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

[Unimatic1140]

When I was young.

My maternal grandmother had a 1958 Frigidaire Pulsamatic washer that I just adored! Before that she had a 1950 Westinghouse Laundromat that was replaced with the Pulsamatic before I was born.

My grandmother on my Dad's side had a 1957 middle of the line Kenmore with a straight vane agitator and water-fall lint filter.

 

[vacerator]

Mom's had

Kenmore model 70's from 1959 0r 60 until 1970 when replaced with new Kenmores. Her old wringer washer and Ironrite were still there. I never saw Dad's mom's basement in Pa., so I don't know. I was 6 when we moved away. I doubt my older cosuins remember. She lived in a duplex until I was in high school, and used a laundromat, then moved to a brand new apartment with coin op.laundry, then to one with it's own, and Dad found her a lightly used set of compact Kenmores.

 

[robbinsandmyers]

The ONLY washing machine my grandmother ( RIP 1988 )ever owned was a Blackstone 150 she bought new in 1950 and it overflowed one day not long after she bought it and she was too scared to use it again. She went back to the wash board in the bathtub. It sat 30 years before I got it in 1988 and sold it to gansky in 2006 when I moved. I'm sure its happy in its loving new home after traveling half way cross country lol.

 

[luxflairguy]

My Grandparents (Dad's side) never had a dryer. The one and only washer Grandma ever had was a early 30's Easy wringer washer with a copper outer tub and 3 suction cups inside that went up and down and then rotated. It was a thrill as a child to get to push the red "on" button, hear it buzz and then throw across the knob that activated the cups. Was in college before I was allowed to operate all by myself!
Grandparents lived in a flood plain- on a river and I can't count the times the washer got wet in a flood. Gramps would removed the GE built motor, wrap it in foil and put it in the oven to "bake it out" and replace on washer and it would work! I sadly, gave the washer to a museum in the late 90's! Took lots of work to do a load! Miss it!! Greg

 

[gmpayne]

I remember grandmother on my mothers side was a Speed Queen wringer washer, it had a pump. Then she would hang the clothes out side.

My grandmother on my dads side had a Maytag square sided wringer washer, I never saw her using it. She use a wash board and made her own soap.

 

[akronman]

1968

Grandma had been gone 2 years, but her unmarried daughter still lived in the house:
mid-60's model aqua-blue(ish)Hotpoint automatic paired with a Hamilton Gas drier from the early 50's. I remember the tall side door on the right of the clothes door, just like my 1952 or so electric Hamilton. When some load of clothes, hotter than hell fresh from the drier, started on fire, the old drier was replaced with a new Kenmore, Sears got lots of business from Aunt Pat. And I remember the washer as DIRTY, like no one ever wiped the top clean. Clean clothes just dragged out across 5 years accumulation of underwear dirt, dog bed dirt, etc!
There was also a GE Mobile Maid in the kitchen, mid-50's rounded edges type as opposed to the squared-off 60's era. Bow-tie impeller, not a spray arm.
And a 30" Hardwick range, as close to BOL as I can remember. Would the cheapest have had all 4 gas burners the exact same size? I seem to remember that. No clock, nothing electric at all, and I think the pilots did not work and everything had to be match lit. Lol, maybe some more money should have been spent at Sears.

 

[lotsosudz]

Memories

My Paternal Grandfolks had A matching Westinghouse laundromat, W/matching how dry I am dryer. Later when my Gramps passed, she moved into an apartment with a 56 GE filter flo pair, Later she inherited a 59 80 series Kenmore washer with an old mechanical timer Norge dryer. My Maternal Grams had a Voss Wringer, Bendix Economat, then a 1963 Lady Kenmore washer.

 

[seedub]

Shown here is a representative of my Grandfather's (maternal) Laundromat stacked pair, bought new in 1964. His were white in color. They replaced the early '51 Laundromat pair that were my family's first automatic laundry machines. My Aunt claimed he bought them solely because Betty Furness was hawking them.

The architect of the house that the family built in 1962 committed malpractice and designed a laundry closet that had a 220 volt outlet for a clothes dryer...but no room for a dryer. We used a clothesline until the washer died.

Despite what I've seen here at AW about spotty reliability, we were very lucky - ours had only two repairs, and outlived Granddaddy; and I went from Watching The Clothes Go Round at age 3 to washing the last load at age 20, when we decided to replace the thing rather than repair it. The dryer was replaced three years before with a 1981 Spacemates.

 

[seedub]

On my Dad's side, my Grandma had two sets of machines, loosely represented here. The Kenmore I saw at the age of 4 for a total of two hours (she and her husband lived on the other side of the USA from me) in the first house she moved in when she arrived in Los Angeles. It would be another three years before I visited my Dad; by then, Grandma had relocated to a bungalow that had a Westinghouse stacked Laundromat pair. Hers were yellow, and more deluxe than these, with the multicolored pushbuttons. I last was in California in 1976. When I visited again nine years later, she had replaced the washer with a gold unit circa mid '70s. It featured a tub light and a Weigh-to-Save drop down door which locked during the spin portions of the cycle. She still had that and the ancient yellow dryer when arthritis and Alzheimer's forced her out of the bungalow and into my Aunt's house.

 

[thomasortega]

My both grandmothers had washboards, they never had a washing machine.

My mom (always decades beyond her age had a Bendix Economat (bought in the USA) and a Brazilian Frigidaire front load washer (Which I could never see again) It was somewhat similar to a Bendix, i mean, huge, and had a tiny door, the detergent "dispenser" was in the middle of the top and very similar to a Bendix but it had a bleach dispenser on the top right front that reminded a GE.

She also had a "Prima Turbowasher", a semi automatic washer and a Mueller Pioneira, her very first washing machine, made of wood, and it refused to die until today (My sister still has it and still uses it and the only part that had to be replaced was the power plug.

I don't remember the dryer brand, but it was bought here in the USA 15 years before the first dryer was officially released in the Brazilian market. It didn't last too long. My mom hated it because it would burn and shrink the clothes like crazy and fill the laundry room with lint. She then bought a whirlpool dryer here in the USA (BOL model, electric) that was quickly trashed because of a broken belt (now I know it's super easy to replace a belt)

Anyway, then she ended up buying a Brastemp Super Filtromática (It's basically 24-inch whirlpool with the tragic-mix filter and the super surgilator) and a Consul compact dryer (which is basically a Whirlpool compact dryer). Kevin has a washer that is somewhat similar to it, but 27 (or 29?) inches. My mom's was blue.