Appliances at neighbors houses?

[fan-of-fans]

What appliances do your neighbors have?

My neighbor next door has a white Hotpoint range with coil burners, OTR microwave, dishwasher, and a SxS fridge from 2001ish when their house was built. They also had a GE laundry set from the time but replaced it a few years ago.

Across the street has an almond Whirlpool coil range and top freezer fridge. I guess from the mid 90s. They inherited the house and said it originally had harvest gold appliances from early 70s.

Neighbors two doors down on one side originally had avocado green over/under electric range and top freezer fridge from early 70s, I don't recall what they have now, but nothing special.

Neighbors on the other side two doors down is a small cabin like house. Originally had a gas range with round grates (maybe Tappan) and when the previous owners bought it she didn't like gas. So she got a GE lower end electric from early 90s at a yard sale. They built a mansion down the street and I was in it once but don't recall what it has. Other than there are two guest rooms with microwaves and mini fridges. She sold the cabin to the current owners who replaced the GE with a KitchenAid smooth top but the wiring got chewed up so they replaced it with something else. I think they still have an 80s Whirlpool top freezer fridge.

The house next to them was custom built in 1994 and had all GE appliances. I mainly remember it had a GE side by side with "Custom Dispenser" that looked like an updated Americana. A flipper bought it later and remodeled it with stainless appliances: a slide in smooth top range, OTR micro, french door fridge with dispensers and dishwasher.

Another neighbor's house had my favorite kitchen. It was redone in early 90s. Electric wall oven and smooth ceran cooktop were Maytag as was the dishwasher. There was an over the range Amana microwave that had the Radarange logo on it and there was an Amana SxS with dispensers. She remodeled the house later in 2006 and went with all stainless Kenmore Elite appliances. French door fridge with dispensers and touchpad smoothtop range and a GE stainless microwave. She also has a Kenmore upright freezer. As well as a Kenmore laundry set that seem to be from the mid-90s.

The neighbors next to them had either Whirlpool or Kenmore appliances and it was a solid element range and SxS fridge. The next owners remodeled and I don't know what there is now. There is also a small apartment with an apartment sized stove and fridge from late 90s.

The neighbor across from there house was built in 2004. All stainless appliances, I think Whirlpool. Smooth top range, dishwasher and top freezer fridge. On their screened porch they have an outdoor kitchen with another stainless smooth top range and I think a small undercounter fridge.

That's about all I know.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I have not been in a neighbor's house in decades, but I remember neighbors' appliances from when I was growing up. When it was possible, I would also go to the kitchen door of my paper route customers when collecting to check on appliances. In our neighborhood, houses without basements either had the washer in a utility room or in the kitchen, sometimes with the dryer in the utility room. While I was waiting for the money, I did inventory.

 

[arbilab]

Talk about going back...

Before I even started school I wandered the neighborhood for open garage doors to catch glimpses of neighbors doing wash. Sometimes resulted in cookies or gum, but those were only sprinkles on the cupcake.

Of course, in 1950 one could do things like that without getting kidnapped, molested or arrested.

 

[brib68]

Haven't been in too many of our neighbors' houses, but we do have friends in town whose kitchen still has some of the 80's black appliances (Whirlpool sxs and trash compactor) even though the kitchen and some other appliances have been updated.

Growing up (70's) was another story for me as well. Next door neighbors were interesting. Husband had an MGA in the garage, and wife had a Philco-Ford front loader in the kitchen. It had very colorful buttons, which I loved. I don't think I ever saw it in action, though. She also had a portable dishwasher. I think it was a Kenmore with the textured chrome buttons. I seem to recall she used the Jet Dry basket. All her appliances were white.

The family behind us that we spent a lot of time with as some of their kids (BIG Catholic family, always getting bigger)were my age or close enough, had harvest gold (probably early 70s) kitchen appliances: slide in electric range, bottom freezer fridge, and a dishwasher. I think they were all Kenmore. The washer and dryer were older (60s) white Lady Kenmore and were ALWAYS running (go figure). There was another family in the neighborhood with Frigidaire appliances, but they moved away so I don't remember much more than that.

