Over 12 Loads Done in 4 hours!
The Long Beach wash-in was a great success. As host, it was great to have everyone over. Dave from Lakewood, CA (he lives about 4 miles from me) came to his first wash-in. Peter from Atlanta was here for the first time for a West Coast wash-in. Locals Kevin and Scott were here, along with friends of mine from Great Autos of Yesteryear.
Everyone arrived pretty much on time, at about 4PM. We had laundry going by 5PM. Dave, Kevin, Sanford and Tim all brought their laundry so with my usual weekly 4 loads, we had another 8 loads to do. The washers, jukeboxes, console stereos and Pioneer RT 909 all got a good workout. We even played Guitar Hero for a while.
The food was cooked in the Flair and the Wedgewood Holly, electric and gas both used. Three out of four of the dryers are electric, so the electric meter was spinning like a top for quite a while. No circuits blew and the transformer on the pole survived!
Dinner started around 6. Thanks to everyone for bringing something to share. There was plenty of food for all. We had desert while loads 5-8 were drying, and had a good discussion about washers and collecting while loads 9-12 finished up. Everyone headed out about 9:45PM as the rain was beginning.
Some photos I took follow below. I was pretty busy as the host but others took photos also so they may post theirs soon.
I look forward to doing this again, we all had a great time.
Mike
