I figure we'll switch over to Maytag next week, but this week, we re-visit 1978...
1978 WP Commercials - 16mm Film
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KitchenAid dishwasher at 0:22. Those bags of compacted trash may comprise 1/6th the physical space than not-compacted but they have the same weight. I recall someone, somewhere years ago commented that the compacted bags are heavy.
Looks like a KDI-17. Surprised there's non Whirlpool appliances in the clip.
vacerator
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Trash compactor bags are heavy. We used a Lady Kenmore for a while. Our city provided trash can is large. We put one or two kitchen 13 gallon bags in it per week. The collection trucks compact the garbage anyway
Most likely because the ad appears to be for the St. Regis Paper Co. I remember having that brand of notebook paper when I was a kid.
dtodd
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I noticed that too- and it was back in the 70’s when they were competitors. Companies wouldn’t let a slip like that happen in an ad today, although a mix and match of brands is more realistic in most households. Anything in an ad today makes it look like everyone has a $250,000 kitchen with matching everything.
There was a St. Regis paper mill not far from me. Unfortunately, it was shuttered and demolished leaving over 1000 people without jobs.
In addition to the commercial being for St. Regis Paper Co., it was filmed using the residents of that town (not actors), in their own homes.I noticed that too- and it was back in the 70’s when they were competitors. Companies wouldn’t let a slip like that happen in an ad today, although a mix and match of brands is more realistic in most households. Anything in an ad today makes it look like everyone has a $250,000 kitchen with matching everything.
Sounds like the actor George Kennedy narrating the last spot.
Great group of videos again thank you Cory
The video from Saint Regis paper company showing the bags used in whirlpool compactors was fun, but it had lots of non-whirlpool appliances in the users kitchens. The first scene, of course has a Westinghouse electric self cleaning oven right next to the compactor.
The last video titled is it autumn in America was really still one of the best.
It’s still completely true today. Whirlpool has continued to invest in making better and better appliances, and 40+ years later whirlpool is still building 80% of the appliances sold in the US in the US in union plants.
And there’s certainly no question that the appliances they’re building today are better than what they were building in 1978. The quality is much higher. We see virtually zero defects in New World appliances that we’re installing every week.
To be fair nearly everybody else has improved as well. We also sell a fair number of GE appliances in an occasional Frigidaire appliance, and they’re amazingly good in initial quality.
Yesterday I installed a new 22 ft.³ bottom freezer whirlpool refrigerator non-French door model, made in the Amana Iowa plant.
What a breath of fresh air for the customer who had fought with an LG bottom freezer refrigerator for 11 years, she thinks it was repaired 13 times it had two compressors circuit boards and on and on they couldn’t get the thing to stop freezing things in the refrigerator they never could get the icemaker to work reliably, it was just way too complicated tomorrow it will be tossed off the back of the truck into the crusher.
John L
The video from Saint Regis paper company showing the bags used in whirlpool compactors was fun, but it had lots of non-whirlpool appliances in the users kitchens. The first scene, of course has a Westinghouse electric self cleaning oven right next to the compactor.
The last video titled is it autumn in America was really still one of the best.
It’s still completely true today. Whirlpool has continued to invest in making better and better appliances, and 40+ years later whirlpool is still building 80% of the appliances sold in the US in the US in union plants.
And there’s certainly no question that the appliances they’re building today are better than what they were building in 1978. The quality is much higher. We see virtually zero defects in New World appliances that we’re installing every week.
To be fair nearly everybody else has improved as well. We also sell a fair number of GE appliances in an occasional Frigidaire appliance, and they’re amazingly good in initial quality.
Yesterday I installed a new 22 ft.³ bottom freezer whirlpool refrigerator non-French door model, made in the Amana Iowa plant.
What a breath of fresh air for the customer who had fought with an LG bottom freezer refrigerator for 11 years, she thinks it was repaired 13 times it had two compressors circuit boards and on and on they couldn’t get the thing to stop freezing things in the refrigerator they never could get the icemaker to work reliably, it was just way too complicated tomorrow it will be tossed off the back of the truck into the crusher.
John L
I liked this video, too... Thanks, Corey for sharing...
Somehow I quickly saw the last of St. Regis paper products, myself...
Somehow I quickly saw the last of St. Regis paper products, myself...
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