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Post# 976597   1/2/2018 at 14:45 (2,276 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)        

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To start off this New Year, here some fun vintage laundromat photos, so... in no particular order.... bring your laundry and come see what's inside!

Kevin


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Post# 976598 , Reply# 1   1/2/2018 at 14:46 (2,276 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)        
Continuing...

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Part 2

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Post# 976604 , Reply# 2   1/2/2018 at 16:05 (2,276 days old) by pulltostart (Mobile, AL)        
Kevin,

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These are a hoot!  Especially the second batch.  Love the one of the chick talking to the guy in shorts, and the next one with the woman in the hat!  I've only used a laundromat twice since coming to Mobile and had no idea that the dress code expectations were so high.  I'll have to be careful the next time I go up there.

 

lawrence


Post# 976616 , Reply# 3   1/2/2018 at 18:28 (2,276 days old) by kd12 (Arkansas)        
Do Not Use Tide?

Ok, in the first post, second picture, there is a sign saying "Do not use Tide, Fab, Wisk, or..." Cant read the rest. Does anyone know what that was about?

Post# 976619 , Reply# 4   1/2/2018 at 18:38 (2,276 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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The "do not use sign" was admonition to not use those high-suds detergents  in those front load Bendix washers. 


Post# 976626 , Reply# 5   1/2/2018 at 19:03 (2,276 days old) by turquoisedude (.)        

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Great photos Kevin!!  

 

Did anyone else go 'HUH?' when viewing picture number 9 in the first group of pictures?  I have never seen a Westinghouse Slant-Front-equipped laundry with what looks like the residential model of washer (but they had a parts donor machine, too, from the look of it... LOL)

 

 


Post# 976630 , Reply# 6   1/2/2018 at 19:39 (2,276 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)        

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Pinball machine drove me to the local laundromat, but let my friends play and I watched the washers dicretely. We did have a Snow White Westinghouse laundry for a you leave it, washed in a slant front by nice ladies in white uniforms, dryed in a Cissal gas dryer folded and picked it up later a few doors down.

Post# 976633 , Reply# 7   1/2/2018 at 20:03 (2,276 days old) by Supersurgilator (Indiana)        

These were great. Now can somebody help me out, there was a pic posted on here awhile ago of a belt drive Whirlpool laundry. I believe they were harvest gold machines. I'd have loved to have gone to such a place!

I loved all of the old unit heaters in these pics too.


Post# 976636 , Reply# 8   1/2/2018 at 20:34 (2,276 days old) by toploader55 (Massachusetts Sand Bar, Cape Cod)        

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Thanks Kev.

Paul, we had a laundromat on the Cape in Hyannis that had Westy Slants that I insisted my Mom used and she would use them to shut me up so I could sit there and be quiet so she had some peace for a bit. : )


Post# 976642 , Reply# 9   1/2/2018 at 21:04 (2,276 days old) by joelippard (Hickory)        

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Ah, all those rows of Frigidaires!


Post# 976645 , Reply# 10   1/2/2018 at 21:17 (2,276 days old) by whirlykenmore78 (Prior Lake MN (GMT-0500 CDT.))        
Photo 12 of 20 in first set:

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Is very reminiscent of the Wascomat/Huebesch with a few MT TLs stores so common in this area when I grew up. Some had mostly MT TLs but more had mostly Wascomats.
Kevin: this is AWESOME!, what a fun trip down laundry lane. Thank you so much, you brought back memories of laundry I did with Mom 30 years ago.
WK78


Post# 976683 , Reply# 11   1/3/2018 at 02:54 (2,276 days old) by neptunebob (Pittsburgh, PA)        
I actually liked the older tennis shorts

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They looked more tailored. I wore them back in the 70s when my dad taught me tennis but I didn't make the team. Wearing them, you had to wear both a jock strap and tighty whities, don't want to be "showing off" or 'flopping around" in there.

Post# 976692 , Reply# 12   1/3/2018 at 06:55 (2,275 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        

Part 2, Photo 16. That was what the first coin-laundry I ever saw looked like with a row of those old Bendix "diving bells". The extractor at the far right is probably overworked. The laundry I remember was in "East Atlanta" over by the Theatre. The machines were gravity-drain. There was a slot in the concrete behind the row of machines that funneled the water through the back wall and into a pit at the back of the building.Not very sanitary looking at all.

The sign about the "foaming" detergents is funny. Why single out Tide, Fab and Wisk, when there were so many others that "foamed" just as bad?!
They would have been wise to put a dispenser on the wall with just All,Dash, and Salvo in it.

