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How about the biggest misspelled and mispronounced word Masonry where people say MAS O NARY. Should be pronounced MAS ON RE.
TV sitcom-family washer trivia question
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seeitrun2006
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Language in the South (GA) (AL) etc.....
Born and rised in North GA all words have 2 syllables as four is fo-ur, two is tw-oo. Words end with an "er" when spoken....example Atlanter, LuLa....Luler, or Camilla... Camiller.
You don't go over there it's "over yonder".
I had a lot of Lanugage habits to break when I worked in customer service at my last job. No one could understand me or they made fun of me!
However I still have my southern accent which I will take to my grave! I'm very pround of it!
Born and rised in North GA all words have 2 syllables as four is fo-ur, two is tw-oo. Words end with an "er" when spoken....example Atlanter, LuLa....Luler, or Camilla... Camiller.
You don't go over there it's "over yonder".
I had a lot of Lanugage habits to break when I worked in customer service at my last job. No one could understand me or they made fun of me!
However I still have my southern accent which I will take to my grave! I'm very pround of it!
TV Sitcom Washing Machines--and more!
Oh, man, you're bringing back more than a few memories about washing machines!
Here are a few that I remember: The first "Bewitched" episodes (before they moved to 1164 Morning Glory Circle) did feature an old flat-top Maytag automatic in the rental house Darrin and Samantha had...but when Chevrolet came on board as an alternate sponsor with Quaker Oats, the Stephens kitchen boasted TOL Frigidaire appliances, including a Flair range and fridge with a push-button door latch. In 1969 (between seasons), a fire swept the Screen Gems studios and destroyed the "Bewitched" set--except for, of all things, Elizabeth Montgomery's dressing room! And since Chevrolet dropped "Bewitched" after the 1968-69 season, the producers replaced the Frigidaire appliances with those made by other makers (Maytag washer and dryer, for example), and a gas stove (one episode has Samantha saying, when Larry Tate asked what happened to Darrin, "the pilot light's gone out in the stove...he went to fix it.")
"Hazel" started its first season with RCA Whirlpool appliances, but when Ford bought Philco (including Philco-Bendix washers and dryers with that distinctive glass window!) in late 1961, they cobbled up an episode where Missy (Dorothy Baxter) and Hazel conspired to convince George to remodel the kitchen (including a shot of an electric knife sawing through a milk carton on the cramped worktop)--and voila! Philco appliances appeared!
When GE came on board as co-sponsor with Ralston-Purina for "Leave it to Beaver" circa 1960-61, Ward and June moved to the new home and a glamorous new kitchen full of TOL GE appliances (including the washing machine that oversudsed spectacularly when Beaver and Whitey did the wash!)
Interesting note on Doris Day and "The Thrill of it All": You are right that the Happy Detergent commercials have her surrounded by RCA Whirlpool Mark XII automatics--but in a kitchen scene where she's talking about fixing a roast for dinner, she and James Garner are standing in front of a built-in Frigidaire Custom Imperial oven!
Oh, man, you're bringing back more than a few memories about washing machines!
Here are a few that I remember: The first "Bewitched" episodes (before they moved to 1164 Morning Glory Circle) did feature an old flat-top Maytag automatic in the rental house Darrin and Samantha had...but when Chevrolet came on board as an alternate sponsor with Quaker Oats, the Stephens kitchen boasted TOL Frigidaire appliances, including a Flair range and fridge with a push-button door latch. In 1969 (between seasons), a fire swept the Screen Gems studios and destroyed the "Bewitched" set--except for, of all things, Elizabeth Montgomery's dressing room! And since Chevrolet dropped "Bewitched" after the 1968-69 season, the producers replaced the Frigidaire appliances with those made by other makers (Maytag washer and dryer, for example), and a gas stove (one episode has Samantha saying, when Larry Tate asked what happened to Darrin, "the pilot light's gone out in the stove...he went to fix it.")
"Hazel" started its first season with RCA Whirlpool appliances, but when Ford bought Philco (including Philco-Bendix washers and dryers with that distinctive glass window!) in late 1961, they cobbled up an episode where Missy (Dorothy Baxter) and Hazel conspired to convince George to remodel the kitchen (including a shot of an electric knife sawing through a milk carton on the cramped worktop)--and voila! Philco appliances appeared!
