Philco washers were not very common, think I saw only 1 or 2 when I was a kid back in the 60’s. Was wondering who was their distribution network, who sold them? I do not recall seeing them in any Dept store. I know they were tied to the Ford Motor Co.
I recall seeing one in a household, again as a young kid. My most vivid memory of them was at a large laundrymat around 1965-66 on the edge of a town we commuted through. We stopped in and I looked inside the washers expecting to see a Frigidaire or something, it was NOT. The agitator was so totally different I couldn’t figure out how it worked, thought maybe it might go up-and-down like a said Frigidaire! The column of the agitator was just a stainless steel thin post with round top, with the business end of it rubber....and there wasn’t much of that either. A person could wash more clothes in it as it didn’t have any sort of sizeable shaft. It blew my mind!!!!
That was the only laundrymat I ever saw that had them. It was located in California.
Thoughts?
Barry
I recall seeing one in a household, again as a young kid. My most vivid memory of them was at a large laundrymat around 1965-66 on the edge of a town we commuted through. We stopped in and I looked inside the washers expecting to see a Frigidaire or something, it was NOT. The agitator was so totally different I couldn’t figure out how it worked, thought maybe it might go up-and-down like a said Frigidaire! The column of the agitator was just a stainless steel thin post with round top, with the business end of it rubber....and there wasn’t much of that either. A person could wash more clothes in it as it didn’t have any sort of sizeable shaft. It blew my mind!!!!
That was the only laundrymat I ever saw that had them. It was located in California.
Thoughts?
Barry
