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Rosanne had a harvest gold Maytag washer & dryer pair, until the married couple bought it the day the door-to-door salesman died in their kitchen. Later, they had an eary 70s harvest gold Frigidaire set. We had the same washer, bought new in 72 or 73.

In the later Bewitched episodes, I recall seeing a Maytag washer & dryer pair.
 
Thanks, dangalang! I remember seeing that scene but I couldn't remember the title of the movie.

For anyone who owns a vintage color set, that's a good movie to watch on it. Those early-60s palettes really show up well on a roundie.

veg
 
Disney's Freaky Friday avacado washer going bananas

Anyone remember the Disney 1970's movie Freaky Friday and that avacado top loader washer that vibrates and goes crazy when Annabelle's mom (Annabelle inside her mother's body)uses it? I always wondered what brand of washer that was and how they rigged it to do that.
 
A white Philco set can be glimpsed in "Candy" ('68).

The mother-in-law in "The Burning Bed" had white Maytags and a box of Fab.

"Abby," a very rare blaxploitatoin version of "The Exorcist," features an early '60s Kenmore set, with the washer and dryer at right angles from each other.

The Canadian film "They Came from Within" has a scene in the laundry room of an apartment building, stocked with '70s Maytag and GE coin-ops. A woman comes in with clothes and a little plastic bag of detergent, loads up a Maytag, and starts it up.
 
IN the movie "The Day the Earth Stood Still" a woman opens her Laundromat to see what aws wrong after the power had died after the spacement were roaming about.
 
if in recall thair is a tv show called siance abuce
whair they blew up a 2 washing machines one is a maytagtl and the other is a westinghouse tl with over loading and over suds ing and puting lit bombs in it
 
In "Jumping Jack Flash," it's actually Annie Potts pouring the Ajax powder while she and Ms. Goldberg talk about the KGB. This is one of my favorite movies and the first "pay-per-view" I ever purchased from cable.

Off thread, but Lana Turner's first movie after the stabbing incident was "Imitation of Life." She was afraid to do it so soon because of her notoriety but it wound up working in her favor and became her biggest movie ever. The "incident" was in 1958, "Imitation of Life" in '59 and "Bachelor in Paradise" in '62.
 
There's a newish movie called "Dark Water", I think. Haven't seen it, but in the commercial, there's a shot of some front loader with a chrome surround around the window. Not sure if it's a coin op or what.

veg
 
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In the old bw series "Father Knows Best" there is an episode where they buy a new washing machine (1951? Westinghouse Laundromat) and their youngest daughter keeps putting differnt things into it at the same time she is dressed up like a Martian.She winds up piutting her sister's dress inside along with some foreign items that are not supposed to be in a washer and just about ruins it.There are many great shots of the machine in this episode and everytime I have seen it,it took my breath away.
 
Donna Reed Show

I seem to recall an episode in which the Father was facinated with a front loader. I don't remember the brand. I wish I knew which episode too.

jamman_8
Joe
 
Mr. Mom's Westinghouse. . . .

Funny y'all should mention that. I rented that movie about a month ago, just so I could see what brand that machine was. LOL. I noticed it was a Westinghouse by the square door and the litle latch on top. How sad are we that we know the brands of washing machines on movies and TV! Awesome!

Tex
 
There is a scene in "The Day The Earth Stood Still"-the aliens have cut off the earths power and an angry looking woman is shown taking sopping wet laundry out of her "Laundramat" and throwing it into a neighboring sink.Love the other scenes of engineers crawling over a stalled locomotive and another where a tractor driver is trying to restart his tractor pulling a gang reel mower in a park.
 
Nothing but Trouble

In "nothing but trouble" with chevy chase, there ia a bendix frontloader in the yard when the dogs start chasing them.

joe
jamman_98
 

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