Back then…..Nostalgic…..When products were better built with exceptional quality materials….when plastic was not even in the thought and came to get everyone sick!!
@@overload65 I used to have one. But it looked like in the pictures all he was showing were manual carpet sweepers and the funny thing is he didn’t mention manual. he just mentioned electric. According to the video, it sounded like all carpet sweepers were electric.
In 1979 I had no washer or dryer. my mother bought a ringer washer and 2 tubs for $10 at a garage sale and my brother's brought it over to me. It was the best investment she ever made. I had 4 children at the time one was a newborn, I still did cloth diapers on a regular basis. The disposable ones were for when we traveled or went visiting. Those diapers were sparkling clean as well as the rest of the clothes. And it cleaned my husband's blue jeans for work Magnificently. And that's when blue jeans were heavy-duty blue jeans.
My aunt what would be described as a utility room now with two big porcelain sinks wash board mangle , and a pully ect, I remember thinking how posh it was she had a seperate room for this stuff,we had our sink in the same room as our living area and a pull down from the wall bed.
@@deewaddle10 Yes I too remember many of those appliances. I remember helping my mom with the laundry using a wringer washer. I thought I was so big! Those were the days!
That’s to let you know, how dangerous they were. I had a neighbor, whose daughter almost lost her arm in one. Had to have major surgery. I remember my grandmother, getting caught also, but she managed to get away from it. They could just suck you in.
The carpet sweepers were not electric, they were manually operated. Pushing & pulling them caused gears or rollers to turn the brushes, there was nothing electric about them & kids were given the job of running these sweepers for moms.
Still used our wall mounted rotary phone until 2006. No power - no problem! 😁 I only stopped using it because I moved. It was the avocado green and was installed in 1963.
@@Lucylou7070Back circa 1970 I took the B55 bus from my school to 126th Street 2 blocks from my house. I read the builder's plate of the GM bus it had the month and the year it was built .... 1949! The B55 had the oldest buses of the New York City Transit Authority. The B56 had the modern 1960s buses with sliding windows. 😊
That Maytag machine was great. Sheets and towels first, work clothes last or throw rugs. My Mother always watched those wringers and warned me not to touch. Used through the 50s and some 60s,Never wore out and kept it for the rugs.
@@georgiafrye2815 Yes we had that Maytag Armstrong..only square wringer machine in history ...you start with delicates and then to lint free whites to towels and bedding .. and do work clothes .. change water to do darks and more work clothes ...change water and start over again ad repeat and change water if needed to for rinsing ...and yes had fingers and wrist caught once ..nothing severe ... Now have a mini washer with great agitation and a spinner .. NO need for long washes or spinning ...but cleans great.. had hand washed all for about 15 years till unable to do so .. wish had found these machines along time ago
I go caught in one of those ringers, I was eight years old. I was playing with the ringers, next minute, up to my arm in it. I hollowed out in shock, but the shock I received from mum was the worst, and hurt.
@nancyrea3863 give me a machine with at very least 10 year life .. I have a small Hoover washer spinner from the 70's still just need to hook the new belt ...
1:35 When my dad was a kid (in the early 1930s), they had an ice box. The ice man came twice a week. As the ice melted, it dripped into a bowl below the icebox, and Taffy (his dog) would drink from that. To his dying day, dad always called the refrigerator, "the ice box."
There's a great movie scene, wish I could remember the Movie (sorry) when a prissy model-type gets stranded at some last ditch motel, and declares she is calling to have somebody come pick her up, and is completely stumped by the rotary dial; sort of pokes at the holes in befuddlement. so cute!
I think that fifty years ago there were fewer telemarketers. So many now no longer have a land line and just use a cell. And the telemarketers have auto dialers, but we have caller ID, so we can ignore them.
I grew up with the ringer washer. You learned early to respect the rollers! Monday and Thursday were wash days. You would fill the wash tub with hot water using a hose attached to the faucet. Started with the whites and worked to the darks. After the wash the clothes were put through the wringers and each load was stacked. At the end of the wash cycle you would empty the wash tub and refill with cold water. Back the clothes went lights to dark as they were rinsed , put through the wringers and finally hung on the line to dry.
@@sharonbapp9613 ah yes, that wringer got me now and again! We didn't get electricity till 1954, in our house, so ice chest and kero lamps and wood fuelled stoves were my childhood.
@@sharonbapp9613 I can share the same story as you. My sister was born 1961 & it was then that my Dad bought my mother a top loading washer. She hated it. She said it didn't get the clothes as clean as the wringer. She & I went to used appliance stores locally and bought ourselves a couple of wringers and loved them!! I still miss hanging out my wash.
when I was a kid we lived off grid, icebox, ringer washer, outhouse, rootcellar, wood stove, kerosene lamps, pressure cooker to preserve food, butterchurn, , milk separator, lots of firewood, It was a hard life in northernmost wisconsin, I remember -60° where the house doors were frozen shut. I told myself that when I grew up I never wanted to live that way. such a hard life it was. I love modern living, electricity, oil heat, refrigerators, air conditioning, etc.
@@colleenlouise4521 do you remember hanging out the washa d having the clothes freeze solid on the line? When you brought them in and they defrosted they were as wet as when you hung them out!😂
I remember my mother using a wringer washer. She also carried buckets of water from a stream that ran through our property to fill the machine. She was only 4’ 10” tall but her physical strength was astonishing.
Had a wringer washer when I went flatting - well after the 1960s. Wish they were still available - did a better job wish less water and detergent as well as extending the life of articles as you could manage wash time length.
"Hand crank food processors?" That is a grinder. You could do a lot of tasks, but the phrase "food processor" was a 70’s thing with the electric device.
Back then manufactures competed with each other to make the most reliable product now they compete to make the most unreliable to make billions on products designed to fail.
It's more the case that consumers started to demand cheaper appliances so the manufacturers had to listen and do as they were asked (or risk going out of business). Cheaper goods meant a reduction in quality. Consumers got what they wanted - but now they complain that things don't last. No pleasing some people.
I believe that all these things exist. In fact, I have a number of tube radios and have been repairing these and others for many years. I also have rotary dial telephones!
I'm 76 and one of my jobs as a child was to help Mum with mangling the washing. It was very big, painted red and the handle was quite hard to turn. It did a good job though! Loved the Amish gentleman showing us his icebox!
