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I noticed and enjoyed Greg’s revived thread from 2010 regarding the appliances that Kmart carried before Kenmore. I wanted to ask the experts, do I accurately recall Whirlpool in some Kmart stores in the mid 1970s? I would estimate approx 1975. I had seen a ‘one knob wonder’ type BOL...

Hello everyone! It has been a while since I posted --- I have spent much of the summer involved with moving my Mom from her house of the last 31 years. That has turned out great, but getting her ready involved getting rid of a lot of unneeded stuff that filled a 3,000+ sq ft house and...

I am not sure if it would be best to post this here or in Shopper’s Square, but I think more people will see this here in the Super... I have a coworker whose family moved to Japan in the late 1960s, as his father was a pilot for Japan Airlines. They put many of their household items into...

Back in 2010 I purchased an Admiral Direct Drive washer and matching dryer from Home Depot. I did not intend to immediately unbox them, and I had no idea how long I would keep them in their boxes. Well, forward now to 2018, and the machines are still in their boxes. 3.2 cu ft washer, 6.5 cu...

Greetings to all! I am cleaning out some storage and am rearranging some of my machines. It is clear that some of them would be better appreciated if they moved on to new homes. So, I will be offering a few of these machines here in Shoppers Square with the hope that someone will find their...

So I have been wondering, whatever happened to the holiday paper towels that P&G had every year? Not to mention the Palmolive dish detergent cranberry scent in the Christmas scene bottle, etc. In the last couple years, P&G told my mom that Target distributes holiday print Bounty, but we...

This was recommended to me by eBay. Seems like a pretty neat machine, and used only one month? I figured surely there are folks here who would enjoy looking at this. Has this machine been featured here before? Looks familiar... Gordon...

I was interested to see this listing on ebay. Seems this seller has had at least one or two WP belt-drives, and thinks their parts are of extraordinary value. I am not here to poke extreme fun at the seller for being out of his mind, but simply found the whole listing interesting and a bit...

Tuesday of this week I was scanning the local Craigslist ads. I have a routine where I filter out high-priced dealer ads and recent stuff from private sellers. I always make sure I include "Washing machine" in my search wording in addition to just "washer". I don't find much in Charlotte, but...

Here's a Kenmore that I had never seen before. I ran across this purely by accident in Columbia, SC Craigslist this past October, and had to go get it. I had never seen this model before, and was stunned at (to me anyway) its handsome styling. The console is purely mid-1960s, direct from the...

Since I've seen discussion here lately about the prices of Tide, and about the availability of Tide w/Bleach powder, etc. I thought I'd make a brief post about some bargains that I've seen here in Charlotte. We have a Big-Lots like chain of stores here called Ollie's. They have close-outs...

Here's an interesting Charlotte Craigslist ad. I've seen a number of ads from this guy, where he insists you have a "broke washer" for him to take back. Can't blame him in times when the availability of used appliances is a little tighter than it used to be, along with a healthy market of...

On Ebay, appears to have been newly listed. I remember these well, my grandmother liked to use them. I could hear them clanking on the fins of her Whirlpool bakelite Surgilator until they dissolved...

I saw these at the grocery store yesterday for the first time --- another brand jumps on the bandwagon of convience pods/packs. Has anyone tried them? http://www.wisk.com/#filter=.home

12 years old, really? I knew that 43 to 45 years had gone by fast, but in only 12 years? Maybe that explains it. This is a 1968-1970 model Kenmore 70 dryer. Too funny, and its in my own backyard. Ya gotta wonder how gullable these sellers think the buying public really is. Gordon[this...

This has been popular viewage at my office today.

About 20 minutes ago I got an e-mail at work from a vendor of mine who was helping a friend clean out an old barn over the weekend, and they came across a "brown" dryer, which he said was a GE from the seventies. Then a pic was attached. I saw it and said to myself "If that's a GE it is the...

I hope I put this in the proper forum! I really liked seeing this ad in Charlotte's Craigslist today. I was thinking of posting something very similar, as I hate what the mandatory scrapping of so many haul-offs is doing to the used appliance business and the waste of parts and machines that...

In late March of this year, I brought home the newest belt-drive Whirlpool/Kenmore washer that I own, and possibly the newest in our collective collection, having been made the 35th week of 1986. This machine was the subject of a thread, as I hauled the machine from storage and introduced it...

Before I start in with my story, I'll share a few pictures of a 2012 Crosley washer and dryer pair built by Whirlpool. We'll start with the washer. This is the model on the sales floor.