[Windflier]

a Maytag washer ... It was the old fashioned type with the rollers that squeezed the water out of the clothes so they could be hung up to dry.

My grandmother had one of those in the early sixties. My mom made sure we kids didn't play with it, by telling us tales of children getting their arms squished between the rollers.

Are you old enough to remember hanging clothes out to dry? I am. I didn't live in a place with a dryer until I got my first apartment at 21.

[laplata]

That’s funny about the arms getting squished. We were told the same.

I’m almost 68 and do remember clothes hanging on the line. Frozen on the line in the winter. As kids we’d take some of the clothes pins and rig up wooden match shooters.

I’d bet those old washers aren’t to be found new today.

[Adder]

You can still buy them. My grandmother swore by them.