Has anyone seen a dryer that looks like this? I'm thinking Whirlpool.......
Mark
Mark
Strange looking dryer
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I had a dryer like this when I got out of college.
I think this was the beginning of the "match all" dryers. The one I had was an electric Kenmore. Very good dryer. I kept it for about 3 years, and the person that I gave it to kept it for over 15 years.
Thanks for the memories.
Oh, and my dryer had the bottom plate. That was standard on the one I had. Wink.
Brent
I had a dryer like this when I got out of college.
I think this was the beginning of the "match all" dryers. The one I had was an electric Kenmore. Very good dryer. I kept it for about 3 years, and the person that I gave it to kept it for over 15 years.
Thanks for the memories.
Oh, and my dryer had the bottom plate. That was standard on the one I had. Wink.
Brent
It's a Kenmore! (and the washer too!)
Kenmore dryer from the early 70's... thought I have no idea what model.
Calling Kenmoreguy64....... are you out there??
Kenmore dryer from the early 70's... thought I have no idea what model.
Calling Kenmoreguy64....... are you out there??
Sears called them "All American" dryers and they were meant to match up with any washer, including other brands. There was no washer to match this control panel style. There was probably a half dozen variants of these over the years with some being thermostatically automatic models and others having the solid state sensors. These were available late sixties and very early seventies.
Gordon
Gordon
Picked out that exact same dryer in 1971 when my grandmother finally gave up the clothesline for a dryer.
Ron
Ron
bobbyderegis
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My aunt had a coppertone electric one to match her solid tub Speed Queen washer from the late sixties. It was a basic Kenmore, with a drum light and timed dry cycle. No bells or whistles.
Bobby in Boston
Bobby in Boston
pturo
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I own this exact dryer at the lake house. I put in a new motor last year. Big capacity and soft heat gets things dry in 35 minutes. Mine has the end of cycle signal with adjustment lever in the lint filter door.
It is a good design, still looks retro contemporary today.
It is a good design, still looks retro contemporary today.
bobbyderegis
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Phil reminded me. My aunt's had the buzzer adjuster under the lint filter cover.
Bobby in Boston
Bobby in Boston
pturo
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Lake House Photo
There used to be a poppy red 1-18 in the basement...it was color appropriate....
There used to be a poppy red 1-18 in the basement...it was color appropriate....
bobbyderegis
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Phil:
What lake?
Bobby in Boston
What lake?
Bobby in Boston
chaskelljr2
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1969-70 Sears Kenmore Dryer....
Actually..... This dryer in all of its varients was available through 1975.
I grew up with 1975 model which had the MORE "Stand-Up" Type of control panel. It had everything the one in the picture had except a drum light. Ours did not have a drum light. But it did have a 5.9 Cu./Ft. drum, a Solid-State Sensor, a Wrinkle-Guard and a Full-Width Door.
Our was first used with a 1967 24" Kenmore Model 500 Washer, and then used with a 1978 Kenmore Model 70 Large Capacity Washer (2-Speeds/4-Cycles, Penta-Swirl Agitator with Agitator Mounted Fabric Softener Dispenser and a O/B/B).
The dryer was still running when my father retired from the U. S. Government in 1993 (it was purchased in January 1976), which by then, the dryer was 17 years old, and it had only ONE repair in those 17 years (and it survived one move from Columbia, South Carolina to Washington, D. C.).
Great Dryer....... as "bobbyderegis" has said, and I concur..... ours also had the basics. Not many bells and whistles. But it did get the job done.
--Charles--
Actually..... This dryer in all of its varients was available through 1975.
I grew up with 1975 model which had the MORE "Stand-Up" Type of control panel. It had everything the one in the picture had except a drum light. Ours did not have a drum light. But it did have a 5.9 Cu./Ft. drum, a Solid-State Sensor, a Wrinkle-Guard and a Full-Width Door.
Our was first used with a 1967 24" Kenmore Model 500 Washer, and then used with a 1978 Kenmore Model 70 Large Capacity Washer (2-Speeds/4-Cycles, Penta-Swirl Agitator with Agitator Mounted Fabric Softener Dispenser and a O/B/B).
The dryer was still running when my father retired from the U. S. Government in 1993 (it was purchased in January 1976), which by then, the dryer was 17 years old, and it had only ONE repair in those 17 years (and it survived one move from Columbia, South Carolina to Washington, D. C.).
Great Dryer....... as "bobbyderegis" has said, and I concur..... ours also had the basics. Not many bells and whistles. But it did get the job done.
--Charles--
Good Dryer Indeed
The "All American" was a replacement for our first gas dryer (a Kenmore frog-eye); my mother bought it at a Sears close-out sale for $120 in 1972. It was an improvement over the frog-eye because of its automatic drying cycle, easy-clean lint filter, and the adjustable end-of-cycle buzzer (which I could hear in the house from the garage where the dryer was located). And since our Kenmore washer was in the house next to the kitchen, it didn't matter if the machines matched.
A good machine we ended up selling when we moved to an apartment years later.
The "All American" was a replacement for our first gas dryer (a Kenmore frog-eye); my mother bought it at a Sears close-out sale for $120 in 1972. It was an improvement over the frog-eye because of its automatic drying cycle, easy-clean lint filter, and the adjustable end-of-cycle buzzer (which I could hear in the house from the garage where the dryer was located). And since our Kenmore washer was in the house next to the kitchen, it didn't matter if the machines matched.
A good machine we ended up selling when we moved to an apartment years later.
70series
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I have seen quite a few of these with the more stand up version of the control panel. My friend had one with the cover that flipped down over the controls. As I remember it said "Fabric Master". It had the drum light, but otherwise was very plain. I always thought it was interesting how the top of the dryer did not indent the way all Kenmores do. It was flat like a Whirlpool. I saw several others that were almost identical to my friend's, but as I recall they did not have the control cover.
Chaskelljr2. I think one of my aunts had the exact dryer you had. It was very plain just as you describe with the stand up panel. The controls were on the far right, and the left was all fake woodgrain. No chrome. It had two cycles, Automatic and Timed, no drum light, no console light. It was a gas dryer, and my aunt had it from the Spring of 1975 until the early 1990s.
Have a good one,
James
Chaskelljr2. I think one of my aunts had the exact dryer you had. It was very plain just as you describe with the stand up panel. The controls were on the far right, and the left was all fake woodgrain. No chrome. It had two cycles, Automatic and Timed, no drum light, no console light. It was a gas dryer, and my aunt had it from the Spring of 1975 until the early 1990s.
Have a good one,
James
pturo
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Mine has a stainless steel looking control panel on the slant part to the dial and on button, with a dryer light and an end of signal buzzer.
It would have been way cool to have a washer that matched that control panel by Kenmore...I just wonder what the marketing niche was in desining a dryer that matched nothing the company manufactured, and turned out to be a better design than their laundry pairs.
It would have been way cool to have a washer that matched that control panel by Kenmore...I just wonder what the marketing niche was in desining a dryer that matched nothing the company manufactured, and turned out to be a better design than their laundry pairs.
I have to admit, the first time I saw Glenn's F&P laundry pair, I immediately thought of this particular dryer panel design/series.
