Texas Spring/Summer Thread

[jinman]

Jim, are they a general supplier, or just GE?, (haven't looked yet, but will) good to know about them if needed , thanks!

About every appliance brand except Samsung. . . of course my microwave is Samsung and so is my big screen TV. Oh well, they are still working.

 

[two_bit_score]

 

[farmgirl19]

two_bit; Neat pics! I love the one of the functional windmill. I have a windmill, but I don't know anyone that works on them, so mine is just "decorative".

 

[farmgirl19]

About every appliance brand except Samsung. . . of course my microwave is Samsung and so is my big screen TV. Oh well, they are still working.

A good friend that is an appliance repairman tells me that GE has a bit more than their share of problems, but parts are easy to get and relatively cheap. He advises NOT getting LG or Samsung. Says when they work, they are good, but getting parts is a struggle. Evidently, both are made in Korea, and often wait until parts are ordered and needed before they ship them out. Must wait to have the ship full before it can arrive. He says near holiday time, it is nothing to have folks call for oven/cook top repairs around the first to middle of November, but parts won't arrive until WEEKS later. He says it puts folks in a tailspin, when they have family coming, and will need the oven, and stove top. He also said that Samsung is starting to get wiser and is subcontracting to have Whirlpool make replacement parts for them.

I have known 2 pople that bought the LG front loader washer and dryer. Both had them sitting at the curb for garbage collection, before the units were a year old! According to the repaiman friend, Frigidaire Affinity is best in reliability department, followed by Whirlpool in front loaders.

 

[NativeSon]

I worked 30 years in Dallas, 5 years downtown at the Post Office, then nearly 25 years with the Police Department, about 20 of those downtown. While I worked at the Post Office, I moonlighted as a taxi driver.:laughing:

And now . . . I try to not even go into Dallas; it only gets worse with time. And I'm certainly no good as a prognosticator. In 1964-65, I was working the northwest part of Dallas when they first started building something to be called LBJ Freeway (I-635) and I couldn't imagine ever needing a road that big out there in those horse pastures.

You know I spent the 1971-72 school year at Northwestern University, living in a Chicago suburb, and a cousin still occasionally reminds me that I told him then that only 2 kinds of people lived in the Chicago area; those who had to live there to earn a living and those who were born and raised there and didn't know there was a real world elsewhere. And I'm afraid he and I both feel that way about Dallas now.

Growing up in Dallas in the late 60's LBJ was a mystery to me, too. Nobody will come all the way out here to live & work.......well so much for that. Now while the "Bush" is still somewhat out in the country and not a lot of traffic most of the time it is my "Go-To" for TRYING to navigate around the Large D. I use the Bush to totally avoid downtown and LBJ. We went all the way to UT Arlington last Sat. without too much fuss and excitement.

Hwy 380 years ago was were you went out late at night to see how fast your car would run. A long straight piece of asphalt. Now there has to be close to 30 stop lights between McKinney & Denton. I still can't figure out where all these people came from.

Charlie

 

[Bird]

Charlie, when I was in high school, F.M. 544 west of Plano was our drag strip. Of course, Central Expressway coming out of Dallas ended at Campbell Road in Richardson, and what is now Hwy, 5 through Plano was U.S. 75 back then.

 

[NativeSon]

Charlie, when I was in high school, F.M. 544 west of Plano was our drag strip. Of course, Central Expressway coming out of Dallas ended at Campbell Road in Richardson, and what is now Hwy, 5 through Plano was U.S. 75 back then.

I guess when I was in Jr High, once a summer we would load up in the car and go visit some of my Dad's friends in Richardson, and once in the summer they would come visit us in Oak Cliff. Richardson seemed like the other end of the world. We drove past a lot of fields after we got past Loop 12 till we got there.

Charlie

 

[Bird]

Yep, Charlie, it's amazing, isn't it? When I was kid in Oklahoma, we came to the State Fair of Texas every year. My Dad's best friend from the time they were kids was herdsman at a Guernsey dairy way out in the country between Dallas and Farmers Branch; right about where Walnut Hill Lane now crosses the old Denton Road in Dallas. And I remember us going down through what is now Lake Lewisville when it was under construction.

As herdsman for the dairy, Dad's friend cared for the show cattle, took them to the Fair, and always had free passes for us.

And I'll never forget the time we left the fairgrounds and got lost. So Dad saw a Dallas motorcycle police officer and asked him how to get back to U.S. 77 headed north. The officer said he was about to get off duty and he'd just show us the way; said to "follow me" and he turned on his red lights and siren and away we went, through red lights without even slowing down. I guess that would have been about 1949 and Dad was driving a 1936 Plymouth coupe. When we got out to the highway, the officer pulled over to the side of the road and waved us on.:laughing:

 

[CowboyRon]

I guess when I was in Jr High, once a summer we would load up in the car and go visit some of my Dad's friends in Richardson, and once in the summer they would come visit us in Oak Cliff. Richardson seemed like the other end of the world. We drove past a lot of fields after we got past Loop 12 till we got there.

Charlie

Where abouts in OC did you live native? We had a place behind wynwood shopping center. I sometimes joke with my kids that I'm the last Oak Cliff redneck.

 

[Western]

Got the A/C working!. It was the run start capacitor for the fan. I sure am glad the compressor shuts off if the fan fails. $5,31 fix, plus a trip to town for the part. 83* in the house when she fired up:shocked: