General Discussion & Chat: Memory Lane...Part 3, 1 by Yuska

Yuska wrote:
I scrolled back quickly through the previous parts to be reasonably certain I haven't posted this before. My parents married in January 1929 and the first purchase they made was a General Electric refrigerator. It served our family of five admirably for many years, and continued running as a spare after the folks finally bought a larger unit. I was in college by that time. It is still running. My brother has it in the kitchen of the guest quarters. The light bulb has been replaced several times and the rubber door gasket twice. Otherwise - maintenance free.

At one point along in the 'sixties I had read an article about the Smithsonian's search for old but still working appliances for a display. I commented to Mother that it would be an honor to have Old Faithful in the exhibit. She gazed at me wordlessly, and clearly was thinking "surely this idiot cannot be my child!" I knew I had suffered a severe episode of foot-in-mouth disease. Yuska