[AT] Remembering Mom's Clothesline OT

[Larry Goss]

Dave has it right, Mike.  You had to wipe the line every week if for no reason other than "birds".  The permanent clothes line was made out of #9 wire, and the cotton line that had to be strung every week went from tree to tree.  What was the brand name of that modern stuff that became popular after WWII?  Kordite?

Larry 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Sloane" <mikesloane at verizon.net>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 5:48:19 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] Remembering Mom's Clothesline OT

In our township there is a "gated private community" of several
thousand. In the "covenants", residents are specifically forbidden to
hang laundry outside. I guess it is considered too "middle class" for
the gentry.

It seems to me that cleaning the clothesline was only necessary if you 
lived near where the trains came through. And if you did, you had to 
make sure the laundry was taken in before the train passed, or they 
would be covered with soot. Another problem was smoke and soot from coal 
fired home boilers in the winter. I don't recall how we dealt with that 
problem.

Mike

On 2/13/2012 6:13 PM, Dave Rotigel wrote:
> Remembering Mom's Clothesline Author unknown
>
> You have to be a "certain age" to appreciate this one. I can hear my
> mother now.
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