After we moved in '77, our neighbors to the north had a push button GE stove and I think the washer may have been Westinghouse or White-Westinghouse. It had the lid that weighed the laundry. The neighbors on the other side had a Frigidaire Laundry Center with the top loader lid that would magnet open to the slanty underside of the dryer.

Flash forward to 2009--When my husband and I were house hunting, we looked at a number of 50s/60s houses for sale by the original owners, many of which were the first or second generation Italian immigrants. Some of these houses had IMMACULATE original kitchens that had never been used. (The kitchens for cooking were in the basement, the main floor kitchens were strictly for show!) I so wish I'd gotten some good pictures...oh well.

 

[laundromat]

Growing, up,I knew who had what and where.If a delivery truck was sited,I would grab my.bb bike and follow it to find out what family was getting what appliance. Our next door neighbors on the left had a Custom Imperial washer and bottom freezer frig both from 1960. On the rihht,a 1955 Westinghouse Laundromat washer and a Signature refrigerator The Bairs in an older house down had the Laundromat twins from 1957 , a Whirlpool gas refrigerator and a Frigidaire electric range from.1949.The people across from us had a Norge combo and their next door neighbors had a GE combo. The Schumczecks had seven daughters and a 1955 Laundromat that the husband ruined attempting to replace the pump and got a 1961 Multi speed Laundromat from their friends down the street. That one had the drum light.The Hearylys had a 1963 Duracrest. As time went on,most families moved and the buyers just went to Sears or Wards to get new replacement units.

 

[philr]

I didn't visit my neighbors much (or at all!) and those I have seen didn't have very interesting stuff (except maybe for the next door's neighbor's kid who had a Suzy Homemaker washer when I was about 3 years old!). She was about the same age as I am so my parents asked where they got this old toy for their daughter as I badly wanted one! Then we went t that store (they still had them new-in-box around 1980!) but my parents got me a smaller washer with an orange tub that was crank-operated from the same store. It was probably just as oldbut it wasn't what I wanted!

I'm sure that Paul will contribute to this thread as he knows what were the appliances in his whole neighborhood!

 

[turquoisedude]

All right... let's set the Wayback machine to around 1972 and head back to the serene suburb of Pointe-Claire, west of Montreal....   I remember best the appliance of the neighbours we knew well enough to visit often!

 

We lived at #112 just to situate things.   

 

At #110, they had a 60s Tappan 30-inch range and refrigerator.  White, nothing fancy, but the oven door had a side-opening door, like the Fabulous 400s.  I always though that was neat.  No dishwasher and an Inglis washer/dryer set, probably like the set Phil saved this summer.  

 

#107:  they had a mixed bag in the kitchen.  The range and refrigerator (not frostless) were coppertone; I think they were Kelvinator.  They had a fairly new dishwasher - a built-in Lady Kenmore (all pushbuttons, no dial) in harvest gold.   The lady of the house wanted to 'upgrade' to harvest gold at some point apparently....  I never got to scout out the laundry room...

 

#109:  This style of home had Youngstown kitchens steel cabinets - the people who built the home opted to not get the dishwasher-sink...  The range was a late-50s Eaton Viking in white.  The refrigerator was a newer (possibly very early 70s) white Moffat, but I remember it was not frostless.  No dishwasher.  In the laundry, there was a matched early 60s white Kenmore washer and dryer - MOL models. 

 

#113: Sigh... I wanted all of these appliances SOOOO badly....  They were a real mixed bag: a late 40s Gurney/Northern Electric white range that looked like it was just delivered.  They had a huge early 60s GE frostless refrigerator with a top-mount freezer.  These folks had a dishwasher!  A late 60s near-TOL Kenmore portable in white; it was the first roto-rack I ever saw.   They had a mismatched laundry - the washer was an early 60s Kenmore and the dryer was a late 50s Kelvinator. 

