THE MONDAY WASH DAY HUB!!

      I know I have made our basement scary sounding in a previous story, but, that wasn't all necessarily true. The washroom in the southwest corner was a fun place and full of activity on   a Monday. 

     In that room was the old fashion Maytag washer with the two rinse tubs. Washing was an all day affair back then. A clothes line was mounted just back and to the northwest of our house with thick gauge wire. I can still see my mother out there on a cold winter day wiping the line with a damp cloth before hanging out clothes with those wooden clothes pins. 

     The talent was hanging sheets so they would blow just right with a billow! Nothing compared to that smell of fresh hung out towels or sheets. Nothing!

     Also in the basement, was a shower that was rigged up in the open. As I got older a shower down there was quicker than taking a bath upstairs. The downside was that it was cold down there and you didn't dilly dally. You dried and very quickly headed back upstairs.

     I that same room was a wide large door on the west side leading up some concrete stairs to a pair of storm doors that opened out and laid at a 2 degree angle or so. We never used it much, but, it was good for hauling larger items up and down like the storm windows and screens.

     The foundation was incredible for its time. The walls and floors all the way around were poured concrete. And, that foundation was said to be at least 18 inches thick.