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I'm needing to sell a 100% functioning circa-1950 Westinghouse refrigerator. It is still in use.
Does anyone know or could recommend a company/organization/individual that is interested in "vintage" appliances? I would like to sell the "fridge" to someone who is possibly a collector or to someone who would enjoy restoring it (i.e needs painting). The fridge was purchased (used) for $15 in 1960 and has been in use in my family since then.
The refrigerator is located just outside of Kansas City (on the KS side).
Thanks.
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I'm needing to sell a 100% functioning circa-1950 Westinghouse refrigerator. It is still in use.
Does anyone know or could recommend a company/organization/individual that is interested in "vintage" appliances? I would like to sell the "fridge" to someone who is possibly a collector or to someone who would enjoy restoring it (i.e needs painting). The fridge was purchased (used) for $15 in 1960 and has been in use in my family since then.
The refrigerator is located just outside of Kansas City (on the KS side).
Thanks.
Call local theatre companies, or more specifically the set designers that provide for them.
I know some designers with collections of different vintages of appliances and furniture used in various sets.
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The Smithsonian
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Thanks for the suggestions. It's a great refrigerator, and seeing how others were restored, this would be a great piece for someone to refurb. It's fully functional and is in current use... it just looks "old".
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Westinghouse, for their own museum and collection.
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Westinghouse, for their own museum and collection.
50's I bet there are tens of thousands still in service. When I was growing up you would still run into and old Nord/Norge?? with the compressor on the top. Those things had such poor recovery you planned your door opening as a group of the residents.
It also reminded me of a statement my father made to me. When things were ridiculous good in the pre-Internet tech boom I had a 3000sq ft. bachelor pad with a Sub Zero fridge you could keep a few bodies in. It did a really good job of keeping beer cold. Anyway, my Father, who's entire life was dictated by the frugality of growing up in the depression looked at me and said I have no conception of the value of money. That fridge cost more than his first home.
At the time I resented the line. However I have caught myself using it as my first house was a HUD rescue home that had a late 50's early 60's fridge and some horrific clapboard cabinets at got an an auction when I was 20. I flipped that house twice and had a townhouse on the golf course in a gated community before I was 23 and my friends were barely out of their college apartments.
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First, you'd have to find some R-12 to put in it. Probably best used as a prop.
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Bob, post some pics of that thing. I am curious what it looks like.
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Bob, post some pics of that thing. I am curious what it looks like.
Smack dab in the middle, circa 1955:
https://youtu.be/zz3BKb_HRms
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Bob, post some pics of that thing. I am curious what it looks like.
Yeah - I do need to get some photos of it.
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First, you'd have to find some R-12 to put in it. Probably best used as a prop.
R12 is still available commercially. No big deal there.
I would love an old fridge with the comp and coil on top.
Barry.
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My 1st paying gig was for Asleep at the Wheel in the mid to late 70's. Mains were four EV15B loaded shop built folded horns with EV SM120/1832(?) drivers and T35 tweeters. The monitors were 10" 2-ways made out of 12" wide shelving material using 10" Eminence woofers and T35's. The mixer was 2 Neptune (later NSI) 8 channels units bolted together. The rig was biamped with a "kit" crossover and Phase Linear 400 and 700 amps.
My PA "experience" goes back even further starting with a Atlas(?) CHB35 35watt tube mixer and column speakers with 6 x 4" drivers and proceeded through early home built cabs, Altec A7's (too bulky to fit in the car), Kustom PA with "tuck and roll" columns, Plush 3 x 15" "padded Naugahyde" cabs with Atlas "Banshee" horns, and Sunn Colosseum series gear. What a long strange trip its been.
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My 1st paying gig was for Asleep at the Wheel in the mid to late 70's. Mains were four EV15B loaded shop built folded horns with EV SM120/1832(?) drivers and T35 tweeters. The monitors were 10" 2-ways made out of 12" wide shelving material using 10" Eminence woofers and T35's. The mixer was 2 Neptune (later NSI) 8 channels units bolted together. The rig was biamped with a "kit" crossover and Phase Linear 400 and 700 amps.
My PA "experience" goes back even further starting with a Atlas(?) CHB35 35watt tube mixer and column speakers with 6 x 4" drivers and proceeded through early home built cabs, Altec A7's (too bulky to fit in the car), Kustom PA with "tuck and roll" columns, Plush 3 x 15" "padded Naugahyde" cabs with Atlas "Banshee" horns, and Sunn Colosseum series gear. What a long strange trip its been.
So Don, was your PA system also a Westinghouse refrigerator? Check the thread....
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I'm needing to sell a 100% functioning circa-1950 Westinghouse refrigerator. It is still in use.
Does anyone know or could recommend a company/organization/individual that is interested in "vintage" appliances? I would like to sell the "fridge" to someone who is possibly a collector or to someone who would enjoy restoring it (i.e needs painting). The fridge was purchased (used) for $15 in 1960 and has been in use in my family since then.
The refrigerator is located just outside of Kansas City (on the KS side).
Thanks.
Hmm I wonder if it would go well with my 1950's stove..?
Douglas R. Allen
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Hmm I wonder if it would go well with my 1950's stove..?
