S C R E A N ---N A M E S ! And how did you form it ?

[aldspinboy]

This subject came up before awhile ago,

thought sense new members came on the site I and maybe others

would like to know.

 

I got my name from a Laundromat that I grew up around the corner from where I lived.

Sharpneck Laudromat.

 

They had a front load washer that was a semi automaticwasher...One wash - three rinses in full water.

Slow RPM wash action maybe like 44 to 48 Rpm's like a old Melnor shirt washers in the cleaners.

It had a plastic long like sliding board in front of the washer.

You would take out the wet laundry and slide it down to the extracter spinner !

Since people have been talking about extractors lately I was a good leveler of clothes that went in that basket.

True balencing I aimed for.

The women use to look at me and said that boy can wash better then I can and look how he put

those clothes around that basket I'm just saying that's what they said lol.

I have to say when someone compliments you on laundry you feel pretty good at age 9.

 

The extacter was a ALDSPIN.

Hence Aldspinboy.

 

That Laudromat was outfitted with Turquoise GE washers rasied so high I could not get on the ledge at the time.

So when I stuggled to get on the edge I would watch the GE's and get wet lol .

They had a lot's of buttons for temperatures on the coin slot and black Actavators with the old FF hats.

I have one that I found wish I had the washer with it.

All the dryers where with the two bars going across the door look.

All the same color.

 

So 20 years later in 1982 or 83.. they tore the building down it was very 60's looking building.

I was so upset ..but things do CHANGE.

So I when like aah five trucks came and I saw all of the washers on the curb , I had to get some crests from the washers.

I had no tools with me so I riped them from the rivets.

I have two pices here the other GE crest is in a box of washer goods that is sealed so no seeing that lol.

Well it was a fun time and a learning experince and I knew I was different I hung out there forever.

And that was I knew that I loved washing machines and laundry .

When at night all the lights are on and there closing the tenent would have all those GE Filter Flow

hats on the lids and they look so good in a loooong row !

See yaa Sharpneck Laundromat.

The sign I have here the letters where red inside..this needs a restore.

How about you guy's...

Darren k 

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[aldspinboy]

Pic 2. Here is the Filter Flow lint filter used at the Sharpneck Laundromat.

 

A little big.

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[cycla-fabric]

That's an easy one and I have to thank Sears for it, as my grandmother had a 1950's something Cycla-Fabric 2 speed washer, that I used to watch when visiting the grandparents in the summertime, and Saturday was washday, YAY!

Doug

 

[pulsator]

Keep in mind how old I was when I joined...

I joined this site a month or so after I turned 12, I was pretty innocent then! Now at 21, I can see why my username might not have been taken! I never meant it to be sexual, but a lot of people seem to take it that way. Oh well!

 

I picked it because at the time I had never seen or heard of a Frigidaire washer made by General Motors and was instantly in love with the whacky/cool wash action in those wonderful machines! So, my username reflected that early enthusiasm of the Frigidaire washers from way back when!

 

Ironically, my nickname here at Ferris State University is Maytag or Maytag Man. Even my professors call me by that name.

 

[westie2]

Mine is after my grandmothers (my mothers mother) Westinghouse laundramat she was the first in family to have an automatic washer we had a Maytag wringer until 1964.

 

The 2 is I forgot my first password in 2002.

 

 

 

[franksdad]

Hey Darren...

Yours is a great story!  When I was young I would accompany Mama when she would take our washed laundry to the local laundrmat to dry during spells of wet weather.  That laundramat was better than any amusement park!!!  The machines, the sounds, the smells!!!  The name of this laundramat was Laund-A-Rama.  Like you I was always fascinated by the washers and dryers at the laundramat.  Some of my "special memories" from college life and first living on my own are my visits to the laundramat.  Some weeks I would use the Speed Queen TLs at the Wash and Dry or the GE FFs at Tiger Suds. Sometimes I would use a front loader at either.  Sometimes I would drive to the laundramat in the next town to use their Maytag top loaders.   When I lived in Virginia during 1982 the laundramat I frequented (can't remember the name) used avacodo Kenmore washers and dryers.  This was the first time I ever saw Kenmore washers and dryers in a laundramat.  Later, the laundry room at the apartment complex where I lived in Charleston, SC used Kenmore washers and dryers also.

  

When I was 8 years old we moved from the neighborhood with the Laund-A-Rama.  I called the laundry room in our new house the laund-a-rama and I have called the laundry room or area in each home I've lived in since the laund-a-rama! For years afterward I always looked forward to passing the Laund-A-Rama  when we would drive thru the old neighborhood.  Back in the 80's they removed the name and made a cafe out of the building.  Now the building just sits empty and you would never know it had been a happening little laundramat back in the early 60's.   I rode by the old Laund-A-Rama during Christmas just for old times sake.  The building is still empty and now decaying away. 

 

 I tied to use the name Laund-A-Rama when I joined but it kept being rejected.  I even tried spelling it Laurdarama but was still rejected. 

 

My wife and I give a helping paw to one of my wife's friends who works for Dachshund Rescue of the Upstate.  Our first dachshund rescue is a long-hair named Frank (short for frankfurter).  Since I am Frank's "dad" I am Franksdad.  We now have 4 dachshunds.  Frank, Lulu, a miniature, Charli, a standard, and our newest baby, Jashpur, a red and black mini.   