When GE came on board as co-sponsor with Ralston-Purina for "Leave it to Beaver" circa 1960-61, Ward and June moved to the new home and a glamorous new kitchen full of TOL GE appliances (including the washing machine that oversudsed spectacularly when Beaver and Whitey did the wash!)
Interesting note on Doris Day and "The Thrill of it All": You are right that the Happy Detergent commercials have her surrounded by RCA Whirlpool Mark XII automatics--but in a kitchen scene where she's talking about fixing a roast for dinner, she and James Garner are standing in front of a built-in Frigidaire Custom Imperial oven!
Better late than never ...
Here's a picture from the Sears Archive. The caption reads "Donna Reed with a Kenmore washing machine and dryer set, 1963."
The original can be found at http://www.searsarchives.com/brands/detail/kenmore/kenmore1963.htm
Thanks for the neat site!
-Scoots
Here's a picture from the Sears Archive. The caption reads "Donna Reed with a Kenmore washing machine and dryer set, 1963."
The original can be found at http://www.searsarchives.com/brands/detail/kenmore/kenmore1963.htm
Thanks for the neat site!
-Scoots
Beverly Hillbillies had O'Keefe & Merritt gas built-ins. Anybody remember the indoor gas barbecue grill? Think it was a Waste King with a Vent-A-Hood.
I only remember Donna Reed with the Kenmores. I think they had a built-in gas cooktop and an oven from an eye-level gas Classic range.Didn't know that that was available like that.
I only remember Donna Reed with the Kenmores. I think they had a built-in gas cooktop and an oven from an eye-level gas Classic range.Didn't know that that was available like that.
Forgot to mention that I remember Hazel with a O' Keef & Merritt stove. Does anybody remember the movie with Bob Hope moving into a subdivision. He oversuds the front-load washer that I later found out that it was an O' Keefe and Merritt combo(didn't think that was available nationwide).
Great thread! What was the brand of washer/dryer combo that Lisa had in the kitchen of Green Acres? I believe it was pink?
I remember seeing a re-run of "Our Gang" comedies that had the kids in the basement of a house using the wringer washer. I believe mom was upstairs with a house full of women and soap bubbles came up by one of the windows in the room that they were in? I wonder what brand that washer was?
I remember seeing a re-run of "Our Gang" comedies that had the kids in the basement of a house using the wringer washer. I believe mom was upstairs with a house full of women and soap bubbles came up by one of the windows in the room that they were in? I wonder what brand that washer was?
cehalstead
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another hillbilly washer show
I'm not sure of the episode, but there is in one in which Jed and Jethro are "scrubbin'" their clothes in the kitchen using a wooden tub and washboard. Elly Mae comes in and asks why they aren't using the washer. Jed replies, "We don't know how to run it." I think the whole theme of the episode was a "women's lib" rebellion by Granny and Elly Mae, but am not sure. I love the show too, and I very vividly remember seeing the first episode in September of 1962. The Clampetts were weekly visitors at our house....
I'm not sure of the episode, but there is in one in which Jed and Jethro are "scrubbin'" their clothes in the kitchen using a wooden tub and washboard. Elly Mae comes in and asks why they aren't using the washer. Jed replies, "We don't know how to run it." I think the whole theme of the episode was a "women's lib" rebellion by Granny and Elly Mae, but am not sure. I love the show too, and I very vividly remember seeing the first episode in September of 1962. The Clampetts were weekly visitors at our house....
pturo
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What machine did Joan Crawford have in her Brentwood basement again? Glass fronts on both machines, it's the scene where they had to let Helga go, so they are doing the laundry (gasp) themselves.
Debbie Reynolds and GE Dishwashers
I have seen (and in fact have) the Debbie Reynolds magazine ads for the GE Potscrubber dishwasher ... I am not sure of the time frame, but it was about the time her marriage to the shoe executive broke... and she did get financially wiped out.
There was an actor by the name of Kevin McCarthy (was he the one from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers?") who appeared in GE ads for fridges and stoves about the same time ...
I have seen (and in fact have) the Debbie Reynolds magazine ads for the GE Potscrubber dishwasher ... I am not sure of the time frame, but it was about the time her marriage to the shoe executive broke... and she did get financially wiped out.
