Local museum show

[steved]

finally, the library.

my first piece of literature was from 1961, when I went washer shopping with my grandparents. Thanks to the internet, I've been able to expand it

 

[pdub]

Wow!

Great collection Steve.

I love that it's all so organized and displayed well. You've got some great machines.

 

[steved]

Oops

I forgot to post the overview pics

 

[tomturbomatic]

Leave it to you to go to a museum and start wandering around and find appliances. You are as bad as I was when I was in--well let's just say all my life--and was taken to a store. If the store didn't have an appliance department, or even if it did, the pet and garden departments were the other place I could be found. I learned that when I walked into a dime store to look up for greenery because near the house plants would be the tropical fish tanks generally toward the rear of the store. Housewares with the glass coffee makers were sometimes a little harder to find. All of this started in the primary grades. Sears catalogs were the ultimate dream factories when I was stuck at home or visiting a friend. When we were traveling, the local yellow pages in the motel rooms would have ads for Aquariums almost next to Appliances as well as Washing Machines to give me cheap thrills when room-bound.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Same goes for me, reading the newspaper ads and finding Sears, Ward's and Penny's to be quite different from stores selling major brands and even the electronics and entertainment departments to be just as important and entertaining as the appliances, in visiting and looking at, in those red-carpeted rooms, especially in the way of television and stereo/audio equipment being where I'd made my first major purchase...

-- Dave