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launderess
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Do Tell, Do Tell!
And what, pray tell did you do there?
*LOL*
And what, pray tell did you do there?
*LOL*
maytagbear
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Goodness!
Was it too much trouble to run a damp cloth over it before photographing it?
Lawrence/Maytagbear
Was it too much trouble to run a damp cloth over it before photographing it?
Lawrence/Maytagbear
There may not have been a damp rag available in the garage. I suspect the poor thing has been used as a workbench and storage shelf (perhaps for the air compressor now on the floor) for many years. And of course, it only appreciated in value. Skyrocketed, really, what with Maytag closing it's doors.
The inside does look very nice, still bright and shiny.
The inside does look very nice, still bright and shiny.
pturo
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I honestly have to say as a child of the 60's, I never saw one of these things before or anyone use them. Were they good at ironing things?
With 4 kids and both parents working, we were a wash and wear family.
My mom hardly ironed, she was usually passed out on the couch in her butte knit pantsuit, after her 2 glasses of Chablis.
It was called parenting, in those days.
With 4 kids and both parents working, we were a wash and wear family.
My mom hardly ironed, she was usually passed out on the couch in her butte knit pantsuit, after her 2 glasses of Chablis.
It was called parenting, in those days.
launderess
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The 1960's with the introduction of permanent press and other easy care fabrics, hastened the demise of ironers and indeed ironing as a routine part of laundry day. Many wives and mothers also started working outside the home, and had no time for such things. Men's dress shirts still required ironing though, and those were sent out to commercial laundries.
Have vintage laundry books from the 1950's and 1940's, along with serveral vintage ironers owner's manuals, and one simply cannot believe the volume of ironing from those periods.
Bed Linens
Kitchen Linens
Men's Dress Shirts
Blouses
Men's Trousers
Men's Jackets
Table Linens
Bras (yes bras)
Infant's jumpers and rompers
Little Girls Dresses
Men's Shorts (yes, again, men's shorts)
and so forth
Depending upon the user's skill, ironers can give very good results on flatwork and clothing. Personally find shirts and other things easier to do by hand, but flatwork is done a treat on an ironer.
Have vintage laundry books from the 1950's and 1940's, along with serveral vintage ironers owner's manuals, and one simply cannot believe the volume of ironing from those periods.
Bed Linens
Kitchen Linens
Men's Dress Shirts
Blouses
Men's Trousers
Men's Jackets
Table Linens
Bras (yes bras)
Infant's jumpers and rompers
Little Girls Dresses
Men's Shorts (yes, again, men's shorts)
and so forth
Depending upon the user's skill, ironers can give very good results on flatwork and clothing. Personally find shirts and other things easier to do by hand, but flatwork is done a treat on an ironer.
launderess
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Actually Maytag Ironers
Along with Frigidare models when in good condition,do go for good money. An almost MIB Maytag ironer sold on eBay for nearly the opening bid above, if not over. However, again that unit was almost brand spanking new, at least it certianly didn't resemble the disaster linked above.
Think Maytag and Frigidaire had longer rollers than other ironers. Both also offered roller speed control, something Ironrite and others lacked.
Maytag had two versions of ironers, one was based on the Ironrite model, indeed was the same as an Ironrite, while the other is seen above.
Bendix was the only other ironer to have an under roller shoe. However those units were supported from one side, not both as with Ironrites.
L.
Along with Frigidare models when in good condition,do go for good money. An almost MIB Maytag ironer sold on eBay for nearly the opening bid above, if not over. However, again that unit was almost brand spanking new, at least it certianly didn't resemble the disaster linked above.
Think Maytag and Frigidaire had longer rollers than other ironers. Both also offered roller speed control, something Ironrite and others lacked.
Maytag had two versions of ironers, one was based on the Ironrite model, indeed was the same as an Ironrite, while the other is seen above.
Bendix was the only other ironer to have an under roller shoe. However those units were supported from one side, not both as with Ironrites.
L.
pturo
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Thanks Laundress, for that description of use. I am sure that they were necessary in the natural fiber age of bedding and tablecloths and bra's? Prior to synthetic fibers, bras were probably a pretty fussy garment.
I wonder what one did with jock straps, back then?
I wonder what one did with jock straps, back then?
Jock straps?
Difficult to say. I find they don't stay on long enough to be much of a problem...
Difficult to say. I find they don't stay on long enough to be much of a problem...
pturo
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It would be interesting(to some) to reseach the history of the jockstrap.
So much has been made of the bra, designed originally in France by Philip de Brassier.
The jock is truly American, designed by a Yale professor,by the name of Richard(Dick) Ballisling who was also in charge of the rowing crew. One day, his biggest oresman revealed a big problem in that his manhood and dangling crotch relatives(hertofore unrestrained)were getting in the way of his rowing.
Perplexed,flummoxed, and just by chance one day while roaming his wife's undergarment drawer as he was wont to do, he came across a half bra, for apparently she had cut the other cup off to breast feed their child, back in the days before the snap was invented.
Well Dick, being dick, ran to the athletic department and trussed the one cup bra around the privates of his star oresman, and snapped the strap around his waist." I've invented a ballsling."
Well, they beat Harvard, they beat Cornell, they beat everyone in rowing that year to win the championship.
At the acceptance speech, Dick was alomst choked with emotion when he said "Without John /Ohara /Casey/ Kent's dick and balls in my wife's bra, this could never have happened."
The anagram JOCK stands for John Ohara Casey Kent, although that kid did not invent the jock,Prof. Dick Ballisling did. But the question is, do you wear a BALLSLING, or a JOCK, these days?
So much has been made of the bra, designed originally in France by Philip de Brassier.
The jock is truly American, designed by a Yale professor,by the name of Richard(Dick) Ballisling who was also in charge of the rowing crew. One day, his biggest oresman revealed a big problem in that his manhood and dangling crotch relatives(hertofore unrestrained)were getting in the way of his rowing.
Perplexed,flummoxed, and just by chance one day while roaming his wife's undergarment drawer as he was wont to do, he came across a half bra, for apparently she had cut the other cup off to breast feed their child, back in the days before the snap was invented.
Well Dick, being dick, ran to the athletic department and trussed the one cup bra around the privates of his star oresman, and snapped the strap around his waist." I've invented a ballsling."
Well, they beat Harvard, they beat Cornell, they beat everyone in rowing that year to win the championship.
At the acceptance speech, Dick was alomst choked with emotion when he said "Without John /Ohara /Casey/ Kent's dick and balls in my wife's bra, this could never have happened."
The anagram JOCK stands for John Ohara Casey Kent, although that kid did not invent the jock,Prof. Dick Ballisling did. But the question is, do you wear a BALLSLING, or a JOCK, these days?
iheartmaytag
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Maytag Ironer
My mother had one of these back in the earily 70's. I think she gave $50 for it at a garage sale.
My step-father made her get rid of it when we moved one time because "no one is going to iron anymore"
My mother had one of these back in the earily 70's. I think she gave $50 for it at a garage sale.
My step-father made her get rid of it when we moved one time because "no one is going to iron anymore"
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