My Beautifull Launderette

[chestermikeuk]

Congratulations to Daniel Day Lewis at The Oscars for his magnificent performance as Lincoln -
Hes come a long way since My Beautiful Launderette in 1985, I wore that video tape out when released...ha ha..

http://www.workingtitlefilms.com/features/video/id/131/international-trailer

 

[chestermikeuk]

My Beautiful Launderette

Clippette...

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[chestermikeuk]

Pics

Shock at this one, had to tell myself they where Whirlpools and not Frigidaires..

 

[chestermikeuk]

Pics..

Launderettes..

 

[chestermikeuk]

My Beautiful Launderette

Every Home Should Have One...

 

[chestermikeuk]

My Beautiful Launderette

 

[philr]

It seems there were quite a few Frigidaire-equipped launderettes in the UK.

A few pics from the Frigidaire group on Flickr.











http://www.flickr.com/groups/1704348@N21/

 

[cleanteamofny]

Great pictures, it's nice to see old signs hanging around!

 

[tomturbomatic]

When John and I went to see it, eveyone in the small theater turned around to see where the two gasps came from when he took the sledge hammer to the Frigidaire washer.

 

[fido]

Spelling

I never realised there were 2 different spellings for launderette.

 

[chestermikeuk]

Frigidaire Washers

Oh Tom I could well understand...!!

Phil yes there were, great to see the multi coloured washers bouncing up and down, thanks for the link!!

 

[chestermikeuk]

Well....

Fido Phil, now ya do!!! and your thoughts on the film, actors, washers, laundrettes, launderettes, dry cleaning machines and which ones you had the pleasure of using?

 

[fido]

The film was on TV some years ago and I watched the first few minutes before switching over to something more to my taste. I don't recall ever using a launderette in UK, though I did use a dryer in a New Zealand launderette once. I had washed some clothes at a caravan site but the dryer there was hopeless so I had looked for somewhere else to get them dry. In the repair trade I mainly only took on domestic machines, apart from the odd US toploader in hotels and caravan sites. I have never seen a dry cleaning machine.

 

[philr]

Here's another picture.
 
 

 

[frigilux]

I watched My Beautiful Laundrette a dozen times when it was first released. Seems a bit quaint now, but at the time it was the real deal.

I also applaud Daniel Day Lewis for his Oscar win the other night. Anyone else notice how much he looks like Morrissey these days? He'll have to play Morrissey in the bio-pic, LOL.

 

[davey7]

I dunno, has Daniel Day-Lewis made any movies about killing animals or eaten meat in them?

I was surprised no Omo jokes...

(an old friend of mine had a big crush on D D-L and started screaming as he kissed Omar and he sister rushed in thinking she was being attacked "he's kissing a guy!"... )

 

[chestermikeuk]

My Beautiful Launderette

Fido Phil, Did you work for yourself or a company / service organisation??

Eugene, yes a group of us where just saying the same , at the time it was so erotic, but was that the men, the washers, launderette setting or all?...ha ha

Phil, there are many Washeteria`s still in action, and many still have the old signs but alas not many old machines, lots of colour still about, here`s a laundry in Hereford that I pass on the wasy to South Wales...

 

[chestermikeuk]

Washers..

 

[chestermikeuk]

Washers..

 

[chestermikeuk]

Dryers..

 

[aquacycle]

Mike, that laundrette in Hereford looks brilliant! My local laundrette is pretty boring - Ipso 16 washes with a few JLA fast speed larger capacity machines. The dryers are old Loadstar's and, although more than likely VERY inefficient with regards to energy use, are pretty good in operation. Baildon Laundrette use to have all blue Primus machines at one point - there were 3 or 4 of them left when I was a kid - but they've since all been replaced.

 

[aquacycle]

This is almost a year old now, but I did pay a visit to this Laundrette to see the display - it was pretty great!

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co..../9585277.A_new_spin_on_arts_trail_commission/