Today's POD

[ptcruiser51]

OK gals! How many of you SIT to iron, wearing high heels accessorized with a handbag, and press your board cover thoroughly before you put a garment on it?

Cripes, even Donna Stone or June Cleaver wouldn't go that far!

 

[hydralique]

Perhaps she's just basking in the glow of her fabulous new Laundromats. That purse is big enough to hold a lot of laundry, LOL!

What year did Westinghouse come out with this particular design (on a fully horizontal axis, not a sloped axis like earlier Laundromats)? When did they discontinue them?

 

[autowasherfreak]

That's the way I always do my ironing, sometimes I even wear a beaded evening gown and a rhinestone tiara. LOL

 

[washerboy]

I had the same thought as PT but then decided the ad agency was wanting it to look like she was in a show room of sorts trying it out. I did'nt come along until 1962...does anyone elese wonder if for example adulds of that time period thought...why is the women in the ad wearing heels and pearls while she's waxing the floor..like that was normal???? As a child I remember my mother wearing my fathers wore out white shirts to clean house...I never saw her in a dress and heels scrubing out the tub....but when we went down town we had to dress like it was Sunday.

 

[whirlcool]

I remember back in the 50's & 60's, my mother would wear slacks and a blouse and a scarf around her head for house cleaning duties. Sometimes she'd wear one of my fathers denim shirts. She wore sneakers around the house most of the time. No jewelry at all for house work. Most of the women in the neighborhood dressed this way.

When we'd go grocery shopping she would wear a dress and full makeup. She used to comment about the women who would go shopping with no makeup and curlers in their hair and those wearing those "house dresses". She thought they didn't care at all about how they looked and sometimes would say "Do those women realize that they look like slobs?"

 

[jeffg]

It depends on the size of your city. Generally in larger cities, people don't care what they look like when they shop, since the chances of running into someone they know are very slight.

 

[spiralator60]

Straight-front Westinghouse Laundromats

Hydralique,

The straight-front Westinghouse Laundromats first appeared with the 1964 models. The large side swing door featured in the POD lasted only a year or two before the familiar drop down door reappeared and continued to the end of the Westinghouse/White-Westinghouse run.

I'm not sure exactly when these White-Westinghouse models were actually discontinued, but it was sometime during the 1989-1990 time frame. Montgomery Ward was one of the major WW distributors at the time in Southern California. In the spring of 1990, while shopping, I spoke to the manager of the appliance department (Electric Avenue) of the Torrance store when I noticed that the WW brand models seemed to be disappearing, and asked about this.

The manager told me that the brand was quietly being discontinued by Electrolux, and that White-Westinghouse branded inventory was being withdrawn from stores. At least, this is what the company was attempting to do. According to this manager, a new front load Frigidaire model was scheduled to be introduced that fall (1990). Sure enough, what we know as the Frigidaire Gallery appeared.

Darryl

 

[hydralique]

Thanks for the info, Spiralator! I had no idea that the '60s Westinghouse front loaders continued on for so long, especially after they began making top loaders as well.

 

[whirlaway]

Stackables

Didnt those start around 1956,a friend of mines mother had a set in her Kitchen,with the smaller door,the pic has been on POD before.Thanks Bobby

 

[wringer_clean]

Wow, this post brings back memories.
I remember my older sister, the oldest of 6, and my mom dressing in peddle pushers, tennies, and a scarf around their heads when they did house work ... absolutely no jewelry.
And most of the time when they went shopping they would clean up, maybe a little makeup, lipstick at the bare minimum, and dress appropriately for being in public.
Sometime my mom would put curlers in her hair and wrap her head in an attractive scarf, but always put on lipstick and nice clothes.
Funny how we've become so relaxed!!

 

[westingman123]

Well, actually, we sat to iron because Mom had an ironrite mangle ironer. She ironed EVERYTHING and taught us all to be equally persnickity. I specifically remember her whirlpool set with the lighted panels, she retired the westinghouse slant front to Grandma's upon purchasing those. Memories....

 

[dirtybuck]

I remember one episode of "Leave It to Beaver" where June was doing canister vacuuming to some drapes with some sort of odd scarf on her head. Of course, she was wearing one of her notorious house dresses. Can't tell you if she was wearing high heels or not...they didn't pan that far down.

When cleaning, my mom used to wear capris and an old shirt or house shifts.

 

[neptunebob]

I just saw today's POD with Dash...

Don't you love the way everyone is so well dressed and are smiling and have so much enthusiasm for Dash?