And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, February 26, 2026
That's Avocado Green, and more than three presidents
My garage fridge is a 1950 "General Electric Refrigeration Machine" passed down from wife's grandparents. Has been running now for 76 years without a repair or addition of freon. Don't have to tell you why they can't (won't) build one as good today. Bubbarust
We had one of those green ones that was in the house we bought in '74 and was still there and working when we left in '04. There was another one in the house we bought in '04 and there working when we left in '11. We replaced the white one in the '11 house with a stainless LG. Compressor lasted two years just like my neighbor's LG. Fortunately still under warranty. The new one has lasted more.
I'm a little too old to have grown up with an avocado fridge, but, until I remodeled my kitchen a few years ago, my house still had the original avocado countertops from 1974.
Those old fridges chew through so much electricity you can buy a new one every couple of years on the savings made in electricity charges. No kidding. Those things chew up electricity like a Tesla. Last forever, but they are enormously energy hungry.
Yes they do. It is easily verifiable. A 1970 refrigerator used around 2000 kw hrs a year. Versus around 250 to 500 a year for a modern refrigerator. Earlier fridges used even more. Here is a graph - read it a weep. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-Household-Refrigerator-Energy-Use-Volume-and-Price-over-Time_fig1_336778262
Yeah, they really do. Mine in the garage is 33 years old in a couple of months and I'm certain it's the reason my electric bill is so high. That and the one in the kitchen is almost 25 years old.
my deep bronze/brown one lasted 33 years. and 15 of those were in a not good environment for a fridge of my garage.
ReplyDeleteWe had the brown one too. Grounded so badly if you touched the top hinge and the metal sink you could feel the electricity running through your body
DeleteMy GE will hit 33 years in April. It's been in the garage for the past 23 and just keeps running and running and running.
DeleteMy garage fridge is a 1950 "General Electric Refrigeration Machine" passed down from wife's grandparents. Has been running now for 76 years without
Deletea repair or addition of freon. Don't have to tell you why they can't (won't) build
one as good today.
Bubbarust
We had one of those green ones that was in the house we bought in '74 and was still there and working when we left in '04. There was another one in the house we bought in '04 and there working when we left in '11. We replaced the white one in the '11 house with a stainless LG. Compressor lasted two years just like my neighbor's LG. Fortunately still under warranty. The new one has lasted more.
ReplyDeleteReally? You got that sweet little cutie standing in the picture and you guys just wanna talk about ice boxes? Shameful.
ReplyDeleteIce boxes? You’re old.
DeleteWell, she'd be about 90 years old today.
DeleteMy kind of woman. Anything over a mouthful is a waste.
ReplyDeleteOMG, that cracks me up every single time you post it.
DeleteThe avocado upright freezer (bought new in '69) is still a faithful servant 57 years later.
ReplyDeletedefinite 70's gal, naturally thin, perky, love the hair! not like the whales trundling around society now.
ReplyDeleteI'm a little too old to have grown up with an avocado fridge, but, until I remodeled my kitchen a few years ago, my house still had the original avocado countertops from 1974.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if my ex still has ours.
ReplyDeleteYep. Here, here.
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ReplyDeleteThree Presidents? Hell...my mother still has the fridge I bought her after I got my degree and started working....when Carter was POTUS.
ReplyDeleteThose old fridges chew through so much electricity you can buy a new one every couple of years on the savings made in electricity charges. No kidding. Those things chew up electricity like a Tesla. Last forever, but they are enormously energy hungry.
ReplyDeleteNo they don't
DeleteYes they do. It is easily verifiable. A 1970 refrigerator used around 2000 kw hrs a year. Versus around 250 to 500 a year for a modern refrigerator. Earlier fridges used even more. Here is a graph - read it a weep. https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Average-Household-Refrigerator-Energy-Use-Volume-and-Price-over-Time_fig1_336778262
DeleteYeah, they really do. Mine in the garage is 33 years old in a couple of months and I'm certain it's the reason my electric bill is so high. That and the one in the kitchen is almost 25 years old.
DeleteVery cute great grin
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