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Castlebank Dyeworks were a well-known Glasgow based cleaners and dyers who had branches across much of Central and West Scotland. This is one of a series of delightful leaflets issued to publicise their services. This has the vignette they often used of the 'perfect' home with the Castlebank man and van arriving.
Achille and Eugenie Serre left France for England in 1870. Although by trade a ribbon dyer Achille thought there was no future in this and branched out into cleaning with solvents, the so called 'dry' cleaning that was popular in Paris but virtually unknown in England.
Confusingly Achille and Eugenie called their son Eugene and it was he who took over the business in 1882 and developed and expanded the company through a series of different guises ending up with it's base in Walthamstow E17.
At it's peak the firm had 400 outlets from which one could hire an umbrella in the company colours by the day should it look like rain. 1500 people now worked for the company but the thirties recession hit hard and from 1940 to 1944 the firm was in recievership. The company moved away from dry cleaning into contract laundry while the shops were bought out by Sketchley who closed many of them. The company itself was then bought out by Portland Estates a property company who were diversifying into the laundry business. By the seventies the Walthamstow factory was equipped with the latest equipment for contract laundry work on a massive scale. Each machine could wash 700 sheets in 35 minutes and then dry and fold them automatically. But by then I guess Achille Serre had finally fallen to earth.
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"The future of Old Town Chinatown: Historic saloon gets new life, new use in gritty neighborhood's overhaul
By Rebecca Koffman | Special to The Oregonian
on March 11, 2014 at 7:30 AM, updated March 13, 2014 at 8:20 AM
August Erickson opened a saloon at the corner of Portland's Northwest Second Avenue and Burnside Street in the 1880s. It soon became the most famous tavern in the Northwest.
Three hundred men could line up along its vast bars. The story goes that one of them measured 684 feet. Loggers, railroad workers miners and sailors poured into the neighborhood to spend their hard-earned wages there.
Erickson himself was a larger-than-life figure. During the flood of 1894, he served liquor from a barge outside the tavern. He was famous for the large free lunches available to all drinking customers.
Newspapers described his tavern as a "palatial pleasure resort" or "a den of vice," It was the beating heart of what was then the North End, a Portland neighborhood that The Oregonian in 1905 termed an "unsavory morass."
The masonry building that replaced the old wooden beer hall in the early 20th century isis remains known, after many incarnations, as the Erickson Saloon Building in present-day Old Town Chinatown.
Now, the structure is about to take on a new mission: part of a future that city officials envision for a neighborhood that's still an uneasy mix of rowdy nighttime entertainment, drug activity, social service agencies, low-income housing and vacant or underutilized historic buildings.
The non-profit Innovative Housing Inc. in June will begin construction on a $15.5 million project to convert the saloon building and the Fritz Building, which sits behind it on Third Avenue, into 62 mixed-income apartment units. The Fritz was also once part of the Erickson's complex, and both properties had passed into the hands of the Bill Naito Company when Innovative Housing bought them for $2.2 million.
Howard Weiner, chairperson of the Old Town Chinatown Community Association described the project as, "one more step in the rejuvenation of Old Town." The apartments are expected to be home to downtown workers.
Inside Erickson's
On a recent tour of the buildings, Sarah Stevenson, executive director of Innovative Housing, said the recent influx of businesses into the neighborhood has created demand for housing. "We envision this as workforce housing," she said, "which to us means housing that is affordable to entry level and service sector workers."
Of the 62 studio and one–bedroom units: two will be reserved for people earning 30 percent or less of median income for the area; 50 will be for people earning 50 to 60 percent of the median; and 10 will be market rate. Rents will range from $319 to $899 for a studio and $590 to $995 for a one-bedroom apartment.
The Erickson building was last occupied by the Barracuda night club, which closed in 2012. The ground floor is a vast, silent dance floor. It's hard to imagine how noisy Erickson's must have been with its legendary bars, gambling hall, penny-in-the-slot machines with pictures of pirouetting painted ladies, dancers and even the occasional evangelist. At one time, according to The Oregonian, the saloon boasted an all-women orchestra protected from the grasping hands of the drunken hordes by an electrified rail.
