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there may have been one, but I haven't found a reference here to Mad Men's Betty Draper and her Maytag moment. Anyone watch the show? It's a great yellow pair, presumably 1960 or so models....

I noticed the picture of the day--a 1963 Westy slant-front. (Not that I wouldn't kill to have one, or even have a chance to see one, but it looks a bit like an old lady trying to dress too young.) What year did Westinghouse drop the slant-front design and go to the flat-front? What year did the...

"Appliance Division May Be Sold By G.E.": Headline in today's NYT Business Section. Is nothing sacred?

Great ad--OK, OK, I'm convinced that the Blackstone is the the world's best everything. On a more serious note, I think it is a shame that Lucy McGillicuddy Ricardo had an "Epernay" up on 68th Street rather than a Blackstone, considering that she and the "World's Finest Automatic" were born in...

I was just in Home Depot and peered in the glass window of new Maytag top loader--huge tub, with only the tiniest thing you might call an agitator at the bottom. How does this machine work?

Just watched "Strangers When We Meet"--made in 1960--with Miss N, Kirk Douglas, and a truly reptilian Walter Matthau. Supersudsy--no All or Dash in this production--and pretty sexy for 1960, and a great Los Angeles period piece. But I digress. Seen near the end in Kim's house is a Maytag dryer...

is that Jane Wyatt? While I'm on the subject--anyone know what kind of washer & dryer the Andersons had? I know they drove a 1955 Mercury to Lemon Falls.... Poor Kitten....