my granny and great granny had one of the machines like Krystyna's picture and they used that thing into the 80's!! If it was cold out or rainy the clothes got hung in the basement....seemed like they could run miles of line throughout that basement LOL....and K that is so true, that undies had to be hung on the inner lines with towels or sheets blocking them when outside in the air...granny didn't get a "modern" washer until after great gran passed away and never did get a dryer.