OK, you Frigidaire experts, what year are these machine from? '56? '55? Either way, they're beautiful.
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1956 Line, a beautiful ad. This was the only year they offered two-toned color machines!
The really are gorgeous. Thanks for the info, Uni! The design people made a huge change for the '57 models, didn't they?
Aren't there 4 of these in the club: Lightedcontrols, Jetcone, Gyrofoam and myself? I know of only one matching Imperial Filtrator dryer out there. And they have all been found in white.
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Love the POD I can almost sense the live water action.
Peter
Love the POD I can almost sense the live water action.
Peter
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Love the two-tone cabinet. I can just imagine what the other colors looked like- yellow & green, right? (in two-tone)
Too bad on the next conrtrol tower model, they did'nt keep the cool color scheme
Jerry
Too bad on the next conrtrol tower model, they did'nt keep the cool color scheme
Jerry
golittlesport
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...and this was the first year for the three ring agitator
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The control panel looks very similar to the one that one of
She also had a matching dryer. Her dryer was a vented electric model and it had both automatic and timed timed drying cycles. (It also had a push button to open the door.) Does anyone know what year Frigidaire introduced "automatic" drying cycles? If the dryer was indeed available with an automatic cycle, then the mystery of the vintage my aunt's washer and dryer has been solved. (She's now in a nursing home and doesn't remember. When the washer died it was replaced by a bottom of the line Maytag. She eventually went to live in a "senior citizens" apartment and both the Maytag and the Frigidaire dryer were left behind in the move.)
Mike
She also had a matching dryer. Her dryer was a vented electric model and it had both automatic and timed timed drying cycles. (It also had a push button to open the door.) Does anyone know what year Frigidaire introduced "automatic" drying cycles? If the dryer was indeed available with an automatic cycle, then the mystery of the vintage my aunt's washer and dryer has been solved. (She's now in a nursing home and doesn't remember. When the washer died it was replaced by a bottom of the line Maytag. She eventually went to live in a "senior citizens" apartment and both the Maytag and the Frigidaire dryer were left behind in the move.)
Mike
1959 was the first year of automatic drying in Frigidaire. With a pushbutton door opener (not a toe-step latch release) would have probably been sometime in the 60's.
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I have another question
Thanks, Greg, but that leads to another question. The washer had a three ring agitator and matched the dryer, does that help in dating it? (I seem to recall the Jetcones were introduced in the early 1960s. Is my recollection correct?)
Thanks again!
Mike
Thanks, Greg, but that leads to another question. The washer had a three ring agitator and matched the dryer, does that help in dating it? (I seem to recall the Jetcones were introduced in the early 1960s. Is my recollection correct?)
Thanks again!
Mike
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jetcone agitators came out in 64/65
Hi Mike - It still could be a 59-61 machine, do you recognize the agitator from this chart?
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Hey now!
It's leap year in Omaha!
It's leap year in Omaha!
That is strange...
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I love a good mystery!
Hi Greg,
I've studied that chart before in an effort to figure it out!
I remember that the pulsator was a of the three ring variety. The trouble is, I don't remember if the rings were grey or if they were "coral" and "yellow". As I mentioned, the matching dryer had an automatic and timed cycles and a push buttom door latch. Since you mentioned that the automatic cycle was introduced beginning 1959 and that the push button door latch was introduced sometime in the 1960's, my guess it that they were 1960 models. Unfortunately, we'll never really know for sure.
One good thing about the chart, one of my neighbors had also had a Frigidaire. (My aunt lives on Long Island, so I didn't get to see that machine as often as my nieghbors.) That pulsator was black and looked just like the 1955 model. That machine was still going strong when my family moved out of the neighborhood in 1974!
Thanks again for your help.
Mike
Hi Greg,
I've studied that chart before in an effort to figure it out!
I remember that the pulsator was a of the three ring variety. The trouble is, I don't remember if the rings were grey or if they were "coral" and "yellow". As I mentioned, the matching dryer had an automatic and timed cycles and a push buttom door latch. Since you mentioned that the automatic cycle was introduced beginning 1959 and that the push button door latch was introduced sometime in the 1960's, my guess it that they were 1960 models. Unfortunately, we'll never really know for sure. One good thing about the chart, one of my neighbors had also had a Frigidaire. (My aunt lives on Long Island, so I didn't get to see that machine as often as my nieghbors.) That pulsator was black and looked just like the 1955 model. That machine was still going strong when my family moved out of the neighborhood in 1974!
Thanks again for your help.
Mike
