Westinghouse classic tv commercial - Desi Arnaz, lucille ball

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

[@JL-lg8tk]

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.

[@skipstalforce]

Probably eats electricity like its going out of style!

[@JL-lg8tk]

@@skipstalforce Yep, not exactly energy efficient. Glad I don't pay the bill.

[@coashddjj2]

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.

[@louislamonte334]

Absolutely true!!

[@coreycox2345]

Because it was well built, coashddjj2.

[@sharonpapcke2142]

My thought too! Great yesterday and junk today!

[@fromthesidelines]

This originally appeared at the end of "THE WESTINGHOUSE LUCILLE BALL-DESI ARNAZ SHOW" episode "Lucy's Summer Vacation" (June 8, 1959).

[@johnp4008]

This must be some parallel Lucy universe with Ethel thin and Fred willing to pay for new appliances!

[@supme7558]

All the early shows Ethel was thin

[@alexberkman4809]

The sign in the video says 1959 Appliances at 1949 prices, At this time The Show was called "The Lucy Desi Comedy Hour"

[@marksellmedia]

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.

[@ralphangioli4852]

This would be considered an infomercial today. 😂

[@ladennayoung2939]

Yep. That is what I was thinking.

[@alaricabercrombie2692]

Exactly! 😄👌

[@elijahvincent985]

I'd still watch this gem for the cast of 'I Love Lucy' being in it!

[@spiff8862]

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.

[@fob1xxl]

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 !

[@larrywakeman4371]

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!!!

[@11sfr]

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.

[@supme7558]

I'd like to see anything today last 10 years

[@gcfifthgear]

The old fridge, ironically, is also a Westinghouse, but the washer is a Maytag

[@marcotor949]

Well, if anyone paid attention the sign says "'59 Appliances, at '49 Prices"

[@KTF0]

Old fridges lasted 70 years. The new ones last five years max.

[@davidwiner135]

Dishwasher: Fred can’t even afford rubber gloves…

[@rayarena879]

Ethel looks thin and so stylish in that commercial. In the series, she used to look heavier and kind of frumpy.

[@patrickparrott2453]

The frump was in her contract.

[@mahumike7531]

@@patrickparrott2453 yup. Lucy wanted her less attractive then she

[@alaricabercrombie2692]

@@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

[@joeambrose3260]

The washer my mom bought new in '77 didn't have this many features. WTF ?

[@lindamerchant4431]

Fred has Ethel do everything

[@jimmason1072]

Back when things had been built to lasts....

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Interesting!

[@arizonajohn4894]

No trade ins today people want them for extras out in the garage

[@hebneh]

"...BUT...we will give YOU..." (whispers to Fred: "27c")"...for your old refrigerator."

[@lilyemmalindsay9025]

hebneh she also whispered to Lucy

[@davidbrown8303]

The TVs and such must have not held up because how many vintage Westinghouses do you see ?

[@carlthornton3076]

Very Good!... #41 ✝ {7-8-2022}

[@louislamonte334]

Betty Furness was HOT!!!!

[@patrickparrott2453]

What would they possibly do with the old appliances besides sell it for scrap which wouldn't amount to much.

[@larrywakeman4371]

they STILL work, believe me- people restore the outside and they still run without dying, not like today's Chines GARBAGE app,liances

[@lilyemmalindsay9025]

I think these commercials were in 1958 or 1959

[@harry10313]

from what year is this commercial?

[@davidjoe3368]

1959

[@HenryBloggit]

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.

[@rafaucett]

It could have been some type of analog computer.

[@crusty21]

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.

[@ladennayoung2939]

The appliances were nicer then I would expect back then.

[@mja91352]

Youth really is wasted on the young!

[@larrywakeman4371]

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

[@alexandergamboa9075]

que color es el refrigerador originalmente

[@brkitdwn]

Bright orange

[@markbarret6836]

Avocado, burnt orange

[@Fonzwav]

55:55

[@supme7558]

Everyone on this show is so awesome for Desi is overrated

[@crusty21]

What the hell happened to good ole female role models like Ethel Mertz ?

[@alanstrong55]

Sorry that Westinghouse has dropped their appliances down to size.

[@geneo317]

How far our quality has fallen with cheap foreign crap. Would rather have one of these appliances

[@AllUntold]

Sales is so gross.