If tthe year was 1976,What would you be washing with?

[mixfinder]

The Dependability People

Avocado green Maytag matching washer and dryer. I traded a poppy red Frigidaire 1-18 set back in after a few months and got the Maytags. It was my first Maytag dryer that wasn't a Holo of Heat. Mine was highest level two speed with standard capacity. Sold it a year later and moved across the country. Replaced them with a matching coppertone 1963 Frigidaire Imperial set.

 

[lebron]

I'd probably be washing with a '47 GE

 

[appliguy]

I was a baby that year....

but my mom was washing with a 1972 Kenmore 800 washer (identical to the one JasonL has) and drying with a 1963 Kenmore Soft Heat 70 gas dryer at home in Virginia. At the cottage on Deep Creek Lake MD she was washing with a 1963 Kenmore 70 (the mate to the dryer in VA) and drying with a circa 1973 GE Jumbo Dryer....PAT COFFEY[this post was last edited: 9/3/2010-16:53]

 

[keymatic]

Hi Paul...
Nice choice of twinny...here's mine just to make the fantasy feel a bit more real...can't take you back to '76 though !!
Me on the other hand would have had to have the Servis All-Fabric automatic, (pic 2) great styling, unique Hi-Zone agi & triple rinse..a must for any busy Housewife..lol
Keith

 

[keymatic]

Servis - All-Fab 1966 !!

 

[ronhic]

A 1968 Simpson 4 speed programmed fluid drive...identical to the one Leon owns (and its his pic!)

Saw sterling service in our house until 1988 and then with a friend for another 2 years before being pensioned....

 

[randycmaynard]

In 1976 we were still using the

1963 Kenmore 600 which was in its later golden years. It was replaced with a new Kenmore with dual-action agitator in 1980 and in 1989 my parents moved into a new home that came with a brand new Hotpoint set - the GE design Hotpoint. Earlier this year I found a near mint 1963 Kenmore 600 and it's slated for a belt replacement and some minor repairs later in the cooler fall months as is the White-Westy Spacemates FL washer.

Exciting fall ahead - hope to have both vintage machines up and running a full capacity before Christmas arrives and it gets too cold to work.

 

[djmjlcst]

1976 - Definitely Maytag!

My parents purchased a house in 1975. All the appliances came with it - in avocado no less. We did get a A208 and matching gas dryer. They worked well for us. Mom couldn't get used to not hearing the washer running since it was in the basement. It was a quiet machine. On several occasions when my friends were over to listen to the Seeburg AY-160 with all the current hits of the day and play ping pong. Mom would be often doing laundry. Since the laundry room was close by you could hear the washer drain into the laundry tub when it got to the spin cycle. All of a sudden my friends would stop, listen, and ask what the heck the running water was from!

 

[strongenough78]

Well......

I wasn't born yet, but my parents just bought their first washer, a MOL Whirlpool. Avocado Green. Had that machine up until 1999.

 

[peteski50]

1976!

I lived in a apt building in New Jersey in 1976, we had coin op solid tub speed queens. But I spent a lot of time at my Aunts house and did a lot of laundry in her Poppy Frigidaire 1/18 set. That was my favorate!
Peter

 

[multi-cycle]

In 1976 it was a 1968 Kenmore 8oo with a full florescent light.My mom replaced it with a direct drive Kenmore in 2001

 

[liberator1509]

In our house it was a 1968 GALA Automatic - the export version of the Hotpoint Automatic 1502 (shown on the left here), the second generation of Hotpoint's 1500 series. 10Lb wash-load, 1050rpm spin and Hotpoint's filter-clean system made it one of the most advanced British machines of the time. By 1976, Hotpoint were producing their 1509 re-styled version of the same machine - several of these in existence, but very few 1502s out there!

In my grandmother's house it was the GALA Filtermatic - again the export version of the Hotpoint Supermatic (not sure of the model number for this one) of the exact same year.

 

[virabhadrasana]

If tthe year was 1976,What would you be washing with?

My parents's Candy or -better- my Grandma's Indesit K5 )))

 

[tolivac]

I lived in an apartment house outside of Wash Dc-at that time was Speed Queen washers and dryers in the building laundramat-later they went to Whirlpool washers and dryers.The Speed Queens had the deep overflow rinse.Was really neat to watch.

 

[aquarius1984]

not being alive then nor my parents bene married at that point my Nans Hotpoint 1400 Twinny would of done the wash on the maternal grandparents side,

Unsure about what my paternal Grandparents would of had at the time, either a twin tub - my aunt does not know which sort or possibly an Electra GL2 - big orange dial job.

Cant find pic of a GL2 so a GL3 will have to do lol.

 

[maytagbear]

In 1976, I was doing most of

our family's laundry then, and was a sophomore/junior in high school.

The machine? The 1964 Whirlpool Imperial that shows up as a POD once in a while...the exasperated mother with the dirty twin boys. It died in 1978, and was replaced with a Maytag A208.

I was sad that I had to go off to college soon after. Where the machines in the dorms were GE Filter-Flo's with broken clutches that did not allow gentle action.

Lawrence/Maytagbear

 

[mtn1584]

A 1974 2 Speed General Electric 16lb capacity washer.
MIKE

 

[whirlcool]

At home my parents had a MOL GE Filter Flo. At my apartment we had coin op Maytag machines.

 

[ricky5050]

I was only 3! but....

If it were 1976 it would look a bit like this as i think i'm about 3 on this photo. My parents had a shiny new (well 3 year old) Hoover Matchbox Auto washer, bought to cope with Terry Nappies and my Mams return to work. It went on until 1982.

Richard

 

[70series]

In 1976, that's easy. We had the Maytag A206 that kept on going until 1999.