Frididaire TOM (Tired Old Men) Club

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The Tired Old Men Club is a group of several hundred retired Frigidaire employees and supervisors who meet monthly and keep in touch with one-another. They saved and accumulated numerous photographs, sound recordings, documents, and other memorabilia.

Frigidaire formed in 1916 as the Guardian Refrigerator Company and merged with Delco Light to become Frigidaire Corporation in 1926. It then became part of General Motors Corporation in 1933. During the Second World War, Frigidaire retooled their manufacturing plants to support the war effort, building machine guns and propellers. By the 1950s, Frigidaire was producing refrigerators, freezers, air conditioners, washers, dryers, electric stoves and ovens. In 1979, the company was sold to White Consolidated Industries and again to Electrolux in 1986, which ended all production.

From the guide to the Frigidaire T.O.M. (Tired Old Men) Club Records, 1916-2013, 1950-1970, (Wright State University, Special Collections and Archives)

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