That 70's Show
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70series
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I could be wrong, but it looked to me like the washer had 4 temp buttons, 2 speeds, and 4 water levels. That would make it an A608.
Have a good one,
James
Have a good one,
James
70series
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The only other possibility I could think of is a late model A606S, with suds saver. If I remember correctly, Save Suds/Drain Suds buttons were on the left side of the console.
By the way, welcome to AWORG. It is a place I like to go at the end of the day to look at the old washers I loved as a kid.
James
By the way, welcome to AWORG. It is a place I like to go at the end of the day to look at the old washers I loved as a kid.
James
Color code.
I know the color was specified by a letter before the A###. I just don't recall what the letter for avocado is.
28 years since the good Center Dials. I wish they still made them,
Dave
I know the color was specified by a letter before the A###. I just don't recall what the letter for avocado is.
28 years since the good Center Dials. I wish they still made them,
Dave
pierreandreply4
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i agree with you at 500% those were models that were ment to last unlike today's model
Those machine will last a good long time at the Forman basement, as I never see anyone use them. Maybe one of the girls will unload the dryer, that's it. Take a look at that set and you will see vintage vacuums and stereos too. That is, if you can see through all the haze.....
Am almost sure I've seen the mother or that trampy daughter put things in/take items out of the washing machine. Highly doubt either unit is hooked up so they really don't hype usage up, after all the show is about other things.
Have to say, find it rather hard to believe neither parent, much less the hard-assed father do not smell what the children are up to downstairs. In our house even the scent of fabric softener from the basement laundry room wafted upstairs. Then again, the trampy daughter has boys coming in and out of her room like it was the Gents at Grand Central Terminal, and again neither parent seems to notice.
If you look closely at the shelf above the washer and dryer, there is a nice collection of vintage laundry products as well.
L.
Have to say, find it rather hard to believe neither parent, much less the hard-assed father do not smell what the children are up to downstairs. In our house even the scent of fabric softener from the basement laundry room wafted upstairs. Then again, the trampy daughter has boys coming in and out of her room like it was the Gents at Grand Central Terminal, and again neither parent seems to notice.
If you look closely at the shelf above the washer and dryer, there is a nice collection of vintage laundry products as well.
L.
Laundress did you live through the 70's? For those of us who did, it is hard to believe. We had a neighbor who had a setup like that 70's show and there was haziness all the time (especially when they watched Mr. Rogers). Turns out that the parents were in denial, that is, as Nancy Grace would say: "Elephant in the room". But the denial was so strong in this family that I am sure the whole house smelled of "the haze". Sounds like you would have been tough parent in the 70s. Another thing that maybe only I and people here would notice - They have an electric water heater on a "pedestal" but there is a flue pipe above the heater. Also check out the scary shower that is usually behind Fez.
P.S. I do think those that teenagers in the 70s drove less than they do today. Who would not be sooo embarassed to be driving a Vista Cruiser, I know I didn't like our wagon!
P.S. I do think those that teenagers in the 70s drove less than they do today. Who would not be sooo embarassed to be driving a Vista Cruiser, I know I didn't like our wagon!
Was a mere slip of a thing in the 1970's but my house was pretty much like many others of the time. Father worked, mother was a stay at home mom/housewife. Red Froman is pretty much like mine and many other fathers I knew growing up, a total hard-ass, while the mothers were allot like Mrs. Forman, that is a loving kind counterweight to the strict father. They were no push overs mind you, as my mom and many others would reach for the wooden spoon or whack you upside the head if provoked, but normally they would just yap at you until your mind went blank! *LOL*
Since I grew up in the surburbs, have to say most teenagers were happy to get their hands on any car. Most households had at least two (one dad drove to work, and the second was at home for the wife to use), and some even had three. The third car usually was one either parent replaced with a new car, and gave the unused one to the "children". Of course some boys simply purchased and fixed up some jalopy (IIRC, they called them hot rods), as that was the era when men and boys seemed to like nothing better than brining down property values with some wreck sitting in the drive as they worked to bring it back to life.