Douglas R. Allen
NICE!
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NICE!
My home was built in 1952 and this could very well be the stove that first went in it. I have all the papers and the meat probe etc. Everything still works great and I use it all the time. Sure don't make them like this anymore. Seems like it has an 1/8 inch thick enamel paint job on it.
Douglas R. Allen
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I'm still using some QSC pa amps that were made in 1982. I have a 1973 and 1974 Fender Twin Reverb that work just fine. Just because its old dont mean it aint good.
is it an "ice box" or a refrigerator ?
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My home was built in 1952 and this could very well be the stove that first went in it. I have all the papers and the meat probe etc. Everything still works great and I use it all the time. Sure don't make them like this anymore. Seems like it has an 1/8 inch thick enamel paint job on it.
Douglas R. Allen
Funny this is yuppie's pay good money for "retro" appliances styled like that. It's in awesome shape.
That is the original enamel? My 4 year old stove isn't in that nice of a shape!
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Funny this is yuppie's pay good money for "retro" appliances styled like that. It's in awesome shape.
That is the original enamel? My 4 year old stove isn't in that nice of a shape!
100 percent as it was the day it was put in. I've been here 18 years. Every time I think about taking it to the land fill to save room I look at the current crop of stoves and change my mind. Just to cool of a stove to throw away right now. It is big though!
Douglas R. Allen
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Funny this is yuppie's pay good money for "retro" appliances styled like that. It's in awesome shape.
That is the original enamel? My 4 year old stove isn't in that nice of a shape!
As a(n) homage to the word police, much like sound people have the polarity vs phase issue and the lighting people have the bulb vs lamp issue, among kitchen people that is a RANGE not a STOVE dagnabbit.
In other kitchen retro, does anyone remember the Servel gas refrigerators? How about the 4 burner ranges where one of the burners was recessed into the top and had a stockpot insert.
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As a(n) homage to the word police, much like sound people have the polarity vs phase issue and the lighting people have the bulb vs lamp issue, among kitchen people that is a RANGE not a STOVE dagnabbit.
In other kitchen retro, does anyone remember the Servel gas refrigerators? How about the 4 burner ranges where one of the burners was recessed into the top and had a stockpot insert.
I grew up with one of those when we upgraded. Before that we put wood for the fire on the right side of the stove (?) and there was water tank on the left side to have hot water. Run out to the wood shed with my runner sled at near 20 below to get wood to fire it up. Put your feet in the middle oven section to warm up after. Nothing like the light of a fire at 2 am dancing in a dark kitchen in a dead calm cold night.
Douglas R. Allen
Sort of like picture I found on the web.
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I'm needing to sell a 100% functioning circa-1950 Westinghouse refrigerator. It is still in use.
Does anyone know or could recommend a company/organization/individual that is interested in "vintage" appliances? I would like to sell the "fridge" to someone who is possibly a collector or to someone who would enjoy restoring it (i.e needs painting). The fridge was purchased (used) for $15 in 1960 and has been in use in my family since then.
I just let the local utility take my 1960's era Frigidaire (complete with GM badges!) for a $50 check in return. It had lived its life as a kegerator for the last 30 years, but as we rotated out our kitchen refrigerator for a new model, a 10-yr old stainless side by side took its place in the basement, and it was time for the old boy to go. The manual defrost every quarter was starting to get a little old as well.
You *might* have some luck with a local props house if someone needed one for for film/theatre. Other than that, see if your local utility has a money-back recycling program.
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As a(n) homage to the word police, much like sound people have the polarity vs phase issue and the lighting people have the bulb vs lamp issue, among kitchen people that is a RANGE not a STOVE dagnabbit.
In other kitchen retro, does anyone remember the Servel gas refrigerators?
Until less than two years ago, my wife, daughter and I owned two tiny islands in Georgian Bay where we had a propane powered Servel that came with the islands and was still fully functional when we sold the islands less than two years ago. All I ever did to the Servel was cleaned it every spring before lighting it up for another season. I'll admit I was considering replacing its door gasket.
In a similar vein, Marly had a 1956 Maytag washer from her first marriage and I was able to keep it fully operational until we purchased a new Maytag sometime in the 1990's. When they delivered our new Maytag Neptune washer and gas dryer, part of the deal was taking away our old Maytags from 1956 and 1958. When the Maytag dealer saw the great condition of our 1956 washer, he gave it display space in his showroom right next to his brand new Neptunes. I can't say the Neptunes were built anywhere near as well, or as serviceable, as our old 1956 and '58 units.
Toodleoo!
Ron Hebbard.
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That is the original enamel? My 4 year old stove isn't in that nice of a shape!
All new appliances in my home after a fire in '07-including Maytag Neptunes. Most of them replaced already-I think the appliance manufacturers took a page out of Bill Gates book and decided that appliances that last aren't good for the bottom line.
There was an old 50's era freezer in the basement of my home when I purchased it-they left it because there was no way to take it out after some remodeling work was done. The basement flooded and ruined the compressor-so I had it replaced by a friend. The freezer at 50 years old had never had refridgerant added-there were no service ports of any kind, all factory original.