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Reply #21 is a D&M Kenmore rotorack.  Looks like relatively little use.  A definite MOL and is toard the end of the rotorack run due to the energy saver dry switch to the right of the timer dial.  Reply #22 looks like O'Keefe & Merritt (A GE product). 
 
Appnut, how do you know these things?

I know, there's others who can identify dishwashers, but I can't help mention, it's amazing to me that you (and others) can easily identify almost anything that looks vague to me. O'Keefe and Merrit? I wouldn't have even thought of them making something that was re-badged, but that's my limits of knowledge shining brightly.

Thanks again for chiming in with my questions.
 
I had the Tappan version of that dishwasher in a house I built spring of 1985.  And I can barely make it out, but recognize the apostrophe in the first word.  And O'Keefe & Merritt and Tappan were closely linked together.  It's like that weird Tappan dishwasher (the POD with the kitten on top of the counter because it's so quiet).  The dishwasher that was in the house my parents bought September 1961 was just like the Tappan versions, except had O'Keefe & Merritt on it.  (This was pulled out and replaced with our Waste King).  The O&M went to our old house to replace the WK.   This is a photo of the model above the Tappan one I had--this was the "TOL" for Tappan

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Reply #38

I had to laugh, the content of the ad sounded EXACTLY like my mom and I would be the son to use that dishwasher - and more than once if I had my chance. This could have been my mom:

"It was owned by a Depression-era housewife who never liked using it if she only had "a few dishes to wash" (i.e. if the sink was utterly full, she would still have had only "a few dishes to wash."). The one time it was run, it was by her son."
 
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