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That fridge has a lot of features. I wonder who the manufacturer was. Big Al
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It is a GM (yes, General Motors, not General Electric) Frigidaire Imperial Cold Pantry. https://12tomatoes.com/1956-frigidaire-cold-pantry/ More refrigerator advertising from the past. There were some other neat features that we don't see today. https://rarehistoricalphotos.c...-and-advertisements/
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Car companies and refrigerators: Kelvinator, anyone?
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I knew of the GM/Frigidaire connection, but a lot of those others were news to me. Our refrigerator, when I was growing up, was a Kelvinator. After we got a newer fridge, I set out to salvage the compressor out of the old Kelvinator to use for an air compressor. I carted it out to a farm field and vented the refrigerant. I was surprised to see an evil-looking brownish-yellow cloud float out and disperse downwind. I had had no idea that the refrigerant in that old unit was sulfur dioxide. It killed a strip of grass that took all summer to regrow where it lay close to the ground before the wind dispersed it. Big Al
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