who remembers the washer dryer set there grandmother own when alive or still alive

[pierreandreply4]

hello to all aw members do anyone remember what kind of washer dryer set there grandmother own in there life time i will start

my grandomther own a 3 cycle push to start inglis liberator no water level but 5 wash rinse temp knob if she own other brand before my birth i do not know with dryer then a 1988 belt drive kenmore her last washer before illness was a direct drive whirlpool washer with matching dryer own by my cousin today this set to be pricise feel free to share your memorys as well

 

[ea56]

My maternal grandma had a 1956 GE FF and matching dryer and my paternal grandma had a yellow Bendix Economat TL and a 1956 Norge Timeline dryer, which she almost never used, but instead hung out everything on the clothesline. The Economat was replaced by my Dad with a 1959 Montgomery Wards Signature FL and we took the yellow Economat to our summer cabin.

Eddie

 

[wayupnorth]

Mothers mother had a total BOL 24" Kenmore automatic from the 50's. She always washed and stopped the machine when it filled for rinse on Sunday evening and finished the load Monday morning and out on the clothesline.

 

[jamiel]

Father's mom: 1951 Whirlpool automatic with the aluminum nameplate and the two white dials (center button to unlatch top). 1956-ish Rheem Wedgewood clothes dryer (the one with the lifting top to an area where you can dry things flat). Mom's grandmother, I vaguely remember a bolt-down round-front KM, but then she quickly got a new-generation Maytag (with black agitator). She didn't have a dryer until a little later when she got a big WP Imperial (with the full-width door) about 1970.

 

[tomturbomatic]

My grandmas were both born in the 1800s. One had a Maytag Master purchased for her by her older daughters. The other had a round Maytag Chieftan which replaced one of the el cheapo green, straight-wall Maytag wringers from decades earlier. Both used clotheslines for drying.

 

[circlew]

No grandmother's to remember

My dad's mother died when he was very young, and his stepmother passed away when I was only a month old. My mom's mother died when I was less than two, so I don't have any memories of them.

The closest my sister and I had to a grandmother was Ellen H., known to us as Hoppy. She was our sitter from the time I was around three until we were older, and no longer needed watched. She usually came to our house, but occasionally we went to her's. She and her husband lived about a block away in a large older two story house with basement. Their washer was a Speed Queen wringer machine, probably from the late 40's. It was kept in the basement, along with double wash tubs on wheels. They never had a dryer, so the wash was hung either in the basement, or on lines in the back yard.

 

[eurekastar]

My maternal grandmother had two washers that I remember.  The first was Maytag wringer washer that she had since the 30s.  In 1967, she purchased a Maytag Automatic to ease her workload when my grandfather was dying with cancer.  She never owned a dryer -- just a clothes line.

 

My paternal grandmother had a GE Filter-flow and matching dryer from the 70s.  That's all I can remember her having.

 

[countryguy]

My grandmother had a wringer washer...I don't know what make it was. It had 4 legs but definitely not a Maytag. There was no electric pump...it drained by gravity.
She did not have a clothes dryer. Then when my mom got her Maytag automatic washer in the mid 60s, she gave her wringer washer (which I think was a Beatty) to my grandmother. It did not have an electric pump either. Then in the 70s my grandmother got a Simplicity washer/spin dryer with the regular style agitator. I remember the control knobs on top were square. She used this machine up until about 2007 when she had to move out of her home.

Gary

 

[tolivac]

Kenmore-The washer had the pregnant RS agitator-loved watching the washer work-she encouraged me to go outside an play instead-still snuck in views!That was SO LONG AGO!!!

 

[jons1077]

I still have the photo

My grandmothers 1969 GE set. I used the photo to find my first collectible set.

 

[tomturbomatic]

Who's a precious boy?

