@@RStark-ek7mh I absolutely 💯 % hated All in the Family ‼️. Archie hated everybody and mentally abused his wife. I saw that when it 1️⃣st aired and knew it wasn't for me.
@@dianetheisen8664 "All in the Family" is the best-written and acted TV show in history IMO. You are looking in a mirror in life. You stated you "100% hated" the show. Why? Archie hated everything! Your negativity is a shadow that you project onto others instead of owning it within yourself. I bet you voted for President Brandon too. I know your ilk like the back of my hand. Full of hate but flinging your inner feces on others.
Howard Wiggins-I remember an episode of I Love Lucy (I think it was Pioneer Women) where Lucy and Ethel wanted Ricky and Fred to go out and buy them each a dishwasher because they didn't want to get dishpan hands. Ricky's response to Fred? They want us to buy them some rubber gloves! 😄😄😄😄😄😄
That was a very modern looking refrigerator. I remember going to someone's house in the 70s and they had a dishwasher on wheels that was hooked to the sink faucet when in use. These are priceless promos. Thanks for posting.
The '70's? Come to MY house dude. I STILL have one! LOL I inherited/still live in my family home. My parents bought their first dishwasher around 1970ish. It was a top loader like this one. They replaced it around 1991 and that's the one I'm STILL using! Only its a front loader. A Maytag. And it still works like the day they bought it! I've only had ONE repair done to it! I can't see losing cabinet space to put a permanent one in under the counter!
@@retroguy9494 That's cool. Sometime in the late 70s my Dad got me and my brother to join him in giving my mom a dishwasher for Christmas (or birthday- I forget). It was an under-counter Kitchenaide. If the new owners haven't renovated the kitchen I bet it still works today.
@@MillerMeteor74 Awesome! I remember after my parents got their first dishwasher, my step grandfather gave my grandmother a dishwasher for Christmas. A portable one like ours. I still remember him taking my mother to help him pick it out. That was back when most people dealt with a sole proprietor small appliance store before all the big corporate box stores put them out of business!
This goes further back! These aren’t “Boomers” (with the possible exception of “Little Ricky”). This is the “Greatest Generation” with the exception of “Fred” who was part of the “Lost Generation.” Great actors from a truly groundbreaking show.
@@trey87 i think you mean Desi lol. The original comment was referring to lil Ricky being in the boomer generation as he (Keith) was born in the early 1950’s
I've always had great luck with Westinghouse appliances. My parents bought a Westinghouse dishwasher when they moved into their first house in 1963 and it gave them 40 years of nearly trouble free service.
Well, my parents only had TWO in 50 years. I'm in my family home and STILL using the 2nd one and its over 30 years old. Still works like the day it was bought! Only its a Maytag.
My grandmother had a Frigidaire that she bought right after WW2, and it was still running just fine when she passed in 1981. My mom took it and hooked it up in her garage, and it ran into 2005, when she donated it to the thrift store. I didn't know she had gotten rid of it or I would have taken it. I'm 60 and I miss the old folks. True story...
I heard a psychologist on a TEDtalk about 3 years ago who said, "Anyone who tends to use phrases such as "honest to God," "to tell the truth," and "True story" are almost always lying.
Johnathan, I'm 66 and I miss the old folks to. I miss the furniture and the appliances of that era. I really miss the old black & white television shows and commercials. Gee, I wish I could go back to the old niegborhood and ride my bike. 😥
@@Ephemeral2023 I'll tell you an even BETTER one. My father, who is still alive and in his 90's bought a brand new RCA flat screen TV about 8 or 9 years ago from Sears. It didn't work right out of the box. He immediately called Sears (within an hour of him leaving the store) and they refused to replace it, saying it was a 'warranty issue.' I got on the phone and they said we needed to deal with the manufacturer because once it leaves the store, its a warranty issue. I said "you want me to call CHINA?" They gave me a number in California (we're on the east coast) who gave us the runaround. Then they wanted us to ship the TV to them so they could see if it was 'repairable.' My father got so disgusted he bought another TV (an LG) and we ended up throwing the other one away.
Love this. I have a couple of tattered copies of the Betty Furness Westinghouse Cookbook. It was a bestseller in the early 1950s, filled with classic recipes for all-American food.
We retired our Westinghouse fridge after nearly twenty years. It STILL ran--mom didn't like it was white when the rest of her appliances were copper-colored. Today's appliances are Asia-produced trash--with planned obsolescence.
Yep. Back when corporations stood for American pride and quality. Now its all about nothing but profit and making the commies in China wealthy with their cheap parts!
Lucy and Dezi and Westinghouse had to have paid them lots of money to star together on their show and also this commercial, otherwise they would have either quit or killed each other. One reason is Dezi was friends with William Frawley and Lucy was friends with Vivian Vance.
@@dennisraatz3406 Dennis, you are right. Frawley was a drunk and showed up on set drunk. Arnez told him that if he kept it up he would be fired. And as he story goes Frawley did clean up his act somewhat.
