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Post# 423803   3/20/2010 at 16:12 (5,122 days old) by bradross (New Westminster, BC., Canada)        

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Wow - what a great ad! I love vintage 40s and 50s graphics that look like "Dick and Jane" illustrations!

Here's one that is apparently from a reader "David's Friends from School".





Post# 423822 , Reply# 1   3/20/2010 at 18:20 (5,122 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

WOW! What a picture, Brad. Where did you find it? I am going to search the illustrator Monday morning. David's mommy takes down the line after each washday; oy the extra work. With the window open over the washer and everyone so lightly dressed, you know it's nice weather and she is going to hang the laundry outside. That's why she is not wearing heels like the Frigidaire lady. I wonder what that caged hot water coil is wrapped around? The washer does not look to be positioned correctly in relation to the stylish laundry tubs (with concealed drains) to allow easy wringing during rinsing. I don't know about this picture. The clothespin basket is full and the clothes line is in it, yet it looks like she is washing colors. Where are the whites you normally wash first? It does not look like they are on the line; maybe they're in the rinse tub, but the clothes she's loading are darker than the ones in the basket the kids are carrying to her. Can you imagine having a friend from school come over to help with the laundry? Only my one time best friend and I did that and we were uh atypical, yes, that's the word. David might have been also, especially with the way the picture makes it look like those tight shorts are cupping his chubby cheeks.

About that Frigidaire ad, I'm glad the mommy put on her sensible shoes to do laundry; with a dryer she can wear heels, but hers are not really high. If you look out the window, there are leaves on the trees so it must be only late spring to have the canning shelves still that full. I wonder if the clothes are too hot for the little girl's hands and that's why she appears to be throwing them.


Post# 423835 , Reply# 2   3/20/2010 at 19:52 (5,122 days old) by mrcleanjeans (milwaukee wi)        

Yes Tom, the poor little girl's hands must be hot from those scorching clothes thus the dryer can't be called the Frigidaire but more like it,the Fry-the-aire lol!

Post# 423837 , Reply# 3   3/20/2010 at 20:03 (5,122 days old) by appnut (TX)        
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That's a hamilton made dryer. Sold by Frigidaire before they brought out their Filtramatic or filtrator dryer. It doesn't appear to have a temperature adjustment knob like Hamilton dryers had of the day.

Post# 423906 , Reply# 4   3/21/2010 at 06:20 (5,121 days old) by frigidaireguy (Wiston-Salem, NC)        

This was the dryer my Mother had when I was growing up.
It didn't have a temperature selector you just turned it on and let it go. Had a max of 60 minutes on timer. Vented thru an opening on the bottom right which pulled out to clean lint.
Ours was in an outside storage room so it just vented into the room.


Post# 423931 , Reply# 5   3/21/2010 at 11:21 (5,121 days old) by bradross (New Westminster, BC., Canada)        
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Hey Tom...yes, it is a great pic, isn't it? I found it somewhere on the internet - can't remember where. But wow, you certainly "disected" it! (LOL) However what you say is true - I guess the illustrator just wanted to show all the details of washday in one picture, thus the clothespin basket is full with the clothesline, etc.

And yeah, David probably grew up to be guys just like us!


Post# 423933 , Reply# 6   3/21/2010 at 11:42 (5,121 days old) by bradross (New Westminster, BC., Canada)        
Further info on "David's Friends at School"

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Tom...the correct name for that reader is "David's Friends AT School" not "from School". copyright 1936 Scott, Foresman, and Co. - same publisher as the "Dick and Jane" books.
Great illustrator! I just ordered a copy from an online bookseller.


Post# 423935 , Reply# 7   3/21/2010 at 11:47 (5,121 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI )        

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The illustrator probably used colored laundry to add more color to the picture. White laundry would look very boring to a child, colors make it more exciting to look at. Also, if this concrete laundry sink is the same as my mother's, it is not positioned right against the wall on the left side of the picture. Mom's double laundry sink, allows access on both ends to run the laundry through the wringer.

Post# 423937 , Reply# 8   3/21/2010 at 11:49 (5,121 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI )        

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I see this illustration is from 1936, according to the caption underneath.

Post# 423938 , Reply# 9   3/21/2010 at 11:51 (5,121 days old) by polkanut (Wausau, WI )        

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The washer could either be a Maytag, or a Speed Queen, just not sure which brand.

Post# 423997 , Reply# 10   3/21/2010 at 17:05 (5,121 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

When I was present for doing laundry with a wringer washer, the machine was positioned with its back to the two sinks so that laundry went through the wringer into the first sink. The person squishing the clothes up and down in the rinse water, me, stood at the end of the sink, which like Tim said, did not extend all of the way to the wall. Then the wringer was moved so that it was parallel to the divider between the sinks to wring the load from the first to the second sink, an operation for which I was moved and an adult lady did the wringing. I moved to the other end of the sink beside the second rinse tub and squished clothes again. Then the wringer, actually the Roller Water Remover because the machines were Maytags, was moved a third time to wring from the sink into the clothes basket. This machine just does not look to be positioned to do that effectively.

Did anybody's family with a wringer washer use a wash plunger to force the water through the clothes in the rinse tubs?



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