None of those slant-fronts look authentic without suds billowing out of the detergent chutes and down the front to the floor. Signs or not, nobody seemed to measure very well in those days as over-sudsing was pretty common no matter which laundry you were in.

Kool to see three generations of Frigidaire machines. Unimatics with Three-Ring and Deep Action pulsators and the 1-18's. The Unimatics with the Deep Action pulsators were some of the longest-lived commercial machines I ever saw. There was a laundry in Hyde Park,Tampa that was still using them in the early 90's.


Post# 976702 , Reply# 13   1/3/2018 at 08:00 (2,275 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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Very fun thread, Kevin.  I'll add a few that I've snagged around the web as well, we never had many fun laundromats around here.  One company dominated most of the coin-laundry biz, Maytag.  Lots of Highlander centers all over the area (NE, SD and KS) and what weren't Maytag were SQ solid tub by the 70's.  Only once on vacation in Minnesota did I get to see a Frigidaire in a 'mat - mom put a load of my clothes in it to tamp down the over-excited state I was in :-)

 

#7 is from the opening of the Marina Towers in Chicago - doing laundry in the sky

#8 is a photo of a local laundromat after a tornado in the early 70's (that nobody ever took me to!)

 

 


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Post# 976708 , Reply# 14   1/3/2018 at 08:31 (2,275 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        
Thanks!

#6 of 20 looks like someplace in Eastern Europe.

#4 looks like Sister Immaculata the nun in charge of laundry.

 

#3 of 17 What are those chrome risers of different heights behind the Bendix machines?


Post# 976723 , Reply# 15   1/3/2018 at 11:35 (2,275 days old) by Bigterkc (Kansas City)        
Speaking of Suds.

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Post# 976734 , Reply# 16   1/3/2018 at 13:37 (2,275 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Now I know what heaven looks like!

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Post# 976738 , Reply# 17   1/3/2018 at 13:51 (2,275 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)        
Video

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The American Consumer - no sound track unfortunatly. Starts around 1.30






Post# 976739 , Reply# 18   1/3/2018 at 13:57 (2,275 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)        
Meanwhile in Britain

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Interesting how many Bendix machines are being used in a commercial setting






Post# 976740 , Reply# 19   1/3/2018 at 14:02 (2,275 days old) by vacbear58 (Sutton In Ashfield, East Midlands, UK)        
And in 1959

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Still Bendix, I think the driers might be English Electric






Post# 976767 , Reply# 20   1/3/2018 at 18:58 (2,275 days old) by wft2800 (Leatherhead, Surrey)        

I love those Primus and Norge front-loaders. Were they hard or soft mount?

Post# 976807 , Reply# 21   1/4/2018 at 06:25 (2,274 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)        

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Excellent thread! Thanks to everyone who contributed photos, videos, and anecdotes.


The local laundromat where I grew up had two rows of the Westys shown in photo #1 below. They had an exposed fill tube and ran with the door open.

Those machines were eventually replaced with two rows of the Westys shown in photo #2 below. No more exposed fill tube; machines stopped when door was opened.

Photo #3 below: Have never seen Maytag Highlanders in a laundromat---and with the coin box mounted on front, no less! Had forgotten about those wooden bushel baskets. We had a few of them when I was a tyke in the early 1960s.

All three photos in this post courtesy of Kevin and Gansky upthread.


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Post# 976846 , Reply# 22   1/4/2018 at 14:01 (2,274 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)        
A few more = part 3

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Thanks everyone, I'm happy you all are enjoying these "blast from the past" photos!

 

Lawrence: Yeah that girl talking to the guy in the shorts (part 2, photo 8) that pose is so unnatural, but funny too.  The woman in the hat (Photo 9) is Jayne Mansfield (another below).

 

Paul:  Yes I was thinking the same thing about the residential Westinghouse slant front washers made into coin-op machines in #9 of 20.  Looks like they just removed the timer and knob assembly and added the coin slot/box on top.

 

Steve: I could tell the Frigidaire machines in some of those shots were were different, but don't know enough to tell which are which.  The only one I kinda figured out is the 1-18's in photo 8 of 20 (part 1).  

 

Greg: Thanks for adding a few more photos.  So odd to see the coin box just slapped on the front of those highlanders.   Wow that last photo after the tornado is something!

 

Robert: Yes I agree 100%!  I could easily spend DAYS in that laundromat!!!

 

Eugene: Thanks for your comments about the Westinghouse machines.  I was impressed by the sheer numbers of them in that photo!

 

While I grew up with a Maytag washer in the house, I could often be found checking out, or hanging out in the local laundromats.  The one closest to us had Maytags, but also a couple of the larger "big load" FL machines.  I find it interesting that front load washers were popular in laundromats back into the 1940's(?).

