My appliance guy said the only washer worth buying is a Speed King. You’ll like all the knobs. The Sunny Sweeney of washers
Don’t tell him but I’ve got a thang going on with his wife.
Seriously, we wouldn’t have anything else. Basic and bulletproof.
First outside sales job was working for an appliance distributor selling Speed Queen and other manufacturers. Pictured is an original wringer washer with their famous stainless steel drum. Used to sell bunches to driving ranges and golf courses to clean their range balls. Speed Queen’s were/are bullet proof.
Getting the golf balls through the wringer must have been something to see.
BTW, when I was a small boy we had a washer with a wringer like that, I pinched my finger in the wringer. I learned a whole lot of things the hard way.
Lamar and Bellaire both had rifle teams in the 60s and 70s. One of my friends who shot for Bellaire later shot on the Army team at Fort Peary and got on the cover of the American Rifleman. Oddly enough, being on the team kept him out of Vietnam.
That’s actually not true.
Source? I am not familiar with any, but it must be a very small number.
Here’s one.
Ok so one lunatic outlier. They exist. Not to derail the thread, but Thomas Crooks failed to make the rifle team.
That’s not the only outlier. I just provided one.
I do agree it wasn’t a regular occurrence from what I can tell. That said, media wasn’t like it is today.
Half of the pickups in my high school parking lot had a gun rack with a rifle.
Our janitor shot a deer on the school grounds during class hours. We had a wooded area at the end of the school property. Nobody got their panties in a wad.
I was on a college rifle team at my one year at Siena.
A year later I was in the Army and my accuracy was a little above average.
