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As Lebron started a Kenmore thread, I thought I'd follow in his footsteps and create a Combo thread.  

 

If you have a vintage Combo washer/dryer or someone you know does, please post photos of them here!

 

This is my 1959 Lady Kenmore (gas) washer/dryer combo!

 

Kevin

 

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Not that vintage

but it is 1985 Candy washer-dryer, my friends used from August 1985 till March 2010. It is in storage, fully functional, it's just typical "Wife wanted a new one." xD
It's the oldes washer dryer I've seen personally, all others just in pics ;)

With it's system it isn't much different, than brand new ones we can buy today :)

Dex

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Lady Kenmore 1965

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What happened to the Norge WD-Combo photo?

I cannot seem to find those great photos of the Norge Washer-Dryer Combo that was posted in one of the threads. Would someone please help me find it?

Thanks!
Jason
 
What I would pick...

The only washer-dryer combo I ever watched operating, was our friend's old big Whirlpool. My aunt & uncle in Buffalo had a Duomatic, but I visited them way after they got rid of it. If I could pick the one I wanted now, it would be either the Duomatic or the 1963 Kenmore like the coppertone one in the ad above(or Whirlpool). The Duomatic spun the fastest, at 560 RPM, as I have a brochure for it here. I never even saw an Easy, SQ or Maytag combo in person. Of all the stores here in NY I used to go to, not one had those machines.
 
Norge Combo!

The above looks very interesting - I would love to see closeups of that control panel. Does anyone know if that is a dispenser on top? Anyone with any experience with this combo?
Thanks
Peter
 
Neighbors 3 houses away from us had a Norge Combo.  I only visited their house once, maybe twice at the most.  They were transferred back to California mot too soon after this particular visit I do vividly remember.  So that was probably I only got to see it once or maybe twice.  I had to have been somewhere between the age of 7 and 9.  It reminded me of the 20 pound front loaders I'd seen at the Norge Cleaning Village we'd go to for dry cleaning and such.  While my parents and neighbors visited or played bridge, I'd go into the laundry room and open the door and spin the tub around and play washing machine.  But I wasn't tall enough to see the control panel very well at all.  They also had a KDS14 VariCycle in the kitchen.  That was most memorable in and of itself too.  The racks reminded so much of our Waste King in some ways.  But I remeber thinking how much bigger the spray arm was than in our WK.  also, the 3 buttons were various colors as opposed to the WK's white buttons with black lettering.  As I think back on it now, the housewife sure was nice to let me just go back and forth between that combo and the KA.   they had one baby at the time and I never did forget their last name. 
 
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