Let a Wizard Do Your Laundry
Ask your neighbor, because they have one
You’ll want one too, it makes laundry day fun
We’ve sold thousands of these great machines
The Wizard is the washer of your laundry dreams
Inside and bottom of the tub are fully corrugated
A 6-pin agitator keeps sudsy water agitated
Three-quarter revolution of the tub each way
Helps keep the suds in the tub on laundry day
The gearing is the secret magic of the Wizard
Flywheel revolves and momentum is delivered
The operating handle fits neatly in the socket
You can sit and watch the gears in the sprocket
Virginia white cedar is the wood if you’re asking
Best tub wood in the land, practically everlasting
Held together with hooped galvanized stakes
And electro-welded wire that simply will not break
All the gearing is well-designed first quality castings
From machined brass molds and that’s not the last thing
All parts are strong and completely interchangeable
Repairs are a breeze making your Wizard sustainable
The bearings run silently on solid steel shafting
Smooth operation is quiet and not distracting
Spout, plug, and place where a wringer can mount
The best machine we ever sold, we have no doubt
Every statement we make can be proven by yourself
When you order our washer, it will speak for itself
Use it 30 days doing as many loads as you see fit
Expenses returned if your expectations are not met
For the low low cost of only eight ninety-five
The Wizard starts working as soon as it arrives
Include the catalog number when you order
It’s forty-four F seventy-five thirteen and a quarter
Come what might, come what may
Let a Wizard do your laundry today!
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Image: Ad from the Sears Roebuck and Co. 1916 catalogue (courtesy of The Old Design Shop)
Linked to dVerse Poets Pub — Poetics: Put Your Words on Spin Cycle De Jackson, aka WhimsyGizmo is hosting and wants to our muse a little gentle agitation. A little something to put your words into a different spin. Today, I want us to write laundry poems.
Ron, this is just too much fun! My “paid gig” is as a freelance advertising copywriter, so I love this all the more!
Glad you enjoyed it. I’ve written a few ads myself..
I wanted it to be an actual wizard, magically doing the neighbors laundry as I watch with envy until I can get one. 😉
My research of vintage washer ads turned up another machine named “The Witch”, so between the Witch and the Wizard, it seems everyone thought washing machines were magical 100 years ago.
You’re hired! You could sell washing machines to Eskimoes! I like what you did with this old ad.
amazing dedication!
This is a blast from the past! A lot of fun, Ron, though I’m pleased that these days the spinning is automated!
My memory doesn’t go back quite that far, but I do remember the wringer, the rinse tub and final wringing, and carrying the basket up the stairs from the basement to the back yard clothes line for drying! Your rhyming skills are admirable, and I enjoyed every line here!
and imagine that these days they are all plastic and steel… still it’s a lot the same I think.
This is wonderfully done, Ron 😀