Southside Laundromat

Fantastic service, friendly staff, super clean. This is the only laundromat I go to, and the only one I send friends to!

I brought some oversized items here to wash. I haven’t been to a coin-​op laundry since I was in university, so I didn’t know what to expect. I certainly didn’t expect it to be so much fun.
First, the staff is terrific, friendly and attentive. They’re busy — washing drop off orders, making change, helping out hopeless newbies like me. They were always available, helpful and pleasant.
The big machines have names! Louise, Betty, etc… which reminds me of the drilling machines used to dig the Chunnel between France and England. The French named theirs after women, the English numbered theirs. Guess who’s more fun to go out with after work… Even more fun, is that they need a special flick of the wrist to get the coins to register, much like the original mechanical slots at Vegas or those public phones in the old red London callboxes.
It was laundry, but I had a blast, free Shaw WiFi helped too, but the whole process of running your wash through Louise, learning that thing you have to do with your wrist to get her going, and building the feeling that the next time, you’re a veteran made the whole thing much more organic and interesting than just a chore.