On Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:56:27 +0000, notbob wrote:
I remember my late farm-raised step mom washing clothes back in the
'60s. She continued to use an ancient '40s all manual washer, so old it
still had an attached roller wringer (motorized) which she hand fed
rinsed clothes --after manually draining the wash water and refilling
with rinse water!-- refusing to allow a new fangled automatic washer
into her otherwise modern '60s home, as they were junk and didn't clean
fer dammit. Seems perceptions haven't change much in half a century.


:-) I remember my grandparents had a machine like that which they used
well into the 80s (possibly into the 90s too, I certainly don't remember
anything replacing it). I *think* their machine had two separate tubs,
one for washing and one for rinsing, but I could be wrong. The wringers
were called mangles over there, for good reason.

In the summer, clothes would be hung out on the line, in the winter I
think they must have just done everything (v. slowly) on drying racks in
the house.

cheers

Jules