Refrigerator Disaster Commercial
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norgeway
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That was 53
NOT 57,If the power is off..the electric solenoid that unlatches the door dont work!!!we had one of these..I would love to have it back!
NOT 57,If the power is off..the electric solenoid that unlatches the door dont work!!!we had one of these..I would love to have it back!
passatdoc
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I'd HEARD about the famous incident when Betty Furness couldn't get the door of the fridge open and she had to ad lib by describing the interior features that the audience couldn't see. Thanks for providing it. Didn't realize they had frost-free units as early as 1953. My parents had a mid-50s GE that did have it. Bottom slide-out freezer with door activated by a pedal. The fridge shelves were semi-circular, revolved around a center post so you just rotated the shelf to retrieve any item in the back, and the shelves were fully height-adjustable up and down on the center post. It probably was made 1956-58; they were in rented housing until 1958, when they bought their first house, so the "newest" the GE could have been was 1958.
Several brands tried the electric door-opening feature on their TOL models. A large Hasidic community in New York bought this type of refrigerator for all of the apartments in their building. It is their custom to unplug the refrigerators at the start of the Sabbath so nothing electrical would be operating on the day of rest. The first time they did that with the new boxes, they could not open them. All of the refrigerators were exchanged for the model with a manually-opened door.
John has a Frigidaire Food Life Preserver with a little square button on the door that, when pushed, activates a little motor that kicks the door open by turning a cam. It makes a neat sound.
John has a Frigidaire Food Life Preserver with a little square button on the door that, when pushed, activates a little motor that kicks the door open by turning a cam. It makes a neat sound.
norgeway
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Westinghouse Defrost ...
This was introduced in 1950,there was a "counter button" that counted the times the door was opened,at the pre set number,the frost was melted and water drained off.
This was introduced in 1950,there was a "counter button" that counted the times the door was opened,at the pre set number,the frost was melted and water drained off.
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