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Wash Day – "Yes dears, come on, we have room right here in Halfmoon Bay for a few good girls, although we are usually pretty well stocked with the commodities. But there is no end of good things including a husband for the right kind of girls who will come. Girls who are pretty and of a modest retiring disposition, yet with spunk enough in their makeup to takle the family washtub successfully once each week...."
July 19, 1890
The Coast Advocate

Photo and story courtesy of Michael Orange from his book Half Moon Bay, Historic Coastside Reflections