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| Post# 202148 4/8/2007 at 01:06 (6,227 days old) by johnb300m (Chicago) | ||
I've been wanting to take a picture of this for a few months for you guys, and finally did. In Dekalb, IL there's this meat market called "Inboden's" and in front of the complex is this marque. It must've been, back in the day, a laundry center featuring NORGE products. It's interesting, the fact that it's still up. 
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| Post# 202157 , Reply# 1 4/8/2007 at 02:39 (6,227 days old) by whirlcool (Just North Of Houston, Texas) | ||
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These came up in a discussion we had a few months ago where we tracked the history of Norge from beginning to end. Susposedly there were quite a few of these Norge Villages, and you are right they all used Norge laundry products. | ||
| Post# 202186 , Reply# 3 4/8/2007 at 07:57 (6,227 days old) by cvillewasherbo () | ||
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Waynesboro VA We have one of those here in town. The Norges left that establishment LONG ago. Now it's SQ and Milnor. Courtney | ||
Post# 202202 , Reply# 6 4/8/2007 at 08:58 (6,227 days old) by unimatic1140  (Minneapolis) |
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Yes I remember seeing and using Norge Coin-op's once back in 1983 in Staten Island, NY. The funny thing about them was they were the large capacity perforated tub Norges with the neutral drain, the agaitator look like the standard 70's Norge 'tator, but without an birp up recirculation filter and they were black! John that is a cool picture thank you for taking it. I will have to have fun with Photoshop with that picture and use it as an icon... 
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| Post# 202221 , Reply# 8 4/8/2007 at 10:25 (6,227 days old) by peterh770 (Marietta, GA) | ||
There was one up here (the polka dot sign, that is) on the north end of town. They took it down about a year ago. In Rome, NY, the Polka Dot Village was the largest laundry in town. The sign remained up, but by the time I was old enough to go in there, there were GE tops and Philco-Bendix fronts. Another laundry in town had SQ tops billed as single load washers, and Norge tops billed as double loaders! | ||
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Post# 202340 , Reply# 9 4/8/2007 at 19:56 (6,227 days old) by jetcone (Schenectady-Home of Calrods,Monitor Tops,Toroid Transformers) |
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I remember one in Chatham
we used it every week on vacation. I kept trying to lift the lid in spin before the dreaded solenoid robots locked it down. Ours were Avocado with the giant black slamatator. They held alot of clothes I remember because this place also had My-T-Boys and it was always a debate wether we could get it all in the Norge's or had to splurge and use the My-T's. I also used to go around and knock on them singing the knock on any Norge song because that was on TV then and was a regular ad. ( I did that when no one was around). | ||
| Post# 202449 , Reply# 10 4/9/2007 at 05:08 (6,226 days old) by laundromat (Hilo, Hawaii) | ||
There used to be a huge Norge Village in Dundalk a town up in Baltimore county,Maryland.It had the 20 pound capacity washers that had agitators with cones around the upper stem so you couldn't easily overload them.Those nubered about 36 in 2 bays of 18 units.The other interesting feature of Norge Village was that they had Norge washer dryer combinations that were divided in two classes.One was a regular everyday machine that washed and dried your clothes there was a boy of 20 units like that.They were turquoise and had neat oval window doors The other similar units were canary yellow and they were the dry-cleaning machines.Yes you could do ALL of your laundry there self-service and get pretty good results.They had weighing scales and different size boxes for your laundry. | ||
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Post# 202782 , Reply# 11 4/10/2007 at 11:25 (6,225 days old) by tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD) |
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My Gosh y'all are awfully young. The only Norge Village I patronized was beside a grocery store so the folks would send me in with the throw rugs while they shopped. The top loaders were solid tub machines with that powerful wide agitator. | ||
| Post# 203405 , Reply# 13 4/12/2007 at 14:38 (6,223 days old) by drewz (Alexandria, Virginia) | ||
Norge Village, OLD TOWNE , Alexandria | ||
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Post# 203421 , Reply# 14 4/12/2007 at 15:43 (6,223 days old) by dadoes (TX, U.S. of A.) |
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I don't know if it was formally called a Norge Village, but I recall a family vacation going with Mom to do some washing at a coin-op. The TLs were Norge, I remember the distinctive agitator caps. There were a couple self-serve dry cleaners, and I made the mistake of sticking my head inside one of them and inhaling deeply ......!
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