I remember a television ad for this machine. We had gone to Milwaukee at Thanksgiving in 1958. The TV was on one morning and an ad for this machine came on. They showed the old Philco washer with the metal agitator washing a load of sheets, probably 7 since that seemed to be Philco's amazing, if uneven, number for measuring capacity and it was overloaded with no turnover. Then they showed this machine washing a load of sheets (they said) with everything turning over and a sheet that was partially in the washer with most of it hanging down over the front of the machine. The washer pulled the sheet in like a kid sucking in a strand of spaghetti. I never saw another television ad for this machine, but then, when I was at home, I was in school in the morning so if that was when this ad ran on some network program, I was not watching TV. I do remember Philco ads in magazines.
In the Atlanta area, it was Firestone Tire Stores that sold Philco so I don't remember seeing the brand in department stores, just like B.F. Goodrich Tire Stores sold Kelvinator. There was a BFG store near Goldman Taber Pontiac where Daddy had bought the 1957 Pontiac. It had B.F. Goodrich Tires and when we took the car there for tire service, I remember playing with the Kelvinator washers in the sales room. They had one of the TOL machines with the lever to change the cycles. Tire stores were great because none of the salesmen would bother a kid looking at the washers. Daddy was not happy with B.F. Goodrich Tires and said he would never again have them on a car so that was the last I saw of Kelvinator washers until a coin laundry opened in the early 60s with Kelvinator washers. There was a coupon in the paper for free loads during the grand opening so we took the throw rugs there once or twice. The agitators had the red agitator cap with those 4 little fins on top. The lids had the round window. Once again, I do not remember any television ads for Kelvinator, but I do remember magazine ads.
The other interesting thing I remember about that BFG tire store was this one thin, young guy in his clean white uniform shirt who took two apples and put them under it to look like he had breasts. He walked to the other service bays to show off his bust line to a lot of whistling. At 8 years of age, I thought it funny and sort of remarkable that he could look like that, but did not understand why he did it.
In the Atlanta area, it was Firestone Tire Stores that sold Philco so I don't remember seeing the brand in department stores, just like B.F. Goodrich Tire Stores sold Kelvinator. There was a BFG store near Goldman Taber Pontiac where Daddy had bought the 1957 Pontiac. It had B.F. Goodrich Tires and when we took the car there for tire service, I remember playing with the Kelvinator washers in the sales room. They had one of the TOL machines with the lever to change the cycles. Tire stores were great because none of the salesmen would bother a kid looking at the washers. Daddy was not happy with B.F. Goodrich Tires and said he would never again have them on a car so that was the last I saw of Kelvinator washers until a coin laundry opened in the early 60s with Kelvinator washers. There was a coupon in the paper for free loads during the grand opening so we took the throw rugs there once or twice. The agitators had the red agitator cap with those 4 little fins on top. The lids had the round window. Once again, I do not remember any television ads for Kelvinator, but I do remember magazine ads.
The other interesting thing I remember about that BFG tire store was this one thin, young guy in his clean white uniform shirt who took two apples and put them under it to look like he had breasts. He walked to the other service bays to show off his bust line to a lot of whistling. At 8 years of age, I thought it funny and sort of remarkable that he could look like that, but did not understand why he did it.
