My how times have changed. Take for instance this 1923 advertisement for Susanville’s Model Laundry:
“Men do all the washing at this Laundry. No woman could do the job. We would not let them. They’d break down in a hurry. The work is too hard—too heavy—too continuous—too tiresome. Sheets, bed spreads, pillow cases, so on, that weigh only a couple of pounds when dry come out of the tub ten times heavier and it takes a pretty husky woman to pull loads like this back and forth. Let Men and Machines do the RUBBING and SCRUBBING.”
