Weekend finds... VinDets & built-ins

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

Help Support :

lots of it left!

Wrapped in plastic - many tablets left, she must have really not liked this stuff! The scent is still very strong in the box - very fresh and clean. The weight of the product is not on the front of the box so it's from the 60's or early 70's and the 'patents pending' in several places would indicate that it was newly intro'd when this was purchased.
 
Sunbeam Control Center

I've never seen one of these before - an electric outlet center - with floro light! One outlet is timed. At the same house, I also found a complete 1950's Nutone Food Center with attachments. I'll snap a pic of that if anyone wants to see it...
 
Nutone Model 220

Here is the Nutone Food Center, I've never seen the aluminum mixer bowl before. There is NIB blender for the unit as well as a knife sharpener attachment.

I don't plan on keeping this, probably will Ebay it. They are neat, but the mixer bowl has a relatively small capacity and I have enough small appliances that don't need a hole in the counter ;-)
 
Thanks! That bowl looks indeed on the small side. The Nutone was sold overhere in Europe too, I saw an ad for it a few times in a magazine. Ofcourse they were very expensive, like all appliances that travel across the Atlantic. I think I remember the control panel in the ads was black, is that possible?
 
Greg, that's the EXACT Nutone center in our 1961 house. The blender always make orange juice from concentrate. And we had the knife sharpener, my Dad used it.
 
Nice Sunbeam

I have seen old adverts for the Sunbeam control center. They were units built into the wall and they looked so quintessential '50's spaceage. Hope you enjoy it. If not, I'll buy it off of you.
 
Hi Greg, What neat finds this weekend. Have never seen the Sunbeam timer center before. It looks like the Nutone is in beautiful shape. Hope the test load on the Maytag went well. Thanks for sharing. Terry
 
Interesting.

I knew that Westinghouse had produced an outlet center, but had no idea that others had produced them, too.

Eagerly anticipating hearing about the Maytag.

Thanks for these interesting pictures, Greg.

Lawrence/Maytagbear
 
Bob - 1961 on the Nutone? I would have thought earlier but I don't know much about them and the house seemed older than that, but after 6 sales, they all look alike! The model tag on the Nutone calls it an "In-Built" ;-)

The Sunbeam I'll probably use at some point, it looks very fun and with the light, I won't need additional under-cabinet lighting.

The Maytag as taken many hours of work but it just sparkles! I didn't get it tested last night, had to watch my stories on HBO and the final episode of Queer As Folk on Showtime. Tonight for sure!
 
The small appliance centers were a way of giving an older kitchen sufficient circuits to run several countertop appliances at once. I believe that they offered 4 or more 15 or 20 amp circuits and were fed from a 220 volt line. The Westinghouse one had some cords on reels along with regular outlets so that the female end of the cord could be pulled out and plugged into coffee makers, the old Munsey toaster/baker things that were always being rated as Not Acceptable because of the unshielded male terminals sticking out that could be touched while you were plugging the thing to the current so you might wind up with a permanent wave and older electric skillets that had the thermostat in the handle.
All of this was in the days when the electric utilities and the appliance manufacturers urged everyone to get "FULL HOUSEPOWER" so that you could enjoy the freedom that appliances could bring to your life. They even had quizes in magazines so that you could rate how appliance-deprived you were. They never said much about having multiples of each appliance, though.
 
Greg, yep 1961. The house was in the Parade of Homes for Houston that year spring, 1961. And yes, ours was a built-in. My dad made a very nice wood "filler or cover" for the hole when it was removed. We also had the meat grinder my mom used to grind up leftover roast. She was very brutal in using the wooden plunger to force the meat through and it eventually stripped the gears. Dad kept telling her not to do what she was doing, but she didn't wanna listen. I guess a son always telling her she wasn't using appliance right didn't help and to add dad onto it, she tuned him out too. I was very sad to see it die. It was one of those nice "extras" with the house.
 

Latest posts

Back
Top