[AT] Remembering Mom's Clothesline OT

[Spencer Yost]

Here in the humid south mildew on some types of line (that plastic stuff I am thinking of especially) would require wiping.   In Pittsburgh (lived there till I was 10) during the winter, mom would hang clothes in the basement near the furnace.

At 50 I really am barely old enough to remember dryer-less homes but early in my childhood most folks we knew didn't have dryers yet.

Spencer

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On Feb 13, 2012, at 20:06, Dave Rotigel <rotigel at me.com> wrote:

> I don't care where you live, simply the dust in the air would require that the line be wiped down each time to "hang" clothes that were "just washed" on it!
>    Dave
> 
> On Feb 13, 2012, at 7:07 PM, Larry Goss wrote:
> 
>> 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
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>>> You have to be a "certain age" to appreciate this one. I can hear my
>>> mother now.
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