How old are you?

[bobpbx]

If you remember your Ma doing your wash in one of these wringer washes, you are at least 60 years old. Either that, or she liked to use this machine a long time. Photo by Terry.

 

[Don Catts]

If you remember your Ma doing your wash in one of these wringer washes, you are at least 60 years old. Either that, or she liked to use this machine a long time. Photo by Terry.

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I remember my mother getting her hand caught in the rollers one time. She yelled for me ( I was 10 at the time) to hit the release. I tried but could not move it. She knocked me out of the way and slammed that release with her other hand and it popped open. By this time her arm was up to her elbow. Her arm was completely black & blue up to the elbow for the longest time, but she did not go to the doctors or take a day off. They don't make um like her anymore. The release is that leaver in the front of the picture on the right of the rollers.

 

[Teegate]

I have used them. In Reads Beach my grandparents house had one. I also found one in the pines.

 

[bobpbx]

Tag

 

[woodjin]

I found one of those in the pine plains once, might be the same one Guy has pictured. I didn't know what it was. I thought it kind of looked like a rocket ship

 

[Teegate]

Jeff,

It is on the Burlington/Ocean County line off of 72 on the north side of the Coyle Field property. I believe we discussed this before years ago in a previous post.

 

[RednekF350]

And if it weren't for the wringer washer, we wouldn't have one of our great colloquial expressions pertaining to a certain appendage being caught in one !

 

[Sue Gremlin]

I find this sort of delightful: "to all correspondence relative to this machine, always mention the model number".