Christina/Hippiedoll:
Yes too bad you couldn't see into your parents' washer as I remember as many homes of having this as any Kenmore or GE...
I had a dream about "the late-Mort The Friendly Eye Doctor" as my late-mom called him, being alive, as well as his also late-wife and even my mother being alive and their house across the street (& one time long ago the one next door to it, another friend if my mom's lived) and it was expanded and a room housed all his eye care equipment and eye examination gear as the one they moved to in another town did when he retired...
So while the Whirlpool washer they had was white and several models down, it was much like this and even kept in their garage when it broke, and somehow the neighbor's that moved in after they'd moved out did the same with their washer that replaced it, while a cardboard that held a Kelvinator dryer replaced their Whirlpool gas dryer that matched the washer...
-- Dave