There was an actor by the name of Kevin McCarthy (was he the one from "Invasion of the Body Snatchers?") who appeared in GE ads for fridges and stoves about the same time ...
seeitrun2006
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Mommy Dearest-The Joan Crawford story
The washers in the basement were Kenmores wash/dry combos. They set them up to look like a washer dryer set.
The washers in the basement were Kenmores wash/dry combos. They set them up to look like a washer dryer set.
Andy Griffith
Just saw an episode of the Andy Griffith Show,on TV Land,where Aunt Bea wins big on a TV game show. She wins a new 1965 Frigidaire bottom freezer refrig in coppertone,a coppertone washer and dryer(looked like Whirlpools),a top load dishwasher,a TV,garbage disposer,ice crusher,and a mink coat.
Couldn't tell what brand the DW,or TV was.
kennyGF
Just saw an episode of the Andy Griffith Show,on TV Land,where Aunt Bea wins big on a TV game show. She wins a new 1965 Frigidaire bottom freezer refrig in coppertone,a coppertone washer and dryer(looked like Whirlpools),a top load dishwasher,a TV,garbage disposer,ice crusher,and a mink coat.
Couldn't tell what brand the DW,or TV was.
kennyGF
angus
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Just was watching Green Acres yesterday and noticed that next to the pink Maytag combo was another pink laundry appliance - perhaps set up to look like a dryer - anyone know what that was? Positive ID was near to impossible. Also, the particular shade of pink in Lisa Douglas' kitchen was pretty intense - not like the pink one would have normally seen - I wonder if those appliances were repainted with a different shade so they would show better on TV....
Kenny, I do believe thatr was a Whirlpool top load dishwasher aunt bea won.
Meanwhile, back on "The Lucy Show"...
While Westinghouse appliances appeared on the Connecticut-based episodes of "I Love Lucy" in 1957--and when "Westin-Gouse", as Desi Arnaz mangled it, sponsored "Desilu Playhouse" and "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" from 1957 through 1960--I recently saw an episode of "The Lucy Show" that may have featured a Norge refrigerator.
It was the episode in which Lucy and Mary Jane snuck away from work to go shopping--and, of course, Lucy is honored as the department store's 1-millionth customer...in one scene, she literally yanks the doors off a coppertone two-door top-freezer refrigerator with a turquoise-blue interior. To me it looks like a Norge from about 1966 or 1967 since I saw contemporary Norge magazine ads featuring a similar-looking top-freezer model...(it was also one of the first color "Lucy Show" episodes)...
can anyone confirm or deny?
While Westinghouse appliances appeared on the Connecticut-based episodes of "I Love Lucy" in 1957--and when "Westin-Gouse", as Desi Arnaz mangled it, sponsored "Desilu Playhouse" and "The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour" from 1957 through 1960--I recently saw an episode of "The Lucy Show" that may have featured a Norge refrigerator.
It was the episode in which Lucy and Mary Jane snuck away from work to go shopping--and, of course, Lucy is honored as the department store's 1-millionth customer...in one scene, she literally yanks the doors off a coppertone two-door top-freezer refrigerator with a turquoise-blue interior. To me it looks like a Norge from about 1966 or 1967 since I saw contemporary Norge magazine ads featuring a similar-looking top-freezer model...(it was also one of the first color "Lucy Show" episodes)...
can anyone confirm or deny?
seeitrun2006
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Lucy and Mary Jane
Is this the same episode where Lucy get's an avacado green Maytag washer and dyrer set along with the Ref ?
Is this the same episode where Lucy get's an avacado green Maytag washer and dyrer set along with the Ref ?
Lucy's appliances
You're right! I remember the washer and dryer, but the fridge caught my attention since Norge did a marketing push in '66-'67 ("Knock on any Norge") and it was one of the few times I saw a Norge appliance showcased for anything...
You're right! I remember the washer and dryer, but the fridge caught my attention since Norge did a marketing push in '66-'67 ("Knock on any Norge") and it was one of the few times I saw a Norge appliance showcased for anything...
The Norge washer & dryer that arrived at our house December 23 1964 was the same Norge set show on Ozzie & Harriet.
