Household trash, compactors
Are very interesting products, and any self-respecting appliance collector should have one in their home, if not more than one, lol
At the museum, we have six vintage compactors, the ISC, 15 inch one the whirlpool, of course 15 inch size the early GE that was stolen from whirlpool, we have the later GE with the round bucket. We have the Amana Stormore compactor 18 inch size, and of course an 18 inch Hobart KitchenAid compactor.
I’m still looking for the 12 inch Thermidor waste king compactor, and there was a 12 inch Anaheim products compactor mostly sold under the GE name, there’s also a 15 inch WCI built compactor that was mostly sold under the Frigidaire name we don’t have and the most unusual alliance products in alliance Ohio made a heavy duty home compactor that was normally placed in your garage.
If anybody sees any of these on the list, I’d love to obtain one for the museum in.
A funny story about compactors much like Ralph’s, when I was in college, there was an apartment community near the college that was all equipped with trash, compactors, and late on a Friday or Saturday night. You would hear people put a beer bottle in the compactor and hear the wine and smash of the bottle and then when somebody did it, you normally hear somebody else do it a few moments later.
John
