When I was little, we had a washer but no dryer, so my grandmother hung clothes out on a line strung between our back porch and the storage shed. The line was on a pulley system so she could stand on the back porch and hang or retrieve the wash. It was pretty neat, now that I think about it. :) Once we got an electric dryer, she fell in love with it and only used the line to hang "delicates". She enjoyed those modern conveniences, in her youth she had to wash clothes in the creek!