Washers on The Andy Griffith Show

[seedub]

"My Three Sons (1960)" featured a Norge pair, circa 1959. In both the Bryant Park house and the Los Angeles house, we rarely get to see the dryer - it's installed across the room from the washer, behind the kitchen wall.

I have yet to find the episode where Steve Douglas fights with the machine, which appears to have a severely unbalanced load in the tub, and which tries to eat his necktie among other things. I saw this in a clip that was part of a TV special celebrating 30 years of television, or some such...

 

[tomturbomatic]

If Mr. Douglas had so much money, why did he live in such squalor except as a story line gimmick?

At one point when Hazel got a new gas kitchen, she had a 36" Duomatic.

 

[tomturbomatic]

I love "About Mrs. Leslie".

My three sons had a 40" TOL Frigidaire range from 1961. They had a small one door Frigidaire refrigerator and the Frigidaire Super washer which could be seen sometimes and I guess the matching dryer that was hidden. Once, there was some commotion with the washer and a wheel came rollling out of the laundry room and across the kitchen floor. This is from the time period when William Frawley played uncle Bub. Then he died and probably no one was sad because he was considered to be a mean person by all who worked with him, especially Vivian Vance. The cars were Pontiacs and the family car a station wagon.

 

[goatfarmer]

Pontiacs

Yeah, Robbie had a 64 LeMans ragtop, burgundy color. And there was an episode, where Steve buys Chip a car, bought from a co worker. It was a late 20's-early 30's Pontiac.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

One movie that I saw had a GE coin-operated laundromat that a guy & gal were doing their laundry in a washer there--in which the banging from an unbalanced load in it, had the boy bang on the cabinet & I think even shake the washer up & down, to get it balanced again...

 

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[vacerator]

Mr Douglas

was old money. They usually don't aim to impress. I had a friend from Grosse Pointe whose parents were loaded. their hone was beautiful outside, but they had old torn up furniture in the living room, and his mom had $4 grand in a luuch bag in her dresser drawer. His dad drove a rusty old Subaru. In the 80's I saw more Chrysler K cars in Grosse Pointe driveways, and I doubt all belonged to their house keepers.

 

[bendixmark]

Dennis The Menace

There is an episode with a diving bell bendix where he starts his own laundry service.

 

[blackstone]

Friends

On the show Friends, there is an International Harvester refrigerator. I recognize the IH logo, especially since we had an IH Traveall that was used in our business for deliveries. The tailgate was very low, easy for loading, since the gas tank was under the second seat.

As for Hazel, I do remember my father saying that the Hazel show was one of the first color programs to feature the color yellow. When color TVs were first introduced, yellow was difficult to accurately represent. Hazel had a yellow uniform.

 

[spinmon]

RCA WP

The 1963 movie 'The Thrill of It All' w/Doris Day and James Garner featured '63 push button WP tl's in several scenes as a backdrop for the 'Happy' soap/detergent Doris was selling.

I saw this at the drive-in with my parents when I was 8 and liked the washers then as now.

 

[gansky1]

Mama's Family

One of the best shots of the laundry I've seen:

 

[seedub]

Mama's Family

Thanks, Greg!