I remember quite a few of these appliances. My aunt had the wringer washer. My mom had one of those toasters where you opened the flaps on the sides, put the bread in push a button to light up the element and toast your bread. We had a coal stove and my mom used that to heat up the iron. (My bother still has the iron and uses it as a door as a doorstop. We also had a kettle to boil water. She also had one of the electric coffee machines, which I now own. Those old coffee grinders where you crank a handle to grind the coffee beans. Her fridge only had a small freezer. These some of the appliances I remember that my mom had. 😊
I grew up using a ringer washer & always loved them . I liked that you chose how much water & how long to let your clothing wash . I would love to have one now . These modern washers use too much water and soap . I also loved how the clothing smells after drying outside
5:20 In the 1970s, I was taught that the first thing you should look at is a man's shoes ... So yes, I had shoe shining brushes, polish, polishing towels ... and kept my and my dad's shoes shiny and nice.
When Hurricane Helene visited, she destroyed cell phone towers and I was without phone service for 13 days. As a part of my recovery efforts, I installed a rotary phone. Now, as long as the lines aren't down, I have phone service.
@@ghw7192NICE !!!!! not to mention the old rotary dials were more than capable of subduing a home intruder. Also, I really feel bad for Gen Z and most millennials who never got to experience the fine art of swiftly ending a conversation gone sour by slamming the hand set on the cradle while the other party is still yelling when they hear a loud CLACK! followed by the dial tone 🤣😉 Jokes aside, but Gen Z and most millennials really under appreciate just how reliable and robust mid 20th century equipment can be . Nowadays if your $2,500 Samsung refrigerator lasts more than 5 years you'd swear you purchased a quality product. Unlike the appliances from before the early 90s made in the USA that typically lasted for decades and only replaced because the looks were outdated like the avocado green and harvest gold kitchen appliances that defined the 1970s
@@rarelampcollectorOMG!! We had all these appliances (stove, fridge, washer/dryer in avocado. Later same in harvest gold plus the dish washer). All purchased from Sears & Roebuck. These appliances lasted forever! The dishwasher worked from 1975 until 2001!
check to make sure your land line uses hard wire copper service. i recently moved and the only phone service available was use voice over IP. so if your cell/internet is unavailable, there's no phone service.
Remember those things, unfortunately when we modernised life, we stopped living, today everyone is either on a phone or a laptop or glued to the TV, not to mention how immoral the world has become, life was much harder then but a thousand times better.
I still use: stove top perculator, a "Dover" egg beater, "Griswold" cast iron skillets and a waffle iron with a No. 8 base, a circa 70s "Sunbeam" Mixmaster, several 50s era "Mirro" pressure cookers, and a piece mealed set of "Revere Ware Chef's Request" pot and pans. Yes, I bake my own bread, too.
I have my Mama's Revere Ware 2 quart double boiler and use the pot nearly every day. I can remember standing on a stool and stirring homemade puddings in the double boiler. Seemed like it took hours, but the result was worth it! I also have the 1 quart pot and the small soup pot, used daily. Also have the Dutch oven. All copper bottomed.
I use a stove top perculator to. I also have a oster 10 speed blender , rival crockpot harvest gold , 2 transisstor radio's an two wood consol stereo's all from the 1970's. I was born in march 1954.
In the 1950s our wood cookstove had a "water front" or "water jacket" to automatically heat the water, which was stored in a pressurized tank behind and above the stove,
My grandmother heated her house with a Mealmaster wood / coal kitchen range. It had a pipe that coiled around the firebox which was attached to a tall copper tank which sat behind the stove and was fed by the cold water supply, and delivered the heated water to use in the house for bathing, or doing dishes in the kitchen. For laundry she heated water in large copper "wash boilers" on top of the stove, and would pour the water from them into her wringer washing machine. She had a 2 tub rinse stand. When the clothes had run through the cycle long enough in the washer, she would run them through the wringer into the first tub to rinse out the soap. For colors the second tub would be filled with just more hot water, and she would run them through the wringer again and rinse them a second time in that second tub before a final wring out, after which she hung them on the clothesline. for whites the second rinse tub would be filled with hot water also, but to that water she would add "bluing" which made them look even whiter and brighter.
@@TooLooze We those such heaters to keep our remote pumphouses from freezing. (I use a small one, backed by an old box fan to blow heat onto the well head.) My electric bill usually doubles in winter.
@ You have a valid point. A furnace can spread dust or smoke from one room into the entire house. But even when dust or smoke is not a problem, when used in conjunction with a central furnace , space heaters can allow the main furnace to be set at a lower temperature for the rest of the house while allowing individual rooms to be set at the temperature most comfortable for the person or people in that room.
@@dmandman9 That may have been when they had motorized rollers. The only other thing to stop it would be if someone came into the room and saw you stuck in it.
I’ve bought a few of those old wringer washers over the years and turned them into beverage coolers for parties and patios. Just add ice and your favorite canned drinks. The washer already has a drain hose attached and a lid to keep the cold in. On your percolator coffee segment I noticed the coffee mug said “Wolf Pack Cafe - St. German, Wisconsin “. We have been going there for years. Great food up in the Northwoods. 👍
My mom had her wringer washer from the age of 21, age of marriage, until she went to live with my sister at the age of 74, after a stroke. I helped with the laundry when I reached a height of 4ft 10in. Age meant nothing. Height did for safety. My own wringer washer was bought in 1963. AND laundry was hung on a clothes line during mom’s years, every Monday, except for rain and snow.
There was a reason why many older folks called the refrigerator an "icebox". Same function, different method. When I was a kid, I saw a lot of churners at garage sales
When I was a child, my mother had a wringer washer that had two tubs divided by a wringer. My grandmother had a spring house on one of her properties. The spring house kept produce very fresh. My siblings and I would frequently sneak into spring house for a snack.😊
My husband said his mother had one & he got his arm caught in it as a little boy- so Yes it Can happen pretty easy. (No real harm done he’s fine- he was Lucky)✌️
We were a family of 7 living over the family’s corner taproom in the Midwest. My mom and us 5 girls used a wringer washer in the basement to wash clothes until 1970. In summer we hauled dry clothes down, wet clothes up and hung them up on a clothesline installed on a second story flat roof to dry…and in winter we used the clotheslines in the basement. Our ironing board was permanently installed in our small kitchen. And we felt blessed for what we had.
