In their heyday, washboards were instruments of laundry day drudgery. Today they're more likely to be instruments of good clean fun, as Conor Knighton now tells us: For serious players of the ...

“A few words about washing,” the Lewes newspaper, Breakwater Light, commented in 1873, “Put your clothes in a good suds the day before washing, in the morning wash out of the water, warming it by the ...

Doing laundry has to be one of the most annoying tasks you have to do as an adult. It feels like just when you get a load finished, there's another waiting in the dirty laundry basket. And you ...

Just say the words "retro" or "vintage" these days and you elicit all kinds of romantic and nostalgic thoughts about the way people used to live. Although our idyllic visions of periods like the 1950s ...

Every time I see a washboard in an antique shop, flea market or thrift shop, I can't resist looking at it to see if it's unique enough to buy for my laundry room and add it to the few that I already ...

The Columbus Washboard Co. sold more than a million boards a year in its 1940s heyday. That was when wood-and-corrugated-steel boards were used for scrubbing clothing and linens by hand in a washtub ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wide variety of washboards and other items are available at the factory gift shop. LOGAN — The last washboard manufacturer in ...