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There was a Norge Village right in front of a Food Giant market in Canoga Park, California (San Fernando Valley) where I grew up. I remember my mom using the Norge Village for dry cleaning and the times our Sears Kenmore washer gave up the ghost (which sadly was often). It was long but relatively clean and had the latest coin-op dry cleaning/washing/drying machines, along with a regular dry cleaner.
Don't know if the Norge Village is still there.
 
Mike,

Most probably not. Our's closed in the mid 1970's. There was one in the next town over. It lasted into the early 1980's. Ok. So that answers my question. Norge Village was on both ends of the country.
 
I remember seeing the Norge Village "ball" above a laundromat location in Redondo Beach, CA but always drove by it, I don't remember ever stopping in (or if we did stop, I was so young I can't remember what was inside).  This one lasted into the mid 80's if I remember correctly.   Last time I drove by there (a few years ago) the Norge Village ball was still up there and looking really tired, but building is one of those $1 stores now.

 

I found the photo below during a Google search.

The link below is a thread from the archives I found while doing a Google search (ironically enough) for Norge Village photos.

Kevin

http://www.automaticwasher.org/cgi-bin/TD/TD-VIEWTHREAD.cgi?11241
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Somebody posted a Norge Village photo here not long ago.  I think it may have even been one that's still operating, but presumably without Norges anymore.
 
 

 

During my Google search I discovered there is a dry cleaners in Long Beach, Ca still using the Norge Village name with the "Norge Village Ball" is still on the pole above the building.   However I think it's a regular full service dry cleaners.

 

Kevin
 
Norge Village

We had one in Charleston, about 5 miles from my house. It is the only coin op laundry my mother would use when our washer was broken. It's a casket store now.
 
Casket Store

As with everything else there can (and often is) a considerable mark-up on caskets when purchased via a funeral director.

Time and time again consumer groups have called funeral homes to account for "taking advantage of those in grief) to peddle the most expensive goods on their lists, again often at marked-up prices.

Remember hearing of funeral directors charging several thousand for caskets that are going to be used when a body is going to be cremated.

A great book on the Amercian funeral industry was written by Jessica Mitford (one of "The" Mitford sisters of England), and is called "The American Way Of Death".

The book released in 1963 caused shockwaves throughout the American funeral industry, and still is doing so today.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_American_Way_of_Death
 
casket store

Launderess answered well. There are several here in the greater Charleston area, and they are doing quite well for exactly the reasons she provided.....
 
Final Word Not To Hijack Tthis Thread

Funeral costs for even the most simple service around here are enough to cause persons to turn in their graves, so to speak.

Prices start at literally 10K for even the most cheapest thing on funeral director's lists and that is with only one day of viewing and cremation.

More and more familes around here are doing away with several days of viewing and doing one day wake with service following day (religon permitting of course). Cremation is way up as well for various reasons but one is the cost of burial and or perpetual care. If you already own a family or personal plot that lessens the load, but space is filling up fast around here and that puts a premium on new internments.

Several local NYC funeral homes/directors including two or three of the major ones on Staten Island were recently cited for their practices of basically bleeding the bereaved dry.

Finally back to the query that started all this palaver. In most if not all states one can purchase a casket from any source and have it delivered to the funeral home. Indeed with the advent of the Internet "casket direct" services have blossomed. Where do you think all those Goth type persons and others including stage props get them? Depending upon local and or state law and cemetary regulations you may not even require a casket for burial. That is the old yet still common outside of the US burial in only a shroud is possible.

http://www.health.ny.gov/professionals/patients/patient_rights/funeral.htm
 
Norge ball

I was so disappointed when the huge ball came down. The few times we went to "the Village" to do laundry, I was intrigued by the Norge machines, as most of my family had Frigidaire washers. If I remember correctly, the self-service dry cleaning was a whopping dollar a load....guess that kinda tells you how old I am.

Launderess:

thanks for getting the thread back on track
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Even Way up here

Yes, We had several local Norge Villages with the big rotating ball on the roof. I did go to one in the early 80's and it was all Speed Queen pourposely tamped down to a half tub of water. I did put more water in with a bucket thru a faucet in a tub nearby when noboby was watching and the machine did fine. But I have used my Maytags that were bought new right after that episode with no major problems after 28 years and hope for many more. Nope, no Laundromats for me, thank you.
 

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