Dan, I'm sort of relying on you to find me a 50's GE Combo fridge/freezer locally at some point. I never even come close when I cruise CL. To finding a GE Combo fridge, that is.
"How does the one in Grand Rapids have a freezer that doesn't work, but the refrigerator section does?"
That's what I'm wondering, because one of my grandmothers had what appeared to be this exact fridge, and hers had one of those little freezing compartment boxes at the top; it didn't have a full-width freezer. If I recall correctly (this has been 40 years), the coils wrapped around the tiny freezing compartment, so anything that affected the freezer would affect the fridge part.
Correct, Sandy. The freezer almost HAS to work, for the refrigerator section to work properly. Unless they're trying to compare it to a modern freezer, and maybe found out ice cream doesn't keep well.
Yep, that was the drawback of my grandmother's Frigidaire - ice cream was a treat to be consumed right away, because you certainly couldn't store it. Nice to know my memory of that fridge was correct!