Maude's refigerator

[vacerator]

I saw a Maude episode last evening on ME TV. Mrs. Naugatuck was cooking for Vivian's party for doctors. Maude's coppertone fridge had a radio in the top freezer door. The wall ovens were early 70's Magic Chef.
Anyone know what brand it was? Not finding it online. Admiral maybe?

 

[appliguy]

if it had a radio in it.....

it was most likely A Frigidaire as they offered couple models like that at the time if memory serves. I know earlier on when Florida was still working for the Findlay’s the fridge was a Coldspot because neighbors of ours and the same fridge in white in their garage when I was growing up...PAT COFFEY

 

[a440]

I thought it was an ice dispenser. I think it was a Whirlpool fridge and Whirlpool dishwasher.

 

[joeekaitis]

About the same time as Frigidaire introduced the Touch 'N' Cook range, they also sold a fridge with an AM/FM radio and cassette recorder/player in the door, touting it as an entertainment and family message center.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Isn't this an amazing demonstration of how technology has progressed, from a radio and tape player to refrigerators connected to the internet and all kinds of hand held devices so that leaving messages for a family member on the refrigerator is no longer an issue? Analog versus digital. On the door versus online.

 

[vacerator]

It looked

like the Frigidaire radio cassette. I think her dishwasher is a D/M. Whirlpool never used a slide latch.

 

[mark_wpduet]

Speaking if ice/water Dispensers

in the early 70s, did those fridge dispensers include auto ice makers as well, or did you have to manually make the ice? I'm not even sure when ice makers were invented.

 

[circlew]

I remember seeing these Frigidaires on display at Swallen's in the mid 70's. My town had a Frigidaire dealer (Fairley's), but they didn't usually display anything fancy, as most people in the area wouldn't buy something other than a pretty basic model. Anything expensive was a special order.

 

[joeekaitis]

Oh, the irony . . .

. . . that Frigidaire would employ RCA-inspired imagery. Was RCA Whirlpool still "RCA Whirlpool" at the time or had they shed the RCA from their trademark? Only a few years earlier in 1968, the zero-gravity food preparation unit on the lunar shuttle in the movie "2001: A Space Odyssey" is clearly labeled "RCA Whirlpool".

 

[circlew]

Joe, Whirlpool only had the license to use the RCA trademark through '66.

While 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in '68, I'm sure production started somewhat earlier.

 

[vacerator]

Yes Mark,

our 1967 Coldspot had an ice maker.

 

[vacerator]

In the door dispensers

came along by 1970. Brady Bunch, Jeffersons, etc.

 

[combo52]

Interesting Thread, Good Points Raised

The first fully automatic Ice-Makers were available on Servel Refs in the late 1940s.

 

IMs have been available in [ some ] refs ever since, Whirlpool bought Servel about 1955 and kept building IMs ever since.

 

I think I would be safe to say that every ref ever built that had a through-the-door dispenser had a fully automatic IM inside, GE introduced their Americana SXSs in 1967 that featured Ice&Water through the freezer door.

 

While it is true that Whirlpool only had the rights to use the RCA name through 1967 in the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey the food perpetration center in the moon shuttle was labeled RCA Whirlpool.

 

John L.

 

[cuffs054]

One of my favorite looks is the GE topmount with ice through the freezer door. Wish they still made those.

 

[vacerator]

There is one

next door to me still in the kitchen. Also a pre Potscrubber era dishwasher barely used.
My previous neighbors were from Poland. When they remodeled the kitchen, they re installed it, and bought the fridge in the 90's. It also had a new GE gas range until the new owners moved it into the garage to cook in the summer with. I guess folks from Iraq do that. They put an electric smooth top in the kitchen.
Nice people too, Chaldean Catholics.