@@charlesclager6808 Frawley white knuckled his performances. The tiny B & W sets of the 50s covered his shakes. Remastered prints on large monitors show this, like when they were in the Paris cafe, his menu is shaking hard. Remasters reveal Desi's acne scarring as well
Frawley overheard Vance saying " who would believe I'm married to that old coot?" when I Love Lucy first started. He shouted out " Hey. Desi! Where did you find that dried up cunt?" It was fireworks from that time on. While Vance was young and glamorous in her mind only, the truth is she really wasn't the type to play Frawley's wife- who was suppose to be a hard-bitten NY landlady. Lucy knew it and said so but Desi found Vance for the show and by the time Lucy saw her, the first episode was about to go on. Lucy wanted an old battle-ax type to make her look younger. But Desi was used to show girls so Vance must have struck him as dumpy enough. In time Lucy came to respect Vance's professional hard work and the two became friends. When Bill Frawley died in the 1960's, Vivian Vance exclaimed " Champagne for everyone!!!!" Frawley was the opposite of the type Vance liked. She went for campy theater guys and her last husband was gay.
I got up in the middle of the night to get myself a midnight snack. I opened the refrigerator and found a squirrel inside. "What are you doing inside my refrigerator, Mr. Squirrel?" I asked. "This is a Westinghouse, isn't it?" he replied. "Yeah. So?" "I'm westing."
After going through, I can't tell you how many blenders, in a few years, I remembered my parents had one made by Waring. I looked up one on eBay, circa 1952, and got it. Glass, metal, no plastic. It's a beast and still working great - 15 years later.
On the other hand, Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock had it in their contracts that they would NOT directly "shill" for their sponsors during the program. In fact, Hitch turned his disdain for being interrupted by his sponsor's messages into a memorable part of his program.
They were actors and they deserved to be paid for their applying their professional skills in the commercial. So did Keith Thibodeaux (a.k.a. Keith Richard) in the follow-up.
I'm old enough to remember frost unfree refrigerators and believe me, they were terrible. You had to unplug the thing to wait for the frost to melt. Some people would hack at the ice build up with a pick and puncture the metal. The longer you waited to defrost the worse it got.
We had a Frigidaire and defrosting that was an ugly job no one wanted to do. It took my mom all day and when she was all finished, my dad used to yell at us not to stand there with the refrigerator door open deciding what to eat. I think I did this job once and then frost free came out, They were much better but an awful lot of really warm air came out of the bottom. It really heated up the kitchen!
I don't know what happened with women. If you look back through history, even back to ancient Rome/Greece/Egypt women always dressed nice. Unless you were of a lower class and did some kind of laborious work. Today, we get stretch pants, tees and sweatshirts, hair like rats nests, no makeup, etc. When and why did women stop taking pride in their appearance?
Not a tattoo in sight. Multi colored hair, nose, face rings, leggings that look like they were painted on 400 lb tubs of lard, to boot. 200 lbs in the caboose alone. Not an F bomb every 5 minutes, and not a MAJOR self centered attitude in sight. Wow . How the good ole USA has gone down the 💩
I remember when my mother used to have to defrost our refrigerator. She would have to take all the frozen food out, put it in a picnic cooler, and she removed the cork plug so that water could drain out and she used a pan to collect the water.
That refrigerator in the opening scene that Vivian is struggling with reminded me of the one my parents had until my sister broke it when defrosting it in 1970. Yet, up to that time my dad spent thousands on a hi-fi stereo console system and newer upscale cars to impress the neighbors, but, up until 1970 he deprived the family of the modern convenience of a refrigerator with a fully separate frost-free freezer compartment. It was paradoxical until one understood that some American men, of that era, were prone to be flashy with showing-off material items; where a newer model refrigerator/freezer was not flashy to show off.
Now, THAT was great! Took me back. Had NO idea Fred, Ethel and Little Ricky did plugs for Westinghouse -- good old Betty Furness -- always impeccably dressed and could sell water to a pool company! lol Great video
Oh man! I'm old enough that as a kid when we were poo'h back in the early 80's I had to defrost refrigerators from the 1940's and 50's. That we had. The landlord supplied refrigerators back then. The 40's one was a GM/Frigidaire and the 50's one was a Sears Coldspot. It really sucked to do that. I would get a hair dryer to melt the ice and a butter knife to get the hard-to-get iced areas around the miniscule freezer without messing up the back tubes. That really sucked man. Ethel Mertz is so right.
@@mrpoohbearlvr We got frostfree fridge in 1998 and a few months later we had a fire in our apartment building and believe me that the only thing I missed was that fridge because it meant that I didn't have to defrost anymore. It was labor intensive an all day job for Saturdays. We ended up in a older building with a 1940's fridge no more free Saturdays.
HAHA! I remember my grandparents had a Coldspot refrigerator! As a real little boy, I remember thinking how cheap it looked compared to my parents General Electric. And as I recall, one of my aunts had a Hotpoint. Which was also a Sears product. Of course, that was back when Sears was reliable and sold good stuff!
@@garymattscheck9066 I actually have a small upright freezer which still needs to be defrosted. I had it in a small beach house I used to own and when I sold it, I moved it to my regular house. I just didn't want to pay the extra money for a frost free. I have a big upright, but I keep this one as backup.
@@blueskysailing this has got to be from about 1959 the year I was born … early the following year the arnezes got divorced and their Westinghouse contract was finished
Those early frost-free refrig/freezers were energy hogs. My parents had an early 1970s model in avocado green that lasted 20 years. Upon replacement with a 1990s model, their monthly electric bill averaged 50 percent less.
My parents bought a turquoise frost free refrigerator In the late 60s and in 1968 we moved into our new “modern house” my mother wanted avocado green appliances in the kitchen so my dad took the refrigerator to a automotive paint shop, and had it painted avocado green to match the other appliances in the kitchen. I moved out of the house in 1979 and that refrigerator was still going strong. I don’t remember what brand it was but it was a good one. I think they had it about 18 to 20 years.