The push sweepers shown weren’t electric. The brushes were turned by the wheels attached to the brush shaft. Also, the mangles shown on some of the washing machines had automatic releases if your hand or clothes got caught. It still hurt, but eliminated most bone breaks.
With the exception of the electric shoe dryer, I am familiar with these things from my great grandparents generation to my early childhood. Doesn't make me feel old, but they do make me feel nostalgic.
She knew how dangerous it was and just didn't want anyone getting pinched in it. Really these days people might mistake them for some kind of medieval torture device.
Carpet sweepers did NOT have motors. The brushes turned when hand pushed by the long handle. Crumbs were caught in a tray beside the brushes. They are still used in homes and restaurants.
One clear symbol in the 1950's that the Ricardos were moving up the economic ladder and the Kramdens weren't was that the Ricardos had an electric refrigerator and the Kramdens had an ice box. I think that's why I loved Lucy and didn't love watching Ralph as a kid. The life of the Kramdens never improved. The Ricardos had a child, made upgrades in their furniture, took trips to Hollywood and Europe, ostensibly for Ricky's job, and eventually moved to a home in Connecticut. The Kramdens seemed to be forever stuck in the Depression era that Gleason grew up in. I so well remember there were no curtains or blinds on the windows of the front room of their tiny apartment on Chauncey St. I felt so bad for them.
Rotary phones were heavy so that they wouldn’t slide around when you dialed a number. The first Princess phones had the dial on the base and were practically unusable until they moved the dial to the handset.
I remember having a wringer washer when I was a child in the 1970s... We never had a dryer. Laundry was hung outside on the clothes dryer on fine sunny days, and hung on clothes racks in the sunroom when it was wet. The sun room (thats what we called it) was a room with 3 outside walls being mostly glass - maybe 2 feet of brick wall and 8 feet of glass. Pretty much all the rest of these products were from the 50s and 60s, before I can remember.
My mom used the hand crank food processor mostly to grind meat for meatloafs and hamburger patties- used the wringer washing machine ( Maytag) in our covered back porch and used galvanized wash tubs for rinsing . we has a gas stove ( older than dirt , even then ), where she used a blue enamel coffee pot until the late 1950’s. We were the last people in the neighborhood to get a television - we didn’t get a phone until 1963! The good old days! Not exactly, but very ok. Sooooooo happy with my IPad and Iphone and all of today’s “ household goodies ”. Thanks 🙏 for the “ memories”.
I was years back in the mids of Thailand and China in a small villages and there they still had ice boxes and meat safes. Vacum cofeemakers are still sold until today in Asia. I was on holiday in Italy and many people still use the perculator and are still sold world wide. The shoebuff machine and toaster oven with rolers I see in many hotels. Iron stoves are still sold in America and Canada for the outback as centrall heating and cooking. Wood fire water heathers are still sold, they look different but they heat your leaving room and also the water for centrall heating system. Radiant heather I still see in many DIY stores. The carpet sweepers are not electric and still sold on as seen on TV a couple of years ago.
I grew up in a series of rented Victorian and Edwardian flats. They had utility porches which consisted of a laundry hopper and a cooler, which was built with a netting in the back facing outside for keeping foods fresh. They also had trash burning stoves. They were huge, made of cast iron and had 4 burners and an oven, which were gas. On the side, was a compartment with two extra burner lids, which were removable with a crow bar. These were used to burn trash. Perhaps they originally were coal burning and used to heat irons, but they kept the kitchen and the coffee warm. I often wish I had one today instead of having to use a shredder. I still have my rotary phone, which I didn't stop using until the late 90's when it was no longer compatible with the building intercom. Those phones were made to last by Western Electric. They almost never malfunctioned.
My mom had a wringer washer when l was a baby. I remember her saying it would often break buttons on the clothes. My grandmother had one too. I remember the old 1950s refrigerators with the tiny metal freezer compartment.
I still own the Ring Washing Machine and 75 year old Refrigerator that my Family once had, both of them are still in the basement of our Family owned Apartment Building.
A "mangle wringer washer" is really not a thing. A mangle is a device used to press (i.e. iron) fabric. A wringer, though similar in appearance, is used to squeeze water out of fabric. Therefore the proper term for the appliance is a "wringer washer".
Growing up in Germany in the 1950’s we called these wringers “Mangel”. My grandma had one, and as a little kid I would love putting wet clothes through the wringer by cranking the handle! I think there was a bit of magic involved. Then there also were the more commercial “Heissmangel”. (Hot Mangel). Those were made of 2 large hot rollers. You fed large pieces of dry laundry through, such as bed sheets or tablecloths, in effect ironing them. The Heissmangel looked much like the wringer, only much larger, and it was electric.
My grandmother used a wringer washer into the 1960s. It was in our basement. She also used a stick to separate clothes during the agitation process (there was no cover on the drum). That stick was so whitened it looked like a whale bone.
I remember the wringer washing machine, the coal furnace, the icebox and the iceman, and the floor model radio with it's orangish dial and Sunday night programs. For some reason I don't recall programs on other days. We children sat on the floor in front of the radio and watched the magic. I recall getting a transistor radio for my 12th birthday and thought I was in heaven!
Another feature of percolators is the coffee is piping hot. I have to give my pod coffee 45 seconds in the Microwave in order to get the temp up to a reasonable level. I also preheat the cup in the micro with a few teaspoons of water . Otherwise the cold ceramic cup instantly cools the pod coffee.
One of my happiest childhood memories... Waking up to the smell of coffee and hearing the "burble and hiss" of the electric percolator. Mom and Dad talking in low tones as he got ready for work. ❤
I'm all for all these labor-saving devices but if you have never smelled clothes that were allowed to dry on a line in the back yard in the sunshine and fresh air, you do not know how good smelling clothes can be. Clothing that is dried in a dryer with a sheet of fabric softener is not even close!
Coffee pots that drip leave you with raw coffee that is hard on stomachs ... boiled coffee is cooked coffee and more tasty and uses less grounds and better for health ...
