phillybubby…
You wrote… “not too many people had washing machines and the clothes were hung outside to dry or in the winter they were put on the radiators to dry.”
I think most people DID have washing machines, but most did NOT have dryers. In the winter, we had a “clothes line” (do kids today even know what that term means?) strung across our basement where my mother a”h would hang the wet laundry to dry.