POD 2/4/2017

[brucelucenta]

The first time I ever saw one of these was at an acquaintances parents house probably 30 years ago. I had to do a double take since I had never seen a wide model like that before. My parents had the 24" version in a house we lived in back in the early to mid 60's. Looks like it has the same motor and impeller as the 24" model, just bigger inside.

 

[toploader55]

I saw my first Empress in 1966. I was 11 years old.

I nearly fell over when I saw the tub move out on it's own. We had a Princess.

I often wondered how these cleaned with the larger capacity, the Normal sized BowTie and the same size detergent cup.

The Princess roared... I wonder what the sound level was on these beasts ???

 

[gyrafoam]

These were all over the place around Atlanta back in the day. I think all impeller machines were pretty noisy, but hey, they moved a lot of water.

 

[toploader55]

Our Princess cleaned very well.

Mom was definitely NOT a Pre Rinser. Big Chunks off and that was that. Yibbles ??? You Betcha.

Power Shower really did try.

 

[brucelucenta]

Actually, my mother pre rinsed everything before putting it in the dishwasher. That was something she continued to do until she lost the ability to do such things. I always reasoned that the glasses on the top rack couldn't possibly get cleaned with any uniformity. Was kind of tough to load the lower rack too.