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I checked SigAlert to see what traffic was like on the Ventura Freeway in the Conejo Valley between LA and Ventura and this warning came up: "A washing machine was dropped in lanes." More likely it fell off a poorly loaded truck, but the wording hit me funny. No photos so no way to know more...

I have a new computer and the animated Frigidaire thumper on the first page is not displaying. Instead there is a grey box with the note "a plugin is needed to display this content". Both Adobe Flash and Java are current, does anyone know what plugin is needed?

Since most of us love small appliances, here’s one I wasn’t familiar with: the Egg Master. I don’t know if it’s sold in the US yet, but it would certainly be an exiting addition to many a kitchen . . . do check out the video...

This afternoon - Memorial Day - an old friend of mine went down to Ft. Bliss National Cemetery in El Paso to see the flags and decorations displayed on Memorial Day. He comes from a military family and his parents are buried there so it was more than a casual visit for him, luckily he lives...

A good friend of mine has a Kitchenaid KUDS01FLSS1 dishwasher with a heating element that doesn’t heat. It was installed about 2003 and has been well cared for and used lightly by him and his wife. Aside from the inoperative heating element it washes fine. Is there an easy way to remove the...

<a name="preview">First you need a proper tow vehicle, preferably with plenty of power and a good driver: the Lotus Formula 1 team demonstrates here with a nice old Airstream. </a> http://jalopnik.com/let-lotus-f1-demonstrate-the-proper-way-to-tow-a-carava-1518240617/@travis

Last week I went through a house a friend was looking at and spied this matched set of DD Kenmores. Now, I like DD Kenpools quite a lot but can't keep up with all the model permutations. What struck me about the washer is that it's a 24" model with a plastic console which usually means a rather...

For the last ten years I've had an Admiral ADG7000AWW dryer. It's been a good workhorse with no problems until last Saturday night when the original belt broke. I pulled the belt and sourced another OEM Whirlpool belt that I installed this afternoon. It has to be done mostly by feel as you can't...

I've always loved this ad, so stylish and yet typical of industrial ads of the '50s. One thing I've wondered about is the term "surgomatic" for the Whirlpool agitator; as with most of us I'm familiar with Whirlpool's use of "surgilator" and "super surgilator" but not surgomatic. Does anyone know...

Does anyone know when these Kenmores were made? I have a very similar 24" Kenmore washer but no manuals or documentation showing date of manufacture.

This Norge front loader is really neat - I had forgotten that Norge made an early front loader. It looks late '40s to me but does anyone know the actual production years? I wonder why they quit and went to the top loaders, whether it was problems with the performance of the front loaders or if...

Earlier today I was hanging out at Autobooks-Aerobooks, a bookstore in Burbank owned by my friends Chuck and Bettina. While I was there a regular customer dropped by driving his mega-cool '63 Chrysler . . .

A few months ago there was a thread regarding vintage doorbell chimes . . . does anyone remember what thread that was? The '50s NuTone at my parent's house has died, and after looking at the plastic nasties at Home Depot and Lowe's I remembered that some other sources were listed in the thread...

Yesterday I went to MOCA (Museum of Contemporary Art) in downtown LA. This is a major, well respected museum with two facilities, the main building and the Geffen Contemporary. I was in the Geffen and spied what looked like a classic American single unit “stacked” washer-dryer across the...

My mother called today and told me the belt in her Hotpoint dryer finally gave out. I bought the matched washer & dryer for her in about '89 or '90, not sure of the model number as the machine is in another state. My dad can most likely change the belt, but wondered how to do it - I'd greatly...

What a neat ad for the Easy wash-dry combo! When did they build this, or did they have someone else (Philco?) do the building and just market it under the Easy name? I do love the "tumb-l-ator" wash and "spinaway" rinse terminology, but then after having coined "spiralator" Easy's PR department...

Every time I see that beautiful illustration of the Philco Automagic action I wonder exactly how it worked. The agitator looks much more like a Frigidaire Jetcone than a normal agitator, but given how carefully GM protected all their inventions with patents I assume Philco couldn't just copy the...

I know lots of people here don’t care for Starbucks, but since my schedule varies greatly I appreciate the fact that they’re all over the city and I can count on a clean restroom and reasonably fresh coffee. Yesterday afternoon I had business downtown, and as I slogged through traffic decided...

This is an interesting little article. I rarely shop at Walmart and as such wasn't aware that they had stopped handling Glad Bags and Hefty Bags, plus a number of other brand name items. Walmart management figured customers would just buy other brands, but they found that a small but significant...

Much as we all like old appliances, cars, music and other items from the mid-century era, we should never forget how different that time was from our own in the case of civil rights. I stumbled upon this story of an Englishman who still has to disclose a conviction for having sex with another...