Hotpoint SxS

[goatfarmer]

another beauty, in Harvest Gold

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[rp2813]

Is it just me or does the kid-height access door for frozen items seem misguided?

 

[appnut]

I rememembered that little door being for the purpose of access to ice.

 

[pulltostart]

Bob,

You are correct.  This is an early attempt at through-the-door ice dispensing.  I believe this would have been in response to GE's first ice and water dispenser.

 

lawrence

 

[tomturbomatic]

A friend had one of these in the early 70s so it's around 50 years old.

 

[rp2813]

Thanks guys --

 

 

Almost two whole freezer shelves dedicated to the making of ice and accessing it. 

 

I have to say, if I were in the market, of drinking age and had the money back then, and if this was the best ice accessibility option out there, I'd have gone for it.  In white, though.

 

[circlew]

I remember seeing these during the 70's at Swallen's, and tried to talk my parents into buying one. We did get a Hotpoint top freezer model in '77 when the '62 Frigidaire quit. The SxS with the in door ice bin was too wide for our space, and mom didn't want to renovate the kitchen.

 

[combo52]

Hot point side-by-side refrigerator

With through the door, ice, whirlpool also had a side-by-side with a through the door ice bin in the 80s that was very handy.

I never saw, but about two of these hop points, most people opted for the GE with the ice and water dispenser through the door hot point was kind of the poor cousin of General Electric throughout the 70s and 80s.

This hot point ice maker design actually took up a lot less space in the freezer. It’s actually only taking up 2/3 of one shelf for the icemaker, which is much less than a fancier GE.

This hot point used the GE icemaker that made little cylinders and it had an electronic sensor to control ice level.

John

 

[tomturbomatic]

Could the sensor ever allow the freezer below the ice maker to fill up with cubes?

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Some friends down the street turned a 50's Hotpoint 40" range that looked like one across the street from us and a '50's top freezer Hotpoint refrigerator that looked like one next door both in white into a 30" Hotpoint range and this fridge both in harvest gold...

They didn't live near us much longer after that so I was friends with the new people who moved in and when visiting them one time saw the refrigerator there in the kitchen by only the freezer side of which the ice chute was taped along the openings maybe because of it losing its insulation properties or it got left open, while the stove was seen at the curb in front of the house years later...

And some other neighbors across the street had an avocado Hotpoint side by side without the Ice Service dispenser...

I saw a harvest gold fridge like that again at a used appliance store, still working and drove by a coppertone one discarded in front of a house I regularly drive by, and I thought someone was selling an avocado one here or somewhere online...

That is a fridge I wish I had, wonder how many cubic feet...

-- Dave