drh4683
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I came across these purely by accident this weekend. I went to a local estate sale only because it was a nice looking original home. Once I walked in, it was obvious nothing in the home had changed since 1968. Original owner home, totally untouched. All original kitchen with all Frigidaire appliances in Canary Yellow. (Ok, so the refrigerator was the only thing not original...) It was a large ranch with a full basement, but it happened to have an 1st floor laundry room. That's when I spotted this super nice canary yellow Frigidaire Custom Deluxe washer and dryer set. It was the last day of the sale and they gave me the set for $50. They even came with the owners manuals.
I was able to speak to the son and daughter of the original owners. Their parents signed the contract to get their new home built in September, 1967 and sometime in 1968 is when they moved in. The builder only used Frigidaire appliances and they said their mom always liked Yellow, so that's the color she chose for everything. However, the washer and dryer were hardly ever used. The original owners were depression era people, so it made sense when the son and daughter told me that their mom always felt that washing clothes with a washing machine was a terrible waste of water. She *always* washed clothes by hand in the tub. They said they could count on one hand the number of times they remember the washer and dryer getting used when they were growing up.
Well it shows, they appear to be very low hour machines and they work just fine still. I do not think the machines were ever moved, not even once, even for a floor cleaning because there was a little piece of newspaper covered in dust stuck to the floor under the washer from 1971! It was also behind the dryer wedged behind the unit near the floor is where I also found the owners manuals also covered in a thick layer of dust!
The washer is a model WCDAN and the electric dryer is a model DCDAN. As for the bright yellow color, I didn't think this shade of yellow was still around as late as 1968.
I was able to speak to the son and daughter of the original owners. Their parents signed the contract to get their new home built in September, 1967 and sometime in 1968 is when they moved in. The builder only used Frigidaire appliances and they said their mom always liked Yellow, so that's the color she chose for everything. However, the washer and dryer were hardly ever used. The original owners were depression era people, so it made sense when the son and daughter told me that their mom always felt that washing clothes with a washing machine was a terrible waste of water. She *always* washed clothes by hand in the tub. They said they could count on one hand the number of times they remember the washer and dryer getting used when they were growing up.
Well it shows, they appear to be very low hour machines and they work just fine still. I do not think the machines were ever moved, not even once, even for a floor cleaning because there was a little piece of newspaper covered in dust stuck to the floor under the washer from 1971! It was also behind the dryer wedged behind the unit near the floor is where I also found the owners manuals also covered in a thick layer of dust!
The washer is a model WCDAN and the electric dryer is a model DCDAN. As for the bright yellow color, I didn't think this shade of yellow was still around as late as 1968.
