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The other area of the hospital where some equipment remained was the laundry room...
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Holy cow! My mother had one of these in our dining room when I was a kid and I remember her ironing sheets on it.
eldokid@aol.com
Tue 12-21-2010
My mom did too! It was in the basement. She called it a mangle.
TootUncommon
Tue 12-21-2010
Thats so interesting! Wow, you both had one of these in your homes. Nice!
LucieLou
Tue 12-21-2010
That's one heavy duty ironing board. I can picture a middle aged woman with black framed cat eyed glasses wearing a gray hospital uniform dress with a white apron standing here all day pressing sheets & pillow cases.
Larry D
Tue 12-21-2010
A well pressed Zombie is a happy socially well ajusted zombie.
Prancer
Tue 12-21-2010
Steamy.
A D Nilsen
Tue 12-21-2010
Terrific imagery, Larry! I haven't seen one of these for years. I can still smell the starch & the cleaning fluid.
Phiftybuick
Tue 12-21-2010
It's where the zombies made toasted sandwiches....
Matt
Wed 12-22-2010
i though it was a tanning bed lol
colin
Wed 12-22-2010
Nice to see I'm not the only zombie fan seeing this shoot. A tanning bed for zombies no less.
autoguy
Tue 12-28-2010
Toot - My mom called it a mangle too, I think because every other sheet got mangled!
eldokid@aol.com
Tue 12-28-2010
wow that takes me back when I was a kid and my mother would take me to the dry cleaners and I can still smell the steam that poured out of those monsters....damn that takes me back
Joe
Fri 12-31-2010
Light starch, please.
Gordon
Mon 01-03-2011
I worked in a place that rented and cleaned/pressed tuxedos a long time ago, and we used to have rows of machines almost exactly like this to do the shirts and stuff on.

That certainly brings me back!

Oh, and working by these machines was gruelling and HOT work! The temp in that place got up to 120 degrees easily in the summer, with only big industrial fans to cool us down. I lost like 20 lbs. in one summer working there!
PaMamaOf5
Wed 01-05-2011
Now THAT would make a big grilled cheese sandwich :-D
nvusofmotts
Sun 01-09-2011
A mangle was actually the press one would squeeze the material just scrubbed through to get as much water out as possible, via a turn-handle usually on the side of the contraption. It accomplished what the spin cycle does in modern washers. A mangle would usually be attached to the side of an old washing "machine", jutting over the wash basin so that the basin could collect the water. :)
gypsy
Mon 04-11-2011
My hubby's grandparents ran a dry cleaners downstairs from our apartment. There are a few of these down there along with huge industrial washers and dryers. We use one of the dryers along with our regular size washer. It fits 2-3 loads of laundry in it with room to spare.
fatepeace121006
Mon 06-13-2011

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