Old Time Clothes Dryer
March 26, 2007
I was driving down the road today when I had to pull over and take this picture. I can’t remember the last time I saw clothes drying outside on a clothes line. Here in the USA most people I know have clothes dryer in their home to dry their clothes. What about your town, how do you dry your clothes?
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Olivier | March 26, 2007 at 9:26 am
belle collection de linges à faire secher ;o) beau coup d’oeil du photographe
beautiful collection of linens to make dry ;O) beautiful glance of the photographer
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Isabella | March 26, 2007 at 9:53 am
Ha! Have you been to Italy?
While we lived in Paris, although we had a washer, we had to dry our laundry on clothes lines criss-crossing our turn-of-the-century, elegant salon
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Edwin | March 26, 2007 at 10:01 am
I have a washer but still dry my clothes under the sun. there’s nothing like it. Also saves on dryer sheets, doesn’t it?
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lessie | March 26, 2007 at 1:57 pm
My neighbor dries her clothes on the line and I’m always amused to see her son’s underwear. (He’s in his 60s, so it’s not little.
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I totally totally recongize this apartment complex. I drove by it often heading to downtown. I can’t remember the name of the street though — Gervais? No…Forest Drive? I bet the resident doesn’t have a dryer. It’s MUCH easier to hang on the line than cart the clothes to the laundry mat. (I’m very grateful for my w/d.
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Annie | March 26, 2007 at 2:06 pm
It’s been years since I have hung out clothes. And no one does it in my neighborhood now. If I saw this sight, I’d pull over to photograph it too.
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Denton | March 26, 2007 at 7:49 pm
We had a cloths line when my wife and I were first married. We borrowed the money to purchase a washing machine after the arrive of our first child but held off on expense the dryer for several years. Now we could no live without the dryer.
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Andrew | March 26, 2007 at 10:13 pm
I like all the pink. Are they yours?
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Abraham Lincoln - oldmanlincoln | March 27, 2007 at 7:51 am
Wow. Does this bring back old memories. My mom used to hang clothes out on a wire clothesline. It was number 9 “clothesline” wire. And once in my lifetime, back then, I had to go to our store, in our village, and buy a new piece of wire. It was rolled up. And galvanized so it wouldn’t rust right away. I remember me and my mom had a devil of a time trying to unroll the new wire and stretch it tight.
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Lisa | March 27, 2007 at 8:56 am
After reading an article on the environment earlier this month, I am trying to do my small part and have just started using the clothes line in our laundry room to dry about 3/4 of the clothes. My 6 year old this morning said “Mom, why are my jeans always crusty lately?”. Those dryer sheets do work wonders.
Maybe I could rub it on the clothes before hanging them – HA!
~Lisa
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annulla | March 27, 2007 at 11:51 pm
Nice shot! I know very few people here who have their own washing or drying machines; most apartments forbid them. The average person uses coin-operated machines or a laundry service.