1960 Sears Roebuck & Co.

[Brent-Aucoin]

Awesome!

Greg thanks so much for sharing!
Amazing how many models that I don't remember ever seeing.
I remember the W/D Combo. The dishwashers are so great looking! Would love to have one.
Although the prices seem cheap now, not so for 1960 on most of the models.
Brent

 

[appnut]

Yee Haw!!

I loved it I loved it!!! Thank you

 

[frigilux]

Fantastic!! Thanks for sharing your catalog. Now I know that my parents paid $279.95 for the Model 80 washer that serviced our household til 1984.

 

[petek]

Just love old catalogues. I also have some but my fin scanner doesn't work anymore. I still have to get pics of the original Homart fan in moms bathroom and the Pryne in her kitchen. Both still exhausting 50+ years

 

[chestermikeuk]

Lady Kenmore

Wonderful scans there, love those compact 8lb toploaders, that panel looks well funky, does anyone have these??

I see the semi-automatic model washes drains & spins etc,after you`ve filled it manually, thats interesting, all our semi machines you had to advance manually to the next programme task....

was the VisiMatic a marketing dream word, what advantages does it offer over an ordinary solid wringer??

 

[Dick_S.]

And many thanks Greg.....

....for taking the time to scan and share these exceptional pages from the past with us. They're fabulous. They also answered a question for me.

I've always wondered where my 60 Alphabet Kenmore fit into the 1960 model lineup. I see now that it was the model right below the Lady. I sure wished I had been with Mom when she went to Sears and bought it. A Lady Kenmore would have been delivered instead of the one she purchased. However, I love my 60 nonetheless and remember vividly when it was delivered and installed in our home back 47 years ago. It still is used weekly.

Thanks again Greg.

Dick S.

 

[westie2]

Spray rinse wringer

I wonder how well that worked. Bet it did save some time but was probabally a water hog. The Lady K's I remember well cousins in New Orleans (Ferret Street area) had these they would almost sit up and talk to you. My mother was awed as we still had Maytag wringer it wasn't unitl 1964 that she got Maytag automatics.

 

[northwesty]

Interesting to see that they are still offering the "target" or "one eyed frog" still in 1960, that's later than I had thought.

 

[tlee618]

What fun Greg, thanks so much for sharing those with us. It was like a trip down memory lane. Sears Kenmore always had such great looking machines.

 

[nurdlinger]

Here's what you'll save the very first year

78 boxes of detergent

How could this possibly be true? That is more than one a week. How much detergent in a "box"?

 

[cny4]

I've always hoped a member would do this type of presentation. Does anyone have other years of Sears catalogs they can do this with?

 

[frontaloadotmy]

Greg Thanks

Great scans. The dishwashers must be impellar action? No
mention otherwise. Gotta love those persimmon and peach interiors!

Dick_s : the 8lb two cycle automatic is the one I described to you that I saw about two months ago in the Mom & Pop
Used Dealer/Repair shop near Beale Airforce Base West of
Grass Valley

 

[peterh770]

Wow! Back when machines had real personality and there were some real differences between models. Thanks for posting this, Greg.

How did that one fan page get in there? You know I'm just saving up the slaps for you...

 

[mayken4now]

Thanks for sharing ONE of your books with us.

Steve

 

[powerfin64]

FANTASTIC!!

Those are REAL washers and Dryers! They had style, power, performance! what a nice trip down memorie lane.

Rich

 

[appnut]

Dick S., look again at the pricing. The LK is $299; the Model 80 is $259 and your mom's is $229. My high school best friend's mom had the same washer. I remember the hot water saver was a toggle switch on the back of the machine panel that opted for a cold rinse on the cottons cycle. I find it interesting the 24" wide machine has the exact same panel, add a fabric softener dispenser, and only a straight-vane agitator.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Fabulous scans Greg! 1960 was a very cool year for Kenmore.

 

[tlee618]

One other thing that surprised me was that they were still making the "Bug Eye" machine then and a two speed model at that.

 

[rickr]

Great scans Greg! Sears always used to have a fun catalog to go through. I remember looking at them when I was a kid.
These are just fantastic pixs! I have always thought that the Kenmore control panels of the 1950's and 1960's were the best looking of all machines.

 

[frigilux]

This is about the 100th time I've looked over the scans---I love looking at old Sears catalogs. Had a '59 for years, but it went into the trash when I left for college. Bad mother! Bad mother!

I didn't realize the Roto-Rack went back so far. For some reason I thought it was a 70's thing. We had a pull-out mid-50's Westinghouse for many years. When we moved we didn't get a dishwasher til the 1974 (or '75, maybe) LK was added to the kitchen.