Washeteria

Through its community planning process, the city chose to focus initial efforts on the "washeteria" -- a laundromat with shower facilities -- because it's among its highest users of fuel. ❋ Bill Chameides (2011)

In 2007 two wood-burning boilers called Garns, which are essentially wood stoves that sit inside a water tank were installed to heat the washeteria and two other buildings. ❋ Bill Chameides (2011)

At the outdoor washeteria up the street, security contractors shove quarters into the laundry machines. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sometimes she wondered whether he had intended her to find it, whether it was fortuitous that he had forgotten to clear out the pockets of his jeans on the one evening when she always took their dirty clothes to the washeteria. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Elizabeth didn't boast a washeteria, which was what they called laundromats here. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Broad used to be a washeteria, and no, it was a washeteria after. ❋ Unknown (2002)

His isolation is a conscious decision: he scavenges for food, takes his clothes to the washeteria, tells lies about his past. ❋ Philip Womack (2012)

Beaumont Police say a man accused of burglarizing a washeteria tried to take an officer's gun Tuesday morning. ❋ Unknown (2009)

For example, he says, mom and dad may recognize that that their child will need to do his own laundry, but they may not know the closest washeteria is eight blocks from the laundry-less apartment complex where Junior - who won't have a car - plans to reside. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There was one washeteria, where people would come and shower. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Even with a tank this size, the water supply usually runs out by March, washeteria is closed and residents must melt their drinking water from snow and ice. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In 1945, Roy Brown recorded “Good Rockin’ Tonight,” cited as one of the earliest rock songs, at Cosimo Matassa’s J&M Recording Studio on North Rampart, at the edge of the French Quarter; that spot is now a washeteria — local parlance for laundromat — with an inexplicable luau theme. ❋ Unknown (2003)