Comments on: Student laundry in the 1950s by mail, male, or the Hobby Shoppe /news/2016/05/06/bates-laundry-in-the-1950s-by-mail-male-or-at-the-hobby-shoppe/ Fri, 06 May 2016 20:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.3 By: Melanie Abbott /news/2016/05/06/bates-laundry-in-the-1950s-by-mail-male-or-at-the-hobby-shoppe/#comment-262943 Fri, 06 May 2016 20:49:00 +0000 /news/?p=101152#comment-262943 When I moved into Whittier as a freshman in 1969 there were wooden washboards in the basement (beside the one washer and dryer) – my mother had lived in the same house when she was at ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ 25 years earlier and she was sure they were the same washboards. I never saw anyone use them – I used to walk down to Lewiston to use a laundromat.

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