Cool vintage photo

[bigterkc]

I saw this on a Kansas City post and thought I would share it with you folks.
Not exactly sure what year its taken, but I think before WWII. A whopping $64.95!

 

[wayupnorth]

I am thinking that was late 40's as my '48 Kenmore is very similar with the same wringer setup.

 

[vacerator]

Were those

called the "jeep" washers? Sears sold wringer types through the 70's.

 

[christfr]

so shiny and new I bet gals would have loved to have that in the day

 

[golittlesport]

demo model

I noticed on the right side of the photo it looks like a glass-tub wringer washer to demo how the agitator moved the clothes around. Wouldn't it be cool to find one of those? I know Robert has an acrylic tub Maytag wringer and John has a see-through twintub Easy Spindrier in the museum. Any others?

 

[bigterkc]

Demo Model

I noticed that, but didn't realize it was the clear demo model. For some reason I thought it was a reflection. How cool would that be to find the old demo models of these machines.

 

[wayupnorth]

There was a Lady Kenmore with the clear tub that had poker chips swirling on low speed at our old Sears as a kid. I would walk by it and casually flick the switch to fast and eventually I got caught. My mother had a similar one to mine without the timer. As a bratty kid I threw my Tonka Jeep in it. So yes, it can be a Jeep washer, until mother catches you and then you get in BIG trouble.

 

[maytagbear]

Let's not get casrried away,

gentlemen and ladies......

Let's say this picture was from 1950.

There's a little something in the science of economics called inflation, and no, this sort of inflation does not have anything to do with the inflation in a thread over in Dirty Laundry.

64.95 in 2015 is 646.18. 646.18.

Link is to the calculator I used.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

The Inflation Calculator

The following form adjusts any given amount of money for inflation, according to the Consumer Price Index, from 1800 to 2024. Enjoy!

westegg.com

 

[bigterkc]

Yup

Yup! I knew about the inflation difference. I still get amused when watching old tv shows and in the supermarkets bread is 0.15 a loaf. That was a half hour of work back then at minimum wage!
But thanks for posting the inflation calculator.

 

[vacerator]

Re; Inflation:

Yet they are considering getting rid of the one hundred dollar bill. It must be worth ten dollars in yesterdays buying power. Better keep the hundie around, unless the ability to hold onto them has become way too scarce.
My dad grossed about $13,000 in 1960. I have the hospital receipt for my birth. Grand total was $148.oo. Hospital room, saddle block, delivery fee, doctors charges, nursery stay, all of it.
Grand daughters birth 3 years ago cost well over $10,000.oo $5 grand was out of pocket, and the kids have good insurance. She was in the neo natal i.cu. for 3 days. She was born premature.

 

[combo52]

WP-KM Wringer Washers were discontinued in the fall of 1971

This was the same time that WP quit building Combination Washer-Dryers