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Shoot! I thought this was about the notorious bar in NYC's meatpacking district in the 70s/80s.

Firestone Also made televisions in the 50s. Our neighbors had one.

Exact model of mom's 1966 16.0 cu. ft. GE. Hers was left-hand swing, but otherwise the same. Sold it with the house in 1993, never a repair. Bottom grille is missing, I remember it was a PITA to remove and replace to clean the drip pan underneath. I can't remember if it had coils on the back...

I know I've seen this somewhere.... My guess is that it's to produce distilled water for home use in small quantities for a steam iron or medical vaporizer or some such.  The bottom has an obvious spout, the opening on the top with the "thing"  is to act as a chimney to prevent excess pressure...

Odd definitions I've personally never heard a fridge referred to as a "reefer". My uncle was a truck driver and a refrigerated trailer was called a "reefer" Only other reference I can think of (other than 420) is a reefer coat from the 50s. It was a ladies' collared cloth coat that was...

Blade Runner I gave up on electric razors back in the early 70s. Just "face massagers" as far as I was concerned. My first BF was an Italian national, and used to make fun of us Americans who shaved with a blade razor. Used to do the double-edged thing, but too clumsy and too many nicks...

@ Launderess You da bomb, girl! Not so many years ago, I had to go to my birthplace (East Orange, NJ) to obtain a copy of my birth certificate. For a specific purpose. Miss Barbara Christmas (actual name) couldn't have been more courteous. She scrolled the document into her IBM Selectric...

Long, long ago (80's) I watched an expose' on PBS about nasty fast-food practices. What they reported was so very disgusting that I must have blocked it from my mind. I only recall that it was about McD's and BurgKing, but the others (Wendy's etc.) were supposedly OK. I vowed I'd never eat...

Wowser! These are the exact models I have! Both work great! Love the spray-rinse as part of the spin cycle.

$ Store Oxydol Is OK for very lightly soiled stuff.  It is not heavy-duty by any means.   I have online-ordered Oxydol POWDER, it comes in 4 cartons and lasts me a year.  About $72 with shipping, worth every penny.  Excellent results with a boost from STPP on whites/pastels.   I'm a...

Yowzer! That's a "find".  Like Yogitunes said, you can also get disposable basket filters, designed to go on the bottom of the basket to prevent grounds from slipping thru, but you can use them on top as well. 

School Buses? Hahahahahaha! It's EZ to see that lots of the aw.o group is late-end boomers!  My "school bus" was my OM's 1953 DeSoto Firedome.  In the ayem he dropped off my cousin John and me at parochial school, my other cousin Butchie (discipline problem) at the public school, then drove...

1966 Chrysler Newport Could double as a meat-locker. My OM never bothered reading owner's manuals, "I know how to drive a car". So consequently, did not understand that the "heat" lever could temper the a/c blast. This continued thru 1968 Chrysler, 1970 Chrysler, 1973 Ford LTD, 1976 Ford...

@ Whirlcool Before it was made a misdemeanor in NYC some years ago, you could fend off squeegee persons just by turning on your wipers. Of course it smeared your windshield but better that than having it washed with a used bandage or worse. I used to hate getting pestered by panhandlers on...

I now live In SoFlo (God's waiting room).  Love it here, but I'm still a Jersey Boy.   Excuse me, I'm still a Jersey Boy, dammit!

Painting! Hate it Hate it Hate it!   I would rather clean terlets in Penn Station than paint one wall!  Not kidding!   When I worked at THD, they sometimes tried to get me to help out in paint dept.  I told them to fire me instead, because I was NOT going over there.  They got the hint.

Zenith Memory My OM had a 1941 model that was quite similar.  The dial and pushbuttons were identical, but I remember more of the same knobs for tuning, volume, off/on and changing frequencies.  It played well for years; he put in our summer cottage in the 1960s and sold it with the whole place...

Crash & Burn We had a brand-new Kmart open in Parsippany-Troy Hills (my former home) around 2000.  My hairdresser was located across a BIG parking lot, and watched the progress of it being built.  One day I was getting my hair done and she told me to go over as the store was open.  ???? Sign...

Not for nothing Am I the only one here with sympathy?   A pox on whomever stole his lawnmower.  Who the f*ck steals a lawnmower?  Shame on you!   I just wanted to put my two cents in.   Not the person to ask here.  My OM bought a JC Penney's gas lawnmower in 1961 and it ran forever and ever. 

@ PaulG You iron in the baffroom?  I always do it in the kitchen with the oldies playing on the radio.  I had a Sunbeam Shot O'Steam Iron which was ruined by following the advice of the manufacturer (and some guests on here) and using tap water.  WRONG!  After my Sunbeam corroded-out, I got a...