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 ...

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 ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LOGAN, Ohio (WJW) — There is only one ...

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 ...

Take a walk down memory lane with these cleaning tools, like washboards and wallpaper dough, that were once revolutionary, ...