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The result of stripping down and cleaning this Auto Yashinon 5cm f2's blades - in vinegar and then pure alcohol.
Pine Cleaners Inc., 237 Franklin Street, Jefferson County, Watertown, New York. Established in 1989. Not sure if it's still in operation - building looks abandoned.
Looking a lot cleaner than yesterday is Stagecoach 37437 seen at Bradshaw St, Northampton. I like to think they read my comment but i dont suppose it has anything to do with it!...Dec 18 2020.
I didn't venture out yesterday during the storm, but this morning I had a toddle along the seafront. I was amazed to see this window cleaner at work, at 8.40am.
Then about 20/30 minutes later I walked by 2 other seafront resturants and their windows were clean and sparkling.
This Pederson cleaner shrimp was difficult to get in focus because it felt compelled to climb onto the camera lens. A small group of them were scattered atop some brain coral and every time I came in for a shot, they'd creep closer to the lens.
Grote Knip, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
"I hate my job"
Janitor the floor cleaner was cleaning the floor when... he spotted a pile of junk full of paper after shredder.
He is here for cleaning floor's, but not for cleaning pile of paper junk. And after all, he hate's that kind of cleaning job.
Know wonder why he hate's that kind of cleaning job... in his opinion way's.
Class 25/3 25300 passes Whitacre Junction with a ballast cleaner and brake van in tow, I assumed heading for Bescot.
D7650 was delivered from Beyer Peacock Ltd in May 1966 and withdrawn in December 1985, being scrapped at Doncaster Works in July 1986.
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Moxie at her 'finest', protesting against chores. Yah, I don't like them either, but I don't go on attacking cleaning tools because of it! ;)
This fight has been going on for years and its a wonder we ever vacuum our floors at all, and amazing the vacuum cleaner isn't more scarred than it is. She really means it, "No more vacuuming!"
Our Daily Challenge "Animal" ('Animal' happens to be the name of the model vacuum cleaner we have by Dyson...it is the best one we've ever had)
I hope the negs are cleaner than than the sign. This in Alnwick on the trip easily shot a roll there switched to Tr-X as it was well below a 100iso day but no rain.
Self portrait with my Plymouth at the awesome De Luxe Cleaners in Modesto, CA
Print made my me in the color darkroom.
If it involved looking at this beauty, I wouldn't mind getting taken to the cleaners.
Knoxville, Tennessee
Corner of East Magnolia Avenue and Jessamine Street
Modern dry cleaning's use of non-water-based solvents to remove soil and stains from clothes was reported as early as 1855. The potential for petroleum-based solvents was recognized by French dye-works operator Jean Baptiste Jolly, who offered a new service that became known as nettoyage à sec—i.e., dry cleaning. Flammability concerns led William Joseph Stoddard, a dry cleaner from Atlanta, to develop Stoddard solvent (white spirit) as a slightly less flammable alternative to gasoline-based solvents. The use of highly flammable petroleum solvents caused many fires and explosions, resulting in government regulation of dry cleaners. After World War I, dry cleaners began using chlorinated solvents. These solvents were much less flammable than petroleum solvents and had improved cleaning power.
On March 3, 1821, Thomas L. Jennings became the first African-American to be granted a United States patent. The patent was for his invention of a cleaning process called "dry scouring," which was the precursor to dry cleaning.
By the mid-1930s, the dry cleaning industry had adopted tetrachloroethylene (perchloroethylene), or PCE for short, as the solvent. It has excellent cleaning power and is nonflammable and compatible with most garments. Because it is stable, tetrachloroethylene is readily recycled.
Through the window candid shot.
Moody and magnificent.
4th March 2026
One of my prints, The Cleaners (after Millet), from a series I made on marine plastic pollution during my MA studies, has been shortlisted for a forthcoming exhibition on Sustainability at Worthing Museum and Art Gallery. Printed, mounted and framed - just wrapping it up for delivery next week.
Fingers crossed!
© Bill Brooks 2026