I bought a house which had two of those refrigerators, one in the house and one in the garage. I replaced both with a new energy efficient refrigerator and one freezer, and my light bill came down $80. That was in the 90's.
I call BS the new models they have today will save you some money on energy yet will they last 20/25 or longer years? & that is where the bigger saving comes into the picture - Some of you may think these vintage units will be energy hogs. But the models of the late 30s to late 50s were mostly not "frost-free" or "self-defrosting" and also remember that electricity was relatively expensive back then, so they DID try for efficiency in those days. The trick is that while the unit will draw a little more power when running and especially during start-up for about 3 seconds, it runs a lot less overall than newer units. Only in the mid-1960 when everyone wanted "frost-free" units did energy consumption soar. The units made after 1960 or so are much more square-shaped. The inefficiency continued until the late 1970s or early 1980s after the second oil and energy crisis. If the fridge was frost-free or frostless, it could easily use 60% to 70% more power in that era, often defrosting and recooling even if no one opened the doors much. Then, mandated by the federal government, the manufacturers began to make the units more efficient. After 2000 the units became really efficient, but the trade-off is the new compressors are cheaply made, mostly overseas, they run hotter, have cheap start relays that malfunction and the compressors rarely last more than 10 years, regardless of what you spend on a new fridge... $400 or $3500. So keep in mind that you'll either be replacing a fridge every 10 years or paying for a costly (average $750.00) compressor replacement. Which is why I like the old refrigerators and freezers so much... 6o years later they still keep on quietly running and there is no reason they can't make it to 100 years if you treat them well! Most of the older units do very well, as long as the doors close well and are airtight and the insulation( usually fiberglass ) is dry. The unit should not run more than about 50-60 percent of the time at 70 degrees F ambient for older fridges. I have one that runs for 5 minutes, and then stays off for another 18 minutes, and sold another one that ran for 7 minutes and stays off for almost half an hour, and that's with the fridge holding at about 34 degrees inside! I tested several older refrigerators and freezers with an amp meter and found them using only 1.6 to about 3 amps! That means 180 to 360 watts at 120 volts. Figure that the average unit runs about 35% to 60% of the time and you can see the power usage is low. Many units from the late '60s to 1980s pull higher overall amperage, around 4 amps or even close to 5 amps. Note that you cannot rely on the metal tag or paper sticker, almost any fridge shows at least 5 amps and is quite meaningless. If the temperature is too cold even after adjusting the thermostat it may be broken, or if it is a single-door fridge there should be a flap or baffle to control freezer airflow into the fridge portion to help regulate temperature.
Remember the fridge we had when I was little 70 years ago. The freezer was this little Tony box that hung down in the middle of the fridge. No bulk buying then. Couldn't even out a chicken in there. Ice tray and pint of ice cream.
Our family had a top loading portable dishwasher, I don't remember what brand it was, a utensil or something fell into the impeller stage during use, jammed up the motor. Back to doing dishes by hand.
That was the only kind of ice trays my grandpa would ever use. And he would only drink out of a metal cup. I think it was metal. But the only cup he would ever use
Those were the days when things were made to last also... I had used the same toaster my parents had when I was little until I was almost 60 myself... No BS! Try that with anything these days... Add to that it was almost all American-made... Corporations got cheaper and cheaper as time went on and then we got screwed along the way... We did our part also buying cheaper and cheaper crap...
During the 1990s I was watching an episode of FATHER KNOWS BEST (1954-60) and they had our electric Sunbeam Mixer that we were still using! (My parents married in 1956)
They DO. I deal with a sole proprietor appliance repair shop that my family has used for the last 50 years. The original owner retired and his long time assistant bought the business from him. He tell me stories all the time of doing minor repairs to these old machines. Some of them the original owner sold to them back in the day because he also used to have a store.
This stuff is priceless! A real little piece of America right here.... for all of us to still enjoy, after all these years. Still great stuff, & a lot of fun to see Fred & Ethel going at each other, as it should be. They were great together - even though, apparently, in real life they hated each other's guts!
The truth is, these refridgerators were probably great for the time. Whoever bought them in the 1950's when this commercial aired, probably kept using them well into the early 1970s. Old appliances, made in the USA, were really that good.
Thanks for these! I have seen some of the Lucy-Desi-Fred-Ethel Westinghouse long commercials, but not these! Now I can die happy. Now that I watched the 2nd commercial with Fred and Little Ricky, that portable dishwasher seems like a pain in the ass! You gotta roll it over to your sink, attach the hoses, and plug it in each time you wash your dishes? As Little Ricky would say, "YEESH!"
A rare commercial featuring William Frawley & Vivian Vance for Westinghouse appliances. Nowadays, we're lucky to catch celebrities in prescription drug commercials. 👩🏼⚕️
This Westinghouse frost free fridge would be the beginning of frost free REFRIGERATORS. The very first refridgerators used Ammonia for the freon/gas . Later R12 came into the scene which is cfc. Damaging to the ozone. Now days there is R134a. And other types of ozone safe refrigerants.
"Oh, Fred..." In that inimitable Ethel Mertz voice of exasperation, of course, still resonates in my head as a nostalgic reminder of the halcyon days of the Lucy show.
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Still a handsome Fridge, even by 2022 standards.
I would love that fridge!
