bethann
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VERY COOL! Did you have chills when you walked in and seen it? Kind of like static running up the back of your head!That's what always happens to me!
Now you have to get mates!
Bethann
Now you have to get mates!
Bethann
Youngstown 30" Dishwasher found!
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The "Packard" label on the motor has the same red logo as the "Packard" motor cars used to use. It says below "division of General Motors Corp" so I am a little confused. I seem to remember when Packard Motor Cars went out of business back in the late '50's they sold out to Studebaker. Studebaker, I recall limped along after the merger and managed to survive in to the early '60's (maybe '63?). I do not remember anyone absorbing Studebaker. The only remnant was the "Avanti" which began to be manufactured by a custom shop. So I wonder (if) when GM bought the electric motor division of Packard? I seem to remember Packard was real big in manufacturing electric motors for the war effort in WWII (as well as "Patton" tanks!), and I remember them powering different things built in the late '40's. Can anyone shed any light on the topic? (Laundress?)
Try this link to History of Packard. They sold electric part to GM in 1932.
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AWESOME!!!
Wow! What an incredible find. It must have been hard to control your excitement when you walked into that kitchen! It looks like it was NEVER used.
Love those orange racks.
Hope that it gives you little or no problems and that you get years of pleasure from it.
Mike
Wow! What an incredible find. It must have been hard to control your excitement when you walked into that kitchen! It looks like it was NEVER used.
Love those orange racks.
Hope that it gives you little or no problems and that you get years of pleasure from it.
Mike
Unbelieveable
Jeff: Do you have a time machine hidden away somewhere???!!!
Thats just too unbelieveable!
I love that Packard Motor! I am guessing that the tower models used the same pump and motor??
Just beautiful!!
I am struck by the apparent quality there.
What is amazing is how far along Youngstown and ABC were with their appliances but they should have hooked up for sales. The Altorfer brothers told me that they knew after WWII it was pretty clear any company that wanted to compete for the appliance market had to go up against Frigidaire, and GE and that they would have had to offer a complete line of appliances for the home. The market changed after WWII you couldn't make it being good at only one thing anymore.
SO if Youngstown teamed up with ABC and Crosley then they could have had a complete line of appliances to offer. It could have been called "Unified Appliances". And they might still have been around today.
just my 2 cents
jet
Jeff: Do you have a time machine hidden away somewhere???!!!
Thats just too unbelieveable!
I love that Packard Motor! I am guessing that the tower models used the same pump and motor??
Just beautiful!!
I am struck by the apparent quality there.
What is amazing is how far along Youngstown and ABC were with their appliances but they should have hooked up for sales. The Altorfer brothers told me that they knew after WWII it was pretty clear any company that wanted to compete for the appliance market had to go up against Frigidaire, and GE and that they would have had to offer a complete line of appliances for the home. The market changed after WWII you couldn't make it being good at only one thing anymore.
SO if Youngstown teamed up with ABC and Crosley then they could have had a complete line of appliances to offer. It could have been called "Unified Appliances". And they might still have been around today.
just my 2 cents
jet
Unbelieveable
Yes Jet you are absolutly right about Unified Appliances. It could have been so awsome. Well maybe in another time. Send my best to AL
Peter
Yes Jet you are absolutly right about Unified Appliances. It could have been so awsome. Well maybe in another time. Send my best to AL
Peter
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WOW!!!
Great find!
love that front panel!
Great find!
love that front panel!
Apparent quality
Oh, this dishwasher was built like a tank. It was well built, not overly noisy, and my Aunt's ran until it died.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Oh, this dishwasher was built like a tank. It was well built, not overly noisy, and my Aunt's ran until it died.
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Last night I tested the Youngstown with water, and except for a sticking drain valve that I was able to take apart and clean, It worked great and didn't leak a drop!!! Even the light behind the timer dial still worked. It's neat when the door pops open at the begining of the dry cycle and all the steam comes out. I will try to wash some dishes this weekend and see how it cleans. Jeff
programcomputer
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WOW...A Dishasher that makes me want to do dishers...Remarka
HOW COOL...
I have seen many dishwashers in my time all the way from our very first...a Whirlpool Portable Top-Load...all the way thru my current one which is a 1970's era General Electric Potscrubber...which washes anything I put in it and gets it perfect almost 98% of the time.
What I like about this Jamestown model is that center rotary spray which looks like it would completly get all the dishes and cups equally. The racks are wider than todays models and look like it would hol all the normal use dishes I own..LOL
And what's more what made ME wanna change for good was the fact that this model was not only a Packard Electric driven product and im partial to ANYTHING with a Packard connection even if it is in name...but the fact that this beautifully designed,well thought out model could be installed at WAIST height...and still do it's job.