 

Here are a few more photos, including another of Jayne Mansfield.  I don't know anything about what's left of the laundromat in photo #8.  I'd like to know what brand those front loaders are, but I can't tell.

 

Kevin


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Post# 976850 , Reply# 23   1/4/2018 at 14:38 (2,274 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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This one is also interesting..,

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Post# 976860 , Reply# 24   1/4/2018 at 16:10 (2,274 days old) by RevvinKevin (Tinseltown - Shakey Town - La-La Land)        

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WOW Robert, that is incredible!  They look like they 33" KM combos, but it looks like it says "dry cleaning"


Post# 976862 , Reply# 25   1/4/2018 at 16:25 (2,274 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Those are the Whirlpool dry cleaners. They also made a version of that that was a large capacity washer called a Whirlpool Wash-a-Lot, I believe. A small coin laundry in Decatur had two of them, both broken down as was the owner.

Post# 976870 , Reply# 26   1/4/2018 at 17:47 (2,274 days old) by superocd (PNW)        

I spy a Wascomat blue top! I would have loved to be able see one in action. I don't go to laundromats because I don't need to, but all of the laundries in a 50-mile radius have the "boring" new machines, judging by what I see at a glance driving by these places.

Oh, well, machines wear out, parts go NLA, energy and water costs rise, customers scoff at the woefully outdated looks of the machines and there are glaring safety hazards.


Post# 976874 , Reply# 27   1/4/2018 at 18:05 (2,274 days old) by Gyrafoam (Wytheville, VA)        

Part 1 photo#15 amusing sign about fastest spin in town placed over the Unimatics. Certainly wasn't those old slant-fronts across the aisle. Those look like '59 or '60 Unimatics. Would have had the Three-Ring pulsator in them.

Frig, there were plenty of those Maytag laundries around Atlanta. There was a large one across the parking lot from an old grocery on Highland Avenue near University Drive. All the Highlanders had the small-barrel Gyratators in them and were a hideous pink. They had coin boxes, a little red operating light where the timer-dial would normally be and a toggle-switch for Hot or Warm wash. And a big Bock extractor you could stuff four loads in.

Later Maytag laundries around Atlanta used plastic tickets rather than coins.
There were also Filter-Flo laundries all over the place.


Post# 976909 , Reply# 28   1/4/2018 at 20:49 (2,274 days old) by glhturbo2 (Reidsville, NC)        
Thank You

For the history lesson and for the pictures! The past always intrigues me, because I never got to see anything like that, sadly. :( At least there are pictures and people willing to share insight. So, again, I thank everyone for the pictures and everything else!

-Tyler


Post# 976917 , Reply# 29   1/4/2018 at 22:12 (2,274 days old) by Ultralux88 (Denver)        

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Some of those older pictures show some really primitive laundromats! All the schlepping of wet washing from the agitating machine to the spin-dry machine, oy vey iz mir! I always found the HUGE dryers and the big commercial front loaders fascinating. We always had our own washer/dryer at home, so the laundromat was a rare experience, usually reserved for items too large or too dirty for mom to want to wash them at home. What I remember being the most interested in were the "Tumbletta" dryers, some Dexter front loaders, and later on some 70s looking Wascomat machines.


Post# 977050 , Reply# 30   1/5/2018 at 21:15 (2,273 days old) by bendixmark (Winchester Mass)        
Dexters

Picture 18 in part one is my idea of heaven.I love those dexter/bendix machines brings back happy memories of the 80s for me .I used to love to visit Laundromats that had those on a sunday.I now have a dexter machine exactly like the ones in the picture.Thank you Kevin for this thread it is my favorite.

Post# 977093 , Reply# 31   1/6/2018 at 03:32 (2,273 days old) by potatochips ( )        

Great thread, Kevin! I really enjoyed the colours and decor of some of these laundromats! I also really liked seeing GE FFs in coin op flavor.

Post# 977098 , Reply# 32   1/6/2018 at 05:26 (2,272 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        
"All the schlepping of wet washing ..."

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If you are referring to picture #6 in first set, that was taken in a wash house, not a laundromat per se, and likely was somewhere in Europe. IIRC that picture may have been taken in UK.

Once American laundromats moved from hand powered wringers or using wringer washing machines to top loaders things were by and large fully automatic. Some places did offer "extractors", which were large spin dryers, but that was due to the poor extraction of top loaders (and even the front loaders that were on offer then), in order to speed up drying time.

Remember early Bendix and other front loaders didn't have suspension systems, so they needed to be bolted into floor. But they did spin even if at low rpms compared to modern H-axis washers.


