Popular Science July 1947: How to Choose a Washer
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IIRC This Was Posted Before
Am almost sure it was a POD, or perhaps under "downloads" or somewhere in the archives.
Am almost sure it was a POD, or perhaps under "downloads" or somewhere in the archives.
And I was right, of course
Pat Coffey posted the link awhile back.
Pat Coffey posted the link awhile back.
From the photo on the first page it would appear that the most important step is to dress up in one's Sunday best, and don't forget a trip to the milliner for a proper hat.
arbilab
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There's an Easy in the right corner of the first pic. Ahhh.
People did dress up to go shopping at one time; now they just fall out of bed and land in the store. When we went to the downtown stores, daddy was always in a suit and mom wore a hat and gloves because that was just the way one dressed unless going to the grocery or hardware store.
I don't quite buy the time camparrison between doing a load in an automatic and in a wringer washer. First, I have never seen a wringer used for just one load and, while it definitely took more energy to use the wringer, a week's worth of wash could take longer in the automatic. You just did not have to be there doing all of the rinsing and wringing. With either there was still the hanging of the wash to dry, whether inside if it rained or snowed or outside. When I was a kid, I remember mom bundling up to hang laundry outside in the winter. In Georgia, we would get days of cold, rainy weather in the winter so laundry was hung on lines in the basement. We would have to wait until it was dry and taken down before we could go down there to skate or ride our bikes in the circus minimus. The lines finally came down when I finally got a dryer in there in 1961.
Does anyone remember the visiting that went on between neighbors while hanging clothes to dry? Dryers and air conditioning sorta eliminated the impromptu visits between neighbors.
I don't quite buy the time camparrison between doing a load in an automatic and in a wringer washer. First, I have never seen a wringer used for just one load and, while it definitely took more energy to use the wringer, a week's worth of wash could take longer in the automatic. You just did not have to be there doing all of the rinsing and wringing. With either there was still the hanging of the wash to dry, whether inside if it rained or snowed or outside. When I was a kid, I remember mom bundling up to hang laundry outside in the winter. In Georgia, we would get days of cold, rainy weather in the winter so laundry was hung on lines in the basement. We would have to wait until it was dry and taken down before we could go down there to skate or ride our bikes in the circus minimus. The lines finally came down when I finally got a dryer in there in 1961.
Does anyone remember the visiting that went on between neighbors while hanging clothes to dry? Dryers and air conditioning sorta eliminated the impromptu visits between neighbors.
Neat post
Love the indoctrination of the article. Forget commercial laundries everyone needs a home machine of some kind "now".
Tom interesting point on hanging laundry; also the elimination of the front porch and creation of the back deck in suburbia has also led to more isolation I think.
Love the indoctrination of the article. Forget commercial laundries everyone needs a home machine of some kind "now".
Tom interesting point on hanging laundry; also the elimination of the front porch and creation of the back deck in suburbia has also led to more isolation I think.
Laundress:...IIRC This Was Posted Before
So? What point are you making?
So? What point are you making?
There Are Mainly Two Types Of Washing Machines
Shift of water or shifting of laundry.
That is one machine moves the water (automatically drains,fills and perhaps extracts), the other one must remove the wash for each step.
According to my vintage 1920's through 1940's commerical and domestic laundry manuals it is vastly better to have the former than latter. Indeed most give the advice that once a housewive/laundress understands/experiences having the machine do most of the work she will "insist" on washers with pumps and so forth.
While many of us today wax and wane about doing laundry in wringer washing machines they can be dangerous, and semi-automatic washing machines require the user to be more interactive thus her or his time cannot be used elsewhere. While an automatic may take longer to complete cycles one is free to do use one time elsewhere. This is probably one of the main reasons that as time went on semi-automatic washing machine sales declined versus automatics.
As for water use, as more and more homes became fitted with not only central heating but a steady supply of hot water (something mentioned above) the reuse of boiling/hot wash water became less of an issue. Washing machine makers were also quick to point out how "unsanitary" reusing of wash/rinse water was and one began to see claims about how laundry was cleaned with "fresh....." water.
Shift of water or shifting of laundry.
That is one machine moves the water (automatically drains,fills and perhaps extracts), the other one must remove the wash for each step.
According to my vintage 1920's through 1940's commerical and domestic laundry manuals it is vastly better to have the former than latter. Indeed most give the advice that once a housewive/laundress understands/experiences having the machine do most of the work she will "insist" on washers with pumps and so forth.
While many of us today wax and wane about doing laundry in wringer washing machines they can be dangerous, and semi-automatic washing machines require the user to be more interactive thus her or his time cannot be used elsewhere. While an automatic may take longer to complete cycles one is free to do use one time elsewhere. This is probably one of the main reasons that as time went on semi-automatic washing machine sales declined versus automatics.
As for water use, as more and more homes became fitted with not only central heating but a steady supply of hot water (something mentioned above) the reuse of boiling/hot wash water became less of an issue. Washing machine makers were also quick to point out how "unsanitary" reusing of wash/rinse water was and one began to see claims about how laundry was cleaned with "fresh....." water.
twintubdexter
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what a fun article
I especially like the part at the end about your machine working under a handicap without at least "2 inches of suds"...I find that 6 to 8 inches works best for me.
I especially like the part at the end about your machine working under a handicap without at least "2 inches of suds"...I find that 6 to 8 inches works best for me.
mickeyd
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Thanks, Mark
It's just funny to read about the "disadvantage" of the spinner taking 3 times as long as a wringer to achieve extraction.
Yeah and it spins at least twice as much water out of the load. Easy spin = 900 rpms.
We are all products of our time and place. Imagine seeing a spinner for the first time, and thinking, Gee, a wringer is so much faster.
Actually you can put a load of towels thru a wringer pretty quick, but you can also sling them into the spinner pdq, too, and once the spinner starts the bulk of the water is out in
seconds. I'm going to have to time this out someday; it would make a fun video.
It's just funny to read about the "disadvantage" of the spinner taking 3 times as long as a wringer to achieve extraction.
Yeah and it spins at least twice as much water out of the load. Easy spin = 900 rpms.
We are all products of our time and place. Imagine seeing a spinner for the first time, and thinking, Gee, a wringer is so much faster.
Actually you can put a load of towels thru a wringer pretty quick, but you can also sling them into the spinner pdq, too, and once the spinner starts the bulk of the water is out in
seconds. I'm going to have to time this out someday; it would make a fun video.
