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[skatting44]

many yrs ago I was asking my Grt Aunt some  genealogy questions  and she said she  did not know becuse she was always having to do the laundry !

I guess , if you were the one operating the old fashion wringer washer  you did not hear any family gossip ! 

[spiderw]

I can't imagine having to do laundry like that but of course realize for these women it may have been progress!  Love her hat and denim jacket!!!!  An interesting bit of history!

[bmorechick]

My grandmother had what she called a "wringer washer" in the back yard of her Baltimore City row house. Now the back yard was a 20x24 slab of concrete. It stayed out there winter and summer and I used to watch her use it back in the 1960s.  Crazy!

[lynnie61]

My mother used a wringer washer well into the 80’s.  She said she could do the laundry so much faster than loads and loads in an automatic washer.  I think she finally got a top loader washer in the early 90’s.  I remember helping her as a young child, feeding the sheets through the wringer.  Mid-late 60’s.  

[ECBG]

It seems I remember a wringer washer in the basement when I was in the first and second grade.  There is no one I can ask.

[Jk9]

We had a wringer washer (more modern that the one pictured) and i remember feeding clothes through those wringers.  Very hands on experience.  

[Marp]

We had a wringer washer until the mid 1960s.  Sheets and towels were the worst.