This commercial must be around the year 1960, but i am not sure...Westinghouse classic tv commercial - Desi Arnaz, lucille ball, William Frawley from I love Lucy Betty Furness
When my parents bought their first house in 1950 her parents gave them their "old" refrigerator which they had bought right after WWII ended and when they upgraded to a new one. When Mom passed away in 2014 that same Westinghouse fridge was in her garage and still running keeping the soft drinks cold. Now it's in my sister's garage still running and serving the same purpose.
Everything seemed so possible and optimistic in the 50s. Even their commercials are cheerful. And the stuff they're buying looks like it would actually last, unlike the cheap junk we get today.
Probably 1959, before Lucy-Desi announcement of divorce around the time the U-2 was shot down (May 1960). Can still remember Desi saying: "You can be chure if it's Wettinhouse". Toward the end of Betty Furness's reign as Westinghouse Queen. She was previously an RKO contract actress (Swing Time) and later a very good consumer reporter on New York local flagship network local station.
We had a Westinghouse "Laundromat". Ours was and older model with a porthole style window instead of a square window. Had that washer for years. Finally got a new Frigidaire washer on Oct. 1961. It was $300.
Back in the day when an average family size refrigerator was probably under $500 and not the $2,000-$3,000 it cost today. Everything was just so much more easy going back then. Even appliances !
That is because it was the greatest USA made, not cheap Chinese JUNK appliances today that break and die in 3-10 months, those idiots are filling our landfills- BUY USA MADE VINTAGE!!!
That refrigerator was $200 in 1959, which is the same as $2100 today, inflation-adjusted. Appliances back then were built better because they were expensive items, people expected to get what they were paying for. You can buy a basic 14-15 cu ft fridge/freezer similar to that for $600 today, less than 1/3 the price in 1959, which explains why modern appliances are junk.
@@mahumike7531 But, I also read by 1955, Ethel (Vivian Vance) demanded she wore nicer & more stylish clothes than she wore during her first three seasons on the show
There is no way that washing machine had a “computer” in it. The microprocessor hadn’t been invented yet and if it ran on vacuum tubes it would have been the size of the room.
That "programmed computer " dryer was probably not to elaborate. It could have had transistors and a very crude integrated circuit with a quartz crystal for the clock....These were already out by 1958 and the transistor by 1950.
the appliances here - vintage USA in this video are SUPERB they were always SUPERB, not like today's Chinese JUNK appliances that die in about 6 months
