Applainces used for Home Ecomomics in your School & Educational Institutions

[autowasherfreak]

My high school was brand new in 78 or 79 I think, and I started in 80, we had either Kenmore or GE electric ranges and a Maytag washer and dryer.  I can't remember what the sewing machines were, I'm guessing Singer.

 

 

[spiceman1957]

It's interesting to see

that a big majority of the appliances used in these readers' Home Ed. were GE as were in my high school in the 1970s. I had homeroom in the Home Ed. department and can remember a built-in GE and a white portable Modern Maid.
John

 

[MaytagA710]

My Junior High had a combination of Westinghouse Self Cleaning Ranges and newer Kenmore ranges. I guess they replaced the older Westinghouse's with newer, cheaper machines. I remember the teacher taught off of a GE Pushbutton cooktop, I remember being fascinated by the fact it was push button. They had a portable GE Potscrbubber II dishwasher, I think it was an Encore. BOL. GE Dryer, and a Westinghouse toploader. Pre-WCI, of course.

As for my High School, all original. Nothing had been replaced. All Westinghouse ranges, and a complete Westinghouse washer/dryer set in white. Same model washer as my Junior High. Plus a portable Westinghouse front load dishwasher too. Again, the teacher taught off of a pushbutton GE cooktop. Again, I was fascinated.

Rumor has it, the Westinghouse laundry pair is still there. I have half a mind to call the school board and tell them I am interested in the set and that I would pay them to have it!

 

[gmmcnair]

Our Home EC Lab in the Early/Mid 80s...

...our home ec lab was outfitted with several new GE self-cleaning electric ranges, one common Litton (???) microwave oven (micros were spendy back then), a common Amana fridge, and a GE filter flo washer and matching dryer. IIRC, it all worked beautifully and everything was built like a tank.