Dishwasher I.D.? (Pic Inc'l)

[danemodsandy]

Does anyone know what brand and model of dishwasher are in this DVD still? It's from the 1967-68 time frame, maybe a little earlier.

It's from a movie called How to Save a Marriage, with Dean Martin. The hand in the photo belongs to Stella Stevens. I've been curious about this unit for a long time, because it's like nothing I'm familiar with. I'm guessing it's some regional brand like Coronado or Gaffers & Sattler or something.

Thanks!

 

[jeffg]

I checked it in Photoshop, and I believe the red label says "Waste King Universal"

 

[appnut]

Yup, that's the next to bol Wast King--the model below ours that was installed the day MLK was killed. Rinse & Hold button is on the left and she's holding the start button down for 3 seconds until the machine starts.

 

[danemodsandy]

Wow, Thanks!

That has been puzzling me for years - we did not see Waste King here very much in Georgia.

Now, there's another thread with a puzzling reefer, this time from Rosemary's Baby.

 

[may63]

Parent Trap (Original)

I've always wondered about the make of the dishwasher in the original Parent Trap. Jump to 5:30 on the following youtube clip:

http://www.youtube.com/user/DisneyClassics337#play/uploads/1/3qqWwjQzmmE

 

[frigilux]

Speaking of Rosemary's Baby, don't you (at least virtually) live in their apartment?

 

[toggleswitch2]

Parent trap.

To me it looks like a mid 60's Whirlpool DW.
Large rotary telephone dial as timer control on right side and blue plastisol-type interior.

Sandy:
I've only seen two Waste King /Universal dishwashers in my area... their market share appears to be (have been) quite limited. The SS interior was quite progressive, then. One of their "trade-marks" appears to be an automatic-advance timer that one can not manually turn, even on the lower-end models. IIRC their wash arms were an "H" tilted 90*- It was a one piece affair. There was a cut-out in the lower rack to accomodate the tower/riser linking the lower and upper (i.e. middle-of-the machine) wash-arms.

 

[danemodsandy]

Frigilux:

Yep, my profile location is the old Woodhouse apartment.

 

[peterh770]

I grew up with the next model up. Full Cycle, Pots and Pans (no heated dry), Fine China (no heated last rinse) and Rinse and Hold (2 rinses). Pressing the Start button rapid advanced the timer to the start point. The lower racks had loops at the ends of the tynes so that dishes were loaded in one direction, all facing the center of the rack. The wash arms were flattened a bit and had "goat's eye" holes in them. Noisy machine.

 

[gansky1]

Didn't you save that dishwasher, Peter? Or one like it?

I saw one a bit older at an estate sale, may have been an early Thermador, that had a wash arm and center tower that were connected up through the center. The lower rack was cut out around the tube that fed the center arm. The arms themselves were square tubes and were different lengths. Wish I'd had a camera at that estate sale. I called the Realtor who had the house listed for sale and I may as well have been speaking a long-extinct language when I asked about the dishwasher.

 

[frigilux]

The only Waste King Universal dishwasher I saw growing up was down the block, in the home of a rich neighbor. Waste Kings weren't sold at dealerships anywhere near the small town I lived in.

The Fords (notice how I cleverly disguised their identity by using their real last name!) hired an interior designer from Minneapolis, so I'm guessing the DW came from there.

Anyway, it had a SS interior, and the neighbor claimed it was better than other dishwashers because it super-heated the water---170-180 degrees.

Peter---or other WK owners---can you verify this claim? I'm guessing their machine was (like everything else in their possession) top-of-the-line. This would have been 1972.

 

[andrewinorlando]

This was the base Waste King of it's time. It was all stainless, with a full size lower wash arm and a pop up tower to wash the upper rack.

The Full Cycle progressed as follows: Wash (6 min) -> Wash (4 minutes) -> Rinse (2 min) -> Rinse (2 min) -> Sani Rinse (2 min + water heating time) -> Dry. A total of about 60 minutes including dry. It only heated water in the final sani rinse, which was limited to about 6 - 10 minutes if I remember correctly.

Rinse & Hold rinsed once and stopped, using the first wash cycle. You could not advance the timer to off, but pressing the Full Cycle button continued the cycle from the second wash forward.

It was a noisy machine, that performed marginally well. The next model up with the two full sized wash arms was immeasurably better in every way.

 

[appnut]

Peter & I had the exact same machine, but ours had the same square white buttons and white facia timer dial. I think Peter's was dark colored in those respects. Our cycle sequence was similar to wht andrewe described. 6 minute prewash, 6 minute rinse, 6 minute main wash (mind you the spray periods were all of 4 minutes each) 2 rinses that were 3 minutes each, and the final sni-heated rinse (on full cycle). It didn't circulate water while heating it (thermostatically controlled). The fine China cycle didn't have the 3rd post wash rinse, but the timer moved through that cycle phase and had the heater on for drying. Ours called the pots'n'pans cycle cook ware. The 3rd rinse ciculated water during that whole last rinse, probably a good 7 minutes or more, then no-heated dry.

Eugene that superheated water on Waste Kings was only on the Steam Machine models, which Andrew is very familiar with as well as LighteControls. Our Waste King, final rinse was heated to 155 degrees and that was for both the 1968 model and our 1959/1960 model.

 

[danemodsandy]

I'm Surprised:

That no one has spotted something very strange in that photo.

I'm referring to the colour of the dishwasher, which is pretty close to today's Bisque, a colour that wasn't being offered yet in '67, when this movie was made.

The reason is that the dishwasher was repainted to avoid too much white in the shot. Real white causes a lot of glare under movie lighting, so most "white" things you see onscreen are actually somewhere between ivory and beige. You can use small amounts of pure white, but not a lot. On the screen, the result of using off-whites looks white.

 

[jeffg]

If the film was shot in Technicolor, the process gives a rosy character to all colors including white. This might account for the dishwasher.

If you look at Photoshop's color sampler, the red channel is equally higher in both the dishwasher color and other "pure" whites, e.g. the tile grout.

 

[danemodsandy]

Jeff:

You're right about the colour sampling, but "dampening" of white was standard operating procedure for decades after Technicolor was introduced, and it continued long after three-strip Technicolor was discarded in favour of Eastmancolor (After about 1954, any movie billed as "Technicolor" is actually Eastmancolor with the Technicolor Corporation doing the processing and printmaking. Even though the company's three-strip process was considered obsolete after Eastmancolor came in, Technicolor was still considered the best lab in the business).

If you know what to look for, you can see all kinds of colour tricks in old colour movies, to make things look better or make them photograph properly.

 

[peterh770]

Didn't you save that dishwasher, Peter?

I did, but it was at my father's house and my sisters pitched it when they cleaned it out.

 

[andrewinorlando]

Those Waste Kings were built like true tanks. No flexing in the door hinges whatsoever, and solid panel stainless interiors, unlike today's "soft" surgical stainless they use in many interiors. This was more an industrial grade stainless steel. The one thing I hated about them is that the timer dial was sealed by a plastic cover and it could not be manually advanced.

 

[gansky1]

Stainless - maybe to prevent food stains but...

I've seen a number of them that rusted through at the welds in the tank and around the pump opening. Someone told me once that they were nickel-plated but overall little better quality-wise than a D&M. I always wanted a Steam Machine though, they sounded so cool in the steam cycles.

This one doesn't appear to be 'stainless' at all...did they come with different tanks?