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Coin Op Frigidaire!

That was the same ones they installed in 1964 in the dry clean laundramat and they were aqua and complete cycle was 18 minutes.
In 1968 they went to the square window models in yellow and they worked basically the same except had extra water temperature options.
Great Find
Peter
 
What's the nearest airport?

Very, very tempted right now to board a plane and fly out there to see all this for myself. Probably like everybody else here who missed Aberdeen I've been praying that another graveyard would show up in my lifetime. Just like a lot of members complain that all the "good stuff" shows up on the Least Coast, I'm going to whine about this being on the West Coast. Oh well...

 

Have fun! I know I would.

 

If you find any blue, copper or blue with metal cap GE Filter Pans, please, PLEASE, grab them for me, if you don't want 'em yourself.
 
Yes that's a 1965 Super-Duty Mechanism coin-op (1010rpm spin Multi-Matic). Frigidaire started using the Deep action agitator for their coin-op machines late in 1962. It wasn't introduced for home machines until 1965.
 
oooOOOooo!!!!

 

I know someone who needs the medallion from the front of that SQ coinop... (Bygted)

 

And that front loader is a Gen 2 Wascomat, I believe...

 

Very cool!!!
 
wascomat

In 1986 I had a temporary job in Newton Mass at a Laundromat called Auburndale Coin Cleaners and it had all wascomats like that.The owner told me before that it was a Bendix Sunshine Center with all Bendixes.
 
Spare Parts

A thought woke me up in the middle of the night,the fat solenoids!What a rare opportunity, how many places like this are left?The only chance we have of restoring the few decent 1950s-60s Kenmores that are left is to rob the dead.We need to rustle up a posse and descend on that place like locusts and pick those Kenmores clean.Just think of the priceless inner and outer tubs that could be there in addition to the fat agitators and solenoids?
 
The Speed Queen with the Emergency Switch is really close to the models which I remember the local laundromat having.

Some of them also had the "Teardrop" style switch which they still use on their machines today for the water temperature switch.

The one distinct thing I remember about them was that they had the stainless steel solid tub.

Imagine all of the loads that old Speed Queen must have done before they retired it. Can anyone identify what the vintage of that machine may have been? I'm guessing late 60's?
 
TWO Frigidaire coin ops???

When I saw the photo of those two together, side by side, I thought "WOW, that would be awesome to have BOTH of those side by side in my collection"!

You have to admit, it would be pretty darn cool!

Kevin
 

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