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In my natal neighborhood on the Buffalo waterfront where most homes were basement free, and wash was done in the kitchen or the bath, the Easy Spin, as it was called in these parts, was a welcome solution to washday drudgery. Many people had wheel-about double--some even triple--washtubs, that took up a ton of real estate. {Worse, they had to be drained by bucket.} So the spindrier with its tapered down body to the narrow spinner could cozy up to many cubbyholes, and required no buckets.
But more than that, the rinsing was done by the spinner rather than by hand in the tubs, and the spinning at 900 rpm's left the clothes much more line-dry friendly, especially on humid days, and wringer hazard was a thing of the past. Out they went along with those ungainly rinsing contraptions.
If you've never seen a triple tubber, they're quite the site. My Great Aunt Mary had one that took up the entire hallway inside her back door. Rather quickly, wringers lost ground and the spindriers overtook the market here, and wringer production at the Syracuse factory actually ceased, I think, but I don't know when.
As for me, I love wringer washers and can imagine the fun you're having with your Easy. Would bet you'll keep using it sometimes even when your automatic gets fixed.
