Technology has driven home appliances to evolve over time, and washing machines are no exception — and they've changed more ...

Way back in time I wrote a column about wash day in my family when I was a young boy. I recalled the log cabin that my father built back in the mid 20s and the fast moving spring running beside it ...

When I run into readers of my column, they tell me how much they love to read about my memories from bygone days. They asked if I could write more of them. They shared them with their children and ...

When I was growing up in the 1970s and early 1980s, my great-grandmother was still using a Maytag wringer washing machine that her family purchased in 1928. Saturday was wash day, and we'd spend the ...

Inspecting rows of gleaming machines in white and beige, Toni Dire remembered her grandmother as a laundry slave, bent for hours over an ancient wringer-washer to help keep the family fresh. "I would ...

i remember these washing machines when i was a child the smell of wash day the clothes going through the wringer hot steam rising out of the tub and a constant fear of getting my fingers trapped in ...

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Being born where and when I did, I caught the tail end of the wringer wash machine era, a time when "doing the wash" was a day-long task you didn't walk away from.