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

[jkbff]

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?

 

[warmsecondrinse]

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

http://https//www.google.ca/maps/pl...0x4ccecc97a66db2b7:0xda9ae108d803638e!6m1!1e1

 

[turquoisedude]

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.