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 ...

Most old-school cleaning tools have been replaced by more convenient, modern alternatives, but this one can still have some uses in your home.

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...