Like Clockwork on Wash Day

Reader Contribution by Jim Glascock

|Published on June 6, 2018

A reader shares his wash day childhood memories.

I can still see and hear my mom call my dad and say, “Joe, come start this confounded washer” when she could not get enough kick to start the Maytag engine. It only happened every week on wash day.

Jim Glascock, Cedar Grove, Indiana

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