runematic
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Here's a few photos of some of the stuff I've acquired over the years. I'm just starting to get it out of the warehouse I rent into the building I just purchased. There'll be more photos on the way.
Starting to get all my stuff moved
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Wow Runematic, those are really fun pictures! How about some more!! I love that Westinghouse sign.
Washinsheen
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Love the brown(ish) Maytags!! Very cool!!
filterflo
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Hey runematic, your collection is wonderful. What part of PA are you in? Would love to visit and see your washers sometime. Im near Akron Ohio, and a group of us will be meeting here at my house this fall, would love to have you visit if you can get this way........lets chat sometime.....
Wow -
Now that's a row of dream Maytag's! You have a very unique building with a very nice touch! I'm sure there is more to come....
Ben
Now that's a row of dream Maytag's! You have a very unique building with a very nice touch! I'm sure there is more to come....
Ben
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Great collection! Love that pushbutton Maytag dryer in Coppertone...and I see another familiar model!
Thanks for posting!
Thanks for posting!
runematic
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Hopefully, I'll have more pix in the days to come. FilerFlo, I'm in southcentral PA, Lebanon, to be exact. Swestoyz, the building is from about 1870's.
mayken4now
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Oh runematic, I could just faint!
Steve
Steve
davy1063
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Hey Runematic, I'm in Reading!!! I'm about 30 minutes up the road from you (Sinking Spring to be exact)!
Do I smell a wash-in about to happen?
or--- heavens-to-mergatroid --- the next convention?
or--- heavens-to-mergatroid --- the next convention?
The building is perfect for all those great machines - very nice move!
runematic
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I put up a few more photos today.
Oh My!
I've never seen so may Maytag wringers in one place!! The NOS Admiral neon is just amazing. Those signs are still out there, I found a Cadillac sign in the box above an old dealer just last year. You have an amazing collection, and an amazing building to keep it all in to boot!
Ben
I've never seen so may Maytag wringers in one place!! The NOS Admiral neon is just amazing. Those signs are still out there, I found a Cadillac sign in the box above an old dealer just last year. You have an amazing collection, and an amazing building to keep it all in to boot!
Ben
Versatronic
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Holy God
Now is this building you purchased going to be your new appliance store, or is this just your personal storage space?
Now is this building you purchased going to be your new appliance store, or is this just your personal storage space?
runematic
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It'll be both. The 1st floor will be the showroom/shop. The 2nd, 4th, & 5th floors are warehouse/storage for misc. used appliances that hopefully will one day be sold (& the 5th also is storing the mass amounts of wringers & vintage gas/electric stoves that I just posted). My brother & I saved the 3rd floor for our collection of early iron stoves & some of the wooden washers, Maytag washers, etc that were pictured.
What an interesting building, what was it's original purpose? Sort of looks like an old foundry or mill of some sort. I see myself building my condo and living in there if I was u.
runematic
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PeteK, The building was originally a warehouse for a few different stove companies, lastly being the Lebanon Stove Works. the other foundry buildings are long gone. It just so happens that my bro. & I have been collecting Lebanon stoves for the last number of years. They're fairly hard to find. We didn't actually know that this was the warehouse until I started to do research on it. The building was then used by the Bon-Ton (which actually started in this area) as a warehouse from the 1920's through the late 1960's. They added the elevator (the silo-looking piece on the side of the building) in the 20's.
As far as the condo, I'd love to do that. unfortunately, PA passed the UCC codes (Uniform Construction Code) for buildings. The upper floors have no fire egresses (fire escapes). From what I understand from our realtor, the previous owner had quite a few folks looking at it to turn it into an apartment building, but the costs & regs were out-of-this-world. So, lucky for us, it sat vacant for the last 18 months, after the local food bank moved out.
So, to make a long story short, we feel it was some sort of divine intervention. we collect Lebanon iron, we needed a new place to go, the owner was more the ready to move the property, & we saved some local history.
As far as the condo, I'd love to do that. unfortunately, PA passed the UCC codes (Uniform Construction Code) for buildings. The upper floors have no fire egresses (fire escapes). From what I understand from our realtor, the previous owner had quite a few folks looking at it to turn it into an apartment building, but the costs & regs were out-of-this-world. So, lucky for us, it sat vacant for the last 18 months, after the local food bank moved out.
So, to make a long story short, we feel it was some sort of divine intervention. we collect Lebanon iron, we needed a new place to go, the owner was more the ready to move the property, & we saved some local history.
