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(Psst...Washendry...please release the caps lock key...you don't have to shout each time.) :)

One San Diego-area coin laundry I used about twenty years ago had twenty Norge machines (which clunked up a storm) and ten GEs. (All the machines have since been replaced with Whirlpools.) I always went for the GEs, and would find the filter pans left all over the GE row. I guess normal...

If I have observed it correctly (from an infrequent visit to a mostly-WE-16-equipped coin laundry to wash a comforter in a double-loader), WE-16s accelerate to maximum spin speed rather quickly, unlike civilian FriGEMores (or at least my Y2K Kenmore), which slowly ramp up to peak final spin speeds.

1968 Kenmore That '68 Kenmore shown in photo #10...it sure looks almost like the '68 model 800 my parents had when I was young. IIRC, the '68 800 of my childhood had more gold in the faceplate and a blue "Model 800" legend between the "D" and "H" cycle descriptions instead of what appears to be...

As complex as the clutch was compared to a two-speed motor, it was GE's way to allow the pump to run at full speed, regardless of agitation speed, to maximize filtration and minimize draining time. After all, these lovable water hogs had a lot of water to move! :-)

If it's a Rollermatic or a 1-18, there's no gearbox to leak oil from...

And to think the FE-63 would be over $740 in today's dollars! http://www.aier.org/cgi-aier/colcalculator.cgi

The Amana Radarange, IMHO, was the most bombproof microwave oven ever made. So bombproof that, in the late 1970s-early 1980s, Amana advertisements showed a Radarange taking a hit in the front from a wrecking ball and not exhibiting one bit of microwave leakage. It was that promise of...

The "major brand" W&D set (front-load washer, console-mounted controls, IIRC) was probably a Frigidaire. Maybe Pacific Sales withheld mentioning the name to sidestep a minimum-advertised-price rule or something similar.

Spark ignition? Didn't the "Frog Eye" gas dryer use spark ignition instead? The mid/late-1960s KM "match-all" dryer my parents owned in my childhood had. The ignitor I'm talking about was a box a little smaller than a butter cube holding a set of switch contacts mounted on two arms. When...

It would have cost almost $600 to ship that Westy to the West Coast. Ouch!

Matching dryer not available in gas... 'nuff said.

Hard to believe that, in today's dollars, that DW cost over $1200!

The early WCI "Fraud-gidaire" "1-18" also had lids like the White-Westinghouses of the era with convex front and rear edges (sadly, some with GM-era windows, like one trojan-horse top-of-the-line 1-18 I spotted several years ago). The real GM Frigidaire lids had parallel edges.

Perhaps a leap day nobody else knows about?