[AT] Remembering Mom's Clothesline OT

David Bruce davidbruce at yadtel.net
Tue Feb 14 05:26:34 PST 2012


I barely remember my grandma washing with a ringer washer on the 
enclosed porch.  By that time the washer was run by an electric motor - 
the earlier version was run by a hot and miss Maytag.  As I recall she 
would wash in the order Charlie specified using the wringer to squeeze 
out the excess water and park the washed but unrinsed clothes in large 
dish pans.  After washing the dirty water was drained outside, the tub 
refilled with clean water and the rinsing started.  Once again in turn 
rinse and wring then to the clothesline for drying.

That clothesline was removed when we remodeled.  My aunt over the ridge 
still hangs most of her clothes on a clothesline.

David
NW NC

On 2/14/2012 7:54 AM, charlie hill wrote:
> Al,  my grandparents had a wash house at their home in Columbus Co.    When
> I was a little kid they had a wringer type washer and a 2 or maybe 3
> compartment set of washing sinks.  Some how or another the sinks were
> connected to the washer and the soapy wash water was re-used from one load
> to another.  I don't remember exactly how it worked.   I'm guessing they
> washed the unmentionables and whites first, then the good colored clothes
> and then the work clothes last so as to take full advantage of the wash
> water.  By the time I was old enough to really pay attention the old wringer
> washer
> had been replaced by an "automatic" but the old wash sinks were still in
> there.    It was just an old wood framed building with a tin roof and a
> roughly poured concrete floor.
>
> Charlie



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