The Sign: Washateria. Cleaners and Laundry. Wash Dry Fold. The names vary depending on the street, but everybody knows a laundromat when they see one. Big capital letters, a wall of windows, often ...

Few people today would consider going to a laundromat a luxury. But before the first laundromat — or "washateria," as it was called back then — was created in the 1930s, that is exactly how the launch ...

Urban legend has it that in 1957 Miles Davis charged up to a frightened woman at the Washateria Laundromat on the corner of Lexington Avenue and 25th Street. He bellowed, "How long does this ...

Beaumont city council voted Tuesday to approve a new commercial strip center on North Major Drive that developers say will bring restaurants, a laundromat, and other businesses to a growing part of ...