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I just purchased the 1959 GE dryer owner's manual. Reading through it, I saw that some models had a "sprinkler" ability. Never heard of that before. It turns out that it was part of one of the vanes in the drum, and one would fill it with either hot or warm water, then run the dryer on...

I do apologize if this has been answered before; I searched and didn't see one. Why exactly did dishwasher makers stop making top loaders? It seems they'd be so much easier to seal from water; whether it's better to bend over to load one as opposed to bending over to load a front opening, I'm...

I've noticed, in the two months that I've owned this Speed Queen 432, that an old issue has returned: dirt and crud on the inside of the lip lip but also around the recess where the lid resides. Of course, since my last two machines were FL's I didn't have this, replaced with other problems...

Living in the Houston area, so much of the time when beans are mentioned, many think pinto beans automatically. We're fortunate that we have Casserole brand, because they are much higher quality than the crappy, dirty beans that are usually sold under the store's brand name. Rather like the...

I fell in love with coffee a half century ago when I first became a teenager. Bunches of years of drinking awful, bitter hospital coffee taught me to appreciate fresh, good coffee. However, I never became a coffee snob, and am still not one. I prefer grinding my own Community per either cup...

Nice ad today! I must confess that I've never actually seen a portable dishwasher in the flesh; though I was born in 1955, either people didn't have one or they had it, like my parents', built under the counter. They got their first one in 1963 when they built a new home. Did these old...

Somewhere along the line, washers changed from being rated by pounds of laundry to cubic feet of the tub, as I understand it. As Lord Kenmore, a few others and I have noted, we seldom run our particular washers at capacity, simply because we don't generate enough laundry (doing proper...

Old habits die hard, as so many of us know. I began, forty-plus years ago, of watching my food expenses closely in college. Fortunately, I went vegan within a few months, so I was able to calculate costs. To this day, I'll mentally think of the cost-per-meal when I fix recipes. For example, I...

I came across a vintage ad on here for a 1977 GE television with 'VIR'. This was advertised as receiving a signal sent out from TV stations for optimizing the color picture. GE pushed it for a few years in their ads; I bought a GE TV in 1978 with 'VIR' and it had a great picture. Stolen a...

Looking through some of the delightful vintage ads offered on this site, I've seen a bunch of agitators that look rather like the SQ new one coming out this next year, with the straight vanes going to the bottom and flaring out the same. I just saw a Thor Automagic ad with the same agitator...

Until I came across a great thread here showing Mrs. Cole and Mrs. Henderson back in the late 60's touting Sears Coldspot refrigerators, I'd forgotten all about them using that name. I have no idea where that name came from--or where it went. Could anyone here tell me a little more about...

Back when I had Filter-Flo machines, the 2nd and 3rd sets I had in the 80's and 90's had the extra rinse option. I always used it. Then, for the nearly 20 years that I had FL machines, I chose it at times and at times didn't. Usually went by how dirty the laundry was. Now that I bought this...

My garbage disposer has died--locked up. It was a Badger installed about 3yrs go by my plumber who said it was the most popular model their company used. I never did like it--it's one of those that has the slinging weights on a bottom plate. I can still get it to go on occasion after pressing...

It's a great video nearly an hour long by Alliance for SQ repair people. I don't know how to work on washers but I found it fascinating.

I just bought a couple of the Easy Spindrier brochures on the ephemera section here. I really didn't know know until this latest joining on here that anyone had made large twin-tub machines. I never saw one of these machines growing up in the late 50's or 60's. They appear to have so many...

I still think, all these years later, that the Maytag marketing shown in today's POD was one of the best ever. That was when I first noticed center-dial Maytags because I don't remember any around when I was a kid. But that family--I can remember my parents dressing like that every week for...

I recently purchased the September, 1960, Consumer Reports on EBay. What fun to read these! Unlike today, regardless of whether one agrees with ratings, there is so much more comprehensive content than we ever see these days, where 'the beef' has been replaced with silly color photos and...

I first gave up eating meat at 18 as a freshman in college. As I also wasn't wealthy, I quickly learned that beans and whole wheat bread made a complete protein (we were really, really into protein combining 40 years ago). I learned to love beans even more than I had growing up. These days...

Thanks to a comment on here, I learned that Consumer Reports ran a combo test in 1960. I just got this May, 1960, issue today in the mail and read it with interest. I came away with some questions I hope the experts on here could answer for me. 1) Apparently there were widely varying drum...

Frigilux--if I remember correctly you have the same SQ dryer that I have. Having had this one for 8 weeks I'm finally getting a handle on where to set the dial on the thing. However, a couple of weeks ago I ordered a set of 6 wool dryer balls for this dryer. I'd bought those plastic ones...