Early 50s Kenmore washer in Washington with other appliances

[northwesty]

https://kpr.craigslist.org/atq/d/prosser-vintage-1960-pink-appliances/7822187138.html

 

[akronman]

PICS

Someone please explain this fridge. Are the motor and coils and evaporator so big that they take up 40% of the front of the cabinet?

 

[akronman]

and more

Here's all the other stuff, quite a collection!

 

[circlew]

Those are just decorative trim inserts on the door. You could get various color panels to go in them. The refrigerator and freezer sections are full width.

 

[countryford]

The washer he is asking $150 for it. The rest he currently wants to sell as a complete set, minus washer.

 

[bpetersxx]

Shoot i thought the frig was going to be rare

The doors look like they could slide to the left like pocket closet doors do

 

[circlew]

I suppose a Westinghouse refrigerator is less common than a GE, Hotpoint, Whirlpool, or Kenmore from the same time period. As I said, it's just trim that's on the TOL models; the less expensive models had plain doors.

I see that the oven has a rotisserie. The 1953 Westinghouse Imperial 30 range I have has a lot of common parts to this wall oven. However, mine doesn't have that accessory.

The sink looks to be in good shape. I didn't see anything indicating if it is cast iron or enameled steel. Usually the steel ones are all chipped up after a few years.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Unfortunately, the cooktop does not have the lights for the surface unit switches so not TOL, although the oven is.

 

[classiccaprice]

I NEED the refrigerator it opens the right direction and together they'd make a complete fridge. That one is missing shelves, but so is mine.

 

[classiccaprice]

The freezer section has some damage and it's missing the bottom shelf and refrigerator/freezer drawers and freezer shelf.

 

[snail]

Anybody know what model that washer is?

I wish it was a bit closer that's one cool washer. Anybody know what year and model that is?

 

[swestoyz]

Anybody know what year and model that is?

That would be a '57 29" MOL Kenmore. The overall control design was introduced as the TOL machine in '53, and was carried over thru till 1960 in various configurations of controls as well as colors on the backsplash.

Ben

 

[appnut]

This pair was a part of my early childhood from being conscious of them from about age 4 onward. The washer was at some friends house in Dallas and served a family of by then 8 at the end of its life and replacedwith a Wetingohuse Laundromat washer in 1962 or 1963. The drter (gas) was a neighbor of ours from when it was brand new until it finally wore out 1972 or 1973.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I noticed that they call the suds saver "Sudsomatic" in this catalog page. Wasn't that Maytag's term for that Rube Goldberg device that Maytag introduced that was placed in the sink and plugged in to return the suds through the hose that you placed into the washer's tub? They must have gotten into some sort of trouble because the user's manual for the 1958 Lady has a page or two that dealt with the SudsMiser except that the word Miser was blacked out (althouth if you held the page to the light you could still read Miser) and I think that was Whirlpool's term for their suds saving system.

 

[launderess]

Lady Kenmore used "Sudsomatic" for their 1950's "exclusive" suds saving mechanism.

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?68178&#92

WP OTOH used "Suds-Miser"

Suds Saver?

I have noticed in a lot of threads that a Suds Saver feature has been mentioned. I have never seen one of these. What is it? How did it work? Are they available today? Tim

www.automaticwasher.org

 

[maytag85]

Clicked on one of the links Laundress posted, this is what I get

 

[DADoES]

 
Copy, paste the URL, delete the &#92 (backslash) at end of it.  Easy enough.

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?68178&#92

should be

https://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?68178