A trip through the appliances aisle in your favorite secondhand store produces some pretty amazing finds. For example, it's the place to nab the antique washing machine you've been wanting for that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

PLATTSBURGH — The world is a long way from the days of gasoline-powered wringer washing machines, says Wilson Appliance Centers President Nathan Wilson. A century to be exact.

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