reactor
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A plethora of General Electric housewares ads presented by Santa's Elves themselves!
RETRO-FRIDAY, a GE and Rudolph Christmas
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A great little series of ads for GE household products! Thanks for the link.
By the way...what is the strange ritual that woman is doing with the device that snorts clouds of steam? She’s moving it back and forth along a piece of clothing in a trance-like manner.
By the way...what is the strange ritual that woman is doing with the device that snorts clouds of steam? She’s moving it back and forth along a piece of clothing in a trance-like manner.
twintubdexter
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">I really enjoyed these ads. They remind me of a time when I was very young, happy and illness-free. My best friend's father worked for GE having moved the family to San Jose from Schenectady NY to work at General Electric's new Atomic Energy Center. He designed reactors. Everything in their new home was GE down to the light bulbs. We were best friends for over 50 years. He sadly passed away 3 years ago, one of the of the many downsides to growing old.</span>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">This video shows how things have changed. Back then, any of these little appliances would have made a generous and welcome gift. Today, give someone a steam iron or electric fry pan and see what happens. My suggestion is be prepared to duck when they throw it at you. Perhaps the toaster oven would be acceptable as long as the keys to a new Lexus are inside.</span>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">Even the light bulbs...</span>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">This video shows how things have changed. Back then, any of these little appliances would have made a generous and welcome gift. Today, give someone a steam iron or electric fry pan and see what happens. My suggestion is be prepared to duck when they throw it at you. Perhaps the toaster oven would be acceptable as long as the keys to a new Lexus are inside.</span>
<span style="font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;">Even the light bulbs...</span>
reactor
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I understand, Joe
Fully agree with you, Joe. Viewing these ads brings back memories of, in many ways, of a simpler and better time.
Back then appliances did not come from Communist China. They were made by our own people, with quality.
Can anyone else remember owner loyalty to companies? When I was young it was prestigious to say that you had a General Electric kitchen, a Westinghouse kitchen or a Tappan kitchen, etc. I can remember open houses or newly built houses often had signs in the yard stating, "Equipped with GE Appliances." or Westinghouse, atc. That was a selling point used by builders and realtors.
Brand names meant something back then, a washer that said GE was made by the General Electric Co. Who would have believed that a GE washer would, in the year 2019, be made by Haier-Qingdao of china.
Maytag was Maytag back then and not Whirlpool. Frigidaire was GM and not White Consolidated industries or (eventually) ElectroLux of Sweden. Westinghouse was made by Westinghouse Electric Corp. Now something with the name of Westinghouse and the Westinghouse logo could be made by virtually anyone, anyone but Westinghouse that is. Any company, from any country, can use the name Westinghouse and the logo if they just pay the licensing fee.
Sadly, we can't turn back the clock. But we can sit back and look at the fun advertisements and enjoy a world that many of us had the privilege to grow up in. A world today's young people may not be able to truly appreciate or even understand.
Fully agree with you, Joe. Viewing these ads brings back memories of, in many ways, of a simpler and better time.
Back then appliances did not come from Communist China. They were made by our own people, with quality.
Can anyone else remember owner loyalty to companies? When I was young it was prestigious to say that you had a General Electric kitchen, a Westinghouse kitchen or a Tappan kitchen, etc. I can remember open houses or newly built houses often had signs in the yard stating, "Equipped with GE Appliances." or Westinghouse, atc. That was a selling point used by builders and realtors.
Brand names meant something back then, a washer that said GE was made by the General Electric Co. Who would have believed that a GE washer would, in the year 2019, be made by Haier-Qingdao of china.
Maytag was Maytag back then and not Whirlpool. Frigidaire was GM and not White Consolidated industries or (eventually) ElectroLux of Sweden. Westinghouse was made by Westinghouse Electric Corp. Now something with the name of Westinghouse and the Westinghouse logo could be made by virtually anyone, anyone but Westinghouse that is. Any company, from any country, can use the name Westinghouse and the logo if they just pay the licensing fee.
Sadly, we can't turn back the clock. But we can sit back and look at the fun advertisements and enjoy a world that many of us had the privilege to grow up in. A world today's young people may not be able to truly appreciate or even understand.
