Turquoise Westinghouse Stacked W/D

[pumper]

In Chicago. $500

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[combo52]

1964 through six Westinghouse stack pair

These obviously weren’t used much at all. It’s a very rare pair. It’s also a gas dryer.

If it were closer, I’d probably add it to the museum. I love the color and it’s rare to see a pair of these wing houses this old in decent shape

Even though they’re very unused, they don’t make good daily drivers unless you’re very skilled to keep them working, they had a lot of Weak spots.

Hopefully somebody will get them from the site here.

John

 

[bajaespuma]

Blond-ish question

Did the Westies have hidden dispensers somewhere or did the user have to open the door and risk a small flood to add bleach or softener?

 

[michaelh]

I just saw these and was going to post!

So cool!

 

[combo52]

Adding additives to a three belt Westinghouse washer

Hi Ken, the water level on these machines is at least 4 inches below the door open so you can open the door at any time without flooding. If you have the whole thing full of suds some suds may run out, however, but there are no dispensers included in the design of this machine.

John

 

[circlew]

Adding bleach

We had the standard version of the washer, purchased in 1964. I remember my mom opening the door to add bleach if needed, the same as she did with the previous (1955) machine. She put the bleach in a jar of water to dilute it.

 

[ea56]

Tom,
That’s how I used to add the bleach to my Westinghouse FL to. For the FS I’d wait until it filled with the rinse water then open the door and pour a capful into the water and close the door.

Eddie

 

[goatfarmer]

They've been for sale for quite a while

 

[rp2813]

A family around the corner from us with 8 kids had this exact set.  I remember how quiet both machines were, and wishing we could have machines just like them (we had a '56 Norge washer and older Timeline dryer at the time).  The family  moved away in 1966 and I remember being glad to see the set quietly working at their new place on a lake in Santa Cruz County.

 

[bajaespuma]

Answered

Thank you John!

 

 

 

[pulltostart]

When I was a kid an aunt of mine had one of these washers in a mobile home.  It was a 2-bedroom model; you walked (front-to-back) from the kitchen through my cousin's bedroom (bunk beds on your right) through the bathroom, into the rear bedroom.  The bathroom was divided into two compartments; lavatory on the left, tub and toilet on the right with the possibility of closing the bathing area off with a folding door.  The lavatory and the undercounter built-in Westinghouse washer was on the outside wall on your left.

 

This was the second mobile home she lived in, and not the last.  I was always so impressed with the concept of living so compactly and sparsely.  And that built-in washer was just AbFab.

 

lawrence

 

[ea56]

Lawrence,
It’s funny that you should mention that you had an aunt that lived in a two bedroom mobile home with a Westinghouse stacked set WD. My aunt Virginia lived in Lake Tahoe and was the secretary to the Maitre’d of The South Shore Room at Harrahs Club in Lake Tahoe. In 1970 she purchased a new two bedroom mobile home in South Lake Tahoe. I was very impressed the first time I visited her new mobile home when I went into the bathroom and saw that beautiful new Westinghouse stacked WD.

And just like you I was always impressed about the compact living in mobile homes. But then I bought one in 1975 and after living in a mobile home park at the age of 24 with all of the restrictions that went along with living in a mobile home park I quickly became disenchanted with it and moved after about 5 months.

BTW my Aunt Virginia’s job required her to manage and coordinate the bookings of all the talent that appeared at Harrahs South Shore Room. She met all the big name entertainers during the almost 15 years she worked there. Once when I visited her she got I and my cousin Ronnie front row seats for Raquel Welch’s performance. We were close enough that we could almost reach out and touch her from our two top table. I’ve never been into women, but let me tell you she was really a beautiful woman!

Eddie[this post was last edited: 5/9/2024-14:22]

 

[pulltostart]

Eddie,

My Aunt Betty only had the washer in her trailer but that was considered high cotton for the time (late 1950's).  She still had to hang the wash out on the line, but didn't have to carry all laundry to the common use laundromat.

 

In my last year of college (1975-1976) I worked with a woman who had a mobile home that included a GE combination washer dryer - she loved it.  She loved putting in dirty and taking out clean, dry.

 

lawrence

 

[rp2813]

Trailers and Tahoe

This reminded me of the cabin we used to stay at on Donner Lake back in the '60s.  I'm pretty sure the same stacking set in turquoise was in a side-by-side configuration just off the kitchen there, and of course it was love at first sight.

 

[seedub]

I am pleased to see how many have memories of this machine

It indicates how many were sold. The unit for sale exactly matches my grandfather's 1964 set (ours was white) that was installed in the 1962 split level house I have fondly raved about here. The idiot architect did not design the laundry closet to fit both a washer and dryer although there was a 220V outlet and vent pipe for a dryer, so the '51 slant front dryer went unused and the family made do with a clothesline until the matching slant front washer died and Grandaddy got the stacked twins. From what John said, ours was exceptionally reliable as the washer lasted 20 years with only two repairs. The dryer was replaced in 1981 with a new Westy Spacemaker that went on for 17 years with no repairs.

--Chris

 

[seedub]

Reply #8

Yes, one could barely hear it running during wash and rinse. Then it would start draining with a loud bang that made me jump every time.

 

[rp2813]

Chris,

 

I suppose one loud bang was on par with a '70s GE Filter-Flo's whacka-whacka wind-down from draining and spinning.

 

[qsd-dan]

I suppose one loud bang was on par with a '70s GE Filter-Flo's whacka-whacka wind-down from draining and spinning.

Was the "bang" as loud as the brake on your favorite old Norge washer?

 

[rp2813]

Oh Hell No!

Nothing was louder than a Norge brake!  We all jumped out of our skin the first time we heard it.  Little did my parents know they had allowed a destructive monster into the house lo, those many decades ago.