Confused about which vintage dishwasher should go in a future kitchen...

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Like the "keep it all GE" idea...

and I'd go with the P-7 double wall-oven/cooktop for the cooking segment. I've loved having wall mounted self cleaning double ovens with eye level convenience when we had one (in our first VT house). And if you can swing the 2nd d/w concept a KA for the really tough assignments couldn't go wrong!
 
Paul, for the basement, you could get one with the "Party" cycle. 

 

The price of this one dropped from $80 to $50 recently. You might want to make an offer! 


 

Otherwise, I'll think about it as I'd really like to have a KDS-17A.

 

As for the KDS-18, it's a keeper but if you're able to help me dig into the pile of appliances, I'll give you my KDS-58 (which was converted to a semi-built-in!)... 

 

 
 
Hmmmm.... That is a 17 in the ad, isn't it?  

 

Of course, as Eddie suggested, I could always 'de-portablize' the KDS54 but that's a machine that would make an excellent portable second dishwasher if I can't install two built-ins in the kitchen.  But there's also the '61 Whirlpool, the '60 KitchenAid, the '65 KA Electra, the '65 GE Talisman MobileMaid, the  '62 GE MobileMaid in turquoise, choice of a 1956, 1957, or 1959 GE MobileMaid as well. Oh wait, there's also the '68 Viking top-loader, the '62 Monkey Wards or the mint '71 Westinghouse convertible.   Do I have too many portable dishwashers??  LOL   
 
Convert the KDS54

Hi Paul, have you thought about converting your KDS54 into a built-in? Painting the two panels in turquoise would not be very difficult, and you'd get a very good performing machine. (and fairly full featured as well). I know you desire to keep all the appliances in the same brand family, but when you think about using it everyday the Kitchen Aid will most likely remain faithful to performance without a lot of fuss. Don't forget how many KA's of this vintage are still going strong!

Plus it gives you three cycles, dual detergent dispensers, RA dispenser, and an adjustable upper rack!

Just my two cents! :) I'm sure whichever way you go it will look great! Good luck!
 
It's very simple.....

You buy in Montreal Nord around L'Accordaire & L'Eger. The area's mostly Italian so you simply must have at LEAST 2 kitchens and several dishwashers in order to fit in.

Problem solved!

An ex has a slew of cousins up there. I couldn't count how many times I've been there..... not lately, though. :-(

Jim
 
My grandfather used to be a part-time real estate agent and he sold many houses to/from Italian families in this area, a bit further south east in St-Leonard in the late 1950s. It told me that it was common for Italians to have many generations of people living in the same house. I don't think I have any Italian roots but that's also common in my family.

 

I think the part of the family on my great-grandmother's side who had this tendency had ancestors from the "Hautes-Alpes" not very far from Italy! My grandfather, two of his brothers and a sister who were those who left their parent's home "early" (I mean before their parents died!) bought a summer cottage outside of Montreal together back in the early 1940s and when they retired in the 1970s, they each sold their houses in Montreal and tore it down, and then each built their houses on the same land that they divided. Their next neighbors were also uncles and aunts all from the same Guerin family who originated from the Hautes-Alpes.

 

This was the place:

www.google.ca

11 Rue Guy-Racicot · 11 Rue Guy-Racicot, Saint-Placide, QC J0N 1E0, Canada

11 Rue Guy-Racicot, Saint-Placide, QC J0N 1E0, Canada
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I used to mow the lawn with my great-grandaunt's Sunbeam Twin Blade mower with about 200 ft of extension cords around the mailboxes there when I was a kid!

 

The 4 other brothers and sisters stayed with my great-grandmother in Montreal until she died at age 82 in 1962 and they moved together across the street next door to their aunt...

 

 

 

But Paul is looking to buy something outside of Montreal!

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The post about the Italian area, that brings a thought. Find a house with a kosher kitchen! Then you'll be required by tradition to have two dishwashers, two sinks etc! :-)

You wouldn't want your dairy to touch your meat, now would you? :-)
 
That looks like a really nice area! Fun as a kid?

My grandfather and 3 of his 4 siblings all bought their own houses..... but less than a 5 min walk from my great-grandmother. The 4th came back after her husband died and rented an apartment from my grandparents. Although I technically wasn't the oldest great-grand-child, all of the older ones lived in Nebraska so I got that role of 'eldest' by default. I had a blast as a kid and and was the only one of my generation to benefit from the 'no-English-in-Great-Grandma's-house' policy my grandparents and all their siblings followed. This was in Norwich, Conn.

The link shows the area where my ex's gazillion cousins lived in Montreal-Nord:

This isn't the street but I'm pretty sure it's within a 5 min walk. I'm 99% sure they lived within the triangle formed by L'eger, L'Accordaire, and Bourassa. I really liked the area and told my ex I wouldn't mind living there. I also liked Laval, although I don't know it well at all. I love the idea of living in a rural area that's very close (timewise) to a big city. You can't get that around Boston or New York!

Have you seen the movie Mambo Italiano? It's a gay flick set (it seems to me) Montreal-Nord. The guy who wrote the story must have been from there because to my mind he nailed it! The characters in the movie are very over-the-top and over-emotional whereas my ex's cousins and friends were all much, much more laid back and mellow. It's an Anglo movie and in real life (as of late '90's) I only heard French and Italian spoken in that area. With those 2 caveats, I found the backdrop of the story quite realistic.

In the interest of fairness, the Poles in Conn. are the Fidrychs and the Italians in Montreal are the (E)lisios. Both names are extremely unusual so if they mean anything to anyone, you're related to me or to my ex!

Jim

 
Oh, what a choice to make.... LOL   Thanks to everyone for their input!  It can be difficult to be objective about a machine sometimes when one is smitten by it's looks.... 

 

IF and say this is still IF, we get the house we're currently looking at, we're going to have to 'correct' a space left by a commercial-size refrigerator/freezer unit in the kitchen.  That space will easily accommodate a refrigerator (still have to pick THAT, too...LOL) and a portable dishwasher of some description.  So, if the range winds up being the Flair, the refrigerator the '65 Frigidaire Cycla-Matic, then the built-in dishwasher will probably be the Spin-Tube.  The portable would then have to be the KDS54, kept portable, but repainted turquoise.  

 

No second kitchen in this particular house, though.  It has something MUCH bigger and better but I don't want to jinx anything....

 

I'll be sure to post about how this winds up playing out, I promise.  
 

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