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Post# 975062 , Reply# 1   12/22/2017 at 21:27 (2,287 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Nixon made toast w/ butter with a Caloric range in the background & there may have even been a wall oven...
I'm sure Martha washed George Washington's britches in a wooden tub... I had been to the White House at least once when Jimmy Carter was president, but I don't think the "souvenir program" really showed anything in the way of a Laundry and/or kitchen--just the Red Room, the Green Room (Blue Room?) and of course, The Oval Office! -- Dave |
Post# 975076 , Reply# 2   12/23/2017 at 00:58 (2,287 days old) by seedub (South Texas Hill Country)   |   | |
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Post# 975121 , Reply# 3   12/23/2017 at 08:26 (2,287 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 975263 , Reply# 4   12/23/2017 at 22:57 (2,286 days old) by chetlaham (United States)   |   | |
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Post# 975273 , Reply# 5   12/24/2017 at 02:08 (2,286 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Pipe:
www.whitehousemuseum.org/floorB/l... commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:... www.reaganlibrary.gov/sites/defa... What many may not know is that POTUS and or their families do not get totally free room and board during their stay in the WH, they have to pay for many things out of their own pockets. www.theguardian.com/money... Am guessing there is (or was) an industrial laundry for the WH bed and table linens, since they are owned by, well *US* the American ratepayers, or more to the point the WH. However when it comes to doing personal laundry that is likely what those SQ or whatever they are now washing machines are for. Now who does the washing, folding, and so forth is another matter. ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/... Michelle Obama apparently did her own laundry as First Lady: www.politico.com/click/st... As did Harry Truman: blog.americanheritage1.com/blog/b... |
Post# 975439 , Reply# 6   12/25/2017 at 09:50 (2,285 days old) by seedub (South Texas Hill Country)   |   | |
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Oh, yes: the Google Machine is where I found this photo of the White House laundry, circa 1909. And on Wikipedia, I learned that Abigail Adams, for a time, used the East Room - a very posh space for most of the WH history - to hang laundry to dry, as America's Mansion was still new, and a proper laundry had not yet been set up.
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Post# 975454 , Reply# 8   12/25/2017 at 12:40 (2,285 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Thank you for all the links & clarifying a lot that I sure did not know about--in fact, I only saw the lighted portion of the back-guard on that stove in a video on the '70's on A&E, making me think that was the entire range (which I believe Nixon was in front of, as there was a bit devoted to Watergate there) only to find it's a THIRTY-SIX-INCHER! (And that wall-oven is exactly the same--a microwave on top, too...) Too bad I can't see the rest of that kitchen, that surely must have been built to that specification & I would fathom most-likely stayed that way until perhaps the end of the Carter administration...
(Yes, nice to discuss this without too much Political Ramblings of, or it going into the usual derogatory nature...) -- Dave |
Post# 975456 , Reply# 9   12/25/2017 at 14:41 (2,285 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)   |   | |
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Post# 975473 , Reply# 10   12/25/2017 at 19:43 (2,284 days old) by cehalstead (Charleston, WV)   |   | |
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Martha may have scrubbed George's britches in a wooden tub, but it was not done at the White House. They never lived there..... |
Post# 975477 , Reply# 11   12/25/2017 at 20:47 (2,284 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Post# 975613 , Reply# 13   12/26/2017 at 16:27 (2,284 days old) by jeff_adelphi (Adelphi, Maryland, USA)   |   | |
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I was in the white house basement laundry around 1976 or 1977 to repair the ironer in the pic. Had to replace all 4 heating elements, they were about 10' long Calrod style elements inside the central roller. Because of the size of the room, I had to have some staff help me turn the whole ironer, so the elements could pulled out of the roller, thru the door into the hallway. At that time they had a pair of Maytag's, an 806 washer and electric dryer. They also had commercial washer, 25-35 pound size and large commercial electric dryer, don't remember the brand.
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