Things were just so much better when the wife stayed at home and washed clothes by hand in a 1000 sq. ft. house with no air-conditioning, and all she had to worry about was whether the kids came down with polio.
Things were just so much better when the wife stayed at home and washed clothes by hand in a 1000 sq. ft. house with no air-conditioning, and all she had to worry about was whether the kids came down with polio.You would have been seriously poor in the '60s to not have air conditioning and hand wash clothes. We're talking about the middle class here snoogums, not the unwashed masses.
I grew up in the lower classes - fairly poor even by 1960’s standards and we had a washing machine and dryer - granted we didn’t move to a house with AC until 1970, in Atlanta, and sure we were hot, but we LIKED it hot!
Actually, things probably were better then.