Now one of the most unpleasantest chores in loading conventional dishwashers is the constand bend and load, bend and load and I hate that. There are times and places for that and dishwashing just doesn't seem to fit in that category.LOL...
I just love it....If any manufacturers around the globe are listening...as aparantly the USA ones are either led by product planners who got their Degrees by giving more than an apple to a teacher,or close to bankrupt, due to ridiculous,unfortunate buisness plans, or are managed by ignorant savants...will you please bring out a FULL-Sized model like this that is well made and will build in like the one on the POD!!!
No one listened...maybe in my luck I will find one myself....
Anyway that's my thoughts.....
WOW I want One!!!
Happily Converted by Jamestown
Chad
HOW COOL...
I have seen many dishwashers in my time all the way from our very first...a Whirlpool Portable Top-Load...all the way thru my current one which is a 1970's era General Electric Potscrubber...which washes anything I put in it and gets it perfect almost 98% of the time.
What I like about this Jamestown model is that center rotary spray which looks like it would completly get all the dishes and cups equally. The racks are wider than todays models and look like it would hol all the normal use dishes I own..LOL
And what's more what made ME wanna change for good was the fact that this model was not only a Packard Electric driven product and im partial to ANYTHING with a Packard connection even if it is in name...but the fact that this beautifully designed,well thought out model could be installed at WAIST height...and still do it's job.
Now one of the most unpleasantest chores in loading conventional dishwashers is the constand bend and load, bend and load and I hate that. There are times and places for that and dishwashing just doesn't seem to fit in that category.LOL...
I just love it....If any manufacturers around the globe are listening...as aparantly the USA ones are either led by product planners who got their Degrees by giving more than an apple to a teacher,or close to bankrupt, due to ridiculous,unfortunate buisness plans, or are managed by ignorant savants...will you please bring out a FULL-Sized model like this that is well made and will build in like the one on the POD!!!
No one listened...maybe in my luck I will find one myself....
Anyway that's my thoughts.....
WOW I want One!!!
Happily Converted by Jamestown
Chad
partscounterman
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Yo can have a 30
I understand that Dacor came out recently with a 30" dishwasher, although unlike the Youngstown, it cost MUCH more than a standard DW-Oops-just went to thier web site and no mention of any DW? Does anyone else know about this or am I simply hallucinating? Maybe it was another brand?
I understand that Dacor came out recently with a 30" dishwasher, although unlike the Youngstown, it cost MUCH more than a standard DW-Oops-just went to thier web site and no mention of any DW? Does anyone else know about this or am I simply hallucinating? Maybe it was another brand?
Wow, nice dishwasher. Cool find!
The Dacor was taken off the market for some reason.
The Dacor was taken off the market for some reason.
partycycle
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“That’s the 3rd plate I’ve broken this morning, and I’m all
I have had tough days before, but never a day like this. I’ve been dropping, spilling, and knocking over things since I got up, an it’s not even noon. That POD; Jamestown dishwasher advertisement and your thread #515!
“My nerves and my headache and my emotional problems and my back.” I’ve got medications for those things…or, wait a minute…I did yesterday…am I…all out? A purse full of empty bottles. Quick! I check the medicine chest. But nothing in there seems to work anymore. “What am I going to do?” I cry softly.
For the love of everything that is Holly!!! I am struggling, to be genuinely happy for you, upon this most of most of all beatific dishwasher finds. I have had to take to my bed. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to sit up and take fluids (vodka + pill(s).
With shoulder-to-the-wheel. Again, I cry softly. Go into my kitchen and face that “piece-of-shit” MOL, 2003, Frigidaire, Premier dishwasher. “How will I get by without that most unique, and yet easy to load, Jamestown dishwasher you just happened to stumble upon?”
“There. There.” I have had to console myself.
Congratulations!!!! I truly mean it. Sort of...
I have had tough days before, but never a day like this. I’ve been dropping, spilling, and knocking over things since I got up, an it’s not even noon. That POD; Jamestown dishwasher advertisement and your thread #515!
“My nerves and my headache and my emotional problems and my back.” I’ve got medications for those things…or, wait a minute…I did yesterday…am I…all out? A purse full of empty bottles. Quick! I check the medicine chest. But nothing in there seems to work anymore. “What am I going to do?” I cry softly.
For the love of everything that is Holly!!! I am struggling, to be genuinely happy for you, upon this most of most of all beatific dishwasher finds. I have had to take to my bed. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to sit up and take fluids (vodka + pill(s).
