rpms
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Every week in the Kitchener Waterloo newspaper, they have an old photo for you to guess where and what it is? Last week, this photo was in the paper. The picture is from the Gilson Manufacturing Co, sometime in 1950.
One lady wrote in to say she was suprised to see her father in the photo. Another man wrote in to say he reconized the factory, even though he never worked there. He reconized the wringers in the background because he built them in a factory in St. Mary's for Gilson.
Gilson started in 1907 as the Canadian arm of Gilson Manufacturing of Port Washington Wisc. McGraw-Edison of Canada acquired Gilson in 1972 and were only making freezers under the brands Gilson, Speed Queen and Simplicity.
I painted for a man last year and he had a Gilson, snow bird refrigerator. It looked like it was from the 1950s. The top had the round corners and took 3 of us to move it. It was still going, and when you opened the door and the light came on, it was such a nice colour inside. It had a soft pinky-peach glow to it for some reason? I think the shelves were a pale blue?
One lady wrote in to say she was suprised to see her father in the photo. Another man wrote in to say he reconized the factory, even though he never worked there. He reconized the wringers in the background because he built them in a factory in St. Mary's for Gilson.
Gilson started in 1907 as the Canadian arm of Gilson Manufacturing of Port Washington Wisc. McGraw-Edison of Canada acquired Gilson in 1972 and were only making freezers under the brands Gilson, Speed Queen and Simplicity.
I painted for a man last year and he had a Gilson, snow bird refrigerator. It looked like it was from the 1950s. The top had the round corners and took 3 of us to move it. It was still going, and when you opened the door and the light came on, it was such a nice colour inside. It had a soft pinky-peach glow to it for some reason? I think the shelves were a pale blue?