Jim  

 

[arbilab]

arbilab is legally copyrighted as it was the company name under which I sold a custom cosmeceutical lotion in the 90s. It's never already taken as a screenname. arbi (ar bee) are my initials and my kitchen was the "lab". It took 2 years and 100 tries to get the formula right.

I didn't really know anything about chemistry when I started but I had determination. I have ichthyosis (rough skin) and Colgate discontinued the one product I liked. So I bought the listed ingredients and set to mixing them.

It turned out well so I attempted to sell it and sold about 1200 but I found out later that for a skin product the product itself should cost 25c and the marketing about 10x that, which I didn't have.

 

[foraloysius]

When I got internet in 1997 I needed to make my first emailaddress. I wanted to use the name Aloysius just like the teddybear in the series Brideshead Revisited. But Aloysius was already taken. So I thought I'd use "for Aloysius", with a double meaning. Not only mail for Aloysius, but also dedicated to Aloysius.

I put "for" and "Aloysius" together to "foraloysius". I started using it on other things as my emailaddress, it sort of became an alias. I never write it with a capital.

 

[strongenough78]

I got StrongEnough from the song by Cher. I would listen to it repeatedly whenever I was going through a break up. 78 is the year I was born.

 

[lordkenmore]

Most of the time when I sign up for a discussion forum, I use some combination of letters and numbers that makes enough sense that I can remember it, but is "strange" enough that it's unlikely to be taken. These screen names often will make no sense to anyone but myself. Sort of like half the things I say on discussion forums...but that's another issue.

In any case, I think I was originally "J2400" here. Later on, I dropped that in favor of my current screen name. "Lord Kenmore" was--as I'm sure many have guessed--inspired by the "Lady Kenmore" name used by Sears.

 

[norgeway]

We Had A!

Furniture store in my hometown of Lenoir NC that had a big sign on it..NORGE! product of Borg Warner..It was Teague Furniture Co, they were dealers for Norge and Philco, and Ira Teague and his son Wayne had a reputation for being good to deal with, for some reason I have always liked Norge products, maybe because there were so different, maybe because there were so many more Hotpoint and GE products out there, they were ok, but too common, Norge as well as Monarch products although being sold at home, were much fewer in number, and I have always been drawn to the odd rare or unusual, same with vacuums, while I like Electrolux and Hoover,I like Apex and Lewyt and Westinghouse better.

 

[whirlykenmore78]

AW Screenname

Mine is quite simple really. It's a combination of the 2 names my favorite washers were sold under (I love Bd and DD machines alike)and the year I was born. Take the nickname for Whirlpool (whirly) add Kenmore and 78 and you get whirlykenmore78.

I was also called Hobart man or Hobart in Culinary school as I would always be the first to volunteer to go wash our dishes in the Hobart AM-12 dishwasher in the classroom. I made my love of this classic dishwasher known too
Nick

 

[supersuds]

I was a noob and thought something with "suds" in it would be perfect. And I like Colgate-Palmolive products, so their defunct laundry soap Supersuds seemed perfect.

Of course, it quickly became obvious that there were already a bunch of Suds this and Suds that established on the board. I thought about asking to change it but its really too late now.

 

[jasonl]

JasonL

Is short for "Jasonlava" which is my email and Youtube name. The L could also stand for my last name too.

The "lava" comes from my love for 60s-70s stuff including LAVA lamps.

 

[yogitunes]

I actually was just playing a lot of music on YouTube, and this puppy I have started bouncing around and dancing to certain songs, odd as hell, so when I joined YT, had a hard time picking a name that wasn't used, running out of options, from the list in my documents.....one file that was made up of songs that makes him dance.....Yogi's Tunes...........and it stuck!......

an odd thing, after watching so many videos of washers on YT, for almost 2 years, before I found AW.....sometimes I think we need more advertising, or word of mouth.....theres probably more out there like us, who don't know we exist...and to think what their missing.....

 

[kimball455]

4 manuals 55 ranks

Mine, Kimball455 is a combination of two things from the Kimball pipe organ in the Boardwalk Hall Atlantic City ballroom. Kimball, the manufacture of the organ and 455 the size of the organ that is 4 manuals/55 ranks. It is the second largest original theatre pipe organ ever build. The only larger original is in Radio City Music Hall. A 4 manual 58 rank WurliTzer. There are larger theatre organs around today but they are not original. We welcome visitors for the Hall tour on the first and third Tuesday of the month. And, if nothing going on in the Hall prevents me from turning the Kimball on, you can play it. Harry

 

[washernoob]

UGH. Harry, every time I see those organs, I start drooling!

Anyways. My screen name was created because I didn't know anything about washers when I joined, and I still consider myself a kind of "noob" when it comes to them.

 

[cfz2882]

i have 1982 z28 with crossfire injection=Crossfire Z28'82-cfz2882

 

[wayupnorth]

Wayupnorth

Guess its because I am in the about as far as you can get north in the lower 48. Although there are members even further north than me in Canada. My regular e/mail is my initials and the name of the lake I live on.