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When I was a newborn, my mother washed our clothes, including diapers, on a washboard in a tub at their rowhouse in Baltimore. This was during the war.

Then when I married my Airman II, we were sent to Alamogordo where the only apartments we could find were in an old downtown house. There was no place for a washing machine inside. Someone left an old wringer washer outside and I used it with a rinsing tub. Probably there was a laundry nearby, but we had to pinch every penny.

My parents grew up in Appalachia during the depression and scenes like this were common even when I was a child. My grandma used to feed folks coming barefoot out of the backcountry pretending to visit, but were actually hungry.

bayhome43

. . . heartbreaking. This is similar to the younger brother of Ray Charles, who drowned in his mother's wash tub. Life was hard for so many before we had the conveniences we have today - even during my father's childhood in Mobile, Alabama (1920's) the clothes were washed outside with tubs. And of course little children often died of measles, whooping cough, and things we don't consider at all dangerous today. My mother had a little brother who died before the age of three who is always spoken of as a member of our family - little Oliver - and someone we hope to see again one wonderful day! ☺♥☺

RandyWI

Oh my Lord. What a horrible, terrible thing to happen to your mom's family. That is surely one of the everyday dangers of life back then, that barely crosses our minds now. Your story has deeply touched me.

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