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The decline in laundromats shows how US cities are changing

By Kai Ryssdal, Emily Henderson, and Sean McHenry
August 08, 2017
A woman empties a washing machine in a laundromat. 
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Once an urban staple, the businesses are decreasing as developers transform neighborhoods. But people still depend on them.

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Go to college, wash your own clothes. Right?

By David Gura
May 08, 2014
Knox Dormitory at Davidson College, where until now, students slept on sheets the university washed, dried, and folded for them.
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Davidson College tells students to handle their own dirty laundry.

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Self-cleaning clothes are here. Cries of “Victory!” come from the World Mud Pie Consortium

By Marc Sanchez
December 19, 2011

The glass is only 29% filthy!

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QUIZ: Men, women and the laundry room

By Sarah Gardner
April 21, 2011

Clorox marketing exec Heidi Dorosin made a brief appearance in my Marketplace story on laundry detergents with fewer petrochemicals. A little off...

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