HOTPOINT 10/83 DW

[roto204]

Bob

OMG, what the heck was that about?  I've never seen a Hotpoint with a tiny 2" racing stripe of a tine row off on the far right.  What a stupid rack design!  That would drive me crazier than the "fenced" area on the left of the GE SuperRacks.

 

All the Hotpoints I've used just had the arched-up/shallow GE rack, but the tine spacing was pretty normal.  On those, it was tougher to figure out what to do with the vast swath in the middle ("I really should get elliptical cereal bowls"), but since I generally had odds and ends to put there, it was OK.

 

Generally, I allocated a quadrant of the bottom rack for tumblers, and hooked them over tines so that they didn't get jostled into each other.  There was no getting tall glasses into the top racks of the shallow-rack machines.  And that was okay, because the spray from the tower wouldn't ever get up all the way into them anyhow.

 

The breadcrumbs carried along with the spray sure did, though.

 

[appnut]

Nate the kind of top rack you were describing sounds like sometime after Hotpoint DWs ceased being what they were above and simply GE machines with a Hotpoint brand lebel.  The aobve machines were true Hotpoints still. because of the porcelain tub and the racks, particularly the top rack.  The top rack like in my old DW was the typical Hotpoint top rack I found in every one I came across whether it be in an apartment or house from the 1960s through at least 1987.  Had friends that were transferred here with me (who were actual former neighbors in Houston).  They rented a house for about a year and moved into a brand new house built by the same builder as mine.  Their house came with an updated version of my machine with the water heat on/off were now actual control panel buttons, in addition to the drying heat buttons.  Still the same basic 3 cycle buttons though too.  They moved in summer of 1987.  A house behind me was built in late 1987 or early 1988 and it too had Hotpoint appliances, including a smooth top range, our bilder had previously only put in coil burner ranges up until that point.  The houe behind me also had Hotpoint brand in the kitchen, but the dishwasher ws now a pure GE, including the perma-Tuf tub and the "entry level" super rack upper rack--I called it that cuz it was the deep upper rack like mine, but didn't have the hard line "fence" on the left side like you & I know.  It was actually the same top rack as was in my sister's GSD1100, which like I said didn't have the hard line fence nor the cup shelf.  Also in the photo above, the left side of the top rack was just like the right side, it's just that the way the glases are loaded on in the two rows on the left side, hide the tine arrangement that's mirrored on the right side.  What was on the left side is how yo0u were3 supposed to load glasses.  Everyone I know ended up loading mugs just like glasses. 

 

Nate, I just found the follow-up model for the abnove HDA965.  That was the HDA969.  It has the deeper top rack as well as the Perma-Tuf tub and the GE detergent dispenser with the rotating door with the "handle" on it.  But I cannot see any copyright on the book or any code I could decipher for publishing. 

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[dj-gabriele]

Can you explain me what "custom look" means in the end?

They're showing dishwashers that are not integrated at all, to me "custom look" would be a machine disguised as an ordinary cabinet, can you clarify please?

 

[roto204]

Woodgrain and inserts

Gabriele, I think that referred to the MOL/TOL models' abilities to accommodate decorative panel inserts of 1/4" or thinner, and also possibly to the woodgrain control panel that would more or less blend into the cabinetry.

More or less.



Bob, did these have those "color under glass" panels? Those always looked way cool.

 

[appnut]

Nate, I do not think so, but I also do not know what you mean by "color under glass" models.  That asthetic feature doesn't ring a bell with me on dishwashers. 

 

[roto204]

Penncrest

David, thank you so much for all these scans! It's been so much fun reading them, and they just keep coming!

I LOVE those Penncrest machines. Someday, I'd love to find one of the P-branded old Penncrest dishwashers and the Hotpoint Silhouette-clone washers--so pretty. I love the halfsies wash-arm, too.

Roger, David, and I found a Penncrest-branded freezer in Tucson with the circa-1966 Penney's crest on it, and I thought it was pretty, too. (My goal is to convince JCPenney someday to dump the Helvetica logo and embrace that awesome, swank badge from yesteryear...)

 

[tomturbomatic]

I think these control panels were ongepotchket, overdone in the extreme. All black with the chrome and blue could have been striking, but that crappy woodgrain surrounding everything made it look at cheap as it was. Maybe it helped warn people away like a skunk's color pattern. Hotpoint DWs had the black plastic control panels in the early-mid 70s that looked much less busy and tacky than these. This tasteless styling is a shame, because for a time in the 50s and 60s, Hotpoint had some of the best styling among appliance lines.

 

[roto204]

Color under glass

Bob, some machines, KAs included, had a black insert under glass/Plexiglas.  The effect was a deep, lustrous black, almost like a darkened glass oven door.

 

[appnut]

Oh ok.  thanks Nate.  From the description, ARE YOU KIDDING???  These were Hotpoints lol. 

 

[roto204]

Hey!

A girl can dream, right?