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Thread Number: 10487
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| Post# 192118 , Reply# 1 2/18/2007 at 17:28 (6,277 days old) by golittlesport (California) | ||
Many older tract homes built during the post WW2 boom (late 40s and into the 50's) here in California had a washing machine connection in the kitchen, but no space allotted for a dryer. In those days most women used clothes lines in the yard to dry the clothes and with the So Cal weather they could do that year round. As clothes dryers became popular, many people added them on the back porch or in the garage and would carry the laundry to them from the kitchen. Many of these older homes have now had their kitchens remodeled to accommodate a full laundry. In the 60s, most laundry machines were both in the garage. In the 80s and into the 90s they moved inside, usually in a small utility room. The last 8-10 years they have moved upstairs near the bedrooms. Almost all new homes have laundry rooms on the upper floor. With the price of land out here now they don't build one-floor ranch homes like they did in years past. When my family moved from Pittsburgh PA to Orange County CA in the 70s, my mom thought she was in heaven. After doing laundry in the basement all her life, she now had the washer and dryer in her large kitchen - behind louvered doors on the far side of the breakfast bar. She had a TL Westinghouse pair. | ||
Post# 192141 , Reply# 2 2/18/2007 at 20:06 (6,276 days old) by petek  (Ontari ari ari O ) |
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I've never heard of it...but then most if not all houses around us growing up had full basements and that's where the machines were located, often with a laundry chute somwhere but not necessarily falling into the laundry room. just whereever it happened to line up with a hall closet off the bedrooms. So in essences sometimes you had the laundry chute emptying into the rek room
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| Post# 192143 , Reply# 3 2/18/2007 at 20:07 (6,276 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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When I was in college, the house I rented in NOLA had a washer in the kitchen with a electric dryer outside on the back porch. Whenever it rained the machine would get rained upon. I was always worried that I would get fried using it while wet. But nothing ever happened. I just never used it when it was raining out. | ||
| Post# 192154 , Reply# 4 2/18/2007 at 20:42 (6,276 days old) by exploder3211 () | ||
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you see it some around these parts.. i have seen many old homes with a washer next to the sink and the dryer on the porch. | ||
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Post# 192163 , Reply# 5 2/18/2007 at 21:46 (6,276 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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The first house my cousins bought--mid to late 1950s vintage had this arrangement. (this is the same subdivision that was behind the one I gerw up in. This is the same subdivision Austin thinks is really nifty, which it is with its architectual designs). The dryer was put in the garage, which was totally detached. At some point, an owner put the washer & dryer in closet space/common wall shared by the hall bath and one of the bathrooms.
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Post# 192198 , Reply# 7 2/18/2007 at 23:47 (6,276 days old) by appnut (TX) |
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Those friends of ours in Dallas (had the frog-eye just like Jetcone just restored; the hotpoint dishawsher and eventually the slant fronts)--the washer was in the kitchen. The electric dryer was located in the converted garage in an inside storage closet. So it was a little bit of treck. I honestly do not remember if I was able to carry the wet load from the washer to the deryr or not, that would have put me about age 5 that I can remember.
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Post# 192211 , Reply# 8 2/19/2007 at 01:21 (6,276 days old) by sudsmaster (SF Bay Area, California) |
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My previous residence was a rental house. There was only enough space on the small back porch/room for a washer. It was good because it was right next to the water heater. That was the '83 Whirlpool Super Capacity belt drive. Good washer. The yard was too small to string much of a clothesline. So I got a WCI gas dryer (small footprint, same as the frigmore dryers) and stuck that beside the stove in the adjacent kitchen. It tee'd off the stove gas line, and I used the former stove vent pipe for the dryer. Worked great. I never really noticed any problem moving clothes from washer to dryer - it was less work than hanging things on a line, not to mention a too-small line. | ||
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Post# 192283 , Reply# 10 2/19/2007 at 14:25 (6,276 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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I recall visiting one of my dad's cousins years ago. We were in the back yard, and a small storage closet behind the garage was open, with a Maytag 806 (single-dial electronic) dryer inside. It was just large enough for the dryer, with no access except from back of the house. Even a laundry basket wouldn't fit inside, unless set atop the dryer.
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Post# 192316 , Reply# 11 2/19/2007 at 19:49 (6,275 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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It was also common in very old homes, built in rural areas without basements to have a washer installed in the kitchen and if there was a dryer, it would have been on an enclosed porch. Depending on the person, the dryer was utilized mostly as a work surface for the majority of washing was still line-dried outside.
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Post# 192390 , Reply# 13 2/20/2007 at 08:32 (6,275 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!) |
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Post# 192647 , Reply# 15 2/21/2007 at 10:54 (6,274 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR) |
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My mothers three season room is a frig in the winter.
I had to chuckle about the pies, etc. in the laundry room. At my Mom's house her three season room becomes a huge refrigerator as she starts her holiday baking. At Thanksgiving and Christmas you will find the funiture covered and put against the walls. In the middle of the room you'll find 3 conference style tables covered with all kinds of goodies. Mostly backed goods. Everyone knows when they come to our house they visit the porch to graze just a bit or to make a "plate" to take home with them. She keeps stacks of seasonal plates in that room where folks will grab one and load it up to take with them. She is very Italian and loves to feed all who visit. Once the winter breaks and it gets warmer what's left usually finds the way to the freezer or frig in the basement. | ||
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