Allot about "That 70's Show" does not mirror what I remember growing up, but then again it is a televison show. Am sure teens fooled around, but it seems the parents on the show either don't know what goes on on under their roofs, or don't care to know. Mrs. Foreman does have her daughter's number, but Red won't hear of it (typical).
Actually kind of like Red Forman, every time he calls Eric "dumb ass" it reminds me so much of the father's I grew up with. You know, back when a father could put his foot up his son's behind and not go to jail for child abuse. Men like Red, guys that fought in the WWII,and Korea, came home to what they thought were good jobs in factories, and such, only to be displaced when globalisation started to take hold. It was like the world they knew was caving in. Raised by men who lived through the Depression, and perhaps lived through some of it themselves, such men had a very different view than their children, who knew only good times.
Am here to tell you though, if any of us children were caught smoking anything in Big Daddy's house, we wouldn't be alive to tell the tale! *LOL*
Since I grew up in the surburbs, have to say most teenagers were happy to get their hands on any car. Most households had at least two (one dad drove to work, and the second was at home for the wife to use), and some even had three. The third car usually was one either parent replaced with a new car, and gave the unused one to the "children". Of course some boys simply purchased and fixed up some jalopy (IIRC, they called them hot rods), as that was the era when men and boys seemed to like nothing better than brining down property values with some wreck sitting in the drive as they worked to bring it back to life.
Allot about "That 70's Show" does not mirror what I remember growing up, but then again it is a televison show. Am sure teens fooled around, but it seems the parents on the show either don't know what goes on on under their roofs, or don't care to know. Mrs. Foreman does have her daughter's number, but Red won't hear of it (typical).
Actually kind of like Red Forman, every time he calls Eric "dumb ass" it reminds me so much of the father's I grew up with. You know, back when a father could put his foot up his son's behind and not go to jail for child abuse. Men like Red, guys that fought in the WWII,and Korea, came home to what they thought were good jobs in factories, and such, only to be displaced when globalisation started to take hold. It was like the world they knew was caving in. Raised by men who lived through the Depression, and perhaps lived through some of it themselves, such men had a very different view than their children, who knew only good times.
Am here to tell you though, if any of us children were caught smoking anything in Big Daddy's house, we wouldn't be alive to tell the tale! *LOL*
sdlee
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I have to agree with the denile of the haze. I was in puhlenty of basements where the haze magically dissapprered as it went up the steps. Are we forgetting that most of those 70s parental units smoked tabacco like they knew it would soon be banned like its nowadays. Thier Haze upstairs was from several ciggs from each adult inside....down stairs haze was just a little homemade jobbie shared by a roomful......it was jst a difference in odor.
My house however, there was no haze of the not legal kind. I had parents that would have never floated a boat on Denile and every boot either parent could have gotten a hold of would have been up five kids asses in nothing flat, even the younger innocents who didnt have anything to do with it, just for the sake of lesson.
Now about those appliances, keep watching coz there is an episode where Red and the mom are reminicing about thier early years in the house and in the maytags place are what looks like early bendix front loaders
Also nobody has mention the vintage fridge in the garage where Red keeps his extra beer
Or was that extra boots?
My house however, there was no haze of the not legal kind. I had parents that would have never floated a boat on Denile and every boot either parent could have gotten a hold of would have been up five kids asses in nothing flat, even the younger innocents who didnt have anything to do with it, just for the sake of lesson.
Now about those appliances, keep watching coz there is an episode where Red and the mom are reminicing about thier early years in the house and in the maytags place are what looks like early bendix front loaders
Also nobody has mention the vintage fridge in the garage where Red keeps his extra beer
Or was that extra boots?
When we moved into this house we had an avacado Maytag washer and white GE dryer, and that's how I remember a lot of laundry rooms back in the day. The older generation held onto stuff, and wouldn't dream of replacing a set just because one of the parts of the set was shot.
It's funny to think back on those days, and how everyone smoked one thing or another ;-) When I worked in the file room at Mutual of Omaha in the summer, my supervisors always had cigs going at their desks, and big ashtrays. My dad's office had the coolest standing ashtrays (as well as the most amazing drapes, LOL).
