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Tan, tone at Laundryland
Amusements galore to be found
By Michael Deeds
Senior Editor
I’ve never really understood
the appeal of exercise equip
ment in the middle of a laundry
joint. It takes me every ounce of
energy I can muster just to drag
myself to the stupid place.
But when you stagger into
Laundryland, 56th and Holdrege
streets, that’s what greets you. A
big door that leads to the jungle
gym stuff, plus, ooooh, tanning
beds for the sorority types.
These taut tanners take off all
their clothes, toss them in the
washer, then streak up to the
tanning beds where they can
relax in their fried nudity. At
least that’s how I imagine it
happens.
I didn’t see anybody naked
when I was there, but heck, I
didn’t look. I was too busy
demolishing all previous high
scores on “Space Snuttle,” a primi
tive but all-too-easy pinball
machine.
A few other nameless hunks
of arcadia hang there, too, along
with a pool table and about
500,000 washers and dryers, a
drive-in size television, a snack
“4 4
... taut tanners take
off all their clothes,
toss them in the
washer then streak
up to the tanning
beds...
--f f -
bar, a giant statue of a monkey,
too many little TVs and some
guy sweeping whose hair was
too short to be pulled back.
I guess he fell cool.
But the bottom line on Laun
dryland is this: The King. This
place is probably the biggest,
plushest laundry place in town.
It glows it’s so clean, and little
neon signs decorate the pastel
interior.
And the best part is the digital
washers -- robot washing ma
chines - that tell you exactly
how much time is left in green
LED lights. Flash Gordon does
his laundry here.
And if the awful complexity
of the dazzling future sends you
reeling, take refuge in the “non
smoking quiet room.” It’s small,
it’s quiet, and it’s glass, so every
one can look in at you and wonder
what your problem is.
The washers are 75 cents, the
dryers are 25 cents for 10 min
utes, and overall, the place would
need a mob to be crowded.
There’s plenty of stuff to keep
you busy, and if you want to
clean your clothes, you might as
well do it in style.
And who knows what you’ll
see scurrying by on the way to
that tanning room . . .
TVs, stucco make City Laundry
By Jennifer Johnson
Staff Reporter
I have a laundry fetish I think
it’s due to the fact that I used to sit
in the dryer and spin when 1 was a
child This was not an activity
condoned by my parents, but
something I did secretly and man
aged to live through.
Sitting at City Laundry at 11th &
CornhusKer Highway on Sunday
(not in the dryer), I thought about
how much I miss doing laundry at
my parents’ house. But, because
my parents moved from Omaha to
New York, I’ve faced the fact that
it’s Laundromats or nothing.
I’ve made my rounds in the
Lincoln Laundromatcircle.andCity
Laundry compares to the other
modern laundry “meccas.”
City Laundry’s pink stucco exte
rior iseasily spotted off Cornhusker
I lighway. The interior is equally as
trendy and southwestern looking
with its peach, blue and green
walls and peach speckled Formica
counters. Now how many moms
have that atmosphere in their laun
dry rooms?
As has become the standard in
popular laundromats, there are
televisions at each end of the wash
ers at City Laundry - equipped
with cable of course.
1 loved the luxury of having a
television in front of my face while
I waited for my clothes, but there
was one small problem; not every
one watched tne same channel so
there was a volume war between
the family watching the Charlie
Brown special and the guys watch
ing MTV'. Liquid Tide ta ke me away!
City Laundry’s facilities at the
Cornhusker location included 40
spinning dryers, 32 regular wash
ers, ten double loaders, two heavy
weights and vending machines on
the side wall. (This kind of works
with “The Twelve Days of Christ
mas" tune).
I was at the Laundromat at 5
p m. and there were only 20 people
there, so I didn’t have to wait at all.
The customers at that time were
about90percent families-families
with children But w ho doesn’t love
to watch kids having a spitting
contest while they wait for their
laundry?
City Laundry’s prices are compa
rable to other laundromats Wash
ers are 75 cents and dryers are 25
cents for 10 minutes. But, between
7 a m. and 5 p.m. on Monday
through Friday, washers are only
50 cents at the Cornhusker loca
tion.
There are four other City Laun
dry locations in Lincoln, at 111 N.
27 St., 1547 S. 17 St., 1805 S. 9 St.
and 6024 Havelock. None are as
fancy as the newest one on Corn
husker, but all are clean and in
convenient areas of the city. There
are televisions at all locations ex
cept for Havelock, so go there to
avoid the volume wars!
Basic prices at all locations are
the same, but Cornhusker is the
only location currently advertising
50 cents wash during the week.
City Laundry on Cornhusker is
open from 7 a m to midnight, 17th
Street and 27lh Street*from6 a m. to
1 a m., Havelock from 7 a m. to 10
p.m. and 9th Street from 6 a m to
midnight.
I will continue to envy the people
who leave my apartment every
weekend to do tneir laundry at
home w here they can leisurely do
it for FRKK, but I’m not bitter. I can
go to City Laundry and wash my
clothes - even though I can’t sit in
the dryer.
