Dry Cleaning with Gasoline at Home 1930s
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Drycleaning dates back to ancient times, probably beginning with the advent of textile clothing itself. There are many stories about the origin of dryclean...

That is not the only warning film not to do it because people were dying all the time: https://archive.org/details/more_dangerous_then_dynamite

Some headlines of people making the worst mistake of their shortened lives:

https://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/?a=d&d=RMD19330315-01.2.175&e=-------en-20--1--img-txIN|txCO|txTA--------0------

https://www.newspapers.com/article/wilkes-barre-times-leader-explosion-caus/13045180/

https://post-gazette.newspapers.com/article/the-pittsburgh-press-gasoline-caused-two/91356754/

Occasionally, they got lucky and survived.

https://www.newspapers.com/article/hot-springs-weekly-star-cleaning-clothes/124927252/

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2017/aug/29/100-years-ago-today-in-spokane-woman-using-gasolin/

  • Etterra@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m reminded of one of those detergent commercials where the stock housewife character takes the freshly laundered snuggle blanket and hold it up to her face and inhales deeply to enjoy that fresh scent… Only now because of this information they subsequently pass out from the gas fumes lol