The humble washing machine is an appliance that few of us are truly passionate about. They’re expected to come into our lives and serve faithfully, with a minimum of fuss. In the good old days, it was ...

I was smitten the first time I laid eyes on the round, pink Kenmore Vista-Matic washing machine. And she was half off! Because the local antique shop she was in was moving, I thought I could probably ...

Old washing machines weren’t fancy, smart, or high-tech—but they were built with a kind of durability and simplicity that many people miss today. Baby Boomers and Gen Xers often reminisce about ...

His first antique washing machine was a gift from Barbara's aunt, an old hand-operated Rue model given to the aunt by a nearby Nebraska farmer in 1920. "I had no inclination to collect washing ...

In Colorado, the 12,000 square foot Lee Maxwell Washing Museum is running out of space. Lee Maxwell, 93, has been collecting washing machines since 1985. In 1992, he opened the Lee Maxwell Washing ...

You just never know what you’ll find in traveling the Eastern Shore. Just last week, I saw something that made me laugh. Against an outbuilding, on a farm in Wicomico County, I discovered a vintage ...

Lee Maxwell explains how he and his wife would plan their road trips around the country by searching for and buying antique washing machines. Maxwell said once he had enough pins in the map that made ...

We have all seen thousands of advertisements yet we remember very few. However one advertisement made such an enormous impression on me, fifty years ago, that I still remember it clearly. It was an ...