It's always Sunny (Yellow) in Southern California!

[brucelucenta]

Absolutely beautiful machines!!!! They are the color that is my absolute favorite!!! If I could find a cool set that color, I would put it in my laundry room with the stack front loader and could die happy!!!!

 

[combo52]

Beautiful Sunny Yellow 1965 Frigidaire's

Wow Kevin, well if you are going to break a no new [ old ] appliance collecting rule it would be hard to find a better way to do it.

 

This was about the last or next to the last year they made sunny yellow, and yes Ken I also loved that fact that Frigidaire used control panels that harmonized with the appliance color. Frigidaire was about the only company that did this until Kenmore laundry appliances did this in the late 60s through the early 70s until the black face Kenmore's appeared around 1976-7 and everything started to lose any great style after this time.

 

[maytagmike]

WOW

hi Kevin, those are beautiful. Congratulations!!!

 

[panthera]

All that and Sunny Yellow, too.

Magnificent! You didn't stop collecting, you just got choosy - only the best will do, apparently.

Sunny Yellow was still available in 1967, we have a Custom Delux Frost Proof in that color. As was Samantha's kitchen, still, in 1969.

When did the awful harvest gold and (blech!) avocado supersede these beautiful colors? I don't recall seeing anything but, much after 1970.

 

[bajaespuma]

Clarification, please

I thought these were '66's because of the round dials with the remote knobs. Were '65's and '66's similarly styled?

 

[vacerator]

Kevin, Congradts!

gorgeous!
Nicer than the picture of the day Westinghouse wanna be's by far!

 

[golittlesport]

I believe those are 1965's

...but don't quote me. I had the exact same washer in Aztec Copper in the kitchen of a house I rented for a few years in the early 1980's. It washed my son's diapers (loved the soak cycle) and then we would hang them on the line across the backyard. Little white flags waving in the sunny breeze. Good memories. Of course, I disabled the lid switch so it ran with the lid open. It was a very flexible machine and did a great job, I only wish it had the rapidry 1000 feature. Still it spun drier than any other machine at the time. But the rapidry is so fun to watch. Can't wait to see these in person.

 

[vacerator]

Rich,

In 1965, Frigidaire products still had "product of General Motors" on them. Also, in 1965, A Frigidaire washer still had "Jet Cone" up and down agitation.
I can tell by the sculpted lip on the edge of the cabinet tops are the then Westinghouse trademark, as well as the lint filter.

 

[vacerator]

Rich, sorry,

I thought this was the Picture of the day thread.

 

[goatfarmer]

Nice set, Kevin, congrats!

 

[revvinkevin]

 

 

Thank you, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">thank you</span> & THANK YOU to all for your wonderful compliments and comments!

 

Before driving over to take look at them, I knew they were 1965 Frigidaire's and were Sunny Yellow.   Aside from that, I didn't know what to expect and couldn't really picture what they looked like.   Once I saw them however, I was hooked.

 

There were a lot of colors choices throughout the years and everyone goes gaga over pink (myself included).    But after bringing home the sunny yellow '65 Maytag pair and the sunny yellow '57 Westinghouse Spacemate washer in late 2011, sunny yellow has become my favorite appliance color.   This pair, I dare say, is the icing on the sunny yellow cake.

 

Before I saw them, I wasn't sure if I was going to keep them or pass them along to someone else.   But I can tell you now, these are definitely keepers!

 

Kevin

 

 

 

[a440]

Kevin, congratulations on your awesome find! They look hardly used!
Love the color!

 

[jetcone]

WHOA!

RICH really came in for you on those. Kevin they are stunning !

I love the root beer control panels with the yellow ! Only in California did they order the whole gamut of colors. White appliances abound in the East because we are such penny pinchers !!

 

Stellar find ! I"m gonna have to reserve up my bedroom at Rich & Gary's and come play !!!

 

 

 

[appnut]

Rich, I remember you had this washer in Aztec and it was used on Aaron's diapers.

 

[jetaction]

I Love yellow (sunny, not harvest gold) appliances

I am also surprised we don't see more yellow as that color was way easier to blend in than pink. Anyways, great find!

 

[gansky1]

Yellow was the outlier.

I love the pastel yellow appliances too, you're right about easier to blend in a room many times.

I wonder if there were differences in yellows in other makers, I took this pic a while back when I brought home the WP Mark 12. The Maytag dryer door is from my 60 and the WP is '61. Incredible difference in hue. Kevin's new set looks more like the Maytag's color with a kiss of lemon. The WP looks like it has a dollop of mustard.

 

[combo52]

Colored Frigidaire Appliances

In some parts of the 60s Frigidaire actually charged LESS for colored appliances by $7-10, it was part of GMs planned obsolescence.

 

We are thrifty here on the East Coast, I always remember when my wealthy Aunt Margret bought a new 1965 KM 70 Series washer [ with a suds-saver of coerce to save money, she was from Iowa and was married in the Maytag Manson and yet she was still smart enough not to waste money on an overpriced Maytag washer ] and I asked why she bought a turquoise washer to sit in the basement to sit next to a white dryer, to which she responded there was no charge for color, It was the only colored appliance she ever owned to this day, LOL.

 

John L.

 

[philr]

Ken, the 1965 and 1966 models are a bit different. One easy way to tell 1965 from 1966 models is the control panel lettering. The 1965 models had the "F" badge on the left and agitator logo on the right along with the series name (Deluxe, Custom Deluxe, Imperial, Custom Imperial)

 

In 1966, the "F" badge, series names and agitator were all centered under the FRIGIDAIRE lettering. 

 

The first 5 pictures show 1966 models of washers and dryers and and the #6-11 show 1965 models. 

 

[swestoyz]

Kevin - holy cow, what a set!  Sunny yellow is such a stunning color on 60's appliances.  I really wish it would have stuck around until the early 70's.  Enjoy this beautiful duo!

 

[rberryiii3]

Lucky

You are so lucky I can't believed it congratulations