I didn't forget it, I was back then. I'm just thankful for how far we've come. Just looking back to the 80s, I have to wonder, how'd we ever done without the cellular phones📱 remember the pay phones 🤦
When I was a child, my great-grandmother still used her wringer washer, and I did catch my fingers in it, out of curiosity. We also used a carpet sweeper. In the 60’s, we had a hand-cranked ice crusher.
I miss my wringer washer. Cleanest clothes ever. Now I have a front loader and I hate that thing, dirtiest clothes ever. Saves water, wastes electricity. I at least have my old percolator, best coffee ever. Smooth low acid and no plastic after taste.
My grandma had a wringer washer. She would sit me on a stool on the other side of the wringer to catch socks she put through. We had a rotary phone in the 1950’s but in my grandma’s town, you picked up the receiver, listened to see if your neighbor was on a call, to hear the operator say,”Number please.”
I've heard that my 2nd Great Grandmother was doing laundry with the wringer washing machine. One day, her scarf got caught in the machine and some how she got tangled up. She ended up passing away. She died in 1916.
Wringer washers are so much better and very hard to find... still something that some of would rather use than machines that waste water and time of electricity ... new machines only good for blankets and big coats
Wringer washer was in my home in the mid-'70's. I was a child, but I helped "catch" the clothes as they came out the back side of the wringer, and laid them in the wash tub to be hung out to dry.
Years ago, I had a conventional wringer washer. I loved it, but the drying process was more difficult since the clothes line was at a distance. My conventional wringer washer was a Maytag that I bought at an auction!
That was my first washing machine when I was 18. I couldn't afford a regular washing machine so I bought one used. I'm only 65, I figured it was cheaper than going to the Laundromat
Still have my Maytag wringer washer,going on 60 yrs,I'm 78.And it still works.
Yup. Built to last!
Back when products weren't designed to break after a few years
@@PatriciaDILLON-o8x sure wish I could still find one Only Amish have wringers separate from tubs
Back then…..Nostalgic…..When products were better built with exceptional quality materials….when plastic was not even in the thought and came to get everyone sick!!
WHEN AMERICA MADE THEM
Carpet sweepers are NOT electric!
@@wmalden actually some are my Bissell is it's a modern day version of the old type
But the picture he showed were of manual carpet sweepers
@@Gearset807 You can still get battery powered carpet sweepers today, I have one. They are very powerful.
@@overload65 I used to have one. But it looked like in the pictures all he was showing were manual carpet sweepers and the funny thing is he didn’t mention manual. he just mentioned electric. According to the video, it sounded like all carpet sweepers were electric.
@@wmalden still used today for a quick easy sweep up. Works great
In 1979 I had no washer or dryer. my mother bought a ringer washer and 2 tubs for $10 at a garage sale and my brother's brought it over to me. It was the best investment she ever made. I had 4 children at the time one was a newborn, I still did cloth diapers on a regular basis. The disposable ones were for when we traveled or went visiting. Those diapers were sparkling clean as well as the rest of the clothes. And it cleaned my husband's blue jeans for work Magnificently. And that's when blue jeans were heavy-duty blue jeans.
Nobody remember a washboard?
My aunt what would be described as a utility room now with two big porcelain sinks wash board mangle , and a pully ect, I remember thinking how posh it was she had a seperate room for this stuff,we had our sink in the same room as our living area and a pull down from the wall bed.
Yep, I remember back as a young kid, my parents had one of those old washing machines with a wringer.
The cloth diapers washed in Ivory Snow smelled so nice! After they were washed, I hung them on the line to air dry. They were so soft.
The wringer washer never broke. Did a better job! I loved my mother’s.
@@francesjanelongley2002 But it crushed your fingers and caught your hair
@@shadrach6299if you were not careful
I know I'm old when at least half of these items, we had when I was growing up. In so many ways, it was so much better back then!
Agree!
@@deewaddle10 Yes I too remember many of those appliances. I remember helping my mom with the laundry using a wringer washer. I thought I was so big! Those were the days!
Sure was and in some cases not needed because you would need a bigger kitchen or a walk in panrty
People did Not need spas or gyms to go thru when you got enough exercise at home doing work
Nothing electric about carpet sweepers the power was YOU pushing them back and forth !😅😂
Now everyone here knows what it means to be "put through the ringer".
Or the meat grinder!
That’s to let you know, how dangerous they were. I had a neighbor, whose daughter almost lost her arm in one. Had to have major surgery. I remember my grandmother, getting caught also, but she managed to get away from it. They could just suck you in.
I am today years old in finding out where this saying comes from.
*wringer
The carpet sweepers were not electric, they were manually operated. Pushing & pulling them caused gears or rollers to turn the brushes, there was nothing electric about them & kids were given the job of running these sweepers for moms.
Plenty of those around, but we had a Kirby vacuum bought in 1953, the year I was born, and used it into the 1970s when it finally crapped.
@@maxon-m3c Oh no! Now you've reminded me of 'The Brave Little Toaster', and I need a little cry.
@@Anthony-l3z1d wr had one ad well. I was going to mention the same thing..not electric!
Still got one.sweeper that is.
And, having no suction and lacking a motor in the sweeper head, they picked up at best surface litter.
Rptary phones were built like tanks and lasted a lifetime.
I still have a touch-tone that I bought in the 1980s...it is one tough unit!
everything seemed to last longer back then.
Still used our wall mounted rotary phone until 2006. No power - no problem! 😁 I only stopped using it because I moved. It was the avocado green and was installed in 1963.
@@Lucylou7070Back circa 1970 I took the B55 bus from my school to 126th Street 2 blocks from my house. I read the builder's plate of the GM bus it had the month and the year it was built .... 1949! The B55 had the oldest buses of the New York City Transit Authority. The B56 had the modern 1960s buses with sliding windows. 😊
@@Lucylou7070 far less plastic is why
I don’t recall conveyor belt toasters being a household appliance, but rather a commercial one. And one that is still used a lot today
Never saw one. I have a "Toast-O-Lator from the '40s, that takes vertical toast through a series of elements and drops it out the other end.
Some chain pizza places have pizza ovens that use the same concept.
They were too big & bulky to sit on kitchen counters as kitchens were smaller & space was a premium.
I recall our toaster didn't "Pop-up", it contained a spring motor that caused the toast to rise slowly from the toaster after the handle was pushed.
