POD 11/06/2016

[brucelucenta]

Since this is entitled "The Electric Laundry", I assume it is a utility room either at a business or a really nice big home of someone's back in the late 40's or early 50's. There is no dishwasher or anything resembling a kitchen. Kind of unusual for that era I would think. Back in the day, most people had them in the basement, garage or kitchen. That and the fact that there is a desk and young lady working there leads me to believe it could be a business of some sort. Just an unusual setting. I don't think many people had a room dedicated to only laundry back then.

 

[daveamkrayoguy]

Non-Descript? --What's the MAKE?

"Generic Ad"--Unless you read the ONE logo that is on the ONE appliance there...

 

 

 

-- Dave

 

[tomturbomatic]

The missing bottom part of the ad says GE

This is a postwar ad, but it is an idealized home laundry room with fluorescent cove lighting in the ceiling and big windows for lots of light and, yes, it was something for the rich to which others could aspire. It has to be designed for a mild climate, possibly for a home built without a basement. Those planters with tropical plants next to the glass block windows would not work in a colder climate. Actually, if there was southern or western exposure, the room would be like an oven in the summer with all of that glass block and the plants could be burned by the sunlight passing through the glass block.

 

There are no kitchen appliances in it because it is a spacious, bright room devoted to laundry with space for the home manager's office, an elevation of the wife's status in the postwar period after so many women had worked outside of the home while men were fighting the war.