#clothes wringer

[justbusterkeaton]

The Story Behind Buster’s Missing Fingertip

“On this particular morning when I was not yet three, I wandered out into the back yard of the boardinghouse where we were staying. The hired girl was wringing out the clothes. The wringer fascinated me, and I stuck my index finger in it, crushing it, so that the doctor summoned cut off the finger at the first joint. After he bound it up, I cried myself to sleep”

- Buster Keaton: My Wonderful World of Slapstick 1960

[offthebeatenpathtexas]

Workshop Update. I braved the hotter-than-hell workshop at Fort Kickass and built the shelves I needed for my Study, using the cast iron treadle sewing machine legs I bought a couple of weeks ago.

The wood is all either reclaimed closet shelving or scrap material from my junk wood pile. I sanded the boards enough to make them nice and smooth, but left a lot of the dents, nail holes, and knot holes that give the wood character. The raised section on the top shelf is to provide a place to clamp an old wooden clothes wringer that my Wife bought me a couple years ago.

Now I just need to fill up the shelves with good books and interesting old stuff!

[cryptid-stimming]

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[travelless]

Antique Wooden Hand Wringer

[42soul]

Antique Wooden Hand Wringer by ElFa

[insignificant-moments-in-hi-blog]

Mr. George Hood And His Clothes Wringer

Good old George looks pretty happy with himself there, although maybe not entirely dressed for the occasion if clothes wringing is the order of the day. From the flamboyant frame I would say it is safe to assume that the picture has once been owned by the inventor himself, or may be his proud mother. It is after all not everybody's son who is an inventor. By the way, I got a wringer like that among the rest of the useless utensils and other meaningless objects I have managed to gather up through the years

[detroitlib]

View of an advertising card for Adams Manufacturing Co., depicting a man and woman looking at a clothes wringer. "Adams" is lettered on wringer. Printed on front: "A necessary article to complete our household. Printed on back: Adams Manufacturing Co., No. 18 Gratiot Street, Detroit, Mich. Adams wringers, Keystone 'roll-up' spring mattress, Keystone wringers, American meat choppers, Keystone washers, Adams bread cutters, Penn fluting machines, carpet sweepers, Mrs. Potts' sad irons and other household articles. Sold on 50 [cents] weekly payments or for cash. Every wringer is warranted to have solid white rubber rolls and will be repaired three years free of charge. Examine them before buying elsewhere. When you come to the store bring this card with you. Stores in all leading cities. Chas. F. Adams, proprietor. D.J. Green, Manager."

Courtesy of the Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library

[danskjavlarna]

From c. 1890.

They’ve had many lives and many ages: cats I’ve met in my time travels.