TODAY'S P.O.D. 11/27/15
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whitetub
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Me neither. Never heard of it. I've seen this ad before. They do look a lot like the models Gibson and Kelvinator made, in the mid-70's. If my memeory serves me right.
Think the Cameo model would be my pick... If I were to live in the region of the US where this brand & retailer exist...
The Princess is too spartan & for that to be the user of doesn't live up to its name... A Countess sounds like the machines have to be carried out to the user by footmen underneath, if not carrying her to the laundry room in that manner...
Besides, going through the features of each machine & seeing the buttons & knobs depicting what at least the washer does, I would reckon the Cameo makes the best value in a mid-line machine & most-likely would have been the Greatest-Sell...
-- Dave
The Princess is too spartan & for that to be the user of doesn't live up to its name... A Countess sounds like the machines have to be carried out to the user by footmen underneath, if not carrying her to the laundry room in that manner...
Besides, going through the features of each machine & seeing the buttons & knobs depicting what at least the washer does, I would reckon the Cameo makes the best value in a mid-line machine & most-likely would have been the Greatest-Sell...
-- Dave
golittlesport
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Franklin
These were Franklin-built machines. Franklin would eventually be bought by White Consolidated Industries (WCI.) That angel-wing agitator would live on in Gibson, Kelvinator and Frigidaire washers as WCI gobbled them up.
These were Franklin-built machines. Franklin would eventually be bought by White Consolidated Industries (WCI.) That angel-wing agitator would live on in Gibson, Kelvinator and Frigidaire washers as WCI gobbled them up.
Coronado was the house brand of Gambles department stores. But who made these machines? I don't know.
jimmler
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Gambles was almost identical to Western Auto. Growing up in the Midwest, we had two refrigerators, one from each store. Except for the badging, the refrigerators were identical. As far as who made their respective appliances, I'll leave that up to the knowledge of the group.
-Jim
-Jim
The puzzling part is the dryer. The airflow diagram looks like the old WP-made dryers with the perforated back with the air entering at about 10 o'clock and being sucked out at about 4 o'clock, but further down they mention an up front lint trap and I don't know how that is done with the airflow pictured.
I wonder if they are made by Franklin.
I think I saw a 50s Coronado dryer around 1968. It had a perforated cylinder with the heating elements at the top and the lint filter pulled up out of the center of the backsplash. That is no help here, except that I have seen a Coronado appliance. Apparently the maid did not know about the lint filter because it was totally clogged which made for very soft towels, but they took forever to dry coming out of a mid 60s Hotpoint solid tub. Once I cleaned the lint filter, drying was faster, but the towels were not as soft. This was the same household that did not know that the upper rack in their mid-50s Hotpoint dishwasher could be reversed front to back to accommodate taller glasses in the top rack. They had had the dishwasher 13 years by that time. The rich really are different.
PS I apologize for the late guess about Franklin. I had this all ready to go then someone needed some help which took a long time so this was delayed. It is not that I did not bother to read what was posted, it's just that it was not there when I started this. Sorry.
I wonder if they are made by Franklin.
I think I saw a 50s Coronado dryer around 1968. It had a perforated cylinder with the heating elements at the top and the lint filter pulled up out of the center of the backsplash. That is no help here, except that I have seen a Coronado appliance. Apparently the maid did not know about the lint filter because it was totally clogged which made for very soft towels, but they took forever to dry coming out of a mid 60s Hotpoint solid tub. Once I cleaned the lint filter, drying was faster, but the towels were not as soft. This was the same household that did not know that the upper rack in their mid-50s Hotpoint dishwasher could be reversed front to back to accommodate taller glasses in the top rack. They had had the dishwasher 13 years by that time. The rich really are different.
PS I apologize for the late guess about Franklin. I had this all ready to go then someone needed some help which took a long time so this was delayed. It is not that I did not bother to read what was posted, it's just that it was not there when I started this. Sorry.
Royalty
I like how the illustrated control panel for "the Cameo" says "Duchess" on the trim. Maybe a shift in the royal pecking order around that time?
I like how the illustrated control panel for "the Cameo" says "Duchess" on the trim. Maybe a shift in the royal pecking order around that time?
Aldens/National Bellas Hess (where this catalogue was from) was a catalogue retailer similar to Sears/Wards (Penney in the 1960s). Perhaps most comparable to Spiegel; more catalogue-centric than Western Auto. Coronado was (as mentioned) Gambles' house brand...also believe it went up into central Canada as well (which makes sense given that Gambles' was based in Minneapolis). Although I don't think there was a corporate connection between Gambles and Aldens/National Bellas Hess, the proximity between the two made sense to share the private label. Aldens/NBH ultimately died in the mid-late 70s after a not very successful expansion into discount retailing in the Kansas City/Des Moines area.
