I see that the flip-over bins for the wash and rinse liquids are out. Are they lost? Way back when this was new, our Kroger store had a display of this control panel with the dispenser cover open and it was rigged up to go through the various functions of squirting water and flipping the little bins to dump the products. I believe that Beads-O-Bleach was a new product at the time and was one of the products that could be added that way although wash powders could be placed in the Belchatronic filter pan and get distributed that way also. Tide and Sta-Puf were also stacked around the display. That was an exciting Saturday at the grocery store. Lots of people stopped to watch it.
Norge agitators were so large for the tub size back then that they really moved water and clothes and earned high cleaning marks from CU. We took some of mom's new foam-backed rugs to a new Norge Laundry Village. Once we got the 1958 green Lady Kenmore, we always took throw rugs to various coin laundries. I chose two or three washers that were right in front of the window. So I loaded the rugs in the machines, added detergent and pushed the coin meter in. One washer would not start. I called the lady attendant over and we checked things for a problem. If you remember those Norge coin washers, they had the unbalance reset on the front right corner, just below the top. It was a chromed flat piece of metal with a forward facing lip at the top and it rode in a little rectangular recess. Well, this one was partly down as it would be if the machine went out of balance. I saw that and asked her if...and before I could finish, she pulled it up and the fill started. I watched the rugs while mom and dad shopped and the lady watched me. When they came back, I unloaded the rugs and noticed to my horror that the soft foam backing on the rugs was now in the bottom of the tub. I quickly slipped out of the door and into the backseat of our car where I tried to hide, but the lady knew which machines I was using and that I was washing rugs in Her new Norges. I saw her come over to the machines and look in and then quickly raise her head and look out the window at our car. I told dad to get out of there and I would explain as he drove away.
