There also was that off gold color at the time. If you go back further, most kitchen appliances were just white. Washers and dryers were white. You could have any color you wanted so long as it was white. Back further, there were hardly any dryers of course.
We replaced a perfectly good stove here with an induction stove, which we both love. The old stove went to one of the workers' mom's place which he was redoing.
My old apartment complex had a washer/dryer room down the bill a bit, that was a pain. I recall using Bold laundry detergent because it got rid of static.