NEB&W Guide to Backyard Details - Clothes LinesThis file is open to website members only
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While driers were available back then, most people still used a "solar-powered laundry drier", i.e., a clothes line. Normally this would run out a back window to a pole. It could be connected to a utility pole, but I remember my father erected a pole in our back yard just for this purpose. A pole in the corner of a lot could be used by two neighboring houses. A tree would also work, but it would also provide shade