Frigidaire T.O.M. (Tired Old Men) Club Records 1916-2013 1950-1970

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Frigidaire T.O.M. (Tired Old Men) Club Records 1916-2013 1950-1970

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This collection consists of assorted photographs, documents, publications, and artifacts, collected by former employees of the Frigidaire Corporation. Within are numerous photographs showing different aspects of early founders and employees, as well as many motivational get-togethers. Included also are a number of technical manuals and training aids, demonstrating the business end of the company.

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Wright State University, Special Collections and Archives

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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, Fr...

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The first commercially successful electric household refrigerator was produced in the U.S. and offered for sale in 1913. Invented by Fred W. Wolf and called the Domelre, it was an air-cooled refrigeration unit designed for mounting on top of the customer's ice box. In 1915, Alfred Mellowes, working in a backyard wash house in Ft. Wayne, Indiana, engineered and made an electric refrigerating unit. It differed from other contemporary models because it was self-contained wi...