Exhibit at the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry

[lokringbob]

This is going to date me but as a young boy I remember going to the Chicago Museum of Science & Industry. I think it was 1966 or 67 and they had a exhibit of washing machines? I remember this huge clear plastic washing machine tub in the center of the room it was on a plat form and towered 10 or 15 feet, and if my memory serves me correct, I think it was sponsored by Maytag. This giant tub was filled with water had an agitator and clothes were in proportions to the size of the machine.
Well let me tell you I thought I had died and gone to heaven, I barley remember the rest of the museum, I could not be bothered with the mock coal mine, or the captured WW II German sub. My parents kept yelling at me to stay with them and the rest of the family. If only had had known in my tender years the phrase

"Screw you" I'm staying right here!

I would have used it. Regretfully my parents pulled me away, and the incubators at different stages of hatching finally broke the spell.
Years later as an adult I went back to see the Tiffany exhibit with hopes that Maytag might still be there. I was beside my self with grief that it was gone, I went ahead and viewed the Tiffany exhibit, It was fabulous, but not as spectacular as the Maytag exhibit of the 60's .
If any body has some information or memories of this I would love to read about it.
Signed
Still Depressed :>(

 

[may63]

I remember it well from the early '70's! It was so cool!

When I read the subject line, I was hoping you were writing saying they were bringing the exhibit back! <sigh>

 

[jasonl]

It will never come back now.

But good news, most washers have plastic tubs now *sigh*

 

[Maytagmom]

And....

Most clothes ARE bigger.
Ever notice how back in the good old days, everyone was more svelte, and always seen dressed up in their finest clothes. No baggie pants hanging down to your knees, etc.
In my home movies even, in every shot, Mom had us in dresses, hats, the whole nine yards, and we were at the Zoo!!!! LOL
Just look at the ads on the POD, even.
I miss the good ol days.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I remember the picture from a World Book Year Book or something. I used to stare at it, not so much hoping to transport myself, but just marvelling that there was an exhibit in a real boner fide museum of my greatest interest and a picture of this in an encyclopedia. That legitimized my interest, if no where else than in my own mind. It was in a small way like the feeling I had on finding others who were like me when I was shown where we gathered and started to be told of what our people had accomplished, something you don't get from your birth family, but from the family you create for yourself. It was even better when I met John and Jeff who, like me and most of us, had shared this magnificent obsession since earliest childhood and then again when Jeff told me about this group.