Help Please Identifying this Automatic Washer

[dishwashercrazy]

Can anyone please help me identify this Automatic Washer?

This picture was taken by my mother on Memorial Day, 1957. I've edited out the two geese that were standing in the driveway that she was actually photographing. She happened to capture the family car.

And, she also got a shot of this washing machine.

I would have been 4 years old. Before I was "dishwashercrazy", I was Washing Machine Crazy. By age 14 1/2 months, I was photographed standing inside my Mom's 1953 Double Dexter Wringer Washer.

I'm guessing about the details, but I think that my grandparent's next door neighbors had moved this "mystery washer" outside by the garage, and I must have begged them to give it to me. At age 4!! Anyway, somehow, it got moved 6 miles or so, from Farmington, Illinois, to this farmhouse near Trivoli, Illinois where my folks were living at the time. Mom and Dad are now 78 and 79 respectfully, and neither remember the details now. So, I'm relying strictly on my own faint memories.

If anyone knows what it is, I'd certainly appreciate finding out.

Mike

 

[dishwashercrazy]

Photos of me in the Double Dexter

Me in April 1954 at 14 1/2 months, then in August 1956 at age 3 1/2 - along with my younger sister.

 

[golittlesport]

That automatic washer looks like an early Beam design machine, which were labeled Hotpoint, Dexter, Coronado and other names. Cute Dexter wringer photos. My mom had a single tub Dexter wringer that was very similar in appearance...would have been a 1952 model. I recall the balls on the end of the "stick shift" and the wringer control were blue. I got my arm injured in the wringer when I was two years old.

 

[laundramatt]

HaHa! That double tub Dexter is the washer my mom used from my earliest memories until I was around 16 years old.

 

[dishwashercrazy]

Thanks Rich

Thanks Rich for the insight as to what this washer was.

Coronado Automatics were sold at the Farmington Western Auto store, which is where my grandmother bought hers. Perhaps the neighbors had bought this machine from the same store.

I just didn't have any clue at all, nor any images of my grandmother's Coronado cabinet.

Thanks also to other for your comments. Mike

 

[abcomatic]

HI Mike, I love the picture of you in the Dexter! Talk soon. Gary

 

[soberleaf]

you were

a cute little kid mike and that washer just fits you!

 

[golittlesport]

maybe not a Dexter, but very similar

Here is a photo of an early Dexter automatic. You can see it is very close to the machine in your photo.

 

[dishwashercrazy]

Wow Rich, the Dexter is almost identical to the washer in the photo, including the white raised object on top in the center. The cabinet is amazingly similar too.

Thanks very much. Mike