@@jameslocopo4742 By knowledge as well they were only institutional here
That Maytag machine was great. Sheets and towels first, work clothes last or throw rugs. My Mother always watched those wringers and warned me not to touch. Used through the 50s and some 60s,Never wore out and kept it for the rugs.
@@georgiafrye2815 Yes we had that Maytag Armstrong..only square wringer machine in history ...you start with delicates and then to lint free whites to towels and bedding .. and do work clothes .. change water to do darks and more work clothes ...change water and start over again ad repeat and change water if needed to for rinsing ...and yes had fingers and wrist caught once ..nothing severe ...
Now have a mini washer with great agitation and a spinner .. NO need for long washes or spinning ...but cleans great.. had hand washed all for about 15 years till unable to do so .. wish had found these machines along time ago
I go caught in one of those ringers, I was eight years old. I was playing with the ringers, next minute, up to my arm in it. I hollowed out in shock, but the shock I received from mum was the worst, and hurt.
@kamauwikeepa7308 Am pretty sure I know what you mean ...😂
Now appliances that cost thousands last about 5 years.
@nancyrea3863 give me a machine with at very least 10 year life .. I have a small Hoover washer spinner from the 70's still just need to hook the new belt ...
1:35 When my dad was a kid (in the early 1930s), they had an ice box. The ice man came twice a week. As the ice melted, it dripped into a bowl below the icebox, and Taffy (his dog) would drink from that.
To his dying day, dad always called the refrigerator, "the ice box."
My mother grew up with one as well, same era. Her father cut the ice in the winter and stored it in an ice house cut into the north face of a hill.
My husband always said ice box as well. I am 74 and remember my Grandmother's ice box.
@@dbw825 An older woman from my church calls it the fridgedaire
During the Time of Rotary Phones, it was More Difficult for Telemarketers & Telescammers to get a hold of you.
@@davedruid7427
Amen to this
Would love to be able to go poof from these folks
🎯
There's a great movie scene, wish I could remember the Movie (sorry) when a prissy model-type gets stranded at some last ditch motel, and declares she is calling to have somebody come pick her up, and is completely stumped by the rotary dial; sort of pokes at the holes in befuddlement. so cute!
Party lines.
I think that fifty years ago there were fewer telemarketers. So many now no longer have a land line and just use a cell. And the telemarketers have auto dialers, but we have caller ID, so we can ignore them.
I used a wringer washer all of the 1990’s. Loved it I think it did a much better job at getting things clean.😊
I grew up with the ringer washer. You learned early to respect the rollers! Monday and Thursday were wash days. You would fill the wash tub with hot water using a hose attached to the faucet. Started with the whites and worked to the darks. After the wash the clothes were put through the wringers and each load was stacked. At the end of the wash cycle you would empty the wash tub and refill with cold water. Back the clothes went lights to dark as they were rinsed , put through the wringers and finally hung on the line to dry.
@@sharonbapp9613 ah yes, that wringer got me now and again! We didn't get electricity till 1954, in our house, so ice chest and kero lamps and wood fuelled stoves were my childhood.
I remember those days also
I used one in the 90's loved it but it did break a few buttons
@@sharonbapp9613 I can share the same story as you. My sister was born 1961 & it was then that my Dad bought my mother a top loading washer. She hated it. She said it didn't get the clothes as clean as the wringer. She & I went to used appliance stores locally and bought ourselves a couple of wringers and loved them!! I still miss hanging out my wash.
News flash: Wringer washer were made by Speed Queen until 1996.
Maytag made them into the 1980s, mostly for sale to third world countries.
Wow! I did not know that.
Still.made today. Amish quakers etc.
when I was a kid we lived off grid, icebox, ringer washer, outhouse, rootcellar, wood stove, kerosene lamps, pressure cooker to preserve food, butterchurn, , milk separator, lots of firewood, It was a hard life in northernmost wisconsin, I remember -60° where the house doors were frozen shut. I told myself that when I grew up I never wanted to live that way. such a hard life it was. I love modern living, electricity, oil heat, refrigerators, air conditioning, etc.
@@colleenlouise4521 do you remember hanging out the washa d having the clothes freeze solid on the line? When you brought them in and they defrosted they were as wet as when you hung them out!😂
@@colleenlouise4521 What no coal! 😀 I remember a lot of what you said living in NYS. And I agree. Yes, thank goodness for modern technology.
I remember my mother using a wringer washer. She also carried buckets of water from a stream that ran through our property to fill the machine. She was only 4’ 10” tall but her physical strength was astonishing.
In 1950s suburbia, as a kid, I still remember a few families using wringer washers!
We had a wringer washer until about 1960.
She could have been in the Women's Wrestling Entertainment on TV! 😁
Had a wringer washer when I went flatting - well after the 1960s. Wish they were still available - did a better job wish less water and detergent as well as extending the life of articles as you could manage wash time length.
I can't get enough of these videos!! I'm ready to time travel back to 1984 Keep em coming!
"Hand crank food processors?" That is a grinder. You could do a lot of tasks, but the phrase "food processor" was a 70’s thing with the electric device.
Back then manufactures competed with each other to make the most reliable product now they compete to make the most unreliable to make billions on products designed to fail.
So true. 😪
It's more the case that consumers started to demand cheaper appliances so the manufacturers had to listen and do as they were asked (or risk going out of business).
Cheaper goods meant a reduction in quality. Consumers got what they wanted - but now they complain that things don't last. No pleasing some people.
I absolutely LOVE percolated coffee!!
I love my Farberware percolator...piping hot coffee...❤
And the aroma wafts happily through the house when brewing
I believe that all these things exist. In fact, I have a number of tube radios and have been repairing these and others for many years. I also have rotary dial telephones!
I'm 76 and one of my jobs as a child was to help Mum with mangling the washing. It was very big, painted red and the handle was quite hard to turn. It did a good job though! Loved the Amish gentleman showing us his icebox!
I remember quite a few of these appliances. My aunt had the wringer washer.
My mom had one of those toasters where you opened the flaps on the sides, put the bread in push a button to light up the element and toast your bread.
We had a coal stove and my mom used that to heat up the iron. (My bother still has the iron and uses it as a door as a doorstop. We also had a kettle to boil water.
She also had one of the electric coffee machines, which I now own.
Those old coffee grinders where you crank a handle to grind the coffee beans.
