exciting. Our back yard neighbors had gold--a bottom-freezer fridge with pedal open, a...

Tilted tubs As to the comment questioning why Hoover switched away from the tilted drum...I certainly can't say, but US manufacturers did the same. Slant-fronted Westinghouse machines (for instance) over here were on the market for many years, but eventually gave way to the flat-front design...

First washer When I was very little, I would sit and watch the "show" in the window of my Mom's Westinghouse FL--probably about a '68 model. I also loved my Grandmother's (prob mid-60's) RCA-Whirlpool. I loved the quiet hum of it working. The back panel was white plastic with raised black...

What a shame... A pity they couldn't get it declared a landmark, like the CITGO sign in Boston. Not sure if Canada even has an equivalent program?

Appnut...or Ice Queen for the freezer! ;)

I remember these! My grandparents had a lake cottage (actually, pretty nice for a 'cottage', but def only designed for a summer vacation home) in NW Indiana. The kitchen was basically a 1-sided galley. The stove was a single unit (2 burners) of these. I think they may have been from the...