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Round-Up Cleaners opened on May 17, 1958 as one of the most modern cleaners in the southwest. By providing 59 Minute Service,Round-Up received national recognition by American Drycleaner Magazine as the fastest dry cleaning service in the nation. They are still open and serving the community. Oklahoma City,Oklahoma. 6.14.2017.
Taken with my Polaroid Colorpack II camera and some Fujifilm FP100-C film.
NJ USA
I'll have to get someone dressed in '70's or '80's clothes to pose for me! Although I guess the gas price would give it away.
A trip to Ohio took me to Hamilton and another look at this wonderful dry cleaners sign. This shot is of the opposite side.
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Not a bit of it ! I did my stint and that was enough !
Shot taken for Saturday Self Challenge 22/04/2023 ----------
Shop Frontage Head On
Shot taken at 90 degrees to the front but an unavoidable slight few degrees looking up as I had to step down off of the pavement in between parked cars - if I used a longer lens from over the road then half the window would be obscured !
My first job through the 70's was as a Land Surveyor from Predannack to Dalwhinne and many points in between . Then came a mid course correction and I took up Dry Cleaning working for the next 37 years for the same firm managing and operating - even if I saw away three different owners !!
Ran the first shop in Bookham village for 12 years at the Church Road site followed by 10 years at the huge Horley branch and then back to Bookham at the newly established High Street shop for 15 years -- the one in the picture !
It looked a bit different in my day with both windows full of succulents and cacti and on the right where the sloping wall is there was always 2 fresh photos on mine on display each week which attracted many to come and look " The Photos of the Week " , even if they did not have any cleaning . There is still one of my Cornish Engine House pictures still on display there but not visible in the shot .
The window pane on the left has been out a few times - first time when a lorry came along the pavement and took out next doors awning which swung round and came through the window and ended up on the counter !! The other 2 times were when dry cleaning machines were replaced having to come in and out over the sill and through where the left pane would have been and they are heavy bits of kit as well !!
So for the challenge , if I had to take a shop frontage , then it had to be of somewhere like this that had played such a part in my life .
You can see part of the dry cleaning machine through the open door - after emptying the machine into the wheelie trolley it was upstairs ( five or six steps ) to go into the pressing , spotting and bagging area and that is probably one of the things that has naffed my shoulders over the years !!
When dry cleaning the last thing you want is a garment / curtain fabric that has a colour run , cos everybody gets a bit !!
So here is a tune where the colours don't run !
I'm relieved to know that my dry cleaner cares about the environment, as this sign so effectively demonstrates.
South Road, Richmond, South Australia.
Soon to be demolished to make way for the South Road redevelopment.
boston, massachusetts
1972
charles street meeting house
beacon hill
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The old Johnson's the cleaners HQ in litherland, still empty but still standing 12 years after they moved out