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I remember the laundry joint on 9th avenue between Windsor and 16th street. I also recall the spot between Prospect avenue and 17th street. Seems like this laundry spot is still around on the corner of 13th and 8th. I didn’t get a chance to walk inside though, has anyone been there?
-Steve
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Lineman said:
I think the that joint was called Jordans laundro-mat back in the early 60’s . My mom used to do our laundry there when our washing machine would break down.
hoopscoach said:
Thanks Slick
Harold said:
I remember Crowley’s Grocery store occupied the laundry location in the picture in the early 1950’s. Mr. Crowley had several very attractive daughters,
His oldest daughter Maureen was dating Pete Hamill and it was a serious relationship until Pete joined the US Navy. Like so many before him Pete received a Dear John Letter from the girl left behind and a neighborhood romance that seemed destined to marriage ended courtesy of Uncle Sam.
Steve said:
Outstanding trip down memory lane…
ray goffio said:
I remember that laundry it was right next to p.s. 107 elementary school where I went as a kid.
Kevin Mahoney said:
We used this laundramat every week when I was growing up. It’s not that big a place. My mom was in there one Saturday when I was a kid and saw a horrible accident. A teenager stuck his hand into one of those heavy duty, high-powered washers that you loaded from the top of the machine (I think they were called extractors) to get something while the machine was still on. The kid got his arm stuck and the force of the machine tore it off. He was rushed to Methodist but they weren’t able to re-attach the arm. The kid lived on 11th street and 8th ave, and I got to know a couple of his brothers when I got older. As this was before the litigation age of today, believe it or not, the family never filed a lawsuit against anyone.
hoopscoach said:
I recall that story. Hope you are well…
John Langton said:
What memories that brings back! From going from my house on 13th to my friend Dennis Delany’s house on 8th Ave., and going for snacks at J&A’s on the corner of 12th and 8th. I would also get off the bus there coming home from Holy Name during the cold months – anybody remember bus passes?
hoopscoach said:
Lots of good people on 13th street, around the 8th ave area for sure. Thanks for writing…
Jackie Kelly said:
There was a laundromat on the corner of 17th and 7th and I remember always looking forward to the new Sanders poster of what was playing in the theater that week. I didn’t go often because there was too much to do out in the street but it was sure nice knowing what I was missing.
BETTY TRAPP said:
Yes great families like the Tufanos, also on 11th st. and dont forget the Trapps were born on 12th st between 8 th and prospect pk, not Howard place. lol Our grandparents lived also on 12th, next to the deli on the corner of 12 and 8th ave . Great memories in that area also.
The Greek said:
I think Joey Corrar used that place as his office!
hoopscoach said:
I do know Joey used that little doorway where Elvira lived over Harry’s Barber shop. I was walking by one night and I heard a voice, “Hey Finamore, step into my office.” I poked my head in and Joey had a desk and chair in there. I miss him.
JIMMY VAC said:
There was a laundromat on 7th between Prospect and Windsor…..Very Nice people.. I would run down there two or three times a week or so……We pretty much did all our shopping there.. Franks’ grocer on the corner, the laundromat, Louies, and Nicks.. with Frank’s pizzaria..
Eileen Devaney said:
My parents grew up in that neck of the woods too! Nana Devaney (we called her Nan Devan) lived at 1207 8th Ave…just a few houses down from that laundromat in your photo. I can’t imagine Nan Devan ever using the laundromat. She had one of those washboards…and that brown cake of soap.
Rob Mikolajczak (Mickey) said:
I used to live at 1117 8th ave between 11th and 12th street. There was also a laundromat on the corner of 12th st and 8th ave across from Peterson’s Deli ( where I used to work as a bottle boy). I think a bar exists there now. A drug store was next to the deli and I think both of those stores combined into a bar. I guess I shouldn’t have moved!
hoopscoach said:
Mickey, great to hear from you. Have a great day!
Maureen Rice (Flanagan) said:
I lived at 1209 8th ave til I was about 7, then moved to 13th between 7th and 8th, when I was about 10- brief detour to Dean Street- that was our neighborhood laundromat, wish I could say I spent a lot of time there, but I was not the best daughter, my mom ended up doing most of the housework herself.
BETTY TRAPP said:
MAUREEN BUT YOU ARE TODAY, ITS ABOUT TODAY!!!!! YOU GO GIRL!!!!!
DONNA H said:
I lived on 15th street and 8th ave and went to that laundromat. I had to do the laundry every Sunday for my mom. I was such a good kid lol.
hoopscoach said:
Thanks Donna…You must’ve saw the 75 and 69 bus a lot…
charlie d said:
Nat the Tailor – right across from PS 154, a short bald man named “Nat” had a small tailor shop . . .When you walked into his shop there was the smell of toasted rice (from the starch) and you could not avoid wondering how he never got burned with all of that steam that spewed from his presser.
He tried to convince me as a 7 year old boy that t he steam was cooled down enough to touch it, but I was never brave enough to get close to it!
hoopscoach said:
Yes Charlie, that may be so, but did you ever drink from the pitcher of cold water Nat provided for the local ‘utes’?
PS 154 Schoolyard Alum said:
Nat, the owner of Nat’s Cleaners which was located right across the street on Sherman Street from PS 154, used to give us water in a pitcher after we would play all types of sports or games in the PS 154 schoolyard. We would cool off in the shade sitting on the stoop right next door to his shop. Every so often we would get out of hand throwing the water around on a hot summer day and Nat would take back that dirty pitcher yelling at us. He would get over it quickly. He was a kind man with a good soul. Our immune systems must have been built up with the sharing of our germs all the while drinking out of that dirty pitcher. Nat worked alone mostly and took the time out to speak to us kids. He had someone to help him as he aged and became too old to go it alone with his business. There used to be a furniture store on the corner of 11th Avenue and Sherman as well as a pizzeria near the Hederman’s House. It was cool with all of those mom and pop stores back then.
Lineman said:
We had Sam the tailor right across the street from our apt building on 15th and 8th . He would do alot of tailoring for the soldiers over in the armory, and sometimes he would give us the old army patches he had replaced for them. Right next door to us we also had Jung On Chinese Hand Laundry, where my Holy Name dress shirts were starched and ironed . We would also go up to Rands Cleaners on 9th avenue next to Ebingers (blackout cakes and jelly roll …uhmmmmm ) .
Maureen Rice (Flanagan) said:
the WHAT??
Maureen Rice (Flanagan) said:
my comment was about the “utes” lol, even I was confused when I read it several comments away- and Lineman, I agree- blackout cake- uhmmm, also, I was a big fan of the chocolate squares!
jmc said:
Do I ever remember that place. We had a washing machine in our 3rd floor apt. on 13th street btwn 8th & the parkside, as well as a clothes line. When our clothes began to freeze on the line it was my job, the youngest of 4 to dry all of the laundry. Sadly I have not been back since my father passed away in September of ’02. I remember the horrible incident when they still had extractors in there and one of the kids from the neighborhood lost his arm messing around with the machine. I remember the police bringing his limb. Horrible.
hoopscoach said:
Thanks JMC…
Donna H said:
Yes Steve I do remember the 75 and the 69 bus
hoopscoach said:
Remember the famous, ‘Bus Pass’? LOL…I know some people who used to make fake ones!