Nice GE fridge
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Both of them look great. I am convinced there are a lot of "goodies" to be found in the Milwaukee area.
danemodsandy
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Oh, My!
That little GE is the twin of the one we had briefly when we moved into the house I grew up in. My parents bought it used from friends; the down and closing costs on the house left them a bit tight. Six months later, a fire started in a closet (the one for my bedroom, in fact) right behind the fridge, and the poor thing was fricasseed, along with all the Christmas toys I'd gotten only weeks before. The kitchen and that bedroom had to be entirely rebuilt; we ended up with a brand-new GE Combination with a bottom freezer, just one model below the TOL. In fact, the only difference was a smaller freezer, and no chrome beauty panel on the freezer drawer. The Combination was the envy of every female relative who saw it. Lasted thirty years.
That little GE is the twin of the one we had briefly when we moved into the house I grew up in. My parents bought it used from friends; the down and closing costs on the house left them a bit tight. Six months later, a fire started in a closet (the one for my bedroom, in fact) right behind the fridge, and the poor thing was fricasseed, along with all the Christmas toys I'd gotten only weeks before. The kitchen and that bedroom had to be entirely rebuilt; we ended up with a brand-new GE Combination with a bottom freezer, just one model below the TOL. In fact, the only difference was a smaller freezer, and no chrome beauty panel on the freezer drawer. The Combination was the envy of every female relative who saw it. Lasted thirty years.
Sandy, what happened after 30 years? We see so many GE combos still running out there today, so you have me curious. Maybe the bottom freezer models had issues that the top freezer models didn't?
Those Milwaukee fridges are nice ones. The GE is all there. The Hotpoint looks like it needs a shelf, but it's so clean. I do hope they find good homes. Think of all the more modern refrigerators that have come and gone while these two beauties have just kept running and running, keeping things ice cold and asking for nothing more than the infrequent defrosting over the decades.
Those Milwaukee fridges are nice ones. The GE is all there. The Hotpoint looks like it needs a shelf, but it's so clean. I do hope they find good homes. Think of all the more modern refrigerators that have come and gone while these two beauties have just kept running and running, keeping things ice cold and asking for nothing more than the infrequent defrosting over the decades.
danemodsandy
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Ralph:
What happened to Mom's GE Combination was - Mom. She's known as The Appliance Killer, because she will not maintain anything, and she can abuse an appliance worse than anyone I've ever seen. The Combination had to have a new compressor at around five or six years old, because she was not vacuuming underneath the unit. I will say that the bill for that got her attention in a way that the instructions in the manual had not; she put me to work vacuuming the coils. Once we kids were out of the house and she lost her slave labour, the vacuuming - and defrosting - all but ceased; the runners for the freezer drawer got broken because of trying to force the drawer open with the runners iced over. And there was the issue of cabinet rust. In Georgia, you have to keep a reefer's cabinet clean and waxed if you want a rust-free box (this is less of an issue now that people have central air, but it was a huge factor back in the day). Her Imperial Majesty wasn't about to do that.
Sad, really. Remind me to tell you about the Compact vacuum (which I'd give anything to have another one of) someday. That made the destruction of the Combination look like good care.
I actually am in awe that poor Combination lasted thirty years; it led a very hard life around Mom.
What happened to Mom's GE Combination was - Mom. She's known as The Appliance Killer, because she will not maintain anything, and she can abuse an appliance worse than anyone I've ever seen. The Combination had to have a new compressor at around five or six years old, because she was not vacuuming underneath the unit. I will say that the bill for that got her attention in a way that the instructions in the manual had not; she put me to work vacuuming the coils. Once we kids were out of the house and she lost her slave labour, the vacuuming - and defrosting - all but ceased; the runners for the freezer drawer got broken because of trying to force the drawer open with the runners iced over. And there was the issue of cabinet rust. In Georgia, you have to keep a reefer's cabinet clean and waxed if you want a rust-free box (this is less of an issue now that people have central air, but it was a huge factor back in the day). Her Imperial Majesty wasn't about to do that.
Sad, really. Remind me to tell you about the Compact vacuum (which I'd give anything to have another one of) someday. That made the destruction of the Combination look like good care.
I actually am in awe that poor Combination lasted thirty years; it led a very hard life around Mom.
SactoTeddyBear
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GE Refrigerator:
One of my Aunt's and Uncle's had I believe the GE Refrigerator but with the separate Doors, for the Frige and Freezer parts and the Frige had the Lazy-Susan Shelves, with a Button Release on the front-middle of each Shelf, for turing the Shelf around.
Doesn't someone here in the Club have that same of similar Model GE Refrigerator?
Peace and Kind Regards, Steve
SactoTeddyBear0503...
One of my Aunt's and Uncle's had I believe the GE Refrigerator but with the separate Doors, for the Frige and Freezer parts and the Frige had the Lazy-Susan Shelves, with a Button Release on the front-middle of each Shelf, for turing the Shelf around.
Doesn't someone here in the Club have that same of similar Model GE Refrigerator?
Peace and Kind Regards, Steve
SactoTeddyBear0503...