Post# 977313 , Reply# 33   1/7/2018 at 12:03 (2,271 days old) by kd12 (Arkansas)        
Glasgow Steamie

Launderess, that UK photo was taken in a Glasgow laundry/bath house. I had to do an image search to figure out what was going on there. If you Google "Glasgow steamie" you come up with a bunch of these, and from as late as the 60s even. Apparently Scotland was pretty economically backward even long after the war.

Post# 977326 , Reply# 34   1/7/2018 at 14:14 (2,271 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        
UK Wash Houses

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We've done them before here in the group several times.

See: www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/T...

Yet more:





Amazing to think wash house shown above was still in operation at 1971 when film was made.

However there were plenty of modern laundryettes about as well:





Interestingly but not surprisingly in UK wash houses were on same site as public baths. Makes sense in a way in that both required large amounts of water and modern (for their time) indoor plumbing. Not something every home had in late 1800's.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baths_and_...

surveyoflondon.org/map/feature/1...

Extensive list of UK bath and wash houses, part of a quite good website.

www.bathsandwashhouses.co.uk/arch...


Post# 977367 , Reply# 35   1/7/2018 at 19:53 (2,271 days old) by bendixmark (Winchester Mass)        
Reply #12

Those are tombstone bendixes.I have 2 of them one nice one and one for parts to fix 2 others.Kevin I promised you some time ago I would post pics of mine and I will as soon as I get my computer straight.

Post# 977527 , Reply# 36   1/8/2018 at 19:59 (2,270 days old) by cuffs054 (MONTICELLO, GA)        

Those were some well feed chilrens.


Post# 977562 , Reply# 37   1/9/2018 at 00:45 (2,270 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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Steady diet of treacle sponge, chips and other foods fried in lard or whatever ought to do it.

Have you ever watched "Two Fat Ladies?" Some of those dishes prepared were standard school dinners during the 1960's and 1970's.


Post# 977597 , Reply# 38   1/9/2018 at 08:44 (2,269 days old) by mayken4now (Panama City, Florida)        
Wonderful Thread

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Thanks for taking time Kevin. Brought back a few memories. Very nice!

Launderess. The term "wash house" is very commonly used in southern Louisiana still. Mostly citing the Cajun Folks.


Post# 977810 , Reply# 39   1/10/2018 at 20:05 (2,268 days old) by cornutt (Huntsville, AL USA)        

Kevin's #8 was an absolutely typical Norge Village. The one here was, to my memory, nearly identical down to the paneling -- I think the floor was probably different, but that's it. I might have even seen some of those clothes... And note that #8-10 are all Norge self service dry cleaning machines.

Post# 1117567 , Reply# 40   5/18/2021 at 15:18 (1,044 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Another good one to add to this collection in this thread!

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Post# 1117586 , Reply# 41   5/18/2021 at 18:35 (1,044 days old) by luxflairguy (Wilmington NC)        

I've never hear of Breeze or Trend brands. Any idea of machine brands?

Post# 1117591 , Reply# 42   5/18/2021 at 19:48 (1,044 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)        

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Breeze was a budget brand detergent from Lever Bros. Key to their fame was boxes included a free Canon towel as give away. Of course that towel ate into how much product could be put in box.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breeze_det...

Trend is another budget brand made by Henkel/Dial Corp

www.trenddetergent.com/po...

Origianlly a Purex product introduced in 1946 as a light duty powdered detergent. Trend morphed over the years into a general wash day product the rest is here.

"In 1982, Purex Industries, Inc. was acquired in a leveraged buyout by Gibbons, Green and van Amerongen Ltd., the predecessor of Leonard Green & Partners.[6][7] In 1985, the household and consumer products business of Purex Industries, Inc. was acquired by Greyhound Corporation[8] and was combined with Greyhound's Armour-Dial to form The Dial Corporation. By the 1990s, Purex would discontinue its bleach product to focus on laundry detergents."

https://www.ebay.com/itm/294172864698QUE...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purex_...(laundry_detergent)


Post# 1117592 , Reply# 43   5/18/2021 at 19:56 (1,044 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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Trend still is a brand today.
IIRC only liquid form now but until a couple years back it still came in powder form.
The brand is a Dial Brand subsidiary of Henkel now totally Henkel.
Looks like it was common in the North East area, NYC area.
Could see lots of powder packets displayed in shop's windows in the Queens or Harlem back in 2016...and tried it out. Not bad but not even impressed.


Post# 1117593 , Reply# 44   5/18/2021 at 19:57 (1,044 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        

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Breeze is still a Unilver brand in some countries
I tried Jamaican Breeze and it was very good!


