Waste King

[gadgetgary]

Ooohhhh

They made a portable version too.....

 

[gadgetgary]

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[gadgetgary]

As stated

The quality gleams through

 

[appnut]

Thanks Gary. Our 2nd WK was the 1968 equivalent of the 910-250 series. Had white square buttons and the timer dial was off-white too.

 

[bajaespuma]

worth a thousand words

Thanks for the brochure posting.

 

[peterh770]

Thanks, Gary. That was a year or two after the model I grew up with. Ours was the "250 series" but it had the eliptical graphic like the BOL, square buttons, and the two lights were situated one on each side of the buttons. The wash arms were the same as was the heating element.

It is still available, if anyone wants it...

 

[peteski50]

Waste King

Hi Gary,
Thanks so much for posting the information, very interesting approx what year is this from?
Peter

 

[gadgetgary]

Very interesting approx what year is this from?

I really don't have any idea....Can anyone else help?

 

[peterh770]

1973-1975 is my guess...

 

[appnut]

Peter, looks like we both had the same exact dishwasher, unless your buttons were black instead of white. (And teh tinmer dial behind the plastic cover".

 

[magic clean]

Pop-up Hydro-Tower

There were a fair amount of Waste King dishwasher scattered about the neighborhood when I was a kid. Our next door & across the street neighbors had the low-end Waste King with the pop-up 2nd level wash. Both units had blue plastisol interiors. Both machines did a very poor job washing in the upper rack. One family only used theirs on holidays or other occasions where there were a lot of dishes. The other machine was used daily, but both machines required thorough prerinsing of everything. These dishwashers were installed by the area homebuilder in 1967-68 timeframe.

By the 1970's the same builder had upgraded to the better W-K & Thermador machines with the s-steel and double spray arms. These machines worked really well. I always thought it was interesting how Waste King dishwashers were proclaimed to be "Dishwasher-Dryers". Does everyone remember Richard Deacon being the spokesperson for Waste King/Thermador?

 

[appnut]

I don't remember Richard Deacon donig that at all. Looks like Ward let him pursue a new career away from "the office". lol. Leslie, that same model was used in the late 1960s in my subdivision. What I found interesting on all 3 I was exposed to, none of them filled properly at each fill, so the pumping of water was "choppy" and pump straining.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Leslie, I remember Richard Deacon pushing the Thermador microwave ovens with the browning element. He was even featured on the cover of the cookbook I have seen in some second hand book stores.

 

[bajaespuma]

Brain, brain, what is brain?

I remember Richard Deacon now! He was the bald-headed character actor who played the producer on the Dick Van Dyke show, right? And I do remember him being promoted as an amateur home cook (wearing a Graham Kerr-style get-up that included the obligatory neck scarf with clasp)and promoting Thermador products. He played also Kaye Ballard's husband toward the end of "The Mother's In Law" show. Was he a big ol' girl in real life??? Now I'm even remembering him playing Talullah Bankhead's butler on "The Lucy & Desi Show".

 

[appnut]

And let's not forget Ward Cleaver's business associate or whatever their business at the office was lol.