Erickson, the proprietor, appeared in court innumerable times for allowing gambling and women on his premises, illegally staying open between 1 a.m. and 5 a.m., and occasionally for cracking the heads of unruly patrons.
Stevenson explains that much of the dance floor will become a covered atrium, with a concrete core that runs from foundation to roofline and serves to seismically reinforce the building. Seismic retrofitting will cost about $1.5 million.
Financing for the project comes from a variety of sources including River District urban renewal funds and equity generated by Federal Low Income Housing Tax credits and Historic Tax credits. The National Park Service must approve all plans; the buildings' exteriors will remain unchanged.
Upstairs, the two buildings are connected mid-block by a small doorway between the third floor of the Erickson building on Northwest Second Avenue and the third floor of the Fritz Building on Northwest Third Avenue. The renovation will connect the buildings on all floors.
Markings on the upper wooden floors of both buildings trace the outlines of a warren of tiny rooms that over the decades served as secret gambling rooms, "cribs" for trysts of a private nature between "women of disorderly repute" and their escorts and flops for the indigent with chicken wire roofs.
At times, the Erickson complex took up almost the whole block between Burnside and Couch streets and Second and Third avenues. Public historian and co-founder of the Old Town History Project, Dr. Jacqueline Peterson, said in the 1920s and 1930s, Erickson's checks could be spent at an onsite restaurant, cigar and fruit stand, a bar, a bathroom, a barber shop, a bootblack stand and beds or rooms at the Pomona Hotel, the Erickson Hotel and the Dewey House.
In 1975 an arson fire at the Pomona Hotel, housed in the Erickson's Saloon building, killed a dozen people. Erickson's Saloon, sometimes called the Erickson's Café and Erickson's Working Man's Club stayed open in various guises till the end of 1980.
Weiner, chairperson of the Old Town Chinatown Community Association hopes that the redevelopment project will be a step to raising income levels in the neighborhood and attracting a diverse mix of businesses.
"We won't get, say, a drycleaners," he says, until there is a critical mass of people living in the neighborhood to patronize it.
Promoting change
Weiner says the effort to bring middle-income housing to the neighborhood has stretched for decades. City leaders, including Mayor Charlie Hales and the Portland Development Commission, are working on a five-year plan intended to make Old Town a vibrant, economically healthy neighborhood by encouraging development and improving public safety. The plan is expected to include tax incentives for developers similar to those used in the Erickson Fritz project.
Under an existing policy aimed at promoting affordable housing, the city waived $474,000 of the $558,000 in system development charges that the developers would have owed on the project. Hales and PDC executives also want to extend those subsidies to "market rate" housing that caters to people earning more, which could also benefit the Erickson-Fritz development team.
It would be a new chapter in a book some people thought was finished a century ago.
August Erickson, in whose tavern people of every stripe gathered, sold his interest in the saloon in 1907. He died penniless and under prison guard at Good Samaritan Hospital in 1925.
An editorial about his death in that week's Sunday Oregonian noted: "We build a new city on the bones of the city that used to be, and never again shall Portland know an Erickson the publican."
A planned soundscape at the entrance to the new apartment complex will immerse passersby in sounds of previous decades: tugboats, nighthawks, the clink of glasses. Printed recollections from past residents may also become part of the exhibit.
"That kind of public history," says Peterson, the historian, "really brings the neighborhood alive."
-- Rebecca Koffman"
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Shops opposite The Sherlock Holmes Museum. Some of these shots, I took out of the windows of 221b Baker Street.
The cafe Bar Linda.
At 224-226 Baker Street.
Dry cleaners on the right.
At 230 Baker Street is It's Only Rock & Roll.