Her fridge only had a small freezer.
These some of the appliances I remember that my mom had. 😊
I grew up using a ringer washer & always loved them . I liked that you chose how much water & how long to let your clothing wash . I would love to have one now . These modern washers use too much water and soap . I also loved how the clothing smells after drying outside
5:20 In the 1970s, I was taught that the first thing you should look at is a man's shoes ...
So yes, I had shoe shining brushes, polish, polishing towels ... and kept my and my dad's shoes shiny and nice.
Head waiters judged men by their shoes. Dirty or scuffed shoes might have resulted in a table next to the kitchen door!
When Hurricane Helene visited, she destroyed cell phone towers and I was without phone service for 13 days. As a part of my recovery efforts, I installed a rotary phone.
Now, as long as the lines aren't down, I have phone service.
@@ghw7192NICE !!!!! not to mention the old rotary dials were more than capable of subduing a home intruder. Also, I really feel bad for Gen Z and most millennials who never got to experience the fine art of swiftly ending a conversation gone sour by slamming the hand set on the cradle while the other party is still yelling when they hear a loud CLACK! followed by the dial tone 🤣😉
Jokes aside, but Gen Z and most millennials really under appreciate just how reliable and robust mid 20th century equipment can be . Nowadays if your $2,500 Samsung refrigerator lasts more than 5 years you'd swear you purchased a quality product. Unlike the appliances from before the early 90s made in the USA that typically lasted for decades and only replaced because the looks were outdated like the avocado green and harvest gold kitchen appliances that defined the 1970s
@@rarelampcollectorOMG!! We had all these appliances (stove, fridge, washer/dryer in avocado. Later same in harvest gold plus the dish washer). All purchased from Sears & Roebuck. These appliances lasted forever! The dishwasher worked from 1975 until 2001!
check to make sure your land line uses hard wire copper service. i recently moved and the only phone service available was use voice over IP. so if your cell/internet is unavailable, there's no phone service.
@sixmax11 Thanks for THE heads up but the phone is working fine.
Most excellent
Remember those things, unfortunately when we modernised life, we stopped living, today everyone is either on a phone or a laptop or glued to the TV, not to mention how immoral the world has become, life was much harder then but a thousand times better.
My maternal grandfather used a truck to sell ice for the iceboxes in San Francisco. It was in the late 20, early 30s.
I still use: stove top perculator, a "Dover" egg beater, "Griswold" cast iron skillets and a waffle iron with a No. 8 base, a circa 70s "Sunbeam" Mixmaster, several 50s era "Mirro" pressure cookers, and a piece mealed set of "Revere Ware Chef's Request" pot and pans.
Yes, I bake my own bread, too.
lol you just made me hungry, a half loaf of nice hot bread and a half pound of butter please
I have my Mama's Revere Ware 2 quart double boiler and use the pot nearly every day. I can remember standing on a stool and stirring homemade puddings in the double boiler. Seemed like it took hours, but the result was worth it! I also have the 1 quart pot and the small soup pot, used daily. Also have the Dutch oven. All copper bottomed.
Cough, cough, cough, and cough! C'MON MAN! 😮🤔😵💫
@@tarnishedknight730 my griswold cast iron is the only way I make cornbread.
I use a stove top perculator to. I also have a oster 10 speed blender , rival crockpot harvest gold , 2 transisstor radio's an two wood consol stereo's all from the 1970's. I was born in march 1954.
In the 1950s our wood cookstove had a "water front" or "water jacket" to automatically heat the water, which was stored in a pressurized tank behind and above the stove,
My grandmother heated her house with a Mealmaster wood / coal kitchen range. It had a pipe that coiled around the firebox which was attached to a tall copper tank which sat behind the stove and was fed by the cold water supply, and delivered the heated water to use in the house for bathing, or doing dishes in the kitchen. For laundry she heated water in large copper "wash boilers" on top of the stove, and would pour the water from them into her wringer washing machine. She had a 2 tub rinse stand. When the clothes had run through the cycle long enough in the washer, she would run them through the wringer into the first tub to rinse out the soap. For colors the second tub would be filled with just more hot water, and she would run them through the wringer again and rinse them a second time in that second tub before a final wring out, after which she hung them on the clothesline. for whites the second rinse tub would be filled with hot water also, but to that water she would add "bluing" which made them look even whiter and brighter.
You can still buy bluing here in WV. I use it occasionally to brighten my whites.
People still use the radiant space heaters to warm cold spots where the central heat doesn’t quite do the job.
I have a couple, but they are enclosed and have fans.
@@TooLooze We those such heaters to keep our remote pumphouses from freezing. (I use a small one, backed by an old box fan to blow heat onto the well head.) My electric bill usually doubles in winter.
@@dmandman9 True, not everybody has central heat either. Portable heaters are sold everywhere these days.
4 room heaters cost less to run than the big furnace and don't blow dust.
@ You have a valid point. A furnace can spread dust or smoke from one room into the entire house. But even when dust or smoke is not a problem, when used in conjunction with a central furnace , space heaters can allow the main furnace to be set at a lower temperature for the rest of the house while allowing individual rooms to be set at the temperature most comfortable for the person or people in that room.
We had a wringer washer when I was a kid. I got my hand caught in the wringer a couple of times. Thankfully it had a safety release.
@@dmandman9 I got my arm caught in the wringer and it crushed my triceps on my left arm. Can’t do three pull-ups!
I knew someone who used a Maytag wringer washer until she died in the mid-'80s.
@ I actually want to find and buy one for old times sake… if it’s affordable.
@@MarylynAdams wow! Yours must not have had the safety release. I don’t know when stay started using that design.
@@dmandman9 That may have been when they had motorized rollers. The only other thing to stop it would be if someone came into the room and saw you stuck in it.
One mistake was the choice of the ice cube tray, it was a 2-piece metal tray, not thin plastic.
I still use mine. Plastic is too hard for me to twist.
Jesus, I'm old!
I’ve bought a few of those old wringer washers over the years and turned them into beverage coolers for parties and patios. Just add ice and your favorite canned drinks. The washer already has a drain hose attached and a lid to keep the cold in.
On your percolator coffee segment I noticed the coffee mug said “Wolf Pack Cafe - St. German, Wisconsin “.
