Vintage Appliance Advertisements: Part Twenty-nine

Automatic Washer - The world's coolest Washing Machines, Dryers and Dishwashers

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Regarding Post #2 (1937 Vitalaire) Consumers' Research Bulletin 1937 annual said it was the best-performing ice refrigerator tested, maintaining an inside temperature more than 2 degrees below the Coolerator model J-5. However, none of the ice refrigerators tested could maintain a temp as low as 45 F when in a room "at summer temperatures."

They noted that ice refrigerators had a higher operating cost than mechanical fridges. "The cost of icing a refrigerator (at 60 cents per hundred pounds) will average from two to three times the cost of electricity (at 5 cents per kilowatt-hour) required for running a modern electric refrigerator of comparable size."
 
That was our Norge washer that arrived December 23, 1963. Matcing dryer showed up sometime February 1964. The Kenmore 800 replaced the washer spring or fall of 1970.

I got a GE record player for Christmas 1963 along with some 45 singles. Then there was Ed Sullivan's February 9, 1964 broadcast. My own record player arrived just in time!!!

This is the first advertisement I've ever seen for this washer. We had the dryer until fall of 1977 when my mom got a GE Filter Flo matched set.
 
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