POD 1/14/23 - Blackstone

[speedqueen]

This is a really interesting one, didn't know they offered stainless top on this era of machine.

Having had the opportunity to use a very similar Blackstone I have to say it works very well, though certainly not the most dramatic or splashy. They spin out much better than most machines of this era, too. Relatively good capacity as well.

 

[seedub]

I seem to recall that this machine was sold mostly in southern states? I'm curious to know how cool down worked in that locked-in wash & wear cycle. My surmise is that it used one of the overflow rinses to cool the laundry before spin...

--Chris

 

[DADoES]

 
Blackstone was based in Jamestown New York so seems more likely to be found toward the east coast.

The local propane outfit sold Blackstone for a short time in the early 1970s.  They had a display one year at the county fair, which was the first time I'd heard of the brand.  I never knew of anyone who had one.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I only heard of Blackstone washers when reading Consumer Reports and Consumer's Research Bulletin. I got to watch one, which was not very exciting, when we went to a coin op laundry near our apartment in Miami because my parents did not take the advice on our landlords, the Schaffers, and go to the coin laundry at a huge grocery store called The Little Farmer's Market which had an air conditioned waiting room with a television and Frigidaire washers, one with a round window in the lid which I was watching a man load when my parents appeared with the groceries and made me leave with them. I had to wait 4 or 5 more years to see the Frigidaire commercial machine in action.

 

[blackstone]

I missed the picture. Was it the 350, or a later model?

 

[swestoyz]

Fred - it was the 1960 TOL model, possibly the WAC-75S.  That would be one to find!

 

[blackstone]

Models 60 and 75. Must have been these; according to the Blackstone file inside my head, there weren't any stainless tops subsequent to these models.