University Daily Kansan, November 21, 1980
Page 11
Students have a choice among local laundries
By KARI ELLIOTT
Staff Reporter
The dresser is empty, and the already twice-worn blue jeans have a distinc-
tive odor. The laundry hamper is
large. No more clean clothes. It's
laundry time.
After finding soap, bleach, fabric
and cleaning next to next problem
arise, much laundry to do.
Some students are fortunate enough to have washers and dryers in the basements of their houses or in their apartment complexes. But all those
Diana Young of DeSoto loads laundry into a dryer at the Commerce Plaza Co-op Laundromat, 3028 Iowa.
who have to drag the laundry basket
and don't know where to go, read on.
Several local laundries were rated on cleanliness, cost, washing facilities and amenities.
Review
One qualification for a top rating of five stars was cleanliness. A laundry could receive five stars if it had a cleaning machine, or three if dirt-free washers, dryers and tables.
Price also was a consideration.
An approximately equal number of washers and dryers helped a laundry receive the top rating. Whether the attendant or attendant on duty was also considered.
Miscellaneous extras, such as tables for studying, soda pop, cigarette and candy machines, a coin changer and a laundry soap machine, also were important if a Laundromat were to receive five stars.
If the laundry was deficient in any of these qualifications, the rating dropped.
Snedeger Laundry
409 F. 12th St
★★★★★
The attendant offers free coffee to the customers as they thumb through the latest issues of Good Housekeeping or Better Homes and Gardens.
Besides these advantages, Snedgeger
appears to have a spotless floor. It even
applies the same light on her.
On top of the clean washers, sponges and brushes, keep in case the machines get dirty.
In addition to 20 regular-size washers and six double washers, Sneiderger will triple-size washers for those times when you have to wash 35 pounds at once.
Regular-sized washcloth cost 60 cents. Regular-sized washcloth is not able to carry the wet clothes to the dryer.
The laundry has 19 dryers and a quarter gives 15 minutes of drying the clothes.
There are five large tables for folding clothes.
Independent Coin-Op Ninth and Mississippi streets
★★★
It's 3 a.m. and you just have to do your laundry. You can go to the Independent Co-op, one of Lawrence's few 24-hour laundromats.
It's a large laundry with 34 regular-
wear washers and double-load washers,
but only 20 dryers.
The cost of cleaning clothes here was high-75 cents for a regular wash and a dime for only five minutes of drying time.
Independent Coin-Op has plenty of space to fold clothes and has desks for studying while your clothes are washing.
There also are candy, pop, coffee and cigarette machines. The laundry has
The dirty, lint-covered floor is not too appealing, when trying to fold a sweater.
★★★★
Norge Laundry and Cleaning Village
This self-service laundry has an attendant on duty seven days a week, which may be one reason that the floors, tables and machines were very
It costs 75 cents to wash a load at work, so you could save $10 per wash. It also helps bare clothes cause a power outage.
The Norge laundry, which has 24 washers and 15 dryers, is open from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., but the management team is up to begin washing clothes at 8:30 p.m.
Several tables for studying or for
several and sorting clothes are
available
Parking is not a problem. There are about 20 places.
Suds 'n' Duds
Holiday Plaza, 25th and Iowa streets
★★★
Here customers can slip mugs of bake and wash their clothes at the same time.
For about a dollar you can wash and dry one load of clothes at Sids'n 'n Duds.
Suds 'n' Duds has 19 washers and 16 dryers and both the drinking and
washing sides are open from 9 a.m. to midnight.
But when do many students wash the hands, Sundays, of course. This means soda pop is not allowed.
Bring a chair, however, if you don't want to go to the "Suds" side. This laundry is carpeted and clean, but has no chairs.
King-O-Mat 3
★★★
Malls Shopping Plaza, 711 W. 23rd St.
This laundry gets the citation for the dirtiest bathroom. Not all laundries even have a bathroom, but this one is so dour that won't even want to stand in the dryer way.
The bathroom is also dangerous because the door can lock and doesn't open from the inside, according to a sign posted on the door.
If a dirty bathroom doesn't bother you, 75 cents will wash and a dry load of clothes. There is a dryer for every washer.
Independent Coin-Op Laundry
King-O-Mat 3 does not have an attendant.
★★
19th and Louisiana streets
Don't do your laundry here if you are trying to lose weight. Besides a choice of eight kinds of soda pop, this laundry has a 10-temt card machine, a cracker and chips machine, a vending filler filled with fruit pies and Zingers.
This laundry has 30 washers, 12 large dryers and six tables for folding clothes. It costs 75 cents to wash a load, but the dirt on the floor and rugs, cigarette ashes in the sink and the flies are free.
★★
If you don't mind dusty floors and a soiled carpet, this is one of the least expensive places to wash and dry your clothes.
King-O-Mat Sixth and Maine streets
The laundry usually isn't crowded,
the dryers washers and 28 dryers,
there is no water.
With only two tables and several chairs, studying space is limited here. Folding and sorting clothes is difficult using just the tone of washers.
A wash costs 50 cents. About 40 minutes of drying time costs a quarter. There also is a dollar bill changer.
This laundromat does not have an attendant on duty.
★
Two telephone numbers are posted in case of emergency, but the telephone is gone from the wall. Only a battered phone book remains.
The Bungalo has 20 washers and 10 slightly dirty dryers, and no attendant.
Bungalo Easy Wash 1900 Barker St.
With old and slightly dirty washing machines and dryers, a dirt floor, dusty tables, cramped quarters and an office, you may not want to use this laundry.
For 50 cents you can wash one load,
bave a dme gets you only five minutes
dure.
Endowment tracts part of landmark
Endowment Association-owned tracts included in the 260-acre landmark are the Maurice L. Breidenthal Biological Reserve and the Raymond C. Rice Woodlands, situated about two miles north of Baldwin.
The U.S. Department of Interior has chosen two tracts of land owned by the Kansas University Endowment institution part of a national landmark.
Martin Henry, vice president of property for the Endowment Association, said yesterday that the association's property made up about 197 acres of the landmark. He said the remaining land was privately owned.
Jim Hamrick, KU systems and ecology and botany professor who negotiated the agreement between the interior department and the Endowment Association, said the department selected the area because it was a good example of unmoled nativeforest.
"It's representative of the forests on the border between heavy eastern forests and western grassland," he said.
Hamrick said the area had first been recommended to federal officials in 1972.
Representatives from Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas met with interior department officials at KU in May 1979 to nominate areas in those states as landmarks. One of the areas nominated was the Baldwin site, he said.
During the meeting, Hammrick said, federal officials toured the forest area and the final decision was made earlier this month in Washington.
Henry said the Endowment
Association said approval of the
destination for his work.
"We wanted to share this resource with others," he said. "The principal reason we gave our approval was to get the property registered and to disseminate information about it to other universities."
Hamrick said the landmark status of the oak and bickory-covert oak, and bickery-covert
"There aren't really many ramifications," he said. "About all it will do is give us more leverage to use against someone who wants to put a power line or highway through the land."
Henry agreed by saying it would not affect management or use of the land.
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