Pictures from the very first Wash-In Chatham MA 1997!!

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Michale Gonzalez dug deep today and came up with these on his FB page! A record of the beginning!

My very first little Bendix! so like Wallace & Grommit - "A Grand Day Out"

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#2

Manly washing! And notice how Robert is gripping my Pulsamatic! He eventually dragged it back to Minneapolis!

 

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#3

Studly beefcake
Don Hegarty, Jon Charles, Peter Mays, Robert Seger
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#4

John will be happy to know that the Kenmore survived!

 

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Don, John LeFever, Robert, Me
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Giddy in the sun
Stephen Whatshisname
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#7

I always served good food!
( When he arrived, Robert was terrified we'd have 4 eyes and would bite!)
Stephen Whatshisname saw a good thing and knew better.
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[jetcone]

#8

Once Robert saw the Pulsamatic all else was for naught!

 

[jetcone]

Thank you Michael

Take a bow for recording this!
OOXO Jon

 

[combo52]

Frist Wash-In

Gee thanks for posting these pictures Jon I have the originals and have been threatening to blackmail Robert with a few of those for years LOL I guess I will have to think of other ways to fund my retirement now.

 

Yes those were good times out on the Cape, Michael was my first partner of almost 21 years, I talked to him yesterday and he is enjoying retirement. About 6 months ago I pulled out this huge box of pictures and Michael spent weeks going through them and digitizing them. I think that I have a few of you from this time period that could show up here, LOL.

 

[jetcone]

Cant' wait

i am trying to convert the TV show from VHS to DVD so I can post it here too.

Jon

 

[Unimatic1140]

Ugh those pictures lol, I don't think I've ever seen them.  I have posted the ones I have in another thread about our history, oh how I remember that wash in well.  My Boyfriend at the time Stephen and I figured if we got to Boston and Jon Charles was some sort of crazy freak we'd simply find a hotel, well we decided to stay after all!  He seemed like a safe freak

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?36712

 

[gansky1]

Great pictures - washing on the cape looks so familiar, and many more to come!

 

[in2itdood]

Wow!!!

How fun is that! History in the making for sure.

 

[philr]

Are you sure all these pictures are from 1986? The vehicles visible on them seem to be from the mid-nineties!

 

[jetcone]

Someone else may know

better the actual date, I think it must have been after 1992, because the house was resided then and its showing the new shingles. may have to change that date on the title!

 

[Unimatic1140]

1986?  I didn't even notice that. Baileys in the coffee this morning Jon dear?  It was July of 1997.

 

[jetcone]

1986 is when I met

John & Chuck and Tom & Michael

Someone's gonna have BAILEYS alright!!

Baileys in the Butt!

 

[nmassman44]

Not to move this into the Dirty Laundry category....but that pic of that Don guy ummm he is packing some heat there in those shorts.... Not to mention woof!

 

[jetcone]

Oh he was very woofy!

I got to sleep in his bed many nights but unfortunately he was never there-DAMN!

 

[mickeyd]

So this is how we started? Well, I'll be snoogered.

Robert went to the Cape to buy some washers from a guy he didn't know, answering an ad or something, the guy was Jon Charles, and thus the seed of Automatic washer was planted.

 

This is as cool as the Immaculate Conception--maybe even cooler!

 

Hoooooooooo lee Feeeceees! Amazing.

 

[turquoisedude]

Oh, wow,  and to think at about that time, Hubby and I had just bought our second country home and were already arguing about my 1978 Kenmore Dishwasher and 1951 Hotpoint wringer washer (long gone, alas) being there.... LOL

 

Thanks for sharing these photos, Jon!!

 

[jetcone]

No Actually Mikey

Robert had found us on the early washer site over at Yahoo that Jeff set up and is still running. We talked on the phone and I talked him into coming out. He and Stephen Whatshisname made hotel reservations as they were scared we might be weird!Well they were right about that, but when they got here they threw in the towel, cancelled the reservation and stayed with me.

Poor little Prairie Deers!

Cal is working on a history of the club for us.

 

[Unimatic1140]

Robert had found us on the early washer site over at Yahoo that Jeff set up and is still running.

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That Yahoo site didn't get started for more than two years after these pictures were taken. No one had hardly heard of the internet '97. I met Gary Weibel at a party who was friends with my boyfriend's brother in the fall of 1996.  Gary knew John Lefever through Chuck's People magazine story. Gary and I became friends and we made the trip in Feb '97 to Cleveland to Bob Salem's house where I first met John combo52, Tomtubomatic and Bob Salem.   John suggested that I call and chat with Jon and the rest is history.

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[golittlesport]

You look so young and ...

You guys haven't aged a bit!!!

 

[jetcone]

Thank you Rich--YOU'RE HIRED!

Robert could be right it was all back in the '40s before the War!

And if memory serves-- You mister have been slapped repeatedly and will continue to be so!!

 

[Unimatic1140]

and if memory serves-- You mister have been slapped repeated

Oh yes that you are correct about, I found a video of you and me Jon...

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[jetcone]

OMG!

STOP ALREADY!!

LMAO

 

[foraloysius]

Oh yes, I remember that you had already met before the Yahoo thing started. Didn't you also found the SRVAA?

 

[Unimatic1140]

Didn't you also found the SRVAA?

Hey Louis, SRVAA "The Society for Restoration of Vintage Automatic Appliances". Yes we did, even had that name on the website for quite a few years, but no one really used it and it didn't stick so I took it down.