Wally's Hair Dryer

[frani]

This really puzzled me. In the ep shown tonight, where the ceiling plaster got all wet cuz Beav left the water on, Wally uses a fairly modern type of blow dryer to dry it. I never saw a hair dryer like that until the seventies. The only hair dryers I remember were the kind my mom would sit under in the beauty parler or the shower cap kind that you put on your head at home. But I never saw a hair dryer like he had. I just thought that was so strange. I mean, how could he have had something that, as far as I know, wouldn't be invented, or at least available to the general public for at least another 15 years?:confused:

[BrandonS]

You missed the time travel episode?

[HaskellGirl]

Look at this website: http://homepage.dtn.ntl.com/paul.linnell/electricity/hairdryers.html


It looks to me that hand-held, modern-looking dryers have been around for about a century, its just around the 60s, the shower-cap version became popular.

[Mijada]

I didn't know that hand held hair dryers have been around for that long. The ones from the 40's and 50's look so futuristic.

[BBF]

LOL, those hairdryers looked weird! But still similar to today's hairdryers. That's odd. I had no idea they've been around that long...

[Cashodeen]

Thanks for the website, HaskellGirl! I have never seen that episode, but if I had, I would have been puzzled. My mother is full of applesause. What is she talking about? She was born in 57 and said hair dryers weren't available to the general public. She said my dad, who's her age, only got to use one because his mother had a hair salon. I must point this out to her. :crazy: