My mother's new washer--A Bendix

When Helen and were still living at home but graduated from college our parents would not let us pay rent so we tried to figure out a way to do it. From my office window on the 6th floor of the Mills Building I could see a store across the street. It was Karlan's Furniture Store. It had an automatic washer in the display window. Now the war was just over and it was hard to buy some things. You had to sign up for everything and get on a waiting list. I signed up one day and Helen and I started paying installment payments. My mother found out about it. Somehow she got us moved up the list. I expect the owner was a Rotarian with my dad. The washer my mother had at home was the old fashion wooden tub sort of a thing. My dad had put a motor on it so you did not have to hand turn the wringers but it was not an automatic washer like a Bendix. She may have even finished our payments as she soon had the washer in our basement. We gave up on giving her rent money and just got married and moved out.