I bet it still works today while our new ones break every 6 months
...I know, seriously, I'd love to have one now. ❤
If it does all the things that Betty Furness says it does then where can I get one?
My auntie in NH still has her 1955 Westinghouse fridge...it's great. Still works fine. My dad bought it for the family while still a student at UNH🦁
When Betty Furness talked, you believed her! And seeing Ethel and Fred is great!
johnfd210-So THAT'S who it was?
@@kevinmiller6380 Yes. She was spokeswoman for Westinghouse for years, and then became a well regarded consumer advocate.
I would bet that fridge still works to this day!
@@standindanmcvey5410 ....................and I bet in today's dollar it would cost you $65 bucks a month to run it.
Those commercials are an absolute hoot, you'd figure a lot of stuff would be gone after all this time but luckily it's still here to watch & enjoy
@@RStark-ek7mh Oh, shut up. We’re trying to enjoy some television.
@@wellesradio Right-On!
@@RStark-ek7mh I absolutely 💯 % hated All in the Family ‼️. Archie hated everybody and mentally abused his wife. I saw that when it 1️⃣st aired and knew it wasn't for me.
@@dianetheisen8664 "All in the Family" is the best-written and acted TV show in history IMO. You are looking in a mirror in life. You stated you "100% hated" the show. Why? Archie hated everything! Your negativity is a shadow that you project onto others instead of owning it within yourself. I bet you voted for President Brandon too. I know your ilk like the back of my hand. Full of hate but flinging your inner feces on others.
@@RStark-ek7mh You got whooshed
If Fred Mertz the cheapskate is willing to fork over the money for a Westinghouse No-Frost Refrigerator, then that's good enough for me. I'm sold!
He bought it used and haggled the clerk to death :P
Considering William Frawley and Vivian Vance hated each other, how were they persuaded to make this commercial?
@@kevinmiller6380 : 💰💵💰💵💰Money has a funny way of making peace, if even just for a commercial………..😉
Howard Wiggins-I remember an episode of I Love Lucy (I think it was Pioneer Women) where Lucy and Ethel wanted Ricky and Fred to go out and buy them each a dishwasher because they didn't want to get dishpan hands. Ricky's response to Fred? They want us to buy them some rubber gloves! 😄😄😄😄😄😄
Well, after all, Fred did buy Ethel a Handy-Dandy washing machine in episode #45, so he could once in a while be persuaded to buy good appliances! Lol
We could enjoy watching the Mertz's argue even in a four-minute appliance commercial. Thanks for sharing this rarely shown video.
My husband sold appliances in the '60s and '70s. Westinghouse was always a big push. They had good products and also innovative electronics.
There was healthy competition among manufacturers at that time!
Westinghouse made real good stuff
That was a very modern looking refrigerator. I remember going to someone's house in the 70s and they had a dishwasher on wheels that was hooked to the sink faucet when in use. These are priceless promos. Thanks for posting.
The '70's? Come to MY house dude. I STILL have one! LOL I inherited/still live in my family home. My parents bought their first dishwasher around 1970ish. It was a top loader like this one. They replaced it around 1991 and that's the one I'm STILL using! Only its a front loader. A Maytag. And it still works like the day they bought it! I've only had ONE repair done to it! I can't see losing cabinet space to put a permanent one in under the counter!
@@retroguy9494 That's cool. Sometime in the late 70s my Dad got me and my brother to join him in giving my mom a dishwasher for Christmas (or birthday- I forget). It was an under-counter Kitchenaide. If the new owners haven't renovated the kitchen I bet it still works today.
@@MillerMeteor74 Awesome! I remember after my parents got their first dishwasher, my step grandfather gave my grandmother a dishwasher for Christmas. A portable one like ours. I still remember him taking my mother to help him pick it out. That was back when most people dealt with a sole proprietor small appliance store before all the big corporate box stores put them out of business!
My mom in the '70s had a washing machine that you hooked up to the kitchen sink that was great in the 70s
@@ruthpullis9279 There was actually an I Love Lucy episode that featured one of those! Yes, they WERE good, especially if you lived in an apartment!
This goes further back! These aren’t “Boomers” (with the possible exception of “Little Ricky”). This is the “Greatest Generation” with the exception of “Fred” who was part of the “Lost Generation.” Great actors from a truly groundbreaking show.
hahahaha what a NOOB - "boomers" grew up watching those TV ads hahahahaha what a NOOB
Fred would have an Ice box , straight razor and a horse in the garage
@@trey87 i think you mean Desi lol. The original comment was referring to lil Ricky being in the boomer generation as he (Keith) was born in the early 1950’s
@@chuckie102883 Whoops! You are correct. Desi Arnaz! And you are correct. I read the entire post wrong.
I think it means they were a television staple for us Boomers.lol
I've always had great luck with Westinghouse appliances. My parents bought a Westinghouse dishwasher when they moved into their first house in 1963 and it gave them 40 years of nearly trouble free service.
Well, my parents only had TWO in 50 years. I'm in my family home and STILL using the 2nd one and its over 30 years old. Still works like the day it was bought! Only its a Maytag.
I have a Westinghouse washing machine, had it for over 20 yrs, still going strong.
@@ADDrecords Wonderful! Actually the "Lamonte" in my case is French. Have a great day today!
That may have been :the golden age of a dishwasher lasting more then two years.'
It would never last that long today. Everything is made not to last in China.
