Jos Rietveld is a woman who lives two blocks away from me. Two years ago an old man gave her the keys to a storage space in the basement of the apartment block where she lives. He had kept the keys for many years and he told her that she had to take care of the things that were there. Much to her amazement there were laundry appliances in that storage space. A while ago she contacted the housing company, but they didn't want the stuff anymore. A few weeks ago she was on local TV with her treasures and I was watching the item with open mouth. I saw some wonderful American laundry appliances and they were just around the corner!! I contacted her and today I paid her and the treasure room a visit.
To be precise, there are two Whirlpool dryers and seven Whirlpool rotary ironers. No washers, the communal laundryrooms weren't equipped with automatic washers. Instead of that there were in the special sinks integrated wringer washers. Don't ask me why they bothered about bringing over American dryers and rotary ironers and let the people do the washing the old fashioned way, that's just the way they did it. The housing company, although not interested in keeping the appliances, wrote an article about the treasure room and I scanned it. The picture on top shows Jos Rietveld in the storage space. The other picture shows how the communal laundryrooms looked like in the fifties.
One other thing. You can see an American Whirlpool dryer, but there is another dryer, also a Whirlpool, but it's a different model. The controls of that dryer are missing, but they are supposed to be on top of the dryer, just like the Maytag AMP. Does anyone know what kind of model that is?
Louis
To be precise, there are two Whirlpool dryers and seven Whirlpool rotary ironers. No washers, the communal laundryrooms weren't equipped with automatic washers. Instead of that there were in the special sinks integrated wringer washers. Don't ask me why they bothered about bringing over American dryers and rotary ironers and let the people do the washing the old fashioned way, that's just the way they did it. The housing company, although not interested in keeping the appliances, wrote an article about the treasure room and I scanned it. The picture on top shows Jos Rietveld in the storage space. The other picture shows how the communal laundryrooms looked like in the fifties.
One other thing. You can see an American Whirlpool dryer, but there is another dryer, also a Whirlpool, but it's a different model. The controls of that dryer are missing, but they are supposed to be on top of the dryer, just like the Maytag AMP. Does anyone know what kind of model that is?
Louis
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