Hi Crlton, when did you move to 18 th Street in Elmira Heights NY. as far as I knew you always lived there.jack in Sav. Carlton Wheeler wrote: > > Linda, > > I can remember my mother using a washboard occasionally when some item > couldn't wait for the weekly wash and I remember seeing them in the > stores in the 30's. I can remember my grandmother washing clothes using > "stompers" which looked like upsidedown funnels on long sticks. Then she > got a gasoline powered washer as electricity didn't reach the farm in > Wilmot township until the 40's. > > Carlton Wheeler