2 Vintage Dishwashers : 1) Sears Kenmore Portable Dishwasher(Salmon?color/Roto-Rack?) - $99 (Medina)

[ovrphil]

4hrs ago: http://cleveland.craigslist.org/app/4745593451.html

ad: "Kenmore portable dishwasher. Used very, very minimal. I don't know its age, but I do know it has mostly just sat inside the kitchen unused. It has a round turn style top rack that pulls out for stacking your glasses, etc. It has a switch for temperature of hot dry vs cool dry. I have pics of hook up connections that store inside a lid off the back of the unit. Best Offer."

2) 1970's GE Portable dishwasher - $200 (Lancaster, PA) - http://lancaster.craigslist.org/app/4728978335.html (think this is older than the 70's)

ad: " 70's GE portable dishwasher. Works great, is on wheel and just plugs into kitchen sink and also drains into it. All in one unit. " [this post was last edited: 11/4/2014-13:48]

 

[ovrphil]

Kenmore Portable Dishwasher color

was probably "woodtone". Ye Olde Fayke wood lavishly applied.

 

[tomturbomatic]

That is faded coppertone paint.

 

[ovrphil]

Thanks Tom, and I just noticed it's shaded coppertone, so would that put it after 1972/3?

 

[danemodsandy]

Phil:

Shaded Coppertone was seen throughout most of the '60s, and up through the later '70s.

The Kenmore in the ad looks to be a '75 model. That is because it's new enough to have the Power Miser switch (post-'73 energy crisis) and old enough to have the extruded aluminum console on the top to hold the unicouple and hose. Later, D & M started using injection-molded plastic consoles for Sears units; they were color-matched to the dishwasher's body (Avocado consoles on Avocado units, for example). This began happening around '76 and '77, as part of the Great Cheapening that began to affect appliances from nearly all manufacturers.

That Kenmore DW is an upper-MOL unit - decent number of cycles controlled by pushbuttons, but the dial is the cycle indicator (TOL units had lights). And the hose console is full-width; lesser units had a smaller console.

 

[danemodsandy]

P.S.:

If anyone ever finds salmon the color of that Kenmore, could I ask that you not serve any of it to me?

 

[ovrphil]

Thanks, Sandy - at least I had some feeling of age - post 1972, I thought, and the rest is an education. Woodtone and coppertone - sometimes easy to spot, but since you worked in the industry, it's like tying shoe laces for you. Ok, we'll serve other fish or none at all. Salmon's not a bad color, it's just that manufacturers will never duplicate nature's depth of color and interest ever, for an appliance.

 

[danemodsandy]

Phil:

"Woodtone and coppertone - sometimes easy to spot, but since you worked in the industry, it's like tying shoe laces for you."

Actually, that was quite a number of years before I was anywhere near the business - at that point, I was a Sears catalogue shopper and browser. I remember these units from somewhere in the 1974-75 time frame for that reason.

Also, I was never involved in actual appliance sales; I was involved in cookware, housewares and tabletop. I did gain a very wide knowledge of appliances when I began to teach cooking; I probably used everything on the market at that time at one point or another.

 

[ovrphil]

Check, Sandy! I thought you were associated with sales either consumer direct or between manufacturers. Anyways, you have a good memory about all those appliances and I LOVE that small rare GE stove you posted from a brochure at $439 (?).

 

[danemodsandy]

$439....

....Was the kind of price charged (equivalent to nearly $3600 today) when Americans were paid a living wage to work in American factories.

Freedom and independence cost money - not that you can get most of today's bargain-hunters to grapple with that concept.