I found a vintage brochure of some GE dream machines from 1963 on ebay and it just arrived with some others that I'll share with you later. I am plotzing as I write this. MarkLightedControls, this is for you, thank you again...
Only you folks could appreciate this...
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Consumer's Returds kept harping on and on about the raised control panels and how morons could lose their clothes through the pedestals so GE, ever responsive to which way the wind was blowing, clearly couldn't decide whether up or down was the way to go. I guess this is why 1963 was the last year GE appliances had control panels raised on pedestals at all.
and finally,
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I'm really speechless
GREAT!!!! Very cool! A very good brochure...
But wasn't the combo unit a undercounter model? Anyway the lid and the dispenser drawer seem the same...
GoodBYE
Diomede
GREAT!!!! Very cool! A very good brochure...
But wasn't the combo unit a undercounter model? Anyway the lid and the dispenser drawer seem the same...
GoodBYE
Diomede
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There were combos with a top control panel as well. Those combo's really made some splashy wash action.
The combos were offered as undercounter(without backsplashes) and "free-standing" models as well. It's interesting, this is by all means, not a complete compendium of GE's 1963 models.
GE always seemed to produced "odd-ball" models throughout any given model year. I don't know if these were intended as builder's models or whether they just threw together units with spare parts. One of the reasons I'm so interested in this particular model year is that my maternal Grandmother had one of these grey-paneled 1963 units, but it never seems to show up in the brochures or catalogues. I believe that her's was the 1963 version of a WA-750X ( GE's popular MOL model). It sported the chrome/grey control panel like the 650, but had no pedestals like the 850's. I also noticed that another member, I think Tomturbomatic in Maryland, has an oddball model very similar to the 550 BOL depicted above, only it has two speeds. I have always wondered what model number that unit was.
GE always seemed to produced "odd-ball" models throughout any given model year. I don't know if these were intended as builder's models or whether they just threw together units with spare parts. One of the reasons I'm so interested in this particular model year is that my maternal Grandmother had one of these grey-paneled 1963 units, but it never seems to show up in the brochures or catalogues. I believe that her's was the 1963 version of a WA-750X ( GE's popular MOL model). It sported the chrome/grey control panel like the 650, but had no pedestals like the 850's. I also noticed that another member, I think Tomturbomatic in Maryland, has an oddball model very similar to the 550 BOL depicted above, only it has two speeds. I have always wondered what model number that unit was.
Cool. Thank you for posting.
Live and learn.
I dont receall ever seeing a horizontal handle on the GE dryers.
Live and learn.
I dont receall ever seeing a horizontal handle on the GE dryers.
VERYN ICE!!! I can't wait for what else you have up your sleeve. GEs were so classy.
veg-o-matic
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Man, I need one of those canopies in my laundry room!
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Veg - I agree, that is one HOT canopy!
Thanks for posting these super cool scans! GE's never get old....
Ben
Thanks for posting these super cool scans! GE's never get old....
Ben
Forget the canopy, go for the frock and apron.
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Thanks for posting the combos were nice except the spin was to slow.
Peter
Thanks for posting the combos were nice except the spin was to slow.
Peter
Don't Plotz!
Oy Gottenu, such a mess as I have never in my life seen. One minute he's sitting there, the next it's kishkas on the ceiling, blut und dreck in everything. It's enough to make you plotz.
Ken, I will get you the number of my beautiful white on white control panel GE. The main reason that pedestals disappeared was that GE changed from vertically mounted control panels to the UGLY slanted control panels the next year. Some were ugly gray paint, some were a little better with mostly chrome faces surrounded by black. Our dryer was like that. Some nearer the top of the line had a light either at the base or at the top. The control panels of the TOL models were beautiful in their own way, but they were just not the same as the late 50s control panels.
Oy Gottenu, such a mess as I have never in my life seen. One minute he's sitting there, the next it's kishkas on the ceiling, blut und dreck in everything. It's enough to make you plotz.
Ken, I will get you the number of my beautiful white on white control panel GE. The main reason that pedestals disappeared was that GE changed from vertically mounted control panels to the UGLY slanted control panels the next year. Some were ugly gray paint, some were a little better with mostly chrome faces surrounded by black. Our dryer was like that. Some nearer the top of the line had a light either at the base or at the top. The control panels of the TOL models were beautiful in their own way, but they were just not the same as the late 50s control panels.
A Gesunt on you. Such a nice boy.
Ken, My wonderful GE is model WA 830X6 W(maybe?). Three water levels, 2 speeds, two wash temps. Everything you need in a shmart package. You want cold water, just set it to warm and turn off the hot faucet. She thanks you for remembering her.
Such a nice boy.
I should do someting nice for you someday.
Here, so have a picture.
I should do someting nice for you someday.
Here, so have a picture.
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