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I don't know if that is the WD 5 combo or an earlier model, but unlike some combos, GE among others, the WH combo had spins after both the first and second rinse in addition to the final extraction period, even if it is at a head turning 181 rpm.

I remember us going to Davison's in Atlanta and looking at the WH Roll About DW. It was eliminated from consideration because it did not have a pre rinse or detergent dispenser, just like the KD2P was down the street at Rich's. Was this really a D&M machine like I think John said all WH portables were?

For the time period, close to 1960, the surface units on the WH range were of a higher wattage than were offered by most: 1600 6" and 2600 8" elements.

Was the cold injector refrigerator frostless or just before?

Heywood-Wakefield furniture with stamps! I think I still have one of the hardrock maple chairs similar to this that were bought for the kitchen table and to supplement the Stickley dining room chairs at large gatherings.

Note the federal excise tax on the 8 day clock. The excise tax was something manufacturers and retailers fought against and it eventually disappeared. Does anyone remember the expression, "a look that would stop an 8 day clock"? I love that style clock.

The Waring drink mixer was an accent piece I remember seeing in lots of magazines.

What a wonderful POD, Robert! Thank you.
 
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Westinghouse TL portable DW, WOW that brings back not so good memories. A DW exactingly like the one pictured was the one that caught fire in 1970 and did damage of over $10,000.00 to my best friends house, they said that the only thing that kept the house from burning down completely was the fact they had central A/C and the house was tightly closed up when the fire occurred in August, so the fire became starved for air and the Fire Department had time to arive and put out the fire.

 

This TLP DW was WH built, it had the same thin Bakelite impeller an racks that WH roll-out built-ins had at the time. Most of the cool shadow box control panel was just plastic, so when the DW had finished everything but the dry cycle my friends Mom unhooked it from the sink put the hoses away and pushed it back into the corner and left it plugged in to finish the heated dry cycle. The speculation was that some water dribbled out of the hoses and caused an electrical short and fire and the plastic control panel would not contain the flames. [ heated dry cycles are not only a waste of electricity but, can also be an unnecessary danger ]

 

When the fire damage was repaired an all new kitchen was installed whitch included a KA, KDC-16, this DW lasted until my friends Mom sold the house about ten years ago and had very few problems. I do remember her saying that she rinsed the dishes more for the KA than the old WH because the filter was such a mess to clean in the KD-16 DW.
 
That fridge was one step up form the one we had at our summe

Ours looked almost identical but it did not have the interchangeable freezer door panel and it had a different grille under the fridge door but the door handles were the same....PAT COFFEY
 
trading stamps bring good memories

I don't remember S&H having big ticket items like stoves and refrigerators, but I sure do remember the stamps and the fun we would have sitting at the kitchen table pasting them in books. Where I lived in San Jose there were three types of trading stamps, the high-class S&H (they had the best catalog,) Blue Chip with this little beaver as a mascot, and Thrifty Green Stamps with their "so so" book of premiums. The S&H redemption center was Downtown across from St. James Park when the area was "the" place to shop. The park was the site where in 1933 (long before my time) the two suspects in the murder of the son of Hart's Department store owner Alexander Hart were busted out of jail by an angry mob and strung up in a tree. I always wondered which tree it was since the park is small and all the trees were visible...boy, did I get off track here or what? Sorry, and the POD is definitely worth saving...many thanks.
 
"Copper" Molds:

I own a set of the Mirro Alumilite copper-colored molds hanging just to the left of the dishwasher; I grew up with a set in the house. The set I own is not the same one I grew up with, but it's identical.

I also have enough books of S&H Green Stamps to get the curtains, the canisters, the bread box or the salad bowl. Which to choose, which to choose? ;-)

In case anyone does not know, S&H Green Stamps are now S&H Greenpoints, an online shopping reward system. Also, old Green Stamps can still be redeemed. Here's a link to the S&H Website; a link at the bottom of the main page tells about redeeming old Green Stamps for either merchandise, rewards or cash:

greenpoints - AppCard

www.greenpoints.com www.greenpoints.com
 
P.S.:

S&H does not offer merchandise directly any more, I understand. What you redeem Greenpoints or old Green Stamps for nowadays is gift cards for retailers like Bed, Bath & Beyond, Land's End, Amazon, L.L. Bean, and several hotel and restaurant chains. Then you use the gift cards to get what you want.

And I don't THINK they have any more of those Westy appliances in stock, LOL.
 
I was just at an artist friend's house earlier this week and noticed she had a plastic-coated tote/grocery bag that had a pattern with the image of sheets of S&H green stamps.

 

The old S&H redemption store building downtown that Joe mentioned is still there with its exterior treatment of large green tiles.  It was a guitar store for a while but now it's empty.

 

I remember going with Mom to the Blue Chip store more often.  It was located on the suburban west side.  I can't remember if the building was pushed over or if it became a bank branch.  The bank is still there.

 

Star & Bar gas stations (Joe, you surely remember the huge block-long one on San Carlos across from Mayfair) used to give out their own stamps.  I don't remember any catalog or what you could redeem them for.  Maybe just free gas?

 
 
Ralph:

This may be regional (I'm originally from Atlanta), but there was another brand of stamps no one has mentioned - Gold Bond Stamps.

