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Laundry Trucks painted aqua with a bubble design
Posted by:
fleurblue
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Date: January 04, 2011 09:45PM
Does anyone remember these trucks. I don't know if they were limited to the Chicago area.
They looked like UPS trucks but were all aqua. I think they were popular for diaper laundering before disposables were used.
Maybe renters who didn't have access to laundry rooms or laundromats used them for clothes and linens. They were everywhere in the '60s.
I think it was the bubbles that stuck in my memory.
They looked like UPS trucks but were all aqua. I think they were popular for diaper laundering before disposables were used.
Maybe renters who didn't have access to laundry rooms or laundromats used them for clothes and linens. They were everywhere in the '60s.
I think it was the bubbles that stuck in my memory.
Re: Laundry Trucks painted aqua with a bubble design
Posted by:
crowamonghens
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Date: January 04, 2011 10:30PM
maybe they were Dy Dee Wash trucks? i don't remember them myself.
i do remember those aqua blue chevy vans Sears used to have.
i do remember those aqua blue chevy vans Sears used to have.
Re: Laundry Trucks painted aqua with a bubble design
Posted by:
Kchi
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Date: January 05, 2011 11:13AM
I think it may have been called North Chicago
Re: Laundry Trucks painted aqua with a bubble design
Posted by:
Artista
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Date: January 13, 2011 01:24PM
I do remember seeing those trucks as well. I never know which business it was though.
Re: Laundry Trucks painted aqua with a bubble design
Posted by:
fleurblue
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Date: January 17, 2011 11:59PM
North Chicago sounds right, Kchi.
Re: Laundry Trucks painted aqua with a bubble design
Posted by:
murphman
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Date: January 01, 2013 08:12AM
Chicagoland laundry is the business in question. Still in business as of 2009 a friend drove for them for about twenty years.
Re: Laundry Trucks painted aqua with a bubble design
Posted by:
Richard Stachowski
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Date: January 03, 2013 09:19PM
[b]We used Captal Laundry and also Leader from 43rd & Marshfield. That was in the 40's.[/b]
