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This week we have some fun vintage Whirlpool TV spots covering everything from washers to window A/Cs. This dates from around 1972 and had a terrible magenta-shift; I did what I could to try and pull a little color out.

What an exceptional job...that was a TON of work and it absolutely paid-off. There were a couple of times in the video I completely forgot it was AI and lapsed into thinking it was a period announcer reading from a script.

LOL. Can you imagine being in the studio as they were swinging these things around? 1:40 cracks me up with the visible cables.

The big sin was eliminating the heated dry cycle and claiming it was for energy saving purposes (rather than offer the user a choice). Customer feedback was swift, and that feature was reinstated on the 20's. Personally, I rarely use the heater on my GE, but I could understand why someone...

We shift gears this week to see what the good folks at Hobart have been working on. Turns out, they've corrected the sins of the model 19 with the new 20-series lineup. And what better place to debut them, than the moon!

This week's feature comes early. While automatic production was featured in an "Industry on Parade" YouTube vid provided by CircleW back in Feb, this footage puts the spotlight on the employees, labor-relations and leisure activities, no doubt shot at the same time for this later episode. A real...

This week, it's "Keep 'em Moving", a delightfully catchy little film shot at Whirlpool's new Findlay, OH factory showing off their portable line. Nice to work with a film that hasn't totally lost all its color for once.

Wow Greg, I had never noticed that before! There's a lot of great "behind the scenes" info I'd like to share in a film sometime in the future but finding the time to get it all together is, well, a challenge. Hopefully folks are enjoying this snippets.

This week we re-visit The Today Show with Dave Garroway, only this time it's to see what Whirlpool has been up to with their Space Kitchen contract for manned space flight. While this kitchen idea never got off the ground, some of these concepts for food storage and packaging did influence what...

What wasn't clear to me from this film is if the fridge was their own design, and the (obvious) WP ice maker was licensed, or if this was entirely a WP effort. At the time, Inglis also had contracts with RCA, Simpson and others. Dehumidifiers would be built in that same facility a couple years...

New this week from The Appliance Archive, we take a trip up north to see Inglis' new refrigerator plant. From drafting-board to reality, watch as these fridges take shape from raw steel to finished product. Posted in Imperial for visibility, mods please move if necessary.

Crazy what's still turning up. My heart skipped a beat, but my wallet saw the porcelain chips and chrome pits and said "nah-ah". That does make me wonder if brushed-chrome could be recreated these days for the control towers. Those details definitely make up the whole package on the 57's.

This week we drop in on the Whirlpool laundry lab to check the cleaning effectiveness of their Double-Duty Super-Surgilator on a bevy of baby bibs. The second half is an alternate version that takes a dig at Maytag. Sure to cause a fuss, haha. Can anyone ID the year of these machines? Looks...

Hey John, unfortunately, I grew up in the age of what Cory Doctorow has coined, "enshittification". What hasn't been monetized has been cost-reduced, shrinkflated or SVA-adjusted. I got to see the rise, the peak, and the decline of a lot of home tech as a young adult. I have no doubt at all...

It is interesting...I grew up with a coppertone Amana SxS with ice dispenser b/w the freezer doors and it never had a single problem its entire life. I loved the chrome "levers" and the backlit Amana logo. When the fridge conked out in the 90's, it was replaced by a new black SxS Amana. Pretty...

This week's release is a fun one from Whirlpool, touting their IceMagic automatic ice maker, circa 1972. This is another one that had shifted almost entirely to red, but came out okay with some heavy color correction.

It's Wednesday, and you know what that means... This week we take a peek behind the curtain at WP's washing machine production at their original St. Joe, MI plant, circa 1969.

Maytag Blue Cheese is still made in Newton and distributed nationally. Unfortunately, it looks like the family sold to a conglomerate in 2022. I can't comment on the taste (not a BC fan), but those that have a fancy for such things tell me it's pretty good...

This week, no 20 minute documentary or assembly line footage, instead, it’s short and sweet (and most of all, entertaining). This 60 second TV spot for the new 1965 Frigidaire “Jet Action” washer line comes to us by way of Swestoyz. And my offer still stands, if anyone has a 16mm film they’d...

This week’s film comes early… Ever wonder what office life was like behind the doors of RCA WP-Seeger Corp? Wonder no more! For a low-budget effort, these guys knew what they were doing. And those electrical visual aids are, well, something else. Presenting “Work Simplification” 1956.