Thread Number: 75743
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Post# 995784   5/31/2018 at 04:54 (2,128 days old) by adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT)   |   | |
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Hey guys I'm wondering how many of you have seen vintage laundromats in person?
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Post# 995791 , Reply# 1   5/31/2018 at 06:54 (2,128 days old) by turquoisedude (.)   |   | |
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I did! In my hometown of Pointe-Claire, QC I got to actually use the Westinghouse bolt-down washers in the local laundromat. The coin-op washers and dryers were located in an area behind the counter of a dry cleaning store. The best laundromat I ever got to use was somehwere near Wildwood, NJ - this was the first time I got to see a Frigidaire Jet-Cone washer in action! I remember the machines had window lids and were.... wait for it.... turquoise! When I was a brat, our family camped a lot and I remember seeing and using other vintage coin-op machines but nothing stood out like the Westy and Frigidaire machines. |
Post# 995803 , Reply# 2   5/31/2018 at 09:16 (2,128 days old) by Losangeles (Muscle Shoals, AL 35661)   |   | |
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I remember staying at my Grandmothers one summer. She lived in a town in Mississippi no bigger than a dot on the map. This particular summer a laundromat had been installed in an abandoned building. It was also equipped Frigidaire Jet Cone Washers with the window in the lid. I went back to my grandmothers and gathered up some towels and washcloths and used my pocket money to use the machine just so I could watch. I gave up an ice cream cone just to have enough money for the washer. I thought I loved ice cream more than life till that day.
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Post# 995824 , Reply# 4   5/31/2018 at 16:15 (2,127 days old) by cornutt (Huntsville, AL USA)   |   | |
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We used to have a 1960s-vintage Norge Village here. My mom did laundry there, and I did laundry there myself when I was a college student in the early '80s. |
Post# 995830 , Reply# 5   5/31/2018 at 17:04 (2,127 days old) by appnut (TX)   |   | |
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Our first house had a Westinghouse Laundromat washateria at the end of our street. I remember we went there a couple of times. When we moved to the new house in 1961, the nearest washateria was a Norge Cleaning Village with TimeLine coin-op washers, dry cleaner washing machines, and 20 pound Norge front loaders (based on their combo). The TimeLines were replaced in aroun d1964 or 1965 with commercial washers based upon our 1964 Norge, but with a smaller capacity. They featured fabric switch for regular (Normal/Normal) speed combo and Perm Press (Normal Wash/Slow spin speed). |
Post# 995831 , Reply# 6   5/31/2018 at 17:25 (2,127 days old) by adam-aussie-vac (Canberra ACT)   |   | |
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I'll try to get some pics of the washing machines there also did any laundromats use twin tub washing machines? |
Post# 995859 , Reply# 7   5/31/2018 at 23:57 (2,127 days old) by ea56 (Cotati, Calif.)   |   | |
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In the town I live in there used to be a laundromat that had all Bendix FL’s from the late 40’s. They were up on a concrete ledge that had floor drains, and sometimes you could see the sudsy water in the trough when more than one machine began to drain at once. I used to go there in the early 70’s, before I got my first washer, a used Maytag wringer in 1972, because it was the cheapest laundomat around, 20 cents to wash and 10 cents to dry. The building is still there, about two blocks from where we live, but its now a used clothing store.
This is a college town, and I once saw Jon Provost, from TV’s Lassie, doing his laundry there. He was going to college here. He even settled her in Sonoma Co. The last I heard he was working as a Real Estate agent. Over the years I’ve seen him at Mervyn’s dept. store in Petaluma and an Antique Store in Sebastopol. Eddie |
Post# 995945 , Reply# 8   6/1/2018 at 18:54 (2,126 days old) by gansky1 (Omaha, The Home of the TV Dinner!)   |   | |
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Some I've snagged online over the years, some from the web and some have been posted by members here. (One appliance store pic snuck in, we can do those next!)
We used a Maytag laundromat for a couple years after we moved to the city in 69. A local Maytag distributor, Jenco, built and equipped their "Highlander Centers" with Maytag washers. |
Post# 996924 , Reply# 13   6/12/2018 at 00:50 (2,116 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 996945 , Reply# 14   6/12/2018 at 10:34 (2,115 days old) by wft2800 (Leatherhead, Surrey)   |   | |
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Were those Zanussis hard-mount like the typical American front-loading commercials, or did they have suspension and a door boot? |
Post# 996972 , Reply# 15   6/12/2018 at 15:59 (2,115 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Going by what is in advert copy would say those Zanussi washers were similar to other commercial front loaders on market at time. "No clutches, transmissions, or pumps to break" tells one at least these were hard mount machines with gravity drains.
Searched internet and couldn't find anything more on these washers. Maybe if one has time will try Zanussi and Italian word for "laundromat" to see if there is something. Going by ad copy Zanussi had an office right here in Manhattan, NY on Madison Avenue. Thus they must have sold more machines than just what were in the linked laundromat pictures. All probably have long been scrapped. |
Post# 1000626 , Reply# 17   7/18/2018 at 04:32 (2,080 days old) by Launderess (Quiet Please, There´s a Lady on Stage)   |   | |
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Post# 1000721 , Reply# 19   7/19/2018 at 04:03 (2,079 days old) by askolover (South of Nash Vegas, TN)   |   | |
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