 

#114:  These neighbours had the only 40-inch range in the area!  It was a mid-50s low-end Frigidaire that came with the house.  They had a mid-60s GE 30-inch white model with a P7 oven that did not get put into service for nearly 10 years after I moved out of the area!  They also had a dishwasher - a mid-60s GE front-loading portable, white, that they NEVER USED...  Apparently they had issues with glassware breakage and feared it.  The fridge was a mid-60s GE frostless, white.  But the laundry... oy!  GE V-14 washer and dryer, TOL both models.  I loved the fluorescent lights on the control panels!

 

#115:  Also a Youngstown kitchen, but just the cabinets.  Very basic - an early 60s matched Eaton Viking range and refrigerator, both white, both low-end models.  Never got into the laundry room...

 

#118:  All-GE, all coppertone, kitchen AND laundry!  I guess all were mid- to late-60s models.  The range and refrigerator were MOL - the oven was not self-cleaning and the refrigerator was not a frost-free model.  The dishwasher was a beauty - a front-load convertible with the heavy wood cutting board.  It had multiple cycles and I am pretty sure I remember the 'rinse-glo' dial.   The laundry appliances were V14s, MOL models.  Don't remember if the washer had the mini-basket or not

 

#120:  Mixed brands, but the kitchen appliances were all coppertone.  The refrigerator was a Frigidaire, probably early 60s and it was definitely frost-free!  The range was a Moffat 'Epicure' - it had a roast-temperature probe and a dial to move the oven racks up or down without opening the oven door.  And the dishwasher was a KitchenAid - it was a mid-60s Electra top-loader.   In the laundry, the washer was a late 60s Kenmore, but white.  The dryer was a much older Kenmore. 

 

#121:  Also a house with the Youngstown cabinets, but they had the 'electric sink' with the 30-inch Youngstown dishwasher.  Neither the disposer nor the dishwasher still worked when I knew these folks, alas...  When we first moved in, they had a Philco rounded-top single door white refrigerator, probably a mid-50s model;  the range was a late-50s Eaton Viking, 30-inch white.  Because the lady of the house and my mother were rivals, she HAD to have a harvest-gold range and refrigerator set when my mother got one...  Hers were low-end Admirals.   They also had a portable dishwasher - an early Maytag top-loader, but in avocado green.   The washer and dryer were ancient and mismatched...  It was the first Maytag washer I had ever seen - probably an AMP and it was paired with, get this, a Slant-Front Westy dryer from the very early 50s!

 

I'd best stop now... LOL 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[davey7]

My upstairs neighbors have an ancient (non-functioning) WasteKing (iirc) stainless steel dishwasher which looks like it could be a high-modern contemporary dw. Interestingly they are Swiss and don't care if it doesn't work, they use it for storage.

One of my downstairs neighbors has the original 20's cabinets but not appliances. He had, at one time, multiple non-functioning microwaves and was disturbed when it was suggested he get rid of them. Another downstairs neighbor likely has something similar. Everyone else has redone their kitchens.

Growing up my downstairs neighbors had a St. Charles kitchen from '55 with a Magic Chef which she loved. They'd spent as much renovating their apartment when they bought it in '55 as they paid for it (5k I think) when the building was initially converted. I wanted my parents to take the cabinets when the new owners redid the kitchen in the 90's.

Not quite neighbors, but friends of mine have a Universal range from the late 30's or 40's. She didn't know that there was a broiler below the over! ha!

The link is a kitchen in a house for sale which I'd like to see (it's a block or two away).

http://mlsimage.fnisrediv.com/ListingImages/RW35005/addl_picts/0/0/ilmlsni08731214-10.jpg

 

[fan-of-fans]

Forgot

There were some truly vintage appliances! There was an old run down house that had been a vacation cabin. It had an avocado Kenmore top freezer fridge and a white Tappan electric stove, apartment sized, 50s vintage. The range was set at the curb and for some reason I took it apart and got the convenience outlet, indicator lights, oven light socket and knobs off of it, as well as one of the element centers that I found later. Oh, and there was a GE swivel top canister in a shed, it was given to me. It ran good but the side was rusted through and there was no hose, etc.