America's Favorite Twins & How To Answer Questions

[launderess]

Being as all this may...

From an archived thread.

"In 1984 the top rated top loaders, Maytag A710 and Whirlpool LA5800 all rated good to excellent across all categories including cleaning performace of regular and permanent press fabrics.

However the two front loaders tested, White-Westinghouse LT600E and Gibson WS14M6WL rated excellent across the board, period. The only exceptions were tub capacity and water extraction."
https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?41484

 

[DADoES]

 
White-Westinghouse and Gibson ... same manufacturer at the time.

 

[launderess]

"I've noticed many people write the term as laundry mat."

That's one way of stopping an app from insisting on capitalizing "Laundromat".

 

[launderess]

My idea of heaven!

Notice this UK launderette equipped with dryers also has an extractor.

In USA while not common in homes many self serve laundromats did have Bock extractors. This was way of coping with often anemic final spin rpm speed of all washer/extractors at the time.

 

[launderess]

Easy credit terms..

One could have a Westinghouse washer for easy weekly payments of $3.25 in 1954.

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?31980

Average yearly wage for men in USA for that time was $2,400 or $44.44 per week. Remember average salary information from US census department was income reported before deductions. Then as now persons would have had at least FICA taken out of their pay, so what they took home was lower.

It may seem like peanuts to us to day but that four bucks per week would have represented a good part of weekly wages for most households.

That $3.15 is equal to $36.03 in today's money which puts things into perspective.

Average wage for women in 1954 was only $1,200 per year. So can see how a dual income couple (and there were more than many imagine) could afford bit more luxuries associated with middle class lifestyle.

 

[adam-aussie-vac]

It seems to be more and more common that Westinghouse

Laundromat equipped centres commonly had an extractor, for the two that I have physically visited, both of which had at least one extractor for a small shop, and for a large place they had three, does anybody have any other photos of any Westinghouse laundromat centres? Because now I want to see as to what they look like in other countries

 

[launderess]

See:

https://www.argusleader.com/story/n...e-consuming-chore-washing-clothes/7091566001/

And this archived thread..

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?20374

On fleaPay...

https://www.ebay.com/itm/204359332148[this post was last edited: 11/20/2023-04:39]