With shoulder-to-the-wheel. Again, I cry softly. Go into my kitchen and face that “piece-of-shit” MOL, 2003, Frigidaire, Premier dishwasher. “How will I get by without that most unique, and yet easy to load, Jamestown dishwasher you just happened to stumble upon?”
“There. There.” I have had to console myself.
Congratulations!!!! I truly mean it. Sort of...
Youngstown 30
Here is the second page of the POD brochure...
Here is the second page of the POD brochure...
page 3
bethann
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Stop it Gansky1 !
Are you trying to get Partycycle going again!
Are you trying to get Partycycle going again!
partscounterman
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Stop it, Partycycle!
I almost wet myself when I read your post. Too Funny! You may feel better if you took a sledgehammer to that dreadful frigelux and work out some of those tensions. May the dishwasher gods minister to your needs and provide your deepest desires (so you don't have to go through this trauma anymore!)
I almost wet myself when I read your post. Too Funny! You may feel better if you took a sledgehammer to that dreadful frigelux and work out some of those tensions. May the dishwasher gods minister to your needs and provide your deepest desires (so you don't have to go through this trauma anymore!)
HaHa! If Partycycle is going to load the dishwasher as illustrated with 200 pieces of dishware - and NO APRON, let the stains land where they may!
partycycle
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Is this a migraine coming on or just a taste of the future?
Carlos or is his name Hector? Whatever? Bless his heart. Apparently during my delirium over this Jamestown dishwasher. Before he left. To get jumper cables, Vaseline and a pack of smokes. Called my “Elvis” doctor. I awoke to the awful dreadful never ending ringing. The door bell. Pharmacy delivery Vica something and Oxyi something and shopping bags of sedatives.
I negotiated the endless journey through the living room. By the way. Who’s idea was it to “float” that enormous sofa in front of the fire place!!? Then there was the dinning room. Thank God the table is round. Like that of a traffic circle. All the while thinking of that Jamestown DW. On the second or whatever lap got into the kitchen. I wept. I begged. I lost. Somewhere there was a 2 tank sink hidden beneath all the piles of dirty dishes, glasses, (some broken), bake/burned on cookware. AND that GD FrigLux DW. Good Lord! I thought. Will I ever….? What a STUPID question. Then just as my vision started to go digital. The very idea of struggling to put on my most favorite water marked silk moray with brick-a-bract trim apron. Well that is all I remember. What’s his name slumped me over in my chair before the PC. Wrong.
I read the most recent pages regarding the Jamestown owners manual posted by Gansky. My tears shorted out the key board. Then this nasty things happens with water and electricity. Who knew there were so many good looking fireman? I pulled back the oxygen mask. Gasping for breath. Shouted out. Let it burn! It is just a G. Damn FirgLux dishwasher. Not a Jamestown, easy to load, 200 piece capacity dishwasher. Let it go boys…
Carlos or is his name Hector? Whatever? Bless his heart. Apparently during my delirium over this Jamestown dishwasher. Before he left. To get jumper cables, Vaseline and a pack of smokes. Called my “Elvis” doctor. I awoke to the awful dreadful never ending ringing. The door bell. Pharmacy delivery Vica something and Oxyi something and shopping bags of sedatives.
I negotiated the endless journey through the living room. By the way. Who’s idea was it to “float” that enormous sofa in front of the fire place!!? Then there was the dinning room. Thank God the table is round. Like that of a traffic circle. All the while thinking of that Jamestown DW. On the second or whatever lap got into the kitchen. I wept. I begged. I lost. Somewhere there was a 2 tank sink hidden beneath all the piles of dirty dishes, glasses, (some broken), bake/burned on cookware. AND that GD FrigLux DW. Good Lord! I thought. Will I ever….? What a STUPID question. Then just as my vision started to go digital. The very idea of struggling to put on my most favorite water marked silk moray with brick-a-bract trim apron. Well that is all I remember. What’s his name slumped me over in my chair before the PC. Wrong.
I read the most recent pages regarding the Jamestown owners manual posted by Gansky. My tears shorted out the key board. Then this nasty things happens with water and electricity. Who knew there were so many good looking fireman? I pulled back the oxygen mask. Gasping for breath. Shouted out. Let it burn! It is just a G. Damn FirgLux dishwasher. Not a Jamestown, easy to load, 200 piece capacity dishwasher. Let it go boys…
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Wow Jeff, a Youngstown, and in such great shape! EXCELLENT! And with University of Texas orange racks (go Longhorns) and that cool 3-spoke handle! YAY!! Does anyone else have one of these?
Keep us posted on how it washes! Did you ever find out why they wanted to get rid of it and if they ever used it?
--Austin
Keep us posted on how it washes! Did you ever find out why they wanted to get rid of it and if they ever used it?
--Austin
