Anniversary of the biggest Appliance tragedy!

[Peteski50]

Today is the 30th anniversary of the worst day in appliance history.
General Motors shutdown Frigidaire! I had always knew it was the end
of 1980 but I didn't know the exact date until I read this article a
few years back. Many of us morn this terrible tragedy!

Bob Connor from Pittsburgh, PA sez...
Destroying electric cars seems like an act only a stupid company would
do but this is not the first time GM made a good product that they
didn't want to public to keep. I know some people who have a hobby of
collecting and restoring home appliances. I don't buy the argument
from GM that nobody would make parts for the EV1s that people wanted
to buy. Until 1980 GM had their home appliance division, Frigidaire.
GM Frigidaire kitchen and laundry appliances were among the most
innovative made at the time and usually of high quality, some are
still going today. No, you cannot get parts for GM Frigidaire
appliances now and today GM pretends that they never existed (Today's
Frigidaire appliances are made by another company and are considered a
"budget" brand). GM shut down Frigidaire on December 26, 1980 so the
employees in Dayton got unemployment for Christmas. What I am saying
is that this is a much bigger blunder than getting rid of Frigidaire
and GM deserves to go bankrupt because of it. I cannot figure out who
in their right mind would buy Anything from this company. The only
reason I think they do well in the Pittsburgh area: We have a lot of
seniors who have good memories of the Chevys and Buicks they drove in
the 50s, and a lot of funeral homes that like Cadillac. GM also
screwed up when they wanted people to get an expensive charger for the
car. Why could an electric car not be recharged by a 220 volt electric
dryer outlet found in most homes? That way you would recharge after
doing the laundry! Even if you didn't have this outlet an electrician
could add one for about 200 dollars. But please don't charge near that
much for the DVD, charge less than most movies as the message is more
important than the one about the "Lake House".
[7/14/2006 12:30:28 AM]

[phil racicot]

I happen to like old GM cars too but at about the same time they closed Frigidaire, GM stopped making cars that I like.