Need Help Identifying Dishwasher

[qsd-dan]

Below is a pic of a dishwasher my grandparents had until 1996. As a kid, it amazed me because #1, I grew up in a 50's home and neighborhood where NOBODY had a dishwasher, and #2, the control panel had a dial like that of rotary phone where you would "Dial" in the cycle you wanted to start off with. I have never seen one since, including all of the years I've been lurking on this site.

Anybody want to gander a guess?

 

[appnut]

This was Whirlpool's first spray-arm TOL dishwasher based on the description of the dial functionality you have described. Toggles and a couple of others here have seen these up close and personal.

 

[qsd-dan]

Thanks Bob!!

 

[toggleswitch2]

This was the first DW I had EVER seen!

Thanks for the shout-out Bob. My aunt had one in her newly built house. I'd say her house was built in the early to mid 60's. It also had a wall-oven and warm-air central heat and A/C which were big novelites in this area at the time.

You stuck your finger in the dial and pulled it to the stop just like a regular dial telephone. It went back an inch or two also, similar to a phone dial.

Oh it ran non-stop (no pauses as the motor did not change direction)like the early KA and GE DW-ers. Only the water inlet solenoid and drain solenoids opened and closed at various times.

It has a "plastisol" interior, and the silverware basklet ran left to right, but was located in the lower rack midway from front to back.

Let me look for some pics BRB.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Found it!

 

[toggleswitch2]

money shot,

oopsie the silverware rack went front to back!

Dual COVERED detergent cup. The machine began with a purge of the hot water line then a rinse...........

 

[toggleswitch2]

The cycles were indicated near the proper hole-- in the dial. For that cycle you just dug your little finger in and turned to the stop.

The water intake for water recirculation was only on the right side,as was the heating coil.

Man, oh man I used to sit and listen to that thing for hours!

 

[qsd-dan]

OMG!!!!

Thanks Steve!!!

Their house was built in 1963, so that sounds like the correct time period. It looked so modern that I didn't think it was original with the house. And to think it ran 33 years without a repair!

I was very upset when I noticed that older DW was gone during a visit, but I bet parts were impossible to find for it even in 1996!

 

[toggleswitch2]

Was it R-W-R-W R-R-D?

That made a lot more sense than my mother's SEARS Lady Kenmore Roto-Rack of 1968 (By D&M) which was W-R-R-W-R-R-D.

 

[toggleswitch2]

Shake that Money-Maker!

I think my aunt's died circa 1980. It was coppertone!

Her harvest gold and avocado checker-board 12 x 12 (30cm2) vinyl floor tiles--- she was avery "mod" and a belly-dancer* and singer by career OPA---were curling up by the DW and no one realized it had begun to leak. It was, after all, the first DW in the area and in the family.

It committed suicide one day by runnng cycles endlessly over and over and over non-stop!

My father put it in my aunt and uncle's head that they wanted a KitchenAid, and guess who got to go pick it............ME!
At Gimbel's on 33th Street in Manhattan!

My aunt HATED HATED HATED how the KA loaded. Like me, she preferred the WP/Sears racking where bowls go around the preimeter and all else is fair in love and war!


*Oh honey where did you THINK I learned how to dance!

 

[toggleswitch2]

Funny, but my aunt's kitchen cabinets (Queens NYC,NY) were similar with that bevel; no hardware required.

Sorry girls I'm rambling!

 

[toggleswitch2]

The latch made for a fabulous towel (drying) rack too.

 

[qsd-dan]

The latch made for a fabulous towel (drying) rack too.

LOL!! That's what my grandmother did too!

 

[toggleswitch2]

I'm wondering if the brand was RCA Whirlpool, as my aunts W & D were.

Was RCA their value brand or the entire line? Since this was TOL, as per Bob Appnut, maybe it wasn't RCA Whirlpool but just Whirlpool.

What say ya?

I also remember the Euro-style little gunk filter/ glass-trap; a remaovable basket that needed cleaning every so often.