My grandmother had a Frigidaire that she bought right after WW2, and it was still running just fine when she passed in 1981. My mom took it and hooked it up in her garage, and it ran into 2005, when she donated it to the thrift store. I didn't know she had gotten rid of it or I would have taken it. I'm 60 and I miss the old folks. True story...
Those were the good ole days
I heard a psychologist on a TEDtalk about 3 years ago who said, "Anyone who tends to use phrases such as "honest to God," "to tell the truth," and "True story" are almost always lying.
I like that story.
@@jb6712 Thanks for the cheerful message...
Johnathan, I'm 66 and I miss the old folks to. I miss the furniture and the appliances of that era. I really miss the old black & white television shows and commercials. Gee, I wish I could go back to the old niegborhood and ride my bike. 😥
Betty Furness - fashion icon. She looked good in everything.
Wonderful; appliances made then in USA lasted decades.
"You can be sure, if it's Westinghouse". I still remember that catch phrase....proving, i'm definitely a product of advertising.
@@Ephemeral2023 I didn't know Westinghouse made televisions! Of course, back THEN if you wanted a quality set you bought an RCA, Zenith or Admiral.
@@Ephemeral2023 I'll tell you an even BETTER one. My father, who is still alive and in his 90's bought a brand new RCA flat screen TV about 8 or 9 years ago from Sears. It didn't work right out of the box. He immediately called Sears (within an hour of him leaving the store) and they refused to replace it, saying it was a 'warranty issue.' I got on the phone and they said we needed to deal with the manufacturer because once it leaves the store, its a warranty issue. I said "you want me to call CHINA?" They gave me a number in California (we're on the east coast) who gave us the runaround. Then they wanted us to ship the TV to them so they could see if it was 'repairable.' My father got so disgusted he bought another TV (an LG) and we ended up throwing the other one away.
Don't squeeze Betty Furness! I think I'm getting two commercials mixed up.
@@Ephemeral2023 not really a Westinghouse, some crap Chinese company bought the name.
@@retroguy9494 we had a Stromberg Carlson, next best to a Dumont!
that fridge is very attractive - even by 2022 standards, and it's so cool to see "little ricky" in a commercial! :)
Yeah, little Ricky was so cute.
I'm guessing this was a moneymaking interlude for him between Lucy and his stint on the Andy Griffith Show as one of Opies' buddies.
It's videos like this that make RUclips so enjoyable.
This was a huge step In technology for Westinghouse!!!!
These commercials are way better than most tv shows are today.😍😍😍😍😍
Good one! And a true one!
@@marjoryrainey73 Remember 📞 Call for Philip Morris.!!💘 L .O. L.😅😅😅😅😅
Yeah, today's commercial's are mostly medical!
@@terrystroud200 no! But I do remember Phillip Morris!
@@terrystroud200 Who here remembers L.S. / M.F.T. ? 🙂
Love this. I have a couple of tattered copies of the Betty Furness Westinghouse Cookbook. It was a bestseller in the early 1950s, filled with classic recipes for all-American food.
And that fridge is still running to this day. Unlike the garbage produced today.
I wouldn't be surprised. 🙋
HAHAHAHA SO TRUE ..MY LG COMPRESSOR LASTED A WHOLE 1 /1/2 YEARS
@@tandemrudy2014 As an appliance company, they make great phones.
I bet that dishwasher filled with water and done in 10 min unlike now a 1/2 gallon of water and hour to do a half ass job.
We retired our Westinghouse fridge after nearly twenty years. It STILL ran--mom didn't like it was white when the rest of her appliances were copper-colored. Today's appliances are Asia-produced trash--with planned obsolescence.
I love Vivian Vance
This is back in a time when brand name recognition meant something. Companies took pride in their products
My parents had appliances that lasted forever, now everything is ready for the landfill after 5 to 7 years .
And they were genuinely made in the USA back then.
Yep. Back when corporations stood for American pride and quality. Now its all about nothing but profit and making the commies in China wealthy with their cheap parts!
@@retroguy9494 100%
@@madmike8325 👍
My grandmother got that same fridge about 1961
What colors?
Frawley and Vance hated each other which makes this commercial a real gem.
Seems appropriate that they would do a refrigerator/freezer commercial together, given how cold they were toward one another.
Lucy and Dezi and Westinghouse had to have paid them lots of money to star together on their show and also this commercial, otherwise they would have either quit or killed each other. One reason is Dezi was friends with William Frawley and Lucy was friends with Vivian Vance.
@@dennisraatz3406
Dennis, you are right. Frawley was a drunk and showed up on set drunk. Arnez told him that if he kept it up he would be fired. And as he story goes Frawley did clean up his act somewhat.
@@charlesclager6808 Frawley white knuckled his performances. The tiny B & W sets of the 50s covered his shakes. Remastered prints on large monitors show this, like when they were in the Paris cafe, his menu is shaking hard. Remasters reveal Desi's acne scarring as well
Frawley overheard Vance saying " who would believe I'm married to that old coot?" when I Love Lucy first started. He shouted out " Hey. Desi! Where did you find that dried up cunt?" It was fireworks from that time on. While Vance was young and glamorous in her mind only, the truth is she really wasn't the type to play Frawley's wife- who was suppose to be a hard-bitten NY landlady. Lucy knew it and said so but Desi found Vance for the show and by the time Lucy saw her, the first episode was about to go on. Lucy wanted an old battle-ax type to make her look younger. But Desi was used to show girls so Vance must have struck him as dumpy enough. In time Lucy came to respect Vance's professional hard work and the two became friends.