Here's the adorably
adorable and always beamish
little beamish boy himself
Mr. Jonah Sparks,
leaning against a wall
of our drycleaners
in North Hollywood
on a sunbright
but not too hot
October day. He just
happened to have this
beach ball with him; I love
that he always carries his own
props.
Likely to date either side of the First World War this double-sided sign would have been used to mark one of the many agencies for Macnabs, a well-established Edinburgh laundry and dry-cleaning company.
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Pedal operated vintage sewing machines are grouped to form a work area for tailors and seamstresses at a dry cleaning operation. Even in today's modern times, this business still uses equipment that reflects a time gone by.
This photograph has special meaning to me. My grandfather came over from Italy as a young man, and worked hard, living the American dream and growing a successful dry cleaning business. As a young child, I remember any time I went into the cleaning plant, my grandfather would be seated here, at the sewing machines. This is how I remember him. He is pictured in the painting hanging on the wall. My father, who followed him in business, is pictured at a sewing machine in the image below my grandfather's.
I spent the day photographing the facility this weekend, and I am glad I was able to capture the feeling of this place from my past in images.
Copyright 2008, Amy Strycula
Sunday January 27th 2008
Get on at Silverknowes, 2.20pm.
A crumpled barrier on the roundabout and a trench dug in someone's front garden. Slanted sunlight hits red-cushioned chairs in a room at Telford College. A child starts to scream and saying "bad...bad...". Go past the bingo and seagulls over the roof. UNITED WIRE. The metal in a scrapyard looks like it's been separated into piles of rusted and not rusted. Boys at the back play music on their phones. Trinity path going up into grey trees and someone throws a ball for their dog over the empty star cut into the grass. Brake lights. A new road turning left. Over the Water of Leith, low tide. Fluorescent pink saying 1983 PRICES. A blind woman clutches a mans arm as her hair blows across her face and another woman pulls on the leads of her dogs to stop them running onto the road. Four girls all with braids. Leith Walk is a maze of traffic cones and roadwork. The horn keeps sounding, as if it's broken. The last day of sales. The man painted silver tries to cross the road. Clouds are moving quickly, grass is growing in a gutter on Lothian Road. Sun goes. Net curtains. Green cross of a pharmacy sign. A man stares at pictures of houses in the window of an estate agents, pictures of living rooms. Branches of a Christmas tree in a dustbin. On Morningside Road and fast past closed shops and clothes in plastic bags hanging on a rail in a drycleaners. The railway tracks stretching off scattered with stones. Upwards. Things are quiet and flat. A cable runs up and along the edge of a double-glazed window. A pub called GOOD COMPANIONS with half the letters fallen from the sign. Can see the road bridge in the very distance. Summer chairs stacked up. Toward the barracks and army vans behind wire.
A waterfall.
Castlebank Dyeworks were a well-known Glasgow based cleaners and dyers who had branches across much of Central and West Scotland. This is one of a series of delightful leaflets issued to publicise their services. This is the paper cover that contains a set of six illustrated leaflets.
GOOD CLEANING
gives
smart
appearance
Fur Cleaning - Storage
AMERICAN
LAUNDRY AND
DRY CLEANING CO.
C. E. BRAUN
Phone HO. 2.3065
150-152 LAFAYETTE ST.
VALPARAISO, IND.
Source Type: Matchcover
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: Superior Match Company
Collection: Steven R. Shook
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Today it's a pair of old Express sailor pants that I've had to replace the buttons on so many times I feel like I made them myself (the drycleaner has lost at least one every time I've taken them in! And they never tell me, they just hang them up and give them back! Jerks!) along with an actual me-made top. The top was a button-up shirt of my hubby's, but I hacked it up and made it my own long ago.
And Junie's wearing mama-made leggings again today. They're by Johnny Mango Seed and I highly recommend the pattern for the kiddos in your life. It includes sizes from baby to big-girl, so it will be useful for years!
Castlebank Dyeworks were a well-known Glasgow based cleaners and dyers who had branches across much of Central and West Scotland. This is one of a series of delightful leaflets issued to publicise their services.
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