Yellow anyone?

[mint46]

What a cute set! If I had the means to use a gas stove and room for yet ANOTHER vintage fridge and room for a built in dishwasher...I would be bidding right now. I thought the yellow made this a nice set, just wanted to share!

I hope my link works

http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-REFRIGE...ryZ53225QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

 

[toggleswitch]

OMG madam has the vapors!

Neat! Thanks for posting.

That is the first DW I had ever seen, My aunts WP. OMG OMG OMG with the telephone dial!

Workls like a classic GE or a classic Kitchen Aid (by Hobart) motor spins constantly, with the water-fill and drain solenoids just opening and closing.

It has two-closed closed detergent cups and does a purge to heat the water in the lines!

Has a (broken)glass/sediment trap in the bottom, as you would see in a Euro-designed model.

What is with the cook top and wall-oven? I have never seen that before, at least not of that vintage!

 

[mayken4now]

I'll post pics of my NEW 1960 Frigidaire when she is ready for sho biz. Goody bye GE. BUT, Thanks for posting.

Steve

 

[scott55405]

I saw that telephone dial dishwasher in someone's house once and always remembered it. Very cool! I think it has alphabet settings as well!

 

[toggleswitch]

I wish the DW dial coud be seen clearly. Fuzzes up when blown up. Sugar, Honey Iced-Tea!

On the one I was familiar with, IIRC ,it had named cycles, but what they were I don't recall.

Methinks the cooktop and wall-oven are to be able to get a 24" (60cm) cooker, rather than our now standard 30"(75cm) or the old standard which was 36" (90cm).

 

[mint46]

*gets a fan for dear Toggle*

I tried the same thing and got the same result. Fuzzy. I'm curious about what that control panel looks like up close. The more I look, the more I love that yellow. Would be a bit much in my kitchen, my walls are yellow! Which reminds me, I think it's about time I posted some pics of the appliances I have in my kitchen. I've been putting it off, wanting to wait until we are done making changes in there, but all these vintage kitchens you guys have make me want to share mine.
Steve (mayken4now), I hope your Frigidaire is ready soon. NEW, you say? *drooly bib*
I would love to see it!

 

[tomturbomatic]

I know the first hole was the regular wash, I think the second one was light wash. I don't know if this one had any other cycles, but on the one our friends had, I think there were 2 more cycles maybe rinse & dry and the plate warmer. It was sort of disappointing because there was not much distance between the regular wash and the finger stop. This one could not have been used much because those Plastisol tanks sure did not hold up for 47 years. Given their dependability problems, it probably broke after a year or two and was never fixed. Probably in some grandmother's apartment and she never wanted a dishwasher anyway like a friend's mother. All the kids went in and gave her a nice built-in dishwasher. It looked suspiciously unused when they gathered there for a big holiday dinner. When they cleared the table she said that she would do the stuff by hand. They would not hear of it and loaded the dishwasher themselves before leaving. One daughter went back for something she had left and caught the old lady unloading the dishes to wash by hand. Stubborn?

 

[toggleswitch]

IIRC the cycle sequence of the dw sequence would be:
Purge-R-W-R-W-R-R-DRY.

The cycle sequence on my mother's 1969 TOL D&M Kenmore was:
W-R-R-W-R-R-Dry (With a 12 or 26 minute heated dry).

Funny thing is, today, to wash a very muck-filled dw load I do a rinse-only first. I cant see regurgitating the water around for a long period of time charged with detergent.

I find it better and more desirable to rinse off the majority of the sludge without detergent first THEN run the machine through a pots-and-pans cycle where the first wash is heated to oblivion and takes HOURS!

I suppose the same result could have been obtained in the WP by throwing detergent at the bottom of the tank/tub. The machine would then do its first main wash after that.

Could the cycles have been:

normal wash
short wash
rinse and dry
plate warmer?