My First Vancouver Wash-In

[Unimatic1140]

I had this week off from work so I decided to pop in and have a visit with Eddy and his partner Rob in Vancouver. They are both such gracious hosts and I had just a blast. It was no surprise to me that Vancouver is just gorgeous. Every time I visit Canada I love it more and more.

Thought you guys and gals might enjoy a few shots from our Vancouver wash-in…

http://automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/00ShowCollectionGETD.cgi?dir=/COLLECTIONS/_VANCOUVER06

 

[foraloysius]

Great to see you both! Thanks for posting the pictures Robert. I must come over to Vancouver too some time. I heard it's the best city in the world to live.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Danby

Glad you`re all enjoying the Canadian Wash-In, love that straight vane agi in the 60`s Kenmore, my favourite would have to be the Speed Queen...

AND, Eddy,Where are the pics of Robert using the Danby TwinnyWasher!!!!! ...LOL

 

[peterh770]

Eddy! Good to see you! Where are you machines stored?

Looks like a good time was had by all! Wonderful vacation pics, Robert!

 

[jasonl]

Kenmore

*speechless*

 

[jasonl]

*Faint*

 

[gansky1]

Eddy, your machines look great! I'm glad you guys had a good time.

That 57 SQ is gorgeous!

 

[westytoploader]

YAY!! Thanks Robert for posting, what a great surprise! Eddy, your collection looks AWESOME...I hope to see it in person one day! That '57 Speed Queen is beautiful as well as that pink GE (with original copper lint filter no less)!! And the vintage Kenmore, what fun!

I would like to find out what happened to the Beatty Wondermatic...;-)

 

[oldwasherguy]

beatty wondermatic

i have never heard of this! thanks for the pics robert,you are a real cool dude. don

 

[westytoploader]

And also, about the Canadian Frigidaire...I've never seen any Rollermatic with a black tub (white speckles) before!! Reminds me of the 1950-55 Unimatics.

 

[mickeyd]

What a treat--washers at a washin!! YAY YAY YAY

You guys are so handsome. You look like models. That Speed Queen is glorious.
And even better, you stumped me. I can't identify the machine Eddy's leaning on.
What is it? Clueless near Ontario--10 minutes away.

Mikey

 

[gansky1]

Darker tub...

but where are the ribs?

 

[mickeyd]

HI GANSK

Look again, Buddy, at 12 o'clock and 1'o'clock. They're there, but faint. How's the pooch?

So what's the secret in the picture?

 

[alr2903]

Thank You All.

Gents what a treat. I came home from work kind of tired and looked through your pictures and that nice collection, I am glad you all enjoyed yourselves, and posted the nice pics. This was Quality downtime. Thanks for posting the pictures. alr2903.

 

[mickeyd]

Yes or No

I think I've got it. American Rollermatics sported a much lighter blue "warshtub."

Speckled sky blue if my pre-hallucinogenic memory serves me well. We had one.

Oui ou non?

 

[gyrafoam]

Very cool! Lots of good photos! I've never see a rollermatic with such a dark tub! How come no inside shots of photo #33? How bad did the Unimatic sudslock?

 

[eddy1210]

hi everyone

Louis, yes you have an open invitation to Vancouver anytime! Your favorite SQ was hiding in the garage being rebuilt which is why it didn't make an appearance.
Mike, we did have the Danby twintub out and played with it empty, but no pics :-(
Peter, my machines are stored and hooked up at the house I still half-own with my long ago ex. The space is not huge but big enough to hook the most interesting machines up. Also, some are stored in the garage. My partner and I live right downtown Vancouver, about a half hour drive from the house.
Greg, thanks for the remarks.... I need to chat with you about a TOL SQ wringer Robert and I found. Let's chat soon! PS the ribs are there but are so dark you can hardly see them.
Austin, HOW DARE you bring up that topic about the Beatty Wondermatic. There's a story to tell but I'm so red faced at the moment I need to take a valium and a whole bottle of wine to tell that story.
Jason, we did a load in the Kenmore just for you.
Steve, we tried our best to suds lock that unimatic including using 2 cups of vintage Tide plus a half cup of stpp. That machine didn't even flinch. We could have used a whole box of detergent it wouldn't have mattered.
And Robert, Rob and I had such a fun time with you. I'm so glad you were able to make it here and allow me to share my small collection with you and the fun things Vancouver has to offer. Without the internet and this club none of us would have ever met and I'm so glad that we did.
Eddy

 

[swestoyz]

Hey, looks like that was a fun time, with some great machines! The '57 SQ is spectacular. Eddy you have some very cool machines!

Ben

 

[drmitch]

Wow Eddy! Great machines! Thanks to you and Robert for sharing them!

 

[gregm]

nice, thanks for sharing ......

wow, that SQ and pink GE are stunning .......... the rest of your machines are quite nice too Eddy, that is great, I am sure you guys had a blast ......

 

[petek]

Robert, I hope you didn't drive to Vancouver especially thru Calgary and not stop in !!! If you did and are driving back this way you're more than welcome to stay here. We're an easy find, a stones throw off hiway 1 about 2 miles east of the city limits.

btw I can near see my old west end apartment in that pic on Nelson St. right near the corner of Denman. I trust your hosts are keeping you away from Davie St.

 

[rickr]

Very nice vintage machines! And looks like all of you had a great time. Thanks for sharing the wonderful photos!

 

[sudsmaster]

Tres charmant

 

[pushtorelease]

Wonderful machines! You must be on Gilford St Eddy, I recognize my old neighbourhood.....and kinda miss it too!

 

[knitwits1975]

I wish I'd known what was up. I'd have loved to join you. I'm not very far from Vancouver.

 

[petek]

I lived in quite a few west end apartments back in the 70's but my favorite was the Gainsborough on Broughton St. I loved that apartment, huge and vintage.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Eddy, Thanks for sharing your collection with us. Question about the '57 SQ throwing the water and suds: Were you using such a high sudsing detergent that the overflow at the end of the wash did not float the all of suds away or did the '57 not do a long enough Flotation Rinse at the end of wash to send all of the suds over the top? Maybe it was that I always used SQs with low sudsing detergents, but by the time they slammed into spin, the suds were gone.

Thanks again, Tom

 

[lesto]

What a great collection. What year is the unimatic? Looks like the one Austin has. From what I could see of the timer dial it's the first model with an overflow rinse rather than two separate rinses.

The 57 Queen and the pink GE are beautiful. I thought the GE was a 58 and the 57 was the year GE put the timer on the left hand side.

Now I want the story behind the Beatty!

Les

 

[eddy1210]

John, you are correct, we're on the corner of Barclay and Gilford. Where are you living now?
Hi Tom, all those suds in the SQ were the result of about 2 cups of Vintage Arctic Power plus extra phosphates thrown in for good measure. As well, we used hot water for this wash and the fact that Vancouver's water is so soft makes for heaping suds. Oddly enough, the SQ didn't suds lock this time but it has in the past when using as much detergent as we did. The overflow wash on this machine is 2 increments of 45 seconds and the rinse cycle overflows for the entire time except for the final 2 increments.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Hi Pete, thank you so much for the kind offer, but I flew in and out, I'm back home now. That would be a really long drive.