When Bill Frawley died in the 1960's, Vivian Vance exclaimed " Champagne for everyone!!!!" Frawley was the opposite of the type Vance liked. She went for campy theater guys and her last husband was gay.
I’ll take one! I need a new one.
I got up in the middle of the night to get myself a midnight snack. I opened the refrigerator and found a squirrel inside.
"What are you doing inside my refrigerator, Mr. Squirrel?" I asked.
"This is a Westinghouse, isn't it?" he replied.
"Yeah. So?"
"I'm westing."
A Golden oldie! LOL!
@@kelvinthompson1660 Yup. I stole that silly joke from Readers Digest years and years ago.
first time hearing it 😂. Thank you 🤗
LOL
I heard that joke probably sixty years ago. Stupid but somewhat humorous.
"You been talking to that Betty Furness again!" Hilarious!
I'm so glad we have these videos to watch today .......what a classic TV show
After going through, I can't tell you how many blenders, in a few years, I remembered my parents had one made by Waring. I looked up one on eBay, circa 1952, and got it. Glass, metal, no plastic. It's a beast and still working great - 15 years later.
My mom have this Westinghouse for 50 years still running
Yep, loved Westinghouse 👍🏼
It's neat seeing little Ricky.
It must have been in Vivian and William's contract to do a commercial together because I doubt they'd volunteer to work together 😂
That was a standard TV contract thing in the 1940s-1950s, and actors took it for granted that they'd be doing those... It was just part of the job.
On the other hand, Walt Disney and Alfred Hitchcock had it in their contracts that they would NOT directly "shill" for their sponsors during the program. In fact, Hitch turned his disdain for being interrupted by his sponsor's messages into a memorable part of his program.
I LOVED the way Hitch used to poke fun a the sponsors during his program! It was a hoot!
No, they got paid extra to do them and they got paid a lot
They were actors and they deserved to be paid for their applying their professional skills in the commercial. So did Keith Thibodeaux (a.k.a. Keith Richard) in the follow-up.
I'm old enough to remember frost unfree refrigerators and believe me, they were terrible. You had to unplug the thing to wait for the frost to melt. Some people would hack at the ice build up with a pick and puncture the metal. The longer you waited to defrost the worse it got.
My Mom used to take a day to defrost the refrigerator. No lie.
We used to boil water to speed up melting. Smh a pita! Lol
I used a hairdryer and metal spatula.
My mom boiled a pot of water and put it in the freezer to hasten the defrosting.
We had a Frigidaire and defrosting that was an ugly job no one wanted to do.
It took my mom all day and when she was all finished, my dad used to yell at us not to stand there with the refrigerator door open deciding what to eat. I think I did this job once and then frost free came out, They were much better but an awful lot of really warm air came out of the bottom. It really heated up the kitchen!
The Mertzes. Omg I love this!
The good old days.
My grandfather worked for Westinghouse back then
Like I said appliances were made so much better back in the day. 🥰
“You’ve been talkin to that *BETTY FURNESS* again…”
I just loved the way the women dressed back in the days .
Me also but even more so , the Pre Code movies wardrobes !
I don't know what happened with women. If you look back through history, even back to ancient Rome/Greece/Egypt women always dressed nice. Unless you were of a lower class and did some kind of laborious work. Today, we get stretch pants, tees and sweatshirts, hair like rats nests, no makeup, etc. When and why did women stop taking pride in their appearance?
Not a tattoo in sight. Multi colored hair, nose, face rings, leggings that look like they were painted on 400 lb tubs of lard, to boot. 200 lbs in the caboose alone. Not an F bomb every 5 minutes, and not a MAJOR self centered attitude in sight. Wow . How the good ole USA has gone down the 💩
@@patricialavallee8286 Yeppers. You about summed up EXACTLY what I was thinking when I posted MY comment on this thread!
Yes, and paying plenty of money to dress down.
I remember when my mother used to have to defrost our refrigerator. She would have to take all the frozen food out, put it in a picnic cooler, and she removed the cork plug so that water could drain out and she used a pan to collect the water.
Keeping hamburger meat fresh without freezing for 7 days.
190 pounds of frozen foods!
That thing was huge...hell I would buy that refrigerator now...
Ole Fred and Ethel 😂 I loved I love lucy!
I bet that Fridge still works not like the ones made now !
Even now, that's a pretty neat looking fridge.
ewww!
That refrigerator in the opening scene that Vivian is struggling with reminded me of the one my parents had until my sister broke it when defrosting it in 1970. Yet, up to that time my dad spent thousands on a hi-fi stereo console system and newer upscale cars to impress the neighbors, but, up until 1970 he deprived the family of the modern convenience of a refrigerator with a fully separate frost-free freezer compartment. It was paradoxical until one understood that some American men, of that era, were prone to be flashy with showing-off material items; where a newer model refrigerator/freezer was not flashy to show off.
Now, THAT was great! Took me back. Had NO idea Fred, Ethel and Little Ricky did plugs for Westinghouse -- good old Betty Furness -- always impeccably dressed and could sell water to a pool company! lol Great video
Love it.
What fun😊
thank you so much for posting this. I was born in 72 and grew up watching them and I have never seen these :)
Awesome! It's always great and a bit amazing to see Fred and Ethel in something I'd never ever seen, or heard of, before!
Thank you!
1960 - We're approaching the zenith.
