FREE TURKEY FREE TURKEY (when you buy a Philco)

[hreodbeorht]

Cass City Chronicle, Cass City, Michigan
December 6, 1962

 

[washerboy]

free samples

I wonder what Miss. Helen had in mind for "free samples?

 

[tlee618]

What a fun ad, thanks so much for sharing it.

 

[gansky1]

Great ad! Thanksgiving and no dishwashers. The holidays are one of the biggest times of year for selling a new dishwasher.

Perhaps MISS Helen Higgins is giving out samples of chastity...

 

[peterh770]

Free samples of Dash!

 

[toggleswitch]

oh goody.... for an extra $1.01 a week I can get a combo!

 

[partscounterman]

Get out your crayons!

Back when I was a kid, I would look for print news ads such as this, then color in all the appliances. Of course my favorites were the ads put out by Peterson's Maytag. I loved that...

 

[whirlcool]

When did Philco get out of the Appliance market? It seems I remember them being Philco, then Philco-Ford. Then nothing at all.
I remember them making a lot of televisions, was there anything remarkable about Philco laundry products?

 

[peterh770]

December 6, 1962 is 13 days before my birthday! Darn, I missed the sale!

I thouhgt by 1962 they had the "oval eye" look to their control panels. Anyone have any documentation as to what Philco look came out in what year?

 

[westytoploader]

From what I've heard, they were yet another company that fell victim to the WCI monster sometime in the early-70s. Otherwise that ingenious Flex-a-Wash "flapper" design would probably be around today, IMHO.

 

[gansky1]

My birth appliances -

A friend of mine that works for and estate sale company saved me a newspaper ad from 1966 for one of our local (now gone) appliance stores. There's a full page, two color ad for the Frigidaire Electri-Clean 40" range and the facing page is an entire appliance/television/radio bonanza. Westinghouse, Frigidaire, KitchenAid, RCA Whirlpool, Philco...

 

[hreodbeorht]

This ad was published in late 1961. I don't understand the washer feature of a "Double-Pivot" motor that ends "needless part-changing." If a part that's changed was needless, isn't that the fault of the repairman and not the washer design?