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Thread Number: 67699
/ Tag: Wringer Washers
Historic photo to share ... Maytag wringer |
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| Post# 904132 10/24/2016 at 15:40 (2,733 days old) by bradross (New Westminster, BC., Canada) | ||
From Madison County, Alabama --- historic photograph of Maytag wringer washer and couple doing the laundry together.
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Post# 904138 , Reply# 1 10/24/2016 at 16:20 (2,733 days old) by Gyrafoam  (Wytheville, VA) |
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Georgedon must have given her a "poker". Sure do come in handy. | ||
| Post# 904205 , Reply# 2 10/25/2016 at 07:46 (2,733 days old) by vacerator (Macomb, Michigan) | ||
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Salt of the earth. No one cared if you had a rifle or shotgun either. I'm sure not everyone in Alabama is nor was a hater of anyone. | ||
| Post# 904219 , Reply# 3 10/25/2016 at 08:46 (2,733 days old) by ken (NYS) | ||
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Post# 904237 , Reply# 4 10/25/2016 at 11:52 (2,733 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage) |
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Do you think a lot of husbands helped with the laundry....
Am sure they did, but probably were careful not to let word get out! *LOL*
Laundry was "women's work" but in a home with no servants or children can you imagine one lone woman doing even just the washing for herself and husband? *If* the home hand indoor plumbing and or at least hot and cold running water, and some sort of washing machine that *could* reduce some of the work load. But entirely by hand? Of course it probably varied by where persons lived. Out on a farm/rural area where there wasn't another soul for miles things would be different than say in town. That is if some or part of the laundry involved being done out of doors a husband out in a rural area didn't have neighbors peeking over the fence. If a man was a bachelor that would be a different story.
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