This was possibly the last Sears major appliance ad or tie-in ad in a magazine for around a decade, until the later 60s, at least in the Atlanta/Southeastern region. This picture shows that it was hard to make a space look like a Sears Appliance Department. I don't know if they had the little catalog stores yet. Notice the color quality of the ad and the way the store window was depicted. This was done by an illustrator and painted rather than photographed. The colors were generally richer in pictures in older magazines because of the illustrations. Ads looked a lot less rich when they were just photographs. I think this was the last TOL Kenmore washer before they were called Lady Kenmore. In 1958, the model below the LK was called something like a Four Star Cycla-Fabric. It did not have the self-cleaning lint filter. I remember CU said that lack of proper maintenance of the filter could result in some flooding. Of course, as a kid, I wondered if they meant a basement with a foot or more of water, but that is not what they were talking about.
POD 6/5/13 KM TOL Cycla-Fabric Washer
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twintubdexter
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Of the thousands (there were that many) of trade-ins other than Frigidaire (the store was primarily Frigidaire headquarters for the area) I saw more of those Kenmores than any other washer. Sears must have sold a ton of them. They were perfectly fine to re-condition for the sales floor since they used mostly Whirpool parts. I'll bet half of them just needed a new pump. They were really very nice machines.
mickeyd
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So familiar ~ had to check
The POD is the MOL 1957 Kenmore. The Lady of that year is in the Webmaster's basement, which he restored. Go to Photos on the main page, and Robert's album is first. There you will find his "Beautiful 1957 Lady Kenmore," also in pink like the POD. Except for the exotic trim and two buttons, they could pass for twins.
The POD is the MOL 1957 Kenmore. The Lady of that year is in the Webmaster's basement, which he restored. Go to Photos on the main page, and Robert's album is first. There you will find his "Beautiful 1957 Lady Kenmore," also in pink like the POD. Except for the exotic trim and two buttons, they could pass for twins.
I do think....
.....that my 1958 Four Star Cycla Fabric washer and dryer are a great looking set. They look so, so similar to the Lady Kenmore model of that same year that my aunt had and I just loved to wash in. I love to use my set. It takes me back to 1958!
.....that my 1958 Four Star Cycla Fabric washer and dryer are a great looking set. They look so, so similar to the Lady Kenmore model of that same year that my aunt had and I just loved to wash in. I love to use my set. It takes me back to 1958!
mrb627
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Beautiful
Those are just beautiful. More pics and information please...
Malcolm
Those are just beautiful. More pics and information please...
Malcolm
After Sears replaced the tape kit on our 58 LK, the panel looked like this.
Some of these panel designs are amazing. Now I know what I want to be when I grow up. Trouble is, my chosen career is extinct.
mrb627
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Giant 10lb Capacity!
The perfect size!
Malcolm
The perfect size!
Malcolm
I love the console-within-a-console look of the '58s. And one of the few Kenmores with a speed selector switch. Don't see many of them.
70series
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Beautiful set Dick. If I recall, this is the washer in your collection you refer to as Dorothy right? Are your videos still on Googlevideo? I could not find them when I last searched, which I will admit was a while ago. I was always well entertained by them.
Have a good one,
James
Have a good one,
James
With our Lady, you could choose the agitation speed, but the spin speeds were in the cycles.
danemodsandy
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Hard to Believe:
That there were once MOL machines with lighted consoles.
Now you can't even get a TOL machine with the feature.
Not that there's anything else that tells you right away that a current-model machine is TOL.
Styling is dead.
And sorely missed.
That there were once MOL machines with lighted consoles.
Now you can't even get a TOL machine with the feature.
Not that there's anything else that tells you right away that a current-model machine is TOL.
Styling is dead.
And sorely missed.
Thanks James
...for bringing the washer vids to my attention. With the house and all, I hadn't paid them much attention lately. Google had moved them and made them private. I have now started a new Youtube account for all the vids and made them public once again. More will be added soon. As of this writing I have reposted vids of the 58 Four Star and my major restore accomplishment, my stunning pink 57 Lady Kenmore. I hope you all enjoy them. BTW James, your memory is pretty good BUT I named my 55 Bel Air "Dorothy" after the 55 pink and gray one my aunt had.
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZErZZiu5OxaRcx8vGwxIpw
Malcome, I'm thinking of starting a blog somewhere where I can write freely and at length about all the machines in my collection plus posting more pictures. I'll let everyone know when I find such a place where I know things won't be deleted.
Tom, I'm so curious about the tape repair on your LK, what prompted it and the subsequent "fix" by Sears. When you write that after the fix, the console looked like the one in the Four Star, does that mean the tape was taken out and you monitored the cycles by the timer/cycle modifier? Wow! To me, that was the fun part of that console-the moving tape! And when you started the normal cycle, did the agitator operate while it was filling?
Now that the excitement has calmed down on the house, it's time for me to get back to my washer collection. I might have mentioned that I was done at one point-WELL, I'VE CHANGED MY MIND!!!!!!
AND most definitely, washer styling is dead, big time!!!!!!!!!
...for bringing the washer vids to my attention. With the house and all, I hadn't paid them much attention lately. Google had moved them and made them private. I have now started a new Youtube account for all the vids and made them public once again. More will be added soon. As of this writing I have reposted vids of the 58 Four Star and my major restore accomplishment, my stunning pink 57 Lady Kenmore. I hope you all enjoy them. BTW James, your memory is pretty good BUT I named my 55 Bel Air "Dorothy" after the 55 pink and gray one my aunt had.
http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZErZZiu5OxaRcx8vGwxIpw
Malcome, I'm thinking of starting a blog somewhere where I can write freely and at length about all the machines in my collection plus posting more pictures. I'll let everyone know when I find such a place where I know things won't be deleted.
Tom, I'm so curious about the tape repair on your LK, what prompted it and the subsequent "fix" by Sears. When you write that after the fix, the console looked like the one in the Four Star, does that mean the tape was taken out and you monitored the cycles by the timer/cycle modifier? Wow! To me, that was the fun part of that console-the moving tape! And when you started the normal cycle, did the agitator operate while it was filling?
Now that the excitement has calmed down on the house, it's time for me to get back to my washer collection. I might have mentioned that I was done at one point-WELL, I'VE CHANGED MY MIND!!!!!!
AND most definitely, washer styling is dead, big time!!!!!!!!!
58 LK Combo console
The Combination control panel was just like the above, but the washer knob was on left side and dryer knob on the right.
The Combination control panel was just like the above, but the washer knob was on left side and dryer knob on the right.