If memory serves, Atlanta's Colonial Stores gave Gold Bond, and other chains like Big Apple gave Green Stamps. I know we had both kinds in the house, and a smattering of Thrifty Stamps picked up on vacation gas stops.
 
Gold Bond

Sandy, I did see in thread #41635 that Bill mentioned the Gold Bond stamps in the original post. They must have been regional because I don't remember ever seeing them out here.

 

I remember the dispensing machines for Blue Chip.  They had dials that the cashier would set to issue the appropriate amount of stamps.  When the "super" stamps came onto the scene, there were separate dispensing slots for them due to their larger size.
 
Wow!  What a trip down memory lane!  My Mama saved S&H Green Stamps and it was always my job to paste them into the books.  The old redemption store was in downtown Greenville then moved to Pleasantburg Drive around 1971 or 72.  My Mama would redeem stamps for linens, cookwear, and so forth.  I have a beautiful enamel lasagna pan Mama got for 2 books of stamps back in 1968 or 69.  It is beautiful.  Mama was not one to buy pretty stuff just because it was pretty but that pan grabbed Mama's attention when we walked into the redemption center there just off Main Street and she had to have it!  Mama called it her sweet potato souffle pan and used it esclusively to make sweet potato souffles in for many, many years.  As Mama began to age and she stopped cooking I hid that pan because I was with her when she found that pan and I felt that pan should go to me!  My brother would taken it to the jockey lot and sold it if he could have gotten a couple of dollars for it.  Neither of my sisters, believe it or not, have ever collected anything just for it's beauty so I knew they would not enjoy the pan.  When I was a child, every year during the 4th of July vacation week Mama and I would go to the S&H Store in downtown.  Mama would pick up a new shower curtain, new Rubbermaid tub mat, new bath rugs, and three sets of new towels.  Mama would save a few books if something caught her eve and I always got a book to pick out something for me!   Mama picked up a 1961 or 62 GE hand mixer in yellow.   I always liked that mixer.  My sister-in-law gave Mama an avocado GE hand mixer in the early 70's.  Mama had to start using that new mixer or my brother would get upset and, as we say here in SC, "sling his @$$ on his shoulders!"  I think my brother threw that yellow mixer away.  I always liked the yellow mixer much better than the new one.  I could talk for hours but I'll close now.  Thanks for the great picture!         
 
Hey Ralph,

I sure do remember that Star & Bar station. My dad always went there. They had gas pumps with round glass windows where a little pinwheel would spin as you pumped the gasoline. Now my age is really showing...funny the things you remember from what seems like a thousand years ago.
 
Around here we had S&H green stamps and Top Value that were yellow or goldish in color, I think they were from Kroger. Over the years we got lots of stuff that way, seem to recall even gas stations giving them out. Much different time...
 
Joe, I was going to mention the pumps with the pinwheels.  I think that was the first station where I ever saw one (and was mesmerized by it) and one of the last stations to have them.

 

I came across some Star & Bar stamps recently out in the garage.  Crazy the things that survived around here.

 
 
Green Stamps!

Oh, for those days! Famous-Barr, gas stations, they were everywhere. I still have the sunburst clock we got with them years and years ago.
 
@tomturbomatic

There's a 1959 Westinghouse ad in the video section of this site, in which Betty Furness demonstrates a Westinghouse fridge to Lucille Ball and Vivian Vance. She describes the cold injector system as being frost free. So I would guess that a 1960 model, at least their TOL, was frost free.

In California we had S&H and also Blue Chip stamps. The latter dominated at our house because the market my mom favored gave Blue Chip stamps. There was a redemption center in Pacific Beach Plaza in San Diego. I remember going there to redeem books for an ice crusher (mom still has it and it still works) and a table tennis set. The table tennis set was 14 books. I don't remember the cost of the ice machine. Thls was the late 1960s.

 
westingman, Eagle Stamps weren't the same as S&H...Eagle Stamps were owned by May Department Store Co (headquartered in St. Louis) and were given as you mention by Famous-Barr and National Supermarkets in St. Louis; May Company and Pick and Pay in Cleveland, etc etc. They were different because you stuck the stamps then got $3 in coupons at the department store or $2.50 in cash. In St. Louis, I remember that Bettendorf-Rapp gave S&H, Kroger gave Top Value, A&P gave Plaid and Schnucks gave Pink Stamps. There was a Top Value redemption center in Crestwood near where I was raised (as I recall it was first in Crestwood Plaza near Stix Baer and Fuller--at that outside part of the mall where Baskin-Robbins was) then moved across Sappington to next to Schnucks. I really enjoyed collecting them...and the different dispensers (Eagle Stamps at Famous-Barr had the electric adding-machine dispensers, but at National they had the circular dispensers. Kroger (at least the modern one in Crestwood that opened in 1973) had automatic dispensers (they had the coolest mechanical cash registers...Anker, I believe...which made change, dispensed stamps and automatically calculated tax. Ahhh..memories.
 
jamiel!

I'd forgotten about Eagle stamps. Did Skruggs give green stamps? I remember painstaking pasting them in the books, Mama insisted they be perfect. My Aunt Mildred just slapped them in her books, and Mama thought that was awful!

I have a bunch of S&H books left--about 5, I think. Simpler times.
 

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