Collection Pictures & Videos

[autowasherfreak]

I spent the biggest part of Sunday afternoon and evening looking at all the pictures and downloading the videos, and I'm really impressed with your collections. I just love the automatic washers of yesteryear. They have class and character unlike the washers of today. I actually find my Frigidaire front-loader to be rather boring. It's too quiet, I love all the sloshing and swishing sounds from the older machines. We got our first automatic washer and dryer around 72 or 73. The where Whirlpools and I was fascinated with them. I read the instructions, and learned how to operate them so I could help Mom out around the house. I would stand there and stare at the agitator, the clothes, and water cascading from the lint filter. I would usually shut the lid for the spin cycle, or sometimes I would just watch it spin. Our neighbor across the road had a Frigidaire with the bouncing agitator. I'm not sure which model it was, but it had the larger lid with the small glass window, I was fascinated with her machine as well. I would love to have a vintage washer and dryer, but they are all so interesting, that I wouldn't be able to pick just one. I watched the video for the Philco with the high frequency agitator, WOW those clothes were moving like crazy through that water, does that agitator bounce or spin it moves so fast I can't tell. Before we got our first automatic we use wringer washers. I still remember having my arm go through the wringer. My grandmother was the first to see, and I thought she was going to have a heart attack, she was hysterical. My mom just stopped the machine, popped the wringer and removed my arm. Then of course we had to go to the doctor, there was nothing wrong with my arm, and it didn't stop me from using the washer either, I just become more careful when it came to putting the clothes through the wringer. Mom always used Breeze detergent, I don't know if it was because she really liked it or if she just wanted the free towel that came in the box.

 

[rpm]

Breeze Detergent

That stuff was in the States too?
In the 70's thats all my mom,aunt and grandmother used.
There was more towel than soap in the box.
The nice thing was, the towel was so ladden with soap you could just toss it in the machine and you could do a whole load.
If I remember correctly,It seemed you always got the ugly orange brown flowered towel or the green one.
Never the nice blue or pink one.
My grandmother made curtains for the bathroom out of two matching ones
Near the end they stopped with the towels and just had washclothes and then I think it went to a see thru plastic bag.
Is that stuff still around?

 

[autowasherfreak]

I can't seem to remember when she stopped using Breeze. I think she stopped using Breeze when we got the Whirlpool Automatic. After we got the automatic we used a variety of detergents from Amway to Yes which had fabric softeners all ready added.