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Post by ckfan on Feb 14, 2018 2:48:37 GMT
Awesome picture! I think the device under the sink is a disposal. Or an electric pig as they were called back then.
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Post by Travis on Feb 14, 2018 4:39:19 GMT
That’s an electric sink (dishwasher).
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Post by ckfan on Feb 14, 2018 12:52:23 GMT
That’s an electric sink (dishwasher). Oh wow. I wouldn’t think it would have been that since it’s that shallow. Very strange.
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Post by Travis on Feb 14, 2018 17:15:01 GMT
Ray, you have to remember the size of vintage washers and that a wife was a homemaker at this time. These were for the well off, not the rich as they may have still had servents.
Few of these were sold and very few remain. You can just imagine the weight of that as cast iron. Dishwashers really didn’t get more popular until the mid 1950’s. The prosperity of the time and the number of new homes built probably pushed them into the market for the middle class.
Then again, my grandparents never had one and the last one passed in 2012. There was always a fear about water and the well.
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Post by elec573 on Feb 15, 2018 3:08:28 GMT
Dishwasher was my guess also but didn’t think they had them back then . If you look on the bottom there is a motor. That had to be one sturdy sink . But really liked the old pictures. Thanks for posting them !
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