And yes, I remember many a hazy basement. Most of those kids grew up to be very productive adults.
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It's funny to think back on those days, and how everyone smoked one thing or another ;-) When I worked in the file room at Mutual of Omaha in the summer, my supervisors always had cigs going at their desks, and big ashtrays. My dad's office had the coolest standing ashtrays (as well as the most amazing drapes, LOL).
And yes, I remember many a hazy basement. Most of those kids grew up to be very productive adults.
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Was there not a dishwasher in their kitchen also? I thought it was located in the island towards the kitchen. Seems like it was a kenmore either coppertone or avacado. Speaking of the haze in the basement, my parents would not have been in denial. It would have been the foot up the ass. So we would just light a fire in the fireplace and sit infront and up the chimney it rose. But a friends parents couldn't have been bothered. Both smoked cigs and a good haze was going upstairs. Another friends parent must have known. His father would come downstairs and goof with us. He would play pool with us or chess. Every one of us has turned out quite well in business and life.
Think the kitchen Donna's mom has is prettier than Mrs. Foreman's. In fact the former's kitchen is more like I remember most from the period, the latter seems kind of odd to me, and not very well laid out. However guess in the "real world" putting the sink opposite the glass doors gives the housewife something to look at while she is washing dishes, much in the same way most kitchens have windows over the sink. That also give moms a birds eye view of what their children are doing outside in the yard.
Yes, the DW and sink are in the island away from the stove/counter area so you really cannot see the DW.
Strange, the only time Red and Kitty thought Eric was on "dope", he was actually having issues because he caught his parents at it. The time he really was strung out on "dope" Eric was called upstairs to his parents to hear Red had decided to give him the Vista Crusier. Poor Eric could barely keep his head from spinning and loosing his cookies. Oh don't forget the time Red did find a stash, and Hyde was blamed (it turned out to belong to one of the other children). To save Hyde Eric confesses to Red (over the objections of Donna and Mrs. Foreman), that not only was the stash his, but that he and the others have been smoking the stuff since about 8th grade.
Finally there is the episode where Hyde goes to bake "funny" brownies for Mrs. Foreman's yard sale, and the adults got at them.
Show obviously is not real life, for instance boys were NEVER allowed in girls room's much less upstairs or alone when I was growning up. If girls and boys or a boy and girl were alone in a room it would either be an open room like the living room, where things could be monitored, or if it was in another room Mom's would say "leave that door open", or "I'm just in the next room and can come in here at any minute". Ohh we had no privacy, did we. Father made it a point to remind us that it was His house, we didn't own anything, nor could make any rules, nor lay down any laws. *LOL*
L.
Yes, the DW and sink are in the island away from the stove/counter area so you really cannot see the DW.
Strange, the only time Red and Kitty thought Eric was on "dope", he was actually having issues because he caught his parents at it. The time he really was strung out on "dope" Eric was called upstairs to his parents to hear Red had decided to give him the Vista Crusier. Poor Eric could barely keep his head from spinning and loosing his cookies. Oh don't forget the time Red did find a stash, and Hyde was blamed (it turned out to belong to one of the other children). To save Hyde Eric confesses to Red (over the objections of Donna and Mrs. Foreman), that not only was the stash his, but that he and the others have been smoking the stuff since about 8th grade.
Finally there is the episode where Hyde goes to bake "funny" brownies for Mrs. Foreman's yard sale, and the adults got at them.
Show obviously is not real life, for instance boys were NEVER allowed in girls room's much less upstairs or alone when I was growning up. If girls and boys or a boy and girl were alone in a room it would either be an open room like the living room, where things could be monitored, or if it was in another room Mom's would say "leave that door open", or "I'm just in the next room and can come in here at any minute". Ohh we had no privacy, did we. Father made it a point to remind us that it was His house, we didn't own anything, nor could make any rules, nor lay down any laws. *LOL*
L.
sdlee
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had it a lil diffrently.
In our house, the house was moms. Dad was the her warden and they were on the same page.We boys once broke this God awful statue they got in Mexico......a few weeks later we boys were treating mom to a trip to Tijauna to go buy a new one.