(Glad I was alive to experience it.) 🤠
No, you aren't approaching the Zenith until you go into the living room!
Nice dishwasher. Westinghouse had great appliances.
Ah yes!! The days when appliances were made in America and lasted 20-40 years.
There are still appliances made in the USA. And my Whirlpool refrigerator has been running for 23 years now.
Many were made in canada by canadian westinghouse.
Now that's how you sell a product lol I want one
Oh man! I'm old enough that as a kid when we were poo'h back in the early 80's I had to defrost refrigerators from the 1940's and 50's. That we had. The landlord supplied refrigerators back then.
The 40's one was a GM/Frigidaire and the 50's one was a Sears Coldspot. It really sucked to do that. I would get a hair dryer to melt the ice and a butter knife to get the hard-to-get iced areas around the miniscule freezer without messing up the back tubes. That really sucked man. Ethel Mertz is so right.
I remember helping my mom do the same thing in the 60-70's!!! We didn't get frost free till late 1970's! That's poor. ,😋
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We got frostfree fridge in 1998 and a few months later we had a fire in our apartment building and believe me that the only thing I missed was that fridge because it meant that I didn't have to defrost anymore. It was labor intensive an all day job for Saturdays. We ended up in a older building with a 1940's fridge no more free Saturdays.
HAHA! I remember my grandparents had a Coldspot refrigerator! As a real little boy, I remember thinking how cheap it looked compared to my parents General Electric. And as I recall, one of my aunts had a Hotpoint. Which was also a Sears product. Of course, that was back when Sears was reliable and sold good stuff!
I still do it with mine.
@@garymattscheck9066 I actually have a small upright freezer which still needs to be defrosted. I had it in a small beach house I used to own and when I sold it, I moved it to my regular house. I just didn't want to pay the extra money for a frost free. I have a big upright, but I keep this one as backup.
We have a nice 2022 fridge and I get frost! Are these still available? 😂
It's probably junk made in Asia.
Thanks for sharing!
That Refrigerator would look good right on through to the present day, no kidding.
These were great looking and well built refrigerators
Never seen this before. Liked this
Me neither! I'm 65 years old.
This is probebly mid 50's as I calculate by little Ricky's stage of growth. But I definitely remember "I love Lucy "
Me either and I'm 75. 🙋
@@blueskysailing this has got to be from about 1959 the year I was born … early the following year the arnezes got divorced and their Westinghouse contract was finished
Those early frost-free refrig/freezers were energy hogs. My parents had an early 1970s model in avocado green that lasted 20 years. Upon replacement with a 1990s model, their monthly electric bill averaged 50 percent less.
My parents bought a turquoise frost free refrigerator In the late 60s and in 1968 we moved into our new “modern house” my mother wanted avocado green appliances in the kitchen so my dad took the refrigerator to a automotive paint shop, and had it painted avocado green to match the other appliances in the kitchen. I moved out of the house in 1979 and that refrigerator was still going strong. I don’t remember what brand it was but it was a good one. I think they had it about 18 to 20 years.
I bought a house which had two of those refrigerators, one in the house and one in the garage. I replaced both with a new energy efficient refrigerator and one freezer, and my light bill came down $80. That was in the 90's.
I call BS the new models they have today will save you some money on energy yet will they last 20/25 or longer years? & that is where the bigger saving comes into the picture - Some of you may think these vintage units will be energy hogs. But the models of the late 30s to late 50s were mostly not "frost-free" or "self-defrosting" and also remember that electricity was relatively expensive back then, so they DID try for efficiency in those days. The trick is that while the unit will draw a little more power when running and especially during start-up for about 3 seconds, it runs a lot less overall than newer units. Only in the mid-1960 when everyone wanted "frost-free" units did energy consumption soar. The units made after 1960 or so are much more square-shaped. The inefficiency continued until the late 1970s or early 1980s after the second oil and energy crisis. If the fridge was frost-free or frostless, it could easily use 60% to 70% more power in that era, often defrosting and recooling even if no one opened the doors much. Then, mandated by the federal government, the manufacturers began to make the units more efficient. After 2000 the units became really efficient, but the trade-off is the new compressors are cheaply made, mostly overseas, they run hotter, have cheap start relays that malfunction and the compressors rarely last more than 10 years, regardless of what you spend on a new fridge... $400 or $3500. So keep in mind that you'll either be replacing a fridge every 10 years or paying for a costly (average $750.00) compressor replacement. Which is why I like the old refrigerators and freezers so much... 6o years later they still keep on quietly running and there is no reason they can't make it to 100 years if you treat them well! Most of the older units do very well, as long as the doors close well and are airtight and the insulation( usually fiberglass ) is dry. The unit should not run more than about 50-60 percent of the time at 70 degrees F ambient for older fridges. I have one that runs for 5 minutes, and then stays off for another 18 minutes, and sold another one that ran for 7 minutes and stays off for almost half an hour, and that's with the fridge holding at about 34 degrees inside! I tested several older refrigerators and freezers with an amp meter and found them using only 1.6 to about 3 amps! That means 180 to 360 watts at 120 volts. Figure that the average unit runs about 35% to 60% of the time and you can see the power usage is low. Many units from the late '60s to 1980s pull higher overall amperage, around 4 amps or even close to 5 amps. Note that you cannot rely on the metal tag or paper sticker, almost any fridge shows at least 5 amps and is quite meaningless. If the temperature is too cold even after adjusting the thermostat it may be broken, or if it is a single-door fridge there should be a flap or baffle to control freezer airflow into the fridge portion to help regulate temperature.