Post# 1117594 , Reply# 45   5/18/2021 at 19:58 (1,044 days old) by Kenmoreguy89 (Valenza Piemonte, Italy- Soon to be US immigrant.)        
I'm also curious

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Robert what's the washers brand in your pic?

Post# 1117596 , Reply# 46   5/18/2021 at 20:04 (1,044 days old) by luxflairguy (Wilmington NC)        

Thank you Laundress!

Post# 1117598 , Reply# 47   5/18/2021 at 20:33 (1,044 days old) by rpms (ontario canada)        

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My mom,grandmother and aunt all used Breeze detergent just for the free towels. They came in pink,green,yellow and blue floral. Not the greatest towel but they seem to last. My cousin still has a couple of her mom's. They seem to be heavy on harvest gold and green. You had to wait forever to get the nice pink and blue. You could take the towel out of the box and it was so heavy ladden with soap you could toss it in the wash and didn't have to add detergent.
At the end they started only putting wash clothes in.


Post# 1117616 , Reply# 48   5/19/2021 at 01:12 (1,044 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)        

Dolly Parton and Porter Wagoner did  TV commercials for Breeze in the early 70's.

 

This was not a detergent my mom bought very often, as she didn't think it was a good value. We had good towels and washcloths, so didn't need to get any in a box of detergent. I remember asking her to get a box that contained a Cannon washcloth, which she did. If the cloth was even half as thick as the Cannon washclothes we already had, I'd be surprised. We used it, but it didn't take long until it was threadbare. I don't think she used the Breeze in the washer much, but it got used for mopping the basement floor, cleaning porch furniture, etc.


Post# 1117617 , Reply# 49   5/19/2021 at 01:14 (1,044 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT)        
Here is the only vintage laundromat I’ve been to

Unfortunately the house closed got taken over by a mean old bat

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Post# 1117622 , Reply# 50   5/19/2021 at 06:55 (1,043 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT)        
Oh sorry, I meant for it to say place not house

My bad

Post# 1117623 , Reply# 51   5/19/2021 at 06:56 (1,043 days old) by chachp (North Little Rock, AR)        
Ironing board.

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I never saw a laundromat with an ironing board.  Is that common there?


Post# 1117624 , Reply# 52   5/19/2021 at 07:18 (1,043 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)        

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#40 - Looks like Norge washers there. 

 

 

Ironing - 

 

There is an old coin laundry store in Minneapolis that has coin operated ironing equipment, a steam flat press, etc.  Robert and I stood and watched a couple of ladies press nearly all of their laundry, t-shirts, jeans, etc.  It was fascinating and all of the clothes looked so neat and crisp.

The washers were still double-load Bendix/Dexter.  

 


Post# 1117625 , Reply# 53   5/19/2021 at 07:20 (1,043 days old) by Adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT)        
It’s quite rare and this

Was in attended laundromat which probably explains why there was an ironing board in front of the two vintage Westinghouse washers

Post# 1117630 , Reply# 54   5/19/2021 at 07:51 (1,043 days old) by seedub (South Texas Hill Country)        
Reply# 48

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Breeze offered a free gift inside the box - towels. Mrs. Parton was so cute the way she'd say "daisiz" (sic).

Post# 1117632 , Reply# 55   5/19/2021 at 08:16 (1,043 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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Yes those are Norge solid-tub coin-op washers in the picture I posted.

Post# 1117694 , Reply# 56   5/19/2021 at 15:26 (1,043 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Was Snorge the only top loader with a spring-loaded lid?


Post# 1117695 , Reply# 57   5/19/2021 at 15:29 (1,043 days old) by appnut (TX)        

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If Whirlpool had any coin-laundry units in the late 1950s, wouldn't theirs have been spring-loaded? I remember our Norge solid-tub models that we went to in like 1962 or 1963 wasn't spring-loaded.

Post# 1117701 , Reply# 58   5/19/2021 at 18:14 (1,043 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)        

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My '59 Philco also has a spring loaded lid, which makes the lid seem like it weighs next to nothing to open.

Post# 1117743 , Reply# 59   5/20/2021 at 06:18 (1,042 days old) by Tomturbomatic (Beltsville, MD)        

Great to know. As a kid, I was impressed with the Norge "weightless" lids hanging in mid air, neither all the way open nor crashing closed.

Post# 1117763 , Reply# 60   5/20/2021 at 08:12 (1,042 days old) by Kermit (Rochester hills, Michigan )        
Way cool

Man, this is why I wish I wasn’t born in the late 2000’s, these are so cool, and all I grew up with were those ‘HE’ washers, not a lot of vintage appliances


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