Part 2, Photo 16. That was what the first coin-laundry I ever saw looked like with a row of those old Bendix "diving bells". The extractor at the far right is probably overworked. The laundry I remember was in "East Atlanta" over by the Theatre. The machines were gravity-drain. There was a slot in the concrete behind the row of machines that funneled the water through the back wall and into a pit at the back of the building.Not very sanitary looking at all.
The sign about the "foaming" detergents is funny. Why single out Tide, Fab and Wisk, when there were so many others that "foamed" just as bad?!
They would have been wise to put a dispenser on the wall with just All,Dash, and Salvo in it.
None of those slant-fronts look authentic without suds billowing out of the detergent chutes and down the front to the floor. Signs or not, nobody seemed to measure very well in those days as over-sudsing was pretty common no matter which laundry you were in.
Kool to see three generations of Frigidaire machines. Unimatics with Three-Ring and Deep Action pulsators and the 1-18's. The Unimatics with the Deep Action pulsators were some of the longest-lived commercial machines I ever saw. There was a laundry in Hyde Park,Tampa that was still using them in the early 90's.
