When I was a kid my brothers and I would get our hair cut at a barber shop that was attached to a bar. The barber would hear someone come into the bar, excuse himself, go through a back door, pour a drink and make small talk, then return to finish the cut.
Do you have a photo? I collect items made by the Vidrio Products Corp of Cicero, IL. Their specialty was small appliances with glass parts but they did make a few without glass. They had a whole line of counter top clothes and dish washers. I have a number of them.
Sorry, no. Only thing I was able to find was some crude newspaper drawings..
Still a common thing in rural Alaska. Lots of remote villages do not have water and sewer services. People go to the washeteria to bathe, do laundry, and get water to haul home for cooking and drinking. Houses in these villages typically use a “honey bucket” for human waste needs. Honey buckets are then hauled and dumped at a common disposal site outside of town.
Here’s a slightly better image along with the manufacturer’s name, Bernard E. Finucane Co. in Rochester, NY.
Putting the baby through those rollers has got to smart!
According to Google, $15 around 1910 would be about $521 today. Not a cheap appliance.
Heh..kinda like being reborn.
Bernard E. Finucane (1889-1989) was in the banking industry and in 1930 sold his “Rochester Electrical Supply Company” to. . . Westinghouse. Chap lived to be 100.
I don’'t think they are rollers, just a small drum powered by a “motor” running off the water pressure. There were other household items powered by water also. The washers made by Vidrio Products sat on the stove and heated the water. They had an actual agitator. Here is a link to one:
https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/vintage-electric-portable-washer-467781073