Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Four

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<span style="font-size: medium;">Time to start part four!</span>

 

<strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><strong>Lets see those vintage advertisements for Refrigerators, Stoves, Washers/Dryers, Radios, Phonographs, Televisions,Vacuums, small kitchen appliances, cookware, gadgets...hey everything  AND the kitchen sink! Lets take a trip down memory lane. Special thanks to hubby (Catalanman) for links.</strong></span></strong></strong></strong>

 

<strong><strong><span style="font-size: medium;"><strong><strong>Please note: Please be sure any advertisements you post do not contain any watermarks or copyrights on the image from any persons or other websites. Thanks!
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<span style="font-size: medium;">Part One:</span>

 

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?37025_100

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">Part Two:</span>

 

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?37038

 

<span style="font-size: medium;">Part Three:</span>

 

<span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: small;">http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?37210__0#start_37210.554847</span>
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Amana 1957

 

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Frigidaire 1957

 

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Frigidaire 1958

 

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General Electric 1976

 

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Magnavox 1952

 

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Philco 1971

 

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Litton 1976

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Sunbeam 1978

 

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Sunbeam 1979

 

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Sunbeam 1978

 

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Toastmaster 1962

 

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Westbend 1951

 

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Chrysler-Airtemp 1960

 

[petek]

Ahh there's my second microwave oven up there the 1975 Litton. Bought it at Woodwards dept store on E Hastings in Vancouver back in the day but would have been in 1976 iirc.

 

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Magnavox 1979

 

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RCA 1981

 

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Quasar 1983

 

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Magnavox 1981

 

[vintagekitchen]

Quasar 1983..

OMG, when I was a kid we had the exact Quasar vcr in the upper right hand corner of that ad. I hated that our remote was attached with a cord instead of a "real" remote control like everyone else's...

 

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Kelvinator 1978

 

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Kelvinator 1957

 

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Kenmore 1961

 

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Norge 1955

 

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Admiral 1956

 

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Capehart 1951

 

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Motorola 1960

 

[whirlcool]

In that Magnavox VCR advert the first VCR (left) is exactly like the one we bought in 1980, except that it was a Hitachi. It was a very good machine, but was cantankerous with the original set up tuning. It wasn't automatic. You had to use these little dials under the programming cover to tune in each station that you wanted the VCR to receive. From time to time the stations would drift. That machine cost us $700.00 then.

I wonder if Magnavox just didn't put their name on some machines they bought from Hitachi?

1979 was when VHS started to hit this country big time. Very few people had VCR's back then. When we got ours in 1980 our friends were amazed by it. I think the 1982-86 timeframe is when most people bought their first machine.

But I do remember, maybe 1974 or 75 when Sears had a reel to reel video system made by Ampex for home use. I don't think it was very popular as Sears didn't sell it for more than a year or two.

 

[retro-man]

That Sears washing machine is the one I have been looking for in an add for years. A friends mother had this machine and i was always amazed at the cycles and you just put the dial on the letter and away it went. Was a suds saver also.
Jon

 

[lordkenmore]

"1979 was when VHS started to hit this country big time. Very few people had VCR's back then. When we got ours in 1980 our friends were amazed by it. I think the 1982-86 timeframe is when most people bought their first machine."

I can't really remember for sure the years, but 1982-1986 sounds about right. While I have heard of videophile types and gadget freaks having videotape in the late 1970s, I don't recall anyone I knew having it until the early 1980s.

I first saw video tape in my school. I have no idea when they bought into the technology. By the 80s someplace, it was clearly the rising technology. Regular "films" were still used--but they mostly a legacy product from the pre-video era.

My family got the first--and, as it turned out, last--VCR a little about 1988. I feel it's safe to say that video tape was well established by that point, simply because I know my family: we were never the first to have new technology. Indeed, a lot of stuff that people took for granted was never bought by my family. We never had a microwave oven, and the family audio system remained nothing but a record player, receiver, and speakers until the bitter end. We might not have had a VCR either, except my mother received regular catalogs that sold books, audio recordings, and video tapes (often clearance items). She studied the video section one night, and was sold on the idea of video tape. There were several movies she was interested in seeing. As she commented to me, she'd thought video tape was nothing but exercise videos.