Word: laundromats
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Instead of playing, Roberts missed several of the matches in California, as he was designated to repair the team van and do the squad's laundry. Bill Roberts' Harvard tennis career had come down to washing other people's jockstraps in a La Jolla laundromat...
...this racially charged atmosphere that Officers Albert M. Claggett and James Brian Swart arrested Terrance and his 18-year-old brother Melvin on suspicion of rifling laundromat coin boxes...
...another sportsman, Richard Carlsberg, 46, opened Pines Recreational Park, a 7,000-acre stretch of timberland in the sparsely populated northeast corner of the state (near Alturas). Facilities include a general store, laundromat and gas station, all of which made the $995 base price for shares so inviting that more than a few campers were incredulous about the park's land value. Doubts soon dissolved: so far, 2,800 ownerships have been sold (ceiling...
...taking one too many acid trips back in 1965, and wandering around the Square ever since, babbling stray mathematical formulae on the street corners. Maybe it would even be Dryer Man, the guy with the electric hair who likes to sit on those big industrial dryers in the laundromat and get off on the vibes...
...skill contests left. It's driving me nuts," she says. Most of what Mrs. Haley wins she sells at half price to her Florida neighbors or gives away to her relatives. To get rid of the surplus she also advertises in the Clearwater Sun and in the local Laundromat. Toward the end of every year she hoards the loot in anticipation of inflated prices as the holidays approach. Occasionally the bargaining is tense, as it was last Christmas when she unloaded two microwave ovens and a camera for nearly $1,000. "The first thing people...