We have been going there for years. Great food up in the Northwoods. 👍
My mom had her wringer washer from the age of 21, age of marriage, until she went to live with my sister at the age of 74, after a stroke.
I helped with the laundry when I reached a height of 4ft 10in. Age meant nothing. Height did for safety.
My own wringer washer was bought in 1963.
AND laundry was hung on a clothes line during mom’s years, every Monday, except for rain and snow.
I remember lawn mowers that you pushed. They did not have a motor. You pushed it by hand.
My dad was still using his push mower inthearly 2000s
There was a reason why many older folks called the refrigerator an "icebox". Same function, different method. When I was a kid, I saw a lot of churners at garage sales
My mom always called the refrigerator an icebox.
still have my Maytag wringer washer and it works and I still use it..
cleans WAY BETTER than modern HE washers1
@@bmwfitness28 my mum had and used one in the 1960's.
That is totally awesome! You must have great upper body strength. ❤❤
Thank you ... this brought back many memory's of growing up in the early 50's !
I still use a hand cranked meat grinder when I make chopped liver. A food processor would turn it into mush.
Same with hamburger.
When I was a child, my mother had a wringer washer that had two tubs divided by a wringer. My grandmother had a spring house on one of her properties. The spring house kept produce very fresh. My siblings and I would frequently sneak into spring house for a snack.😊
Did anyone in your family ever get their hand caught in the wringer washer?
The way the narrator talked, it sounded almost unavoidable LOL
My husband said his mother had one & he got his arm caught in it as a little boy- so Yes it Can happen pretty easy. (No real harm done he’s fine- he was Lucky)✌️
We were a family of 7 living over the family’s corner taproom in the Midwest. My mom and us 5 girls used a wringer washer in the basement to wash clothes until 1970. In summer we hauled dry clothes down, wet clothes up and hung them up on a clothesline installed on a second story flat roof to dry…and in winter we used the clotheslines in the basement. Our ironing board was permanently installed in our small kitchen. And we felt blessed for what we had.
I remember the carpet sweeper, but my mother's was manual, not electric. It was made by Bissell (at least ours was).
The push sweepers shown weren’t electric. The brushes were turned by the wheels attached to the brush shaft. Also, the mangles shown on some of the washing machines had automatic releases if your hand or clothes got caught. It still hurt, but eliminated most bone breaks.
They're called wringers, thus wringer washing machine.
When I was 10 I loved to play with the wringer washing machine!
I actually had a toy one that required D batteries to Swish the water. Didn't use it much due to the need of batteries.
I love coffee. That's why I still use a percolator, just like my parents did. Makes perfect coffee every time
With the exception of the electric shoe dryer, I am familiar with these things from my great grandparents generation to my early childhood. Doesn't make me feel old, but they do make me feel nostalgic.
Nana had a wringer washer. We loved it. Mommy didn't even want us in the kitchen when she used it, but we loved wringing out clothes.
She knew how dangerous it was and just didn't want anyone getting pinched in it. Really these days people might mistake them for some kind of medieval torture device.
Carpet sweepers did NOT have motors. The brushes turned when hand pushed by the long handle. Crumbs were caught in a tray beside the brushes. They are still used in homes and restaurants.
Interesting video, but riddled with errors. 🥴
Please mention some. I would be interested in knowing the errors.
Shoe buffers were seldom in homes.
I actually remember rotary phones. I think my Gma had one.
A few people still had ice boxes as late as the early 1970’s . A few places still didn’t have electricity in backwoods rural areas at that time
One clear symbol in the 1950's that the Ricardos were moving up the economic ladder and the Kramdens weren't was that the Ricardos had an electric refrigerator and the Kramdens had an ice box.
I think that's why I loved Lucy and didn't love watching Ralph as a kid. The life of the Kramdens never improved. The Ricardos had a child, made upgrades in their furniture, took trips to Hollywood and Europe, ostensibly for Ricky's job, and eventually moved to a home in Connecticut. The Kramdens seemed to be forever stuck in the Depression era that Gleason grew up in. I so well remember there were no curtains or blinds on the windows of the front room of their tiny apartment on Chauncey St. I felt so bad for them.
Rotary phones were heavy so that they wouldn’t slide around when you dialed a number. The first Princess phones had the dial on the base and were practically unusable until they moved the dial to the handset.
I’m almost embarrassed by the number of the products showcased in the video that I have actually used.
Back in the 1950s on our farm in Ireland my aunt had a butter churn which she fitted on the top of our washing machine impeller.
I remember having a wringer washer when I was a child in the 1970s... We never had a dryer. Laundry was hung outside on the clothes dryer on fine sunny days, and hung on clothes racks in the sunroom when it was wet. The sun room (thats what we called it) was a room with 3 outside walls being mostly glass - maybe 2 feet of brick wall and 8 feet of glass.
Pretty much all the rest of these products were from the 50s and 60s, before I can remember.
My mom used the hand crank food processor mostly to grind meat for meatloafs and hamburger patties- used the wringer washing machine ( Maytag) in our covered back porch and used galvanized wash tubs for rinsing . we has a gas stove ( older than dirt , even then ), where she used a blue enamel coffee pot until the late 1950’s. We were the last people in the neighborhood to get a television - we didn’t get a phone until 1963! The good old days! Not exactly, but very ok. Sooooooo happy with my IPad and Iphone and all of today’s “ household goodies ”. Thanks 🙏 for the “ memories”.
I was years back in the mids of Thailand and China in a small villages and there they still had ice boxes and meat safes.
Vacum cofeemakers are still sold until today in Asia.
I was on holiday in Italy and many people still use the perculator and are still sold world wide.
The shoebuff machine and toaster oven with rolers I see in many hotels.
Iron stoves are still sold in America and Canada for the outback as centrall heating and cooking.
Wood fire water heathers are still sold, they look different but they heat your leaving room and also the water for centrall heating system.
Radiant heather I still see in many DIY stores.
The carpet sweepers are not electric and still sold on as seen on TV a couple of years ago.