My mother still has the stand-up Philco freezer she won in 1968. It still has to be defrosted every so often, but it's still going strong.
so cool what a great fridge love Ethel and fred so funny we had that dishwasher was neat to play with
Great now I want a Westinghouse! 😂
As a boomer living in Australia, I never saw a dishwasher until the 1980s. I never knew they existed before that.
You must have lived a very sheltered life.😅
When William Frawley was born, there were no electric refrigerators 😆
Fred and Ethel Mertz ❤️
Wow! That box is packed.
What a blast from the past! thank you
Ironically, I bet u those appliances were built better then they are today. Back then it was about function over form.
Remember the fridge we had when I was little 70 years ago. The freezer was this little Tony box that hung down in the middle of the fridge. No bulk buying then. Couldn't even out a chicken in there. Ice tray and pint of ice cream.
And here I am in 2022 with a top of the line LG that’s just chock full of frost and ice. I’d trade it in a heartbeat for that old fridge!
Our family had a top loading portable dishwasher, I don't remember what brand it was, a utensil or something fell into the impeller stage during use, jammed up the motor. Back to doing dishes by hand.
Is that Little Ricky?! Lolol....
The year is now 2022 and Fred is still waiting to see if this refrigerator built up any frost.
Fred still alive at 135. Only the good die young.
those commercials are Great
Love these commercials. I was born in 1954 so I was too young to even pay attention to these commercials.
William Frawley and Vivian Vance were close in real life and their friendship really comes through in this ad.
On what planet are you from? They were over twenty years apart and they hated each other
Seeing those old ice cube trays was really funny. Look how far we’ve come. 😊. Great ad 👍🏻👍🏻
Ummm.....I still use those metal ice cube trays. And they still sell them! My fridge doesn't have an ice dispenser.
@@rtususian And there’s nothing wrong with that. We all used to use them.
That was the only kind of ice trays my grandpa would ever use. And he would only drink out of a metal cup. I think it was metal. But the only cup he would ever use
I thought the pullout freezer concept underneath the fridge was a newer style. I see now they had this design back in the 60s.
Those were the days when things were made to last also...
I had used the same toaster my parents had when I was little until I was almost 60 myself...
No BS! Try that with anything these days...
Add to that it was almost all American-made...
Corporations got cheaper and cheaper as time went on and then we got screwed along the way...
We did our part also buying cheaper and cheaper crap...
During the 1990s I was watching an episode of FATHER KNOWS BEST (1954-60) and they had our electric Sunbeam Mixer that we were still using! (My parents married in 1956)
Fred musta went into shock telling Ethel he's gonna spend his money to buy her a Westinghouse. lol :D
Of course there won’t be any frost if you never close the door.
I bet some still has one of these to this very day. 7-2-22.
They DO. I deal with a sole proprietor appliance repair shop that my family has used for the last 50 years. The original owner retired and his long time assistant bought the business from him. He tell me stories all the time of doing minor repairs to these old machines. Some of them the original owner sold to them back in the day because he also used to have a store.
This stuff is priceless! A real little piece of America right here.... for all of us to still enjoy, after all these years. Still great stuff, & a lot of fun to see Fred & Ethel going at each other, as it should be. They were great together - even though, apparently, in real life they hated each other's guts!
What happen to Westinghouse?
Gee, we remember the simple days when you could afford all that food for your nifty fridge. But we still do our dishes by hand. 🧡
The truth is, these refridgerators were probably great for the time. Whoever bought them in the 1950's when this commercial aired, probably kept using them well into the early 1970s. Old appliances, made in the USA, were really that good.
That is certainly true.
Omg, my grandmother had one of those pocket watch clocks! It hung in her living room for as long as I can remember. I've never seen another one.
Westinghouse made some nice appliances over the years. As far as dishwashers go, you couldn't buy a better dishwasher than a Hobart KitchenAid.
Thanks for these! I have seen some of the Lucy-Desi-Fred-Ethel Westinghouse long commercials, but not these! Now I can die happy. Now that I watched the 2nd commercial with Fred and Little Ricky, that portable dishwasher seems like a pain in the ass! You gotta roll it over to your sink, attach the hoses, and plug it in each time you wash your dishes? As Little Ricky would say, "YEESH!"
It's like watching lost episodes of "I Love Lucy".
The product were made a lot better than they are today.
A rare commercial featuring William Frawley & Vivian Vance for Westinghouse appliances.
Nowadays, we're lucky to catch celebrities in prescription drug commercials. 👩🏼⚕️
Anyone who’s ever used a blow dryer on their freezer can appreciate this…
This Westinghouse frost free fridge would be the beginning of frost free REFRIGERATORS. The very first refridgerators used Ammonia for the freon/gas . Later R12 came into the scene which is cfc. Damaging to the ozone. Now days there is R134a. And other types of ozone safe refrigerants.
What a wonderful Christmas gift!
Just like a vacuum cleaner. Remember the Hoover commercials?
I had forgotten that pain in the neck chore of defrosting.
I wonder how much those cost back in the day
And somewhere there are a hundred or two of the refrigerators still working.
"Oh, Fred..." In that inimitable Ethel Mertz voice of exasperation, of course, still resonates in my head as a nostalgic reminder of the halcyon days of the Lucy show.
😯GEE I’d like to have a brand new Westinghouse Frost Free refrigerator freezer combination!