Growing up loving washing machines!!!!

[bobbins]

Hey Guys!!!

Wow for the last several years I have been monitoring this website and loving it!!! (Canadian Eh!!) Ever since when I was a small kid playing with my own first Kenmore 1963 washing machine (at the age of 8!) in my dad’s garage (1970’s)…..I felt different! Family and friends thought it was cute…my sisters thought I was weird. As I got older I would go look for washing machines in peoples garbage, place ads to pick up and fix them for sale (sold them cheap with a warranty at the age of 15)...heck this was more appealing to me then girls….well some may say the gay thing may have to do with it....

I made a career out of it for in the 80’s and decided to go back to school in engineering after realizing that I hated dealing with customers….old hags trying to pick me up, treated me like trash as being a repairman, low pay, long hours, no holidays, etc….

Now in my late 30’s working for the government and not as flexible as I was when I was repairing washing machines (working out at the gym too much these days) I decided to collect toy washers, hoping to find a Bendix 1950’s front loader…happy to see you guys still keeping this flame going… Who knows at your next convention I may visit!

Great people we are!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Bob

 

[toggleswitch]

Welcome to the sisterhood, er brotherhood!

 

[exploder321]

Welcome!

 

[petek]

Hi Bob, where abouts are you? As you've probably seen there aren't many Canadians here. Only 5 I think, two in BC and 3 in Ontario

 

[bobbins]

I from BC (Victoria).... I grew up in a small town located Southern BC. I worked in Red Deer Albert (Red Neck country) servicing appliances, then back in BC in the 80's...

I kind of feel like an old timer here, as I have been viewing this site for years and never thought of chatting here....

 

[pushtorelease]

awwwww Victoria, my home town. Just came back from there tonight on the 5:00 ferry, doing some pre xmas visiting. You must know ABC Electric on Yates St - THE place for any replacement part for small appliances. They can do anything with a mixmaster (yeah, yeah, way too easy.....) Hmm, I hope it's still there. Is it still there????

 

[maytagbear]

About time!

Welcome (out of the "closet!") and into the laundry room.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[oxydolfan1]

Welcome! I LOVE Canada....

 

[bobbins]

You all to nice......

Yup OUT I am.... no pun intended......

Hey Pushtolease, ABC Electric moved from Yates to Quadra (in the plaza where the Brick property)

 

[pushtorelease]

up by Hillside I'm thinking? I'm getting rusty on my Victoria geography..... Glad to hear it's still going though, they used to be great

 

[bobbins]

yes on hillside!

 

[appnut]

A howdy and welcome Bob, form another Bob. You've found the right place!!

 

[kenmore58]

Welcome, Bob.

Hope you enjoy the site as much as the rest of us do. Reading your post reminds me of my teens, only I was doing with typewriters what you were doing with washing machines; buying them cheap, fixing them, and then reselling them. But my fascination with washing machines started when I was very young.

Still tinker with typewriters in my antique typewriter collection and have developed a small collection of toy washers. Unfortunately, I just don't have the room in my house right now for large machines, but I'm working on it.

Anyway, welcome to the group. ENJOY!

Ron

 

[oxydolfan1]

Ron...

I loved typewriters too....I have a beautiful blue Royal manual portable from 1975 that I will ALWAYS treasure....it was made in Brazil!

I love the 30's Royal typewriters as well, which I remember from a small-town country library I spent a lot of time in when I was about the same age...funny, but I never took to other brands.

 

[eddy1210]

Hi Bob

And a warm welcome to you from New Westminster where another washer collector lurks!
Eddy

 

[petek]

New Westminster? did you move Eddy? to Agnes St. ?

 

[eddy1210]

Yes, I did. Back to the house which my partner and I now own, yay!
It's on 10th Ave. Best to stay away from Agnes these days.

 

[petek]

I lived in New West for a while on Agnes, that's why I asked. Seemed like everyone else lived on that street as well..hahaha. Then I moved to Sapperton and had a nice apt there on Griffith Pl. That would have been in 1982. Met my present "other half" and we moved to Bby and we're just looking to buy a house in NWest (1986) on 22nd St. I think it was, near the skytrain which had just opened, when I got transferred to Alberta.

 

[jasonl]

Nuthing wrong with it

There's NOTHING wrong with enjoying washing machines. It's a mechanical device (like a car) and the old ones remind you of your childhood, just like people with antique cars. I can't wait for my little cousins from Pennsylvania to come over tonight. I have a Frankenmore load just waiting to be washed.