Thread Number: 7617
Old Hospital Washers ect |
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Post# 148554   8/15/2006 at 11:55 (6,434 days old) by sudsman ()   |   | |
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will post a few at a time |
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Post# 148559 , Reply# 1   8/15/2006 at 12:23 (6,434 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 148560 , Reply# 2   8/15/2006 at 12:25 (6,434 days old) by toggleswitch (New York City, NY)   |   | |
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Post# 148561 , Reply# 3   8/15/2006 at 12:40 (6,434 days old) by jasonl (Cookeville, TN)   |   | |
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Grind-click-RIP! Owwww!!!! |
Post# 148563 , Reply# 4   8/15/2006 at 12:44 (6,434 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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Oooooh---I know thats some funky stuff in those machines! Wonder what industrial detergents they used back then? |
Post# 148566 , Reply# 5   8/15/2006 at 12:48 (6,434 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA)   |   | |
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Post# 148571 , Reply# 6   8/15/2006 at 12:54 (6,434 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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Well, there are water lines going to both the square cabinet and the tank, so could be some kind of water heating arrangement. |
Post# 148608 , Reply# 7   8/15/2006 at 17:11 (6,434 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Post# 148616 , Reply# 8   8/15/2006 at 18:36 (6,434 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Those first "automatic" washing machines were a vast improvement over wash women/men doing hospital laundry by hand, just as everyone else did. All those belts etc, would have been attached to a main power plant which ran on steam. In fact early laundries were called "steam" laundries because power/heating was provided for operation of washing machines, (and later dryers), ironers, and everything else by central steam boilers. There are still many such laundries around, with steam providing the "heat" for heating water inside modern washers as well. |
Post# 148617 , Reply# 9   8/15/2006 at 18:38 (6,434 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 148621 , Reply# 10   8/15/2006 at 18:47 (6,434 days old) by gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)   |   | |
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I was wondering where you were! This website just isn't the same without you! |
Post# 148641 , Reply# 11   8/15/2006 at 19:56 (6,434 days old) by launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 148676 , Reply# 12   8/16/2006 at 04:00 (6,433 days old) by sudsman ()   |   | |
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This pic was from the old Ragland Finlaw Hospital in Gilmer Texas.. it is from around 1925 My Great Grandmother worked in the plant. |