Late 50s GE Dishwasher find!!!!

[jetcone]

I don't know

I find that ad misleading, Mom had to wash the dishes before loading otherwise we'd get

"The Dirtella Show" starring schmutz & cruft!!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Jon, we have established, previously, that your bow tie machine was the exception. The rest cleaned very well. Every Thursday night our next door neighbor made swiss steak with lima beans and smashed potatoes. The potatoes were done in the 2.5 qt. Mirro Matic. She never even scraped the cooker let alone rinse it and it emerged clean from that machine. It was loaded in a corner of the lower rack.

 

[bajaespuma]

Or was her last name "Moses"?

I can't do an endorsement even though I love these machines. Mater hand-washed every item before loading. We figure it was Dad who bought the machine because doctors back then thought that dishwashers did a good job of sanitizing the family tableware. Pop was also responsible for bringing Scott towels into the house and lots of hexachlorophene everywhere. Mom was a little "Granny Clampett" when it came to gizmos; didn't trust them one bit.

 

I'll test the Mobile Maid with rinsed vs. not pre-rinsed loads when I get her all hooked up and let y'all know.

 

[danemodsandy]

Well....

"doctors back then thought that dishwashers did a good job of sanitizing the family tableware."

And compared to a housewife who hated housework, they did. Most people are piss-poor hand dishwashers, mainly because they don't wanna.

 

[westingman123]

"Mom was a little 'Granny Clampett' when it comes to gizmos". Truer words were never spoken of my Mama! To this day, she won't have anything to do with her dishwasher (it came with the senior apartment). "I can wash them better myself."

To this day, I don't have a dishwasher. Heretic, I know.

 

[volsboy1]

Great dishwasher,that is a beautiful machine and I have never seen one those in person ever.My Mamaw was the same she had a

beautiful Kitchen with everything.Nutone food center,dishwasher,disposer, but she would never use them she would wash them

buy hand and make her cakes by hand.She told me it wastes water which made no sense to me because, for one she had plenty

of money and two she was on a well.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Today's POD with the GE Empress shows the first impeller "protector" that GE used over the bow tie impeller. It got smaller and smaller holes each year, although I think that heavily coated grid in this machine would kill most of the washing action.

 

[combo52]

Cool Brushed Chrome GE Roll-Out DW

Hans that is a rare find to find one of those that survived this long. I am not sure that I would necessarily agree that the people who had this DW were all that rich, granted DWs in general were not all that common in 1959, but is was a GE DW not a Kitchenaid. And brushed Chrome front panels cost cost no more than painted front panels. Also the fact that this DW had the added SS bottom might indicate that they were too cheap to buy a new DW when the floor started to rust out or hopefully they made GE pay for the repair. 

 

The SS bottom was a kit that was used when the cheap Plastisol coating failed in the floor of the DW from mechanical damage from silverware that fell into the impeller area or damage caused by the heating element which was far more frequent when people actually set their water heater above 140 degrees. The added impeller guard was also a kit that was sometimes used with the SS floor kit as many of these DWs were destroyed  by just a single heavy knife that got into the impeller area, the bad thing about this added guard is it would have likely have cut down on the washing performance by restricting the water force and even distribution of water to the far corners of the wash tank.

 

It will be neat to here how you like it when you get it running.

 

[jetcone]

Jon, we have established, previously, that your bow tie mach

LOL!!

 

[mikepaquette]

On my knees

Preying to the dishwasher god .

 

[bajaespuma]

Hans, your find has the "pretty dial" too!

 

[jetcone]

I always loved the

DOTS IN THE WASH CYCLE!!

 

[tomturbomatic]

Yeah, What did they mean?

 

[danemodsandy]

Tom:

"What did they mean?"

Just an easy visual reference that the machine was within the wash cycle. You didn't have to be close enough with good enough eyesight to read the wording, because the dotted area was unique.

 

[danemodsandy]

Tom:

"What did they mean?"

Just an easy visual reference that the machine was within the wash cycle. You didn't have to be close enough with good enough eyesight to read the wording, because the dotted area was unique. Blue without dots meant Rinse, and red meant Drying.

P.S.: Am I the only one who noticed GE's thriftiness with the two ads shown? That's the same model in both, wearing the same heels and pearls in both, and the same dress in both, just in two different colors.

 

[applianceguy47]

"Am I the only one who noticed GE's thriftiness with the two ads shown? That's the same model in both, wearing the same heels and pearls in both, and the same dress in both, just in two different colors. "

I want to make a snarky, gender-based comment about your EXCELLENT observation, but the ambiguity of your name,
has me tied in knots.

Oh, so humbled.

 

[danemodsandy]

Don't.....

....Let the ambiguity stop you. Go ahead, take a chance.

 

[applianceguy47]

You won me over, Sandy, and I'm sure you don't want that liability.

 

 

[syndets2000]

ours was....

...a sunshine yellow version in our Potomac house, 1960-1966....I loved the sounds this machine made! I am not sure why, but the tank could never roll back under the counter- we had to lean against it to latch it....sadly, I learned a year after we moved out, the motor failed, due to the water that drooled town the sides of the tank....wonder what they replaced it with?

 

[dishwashercrazy]

Wow Hans! This is a wonderful find. Congratulations!

It always amazes me what I learn from you guys. Thanks to both Ken and John for your informative comments.

Mike