In their heyday, washboards were instruments of laundry day drudgery. Today they're more likely to be instruments of good clean fun, as Conor Knighton now tells us: For serious players of the ...

Every time I see a washboard in an antique shop, flea market or thrift shop, I can't resist looking at it to see if it's unique enough to buy for my laundry room and add it to the few that I already ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A wide variety of washboards and other items are available at the factory gift shop. LOGAN — The last washboard manufacturer in ...

The Columbus Washboard Co. sold more than a million boards a year in its 1940s heyday. That was when wood-and-corrugated-steel boards were used for scrubbing clothing and linens by hand in a washtub ...

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LOGAN — The last washboard manufacturer in the United States has proven as tenacious as ring-around-the-collar. The Columbus Washboard Co. probably shouldn’t have made it into the 21st century. The ...