I grew up in a series of rented Victorian and Edwardian flats. They had utility porches which consisted of a laundry hopper and a cooler, which was built with a netting in the back facing outside for keeping foods fresh. They also had trash burning stoves. They were huge, made of cast iron and had 4 burners and an oven, which were gas. On the side, was a compartment with two extra burner lids, which were removable with a crow bar. These were used to burn trash. Perhaps they originally were coal burning and used to heat irons, but they kept the kitchen and the coffee warm. I often wish I had one today instead of having to use a shredder. I still have my rotary phone, which I didn't stop using until the late 90's when it was no longer compatible with the building intercom. Those phones were made to last by Western Electric. They almost never malfunctioned.
My mom had a wringer washer when l was a baby. I remember her saying it would often break buttons on the clothes. My grandmother had one too. I remember the old 1950s refrigerators with the tiny metal freezer compartment.
percolators made the best coffee, stove top ones--far better than the modern ones of today---
I personally have made butter at my aunt and uncle's farm from hand just like shown above.
I was on a wringer washer everyday love it.
I still own the Ring Washing Machine and 75 year old Refrigerator that my Family once had, both of them are still in the basement of our Family owned Apartment Building.
I do miss percolators. The smell could not be beat, and the taste was glorious.
A "mangle wringer washer" is really not a thing. A mangle is a device used to press (i.e. iron) fabric. A wringer, though similar in appearance, is used to squeeze water out of fabric. Therefore the proper term for the appliance is a "wringer washer".
Growing up in Germany in the 1950’s we called these wringers “Mangel”. My grandma had one, and as a little kid I would love putting wet clothes through the wringer by cranking the handle! I think there was a bit of magic involved. Then there also were the more commercial “Heissmangel”. (Hot Mangel). Those were made of 2 large hot rollers. You fed large pieces of dry laundry through, such as bed sheets or tablecloths, in effect ironing them. The Heissmangel looked much like the wringer, only much larger, and it was electric.
Percolators made great coffee
I never used a "Mr. Coffee" maker until the late '70s. A secretary showed me how to work it.
I grew up with my grandparents in the 60's in Australia we had a wood stove for cooking. So good ❤
Carpet Sweepers are still manufactured and sold. I have one. They aren't electric.
@@andytaylor5476 I have a electric carpet sweeper
My Mom still has the wringer washer as her back up plan. I remember doing laundry as a child. Just watch ur fingers.
My grandmother used a wringer washer into the 1960s. It was in our basement. She also used a stick to separate clothes during the agitation process (there was no cover on the drum). That stick was so whitened it looked like a whale bone.
Had one of the washers,got my arm stuck in it had to yell for my mo to pop it open,I was 5 years old😅
I loved washing on these washing machines!
I remember the wringer washing machine, the coal furnace, the icebox and the iceman, and the floor model radio with it's orangish dial and Sunday night programs. For some reason I don't recall programs on other days. We children sat on the floor in front of the radio and watched the magic. I recall getting a transistor radio for my 12th birthday and thought I was in heaven!
Another feature of percolators is the coffee is piping hot. I have to give my pod coffee 45 seconds in the Microwave in order to get the temp up to a reasonable level. I also preheat the cup in the micro with a few teaspoons of water . Otherwise the cold ceramic cup instantly cools the pod coffee.
One of my happiest childhood memories... Waking up to the smell of coffee and hearing the "burble and hiss" of the electric percolator. Mom and Dad talking in low tones as he got ready for work. ❤
I'm all for all these labor-saving devices but if you have never smelled clothes that were allowed to dry on a line in the back yard in the sunshine and fresh air, you do not know how good smelling clothes can be. Clothing that is dried in a dryer with a sheet of fabric softener is not even close!
My Mom had a wringer washer until washateria's/laundry mat. My MIL was still using a wringer machine 45 years ago.
Coffee pots that drip leave you with raw coffee that is hard on stomachs ... boiled coffee is cooked coffee and more tasty and uses less grounds and better for health ...
Percolators which were stand-alone electric had the percolator siphon shut off wken a certain temperature was reached.
I bought a carpet sweeper on Amazon last year. Great for rugs in between vacuums. Yes, they still exist.
I have a glass vacuum coffee maker from the 50s. I still use it, and it makes the best coffee I’ve ever had.
I remember have a TV with tubes in the 1950’s to ‘60’s
I didn't forget it, I was back then. I'm just thankful for how far we've come.
Just looking back to the 80s, I have to wonder, how'd we ever done without the cellular phones📱 remember the pay phones 🤦
When I was a child, my great-grandmother still used her wringer washer, and I did catch my fingers in it, out of curiosity.
We also used a carpet sweeper. In the 60’s, we had a hand-cranked ice crusher.
My sister had a bonnet style hair dryer. She had long Farrah Faucett hair. I had a short Season Hubley shag. I needed no hair dryer
My parents had two battered stovetop percolators (no cord), that were older than they were. Those things lasted at least two lifetimes!
I miss my wringer washer. Cleanest clothes ever. Now I have a front loader and I hate that thing, dirtiest clothes ever. Saves water, wastes electricity. I at least have my old percolator, best coffee ever. Smooth low acid and no plastic after taste.
I had a coffee pot that perked on the stove. Then I found an old electric coffee pot that worked the same way only it was electric
My grandma had a wringer washer. She would sit me on a stool on the other side of the wringer to catch socks she put through. We had a rotary phone in the 1950’s but in my grandma’s town, you picked up the receiver, listened to see if your neighbor was on a call, to hear the operator say,”Number please.”
Those wringer machines got clothes CLEAN.
I've heard that my 2nd Great Grandmother was doing laundry with the wringer washing machine. One day, her scarf got caught in the machine and some how she got tangled up. She ended up passing away. She died in 1916.
Wringer washers are so much better and very hard to find... still something that some of would rather use than machines that waste water and time of electricity ... new machines only good for blankets and big coats
Wringer washer was in my home in the mid-'70's. I was a child, but I helped "catch" the clothes as they came out the back side of the wringer, and laid them in the wash tub to be hung out to dry.
Years ago, I had a conventional wringer washer. I loved it, but the drying process was more difficult since the clothes line was at a distance. My conventional wringer washer was a Maytag that I bought at an auction!
the stove waffle maker kinda makes sense tho as could be stored with pots and pans, instead being another applance taking up counterspace.
That was my first washing machine when I was 18. I couldn't afford a regular washing machine so I bought one used. I'm only 65, I figured it was cheaper than going to the Laundromat
I remember a lot of these items. We had some of them in our home. As a matter of fact I have some in my home.