 

[e2l-arry]

My Grandmother on my father's side had a 1952 Kenmore automatic. It was the same as my mom's except mom's had a straight 3 vane agitator and Grandma's had what looked like the later roto-swirl agitator. Mom's had suds return. I don't think Grandma's did. No dryer. Clotheslines in the backyard and basement. On my Mom's side, Grandma had a Speed Queen wringer. My Mom get it new 1948 and sold it to her folks when she got her 1st automatic. That began my love of wringers. So much more fun and activity because it was so operator dependant. Grandma was one of the old timers that just didn't believe an automatic could get clothes as clean as her wringer. She got a basic Kenmore dryer for the kitchen when Grandpa died in 1956 and her kids didn't want her going out to the back yard in the winter to hang clothes. Both washer and dryer are still on the property today, though no longer used. My cousin lives in that house today.

 

[norgeway]

Dads Mother

Had a maytag Master wringer washer, Mothers Mother, who we lived with, had a 55 Frigidaire Pulsamatic until I was 4 then we got a WCDAN Custom Deluxe solid tub Frigidaire in1969

 

[abcomatic]

My grandmother had a 1930's General Electric wringer. Aunt Ada had a 50's GE and no longer used Conlon wringer from the 30's before the GE.

 

[rpms]

My Dad's mother had a G.E wringer out in the wood shed off the kitchen. It had the rinse tubs on a wooden cart I assume she rolled into the kitchen. I never saw her use it.Only a clothes line.
My mom and dad had a huge fight when mom got her dryer. Mom was working and had hung her clothes out in the winter. The wind broke the line and she came home at lunch and waded in snow to get the wash.
When she told dad she had bought a dryer he was furious. He said his mother never had one.

My mom's mother had a Beatty Washwell wringer. It had a black bakealite agitator with holes in it.It could really whip up the suds. The pump was incredibly noisy.She had a Norge time line dryer that her son gave to her when he got a new dryer. It was the first dryer she ever had. After the wringer started peeing on the floor my mom got grandma a used Kenmore with Roto Swirl.
Uncle Bob was mad about that.He didn't think she should get an automatic. Not sure why?

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Well, the dryer, a Kelvinator BOL with a knob offering 120-minutes of Timed-Dry and a Heat On/Heat Off toggle-switch, designated by (1) and (2) and all that mounted horizontally easily outlived the washer that I remember being put out to the curb when the General Electric washer arrived, boasting a left-opening lid, and somehow Grandpa and even Grandma said the washer was a front-loading Sears Kenmore that I never saw, coming most-likely before the Kelvinator pair did...

If only I could show you the dream I had about going to their house and looking down then going down the basement stairs to all those washers and dryers there—paired Kelvinators of that vintage, the GE washer with its matching dryer, and even Whirlpools and Frigidaires, and everything in white, as the real stuff there was...

— Dave

 

[DADoES]

 
First recollection of paternal grandparents is a 1956 WP Imperial washer.  No dryer. 
Then they got a 1968-ish WP Supreme 80 washer (white, backlit timer), and a few years later a Supreme dryer (avocado, two-speed drying [not tumble speed]).  I don't know what the step-grandmother had there after Grandpa died.

Maternal grandmother had a flat-top Kenmore and a KM wringer.  A neighbor gave a 1958-ish Kelvinator to her that had continual trouble with blowing its fuse so she didn't have it for long.  A 1970 Kenmore 70 was next, then a 1972 WP dryer added (her first dryer).  The washer was replaced with a 1984 WP Design 2000.  Those stayed until 1999 when I passed on my 1991 KitchenAid set, then my 1999 F&P set when I upgraded to the IWL12 and topload dryer.

 

[revvinkevin]

My grandmother (mothers side) had a 1954 or 1955 Westinghouse washing machine, similar to Roberts beautiful set in the photo, but her "dryer" was the clothes line in the back yard. When ever she was doing laundry I could be found on the "back porch" watching the washer.... that is until she saw me and would tell me to "Kevin get out of there, go play outside".

Kevin

 

[cfz2882]

Maytags

grandma had a ~1967 maytag set,but would never use them-always used the Hoover twin tub of about the same vintage instead...Asked what was wrong with the Maytags and grampa just "hemmed and hawed"