I agree Lady L the Foreman house is a bit wierd and Donnas house is decorated more cleverly than Mrs Foremans. ITs closer to what I can remember too. I think the idea tho is that The Foremans are more Frugal and more established than Donnas parents and maybe even a few years older.After all they already had Erics slut sister whoam Ive always assumed is older than the other kids...yes she was in college while the rest of them were still in school Bob seems more of a man who needs newer things than RED.Like Red has done proved himself to the world but Bob hasnt got there yet.
Also on the house I get the impression that the Foremens home is older than the 70s era, its got a more 60ish look thats been updated here and there. I get the feeling that the sliding glass door area and the eat in kitchen area is supoose to be an add on from an older tinyer kitchen.
ok and whoever made the comment about the Vista wagon. I HAVE to disagree. When I hit 10th grade I inheirted moms 72 chevy Kingswood estate wagon. I was in heaven. I could legally sit 9 kids in that car which useaully equated to 9 to 20 (the new math you know)That wagon saw some party times and was a legend both on school grounds and at thr roller rink!!!(smiles)and it even made it onto my permanent record, whereever or whatever the hell that is or was.Anyone ever see one?
What a fun, fun thread Luanderess, thanks for starting it.I hope we keep it going for awhile.
In our house, the house was moms. Dad was the her warden and they were on the same page.We boys once broke this God awful statue they got in Mexico......a few weeks later we boys were treating mom to a trip to Tijauna to go buy a new one.
I agree Lady L the Foreman house is a bit wierd and Donnas house is decorated more cleverly than Mrs Foremans. ITs closer to what I can remember too. I think the idea tho is that The Foremans are more Frugal and more established than Donnas parents and maybe even a few years older.After all they already had Erics slut sister whoam Ive always assumed is older than the other kids...yes she was in college while the rest of them were still in school Bob seems more of a man who needs newer things than RED.Like Red has done proved himself to the world but Bob hasnt got there yet.
Also on the house I get the impression that the Foremens home is older than the 70s era, its got a more 60ish look thats been updated here and there. I get the feeling that the sliding glass door area and the eat in kitchen area is supoose to be an add on from an older tinyer kitchen.
ok and whoever made the comment about the Vista wagon. I HAVE to disagree. When I hit 10th grade I inheirted moms 72 chevy Kingswood estate wagon. I was in heaven. I could legally sit 9 kids in that car which useaully equated to 9 to 20 (the new math you know)That wagon saw some party times and was a legend both on school grounds and at thr roller rink!!!(smiles)and it even made it onto my permanent record, whereever or whatever the hell that is or was.Anyone ever see one?
What a fun, fun thread Luanderess, thanks for starting it.I hope we keep it going for awhile.
sdlee
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oops....
... sorry tuthill. I just noticed you started this thread, not Laundress. Must have been too much haze hahahaha. I still hope we keep it going.
... sorry tuthill. I just noticed you started this thread, not Laundress. Must have been too much haze hahahaha. I still hope we keep it going.
Back in the 70's dad had a 71 Mercury Marquis estate wagon. Same seating 9 adults or 20 teenagers. Then we got a 72 Buick Estate wagon. Same seating, better sound system. Then a 74 Buick Estate diesel wagon.Mind you these all had the vinyl wood siding. By this time it was time to get my own car, off to college. Ended up with a 74 Dodge Charger. 2 door, yellow with black vinyl half roof. Ballsy 318 with Holly 4 barrel carburator. Many good times in that car. Just sold it last year. Had it in storage for 25 years. Miss it bad, but was thinking of getting a 68 Chevy Camaro Muscle Car for the summer driving. Thanks for the memories of those cars. Wow!
20 Teenagers In One Station Wagon?
Sorry, not for me! *LOL*
That would mean either sitting on someone's lap or equally close quarters. With boys there is always the few with hand problems! *LOL*
"No hugging, no kissing, and keep your hands to yourself"! *LOL*
Sorry, not for me! *LOL*
That would mean either sitting on someone's lap or equally close quarters. With boys there is always the few with hand problems! *LOL*
"No hugging, no kissing, and keep your hands to yourself"! *LOL*
