TURQUOISE 1965 Frigidaire refrigerator bottom freezer SF Bay, CA

[funktionalart]

$400 isn't horrible for something so hard to find these days…I like my '63 version of this better, but still!!
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/eby/app/5384959512.html

 

[midcentnurse]

I would gladly pay $400 for that if it really was in excellent shape. Easily!

 

[funktionalart]

Brady--here's mine

http://www.automaticwasher.org/COLL...erial FPI-16B-63_TQ front [email protected]

 

[goatfarmer]

The ad copy leaves you wondering if it works.

 

[circlew]

My cousin Mary Frances had one like that, except less chrome trim. The last time I saw it, it was in their garage. She's deceased, but her husband may still have it.

 

[bajaespuma]

Me like

What exquisitely beautiful refrigerator/freezers!

 

You gotta wonder, bottom-mount fridges were popular in the late '50's and early '60's, then they all but disappeared from every manufacturer's line. Then, in the mid-Eighties, they reappear with a vengeance. What happened?

 

[roto204]

The ad copy leaves you wondering if it works

I promise you it doesn't.

 

[twintubdexter]

These hamper door models were beautiful refrigerators but I do remember many of them coming in new or near-new for service. The ad does sound "iffy" as far as it working properly. The cold control set on 3 is not a good sign. Frigidaire used the A B C 1 2 3 control for many many years. 1 was the normal operating temperature.

 

As a teenager I did not do any repairs on refrigeration, but I do remember one of these refrigerators in yellow that I went along with as a helper when it was returned to the customer after service. When we took the refrigerator into the "kind of weird" house, the kitchen had a dirt floor! It was hard and had been swept many times so it was shiny, but it was dirt. I thought that it was very strange to see an expensive Custom Imperial Frigidaire sitting on a dirt floor. The crazy things I remember from when I was young...

 

[rp2813]

Ditto what Nate said

"Needs a professional to go through the system" = Runs but doesn't cool.

 

 

[midcentnurse]

Fabulous! Of course I need a right swing door which is never the case and we are going to have to reconfigure cabinets above to get some room for anything over 63" I think it is. Everything in that house is for very specific sized appliances which are no longer that small. Hence the dilemma with front load washers we're having.