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Old 02-16-2017, 08:02 PM
 
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House built in 1955, in the backyard on the side of the house I have this thing attached to the outside wall. It looks like a bunch of clothes lines that roll up like a roll of paper inside this housing. Can someone tell me if that is in fact what this is? There isn't another pole (like 5-10 feet away) that this thing stretches across and attaches to so I don't know.

The photo shows the thing with the wires inside (can't seem to unroll it), but it looks like there are 4-5 heavy gauge wires (probably the thickness of a thin jump rope) that are rolled around some sort of metal tube.


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Old 02-16-2017, 08:04 PM
 
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House built in 1955, in the backyard on the side of the house I have this thing attached to the outside wall. It looks like a bunch of clothes lines that roll up like a roll of paper inside this housing. Can someone tell me if that is in fact what this is? There isn't another pole (like 5-10 feet away) that this thing stretches across and attaches to so I don't know.

The photo shows the thing with the wires inside (can't seem to unroll it), but it looks like there are 4-5 heavy gauge wires (probably the thickness of a thin jump rope) that are rolled around some sort of metal tube.

It looks like some I saw as a kid in OC, though we had the lines between 2 poles.
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Old 02-16-2017, 10:04 PM
 
Location: North County San Diego Area
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It's a retractable clothes line, Lowes still sell them, probably missing some parts and maybe not as old as the 50's?

https://www.lowes.com/pd/Household-E...6-d201f1b2e16c
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Old 02-17-2017, 10:12 AM
 
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I thought this thread was going to be about Fashion !
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Old 02-20-2017, 05:32 PM
 
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Me too...L0L. When I was a kid we had two metal poles in our backyard where we strung up the clothes line to dry and air out our wash. Wow, that really takes me back.
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Old 02-09-2018, 10:16 PM
 
Location: Tricity, PL
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This?
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0000...3K6XJYAW90BAQC
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