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Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: CellarDweller on July 25, 2015, 05:42:38 pm ---
I don't know what they're really called, I call them 'laundry umbrellas".
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According to Google they're called Hills Hoist or rotary clothes line.
We call them Wäschespinne = laundry spider. :laugh:
Not too far from your laundry umbrella.
brianr:
The Hills Hoist has been manufactured in Adelaide, South Australia by Lance Hill since 1945. The Hills Hoist and similar rotary clothes hoists remain a common fixture in many backyards in Australia and New Zealand. They are considered one of Australia's most recognisable icons, and are used frequently by artists as a metaphor for Australian suburbia in the 1950s and 1960s. Although originally a product name, the term "Hills Hoist" became synonymous with rotary clothes hoists in general, throughout Australia.
We had one when I was child but I think they are ugly now although one of my neigbours and the house behind me both have one.
I just have a straight line as in photo. It does roll away but I never do that
brianr:
Brand names used generically reminds me. The other day, after having my fibre cable installed, the guy said he would lux the floor. I told him I would do it. When I first came to NZ, an electrician asked me for the lux and I did not know what he was talking about. In Australia we say Hoover, the proper name is Vacuum cleaner. A common brand is Luxaflex which apparently took off in NZ while Hoover did in Australia. ;D
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Penthesilea on July 25, 2015, 06:46:23 pm ---
According to Google they're called Hills Hoist or rotary clothes line.
We call them Wäschespinne = laundry spider. :laugh:
Not too far from your laundry umbrella.
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My mother just had four long clothes lines strung the length of our backyard, with metal props to keep the lines from sagging. I can still see sheets hanging from those lines and billowing in the wind like sails on a full-rigged ship. :)
Tell you what, even after we could afford for my mother to have a clothes dryer, she still preferred to "line dry" bed linens in the sun and fresh air. :)
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on July 25, 2015, 10:13:13 pm ---My mother just had four long clothes lines strung the length of our backyard, with metal props to keep the lines from sagging. I can still see sheets hanging from those lines and billowing in the wind like sails on a full-rigged ship. :)
Tell you what, even after we could afford for my mother to have a clothes dryer, she still preferred to "line dry" bed linens in the sun and fresh air. :)
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Me too. And not only bed linens, but all of my laundry. Sun-dried fresh clothes are simply nicer.
I use my dryer only in winter. The day when I hang my laundry outside for the first time in a year always makes me happy. It marks the end of winter for me. :)
I have one long clothes line across the garden (for bed linens/bigger pieces) and three mobile laundry racks that I can take wherever I want; sun, shade or inside when it starts to rain.
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