white on white

 

Two of my images from the "Maytag Series" were accepted in the "White on White" juried exhibition opening at the LHUCA December 4.  The show's theme is "monochromatic works, with absence of color, from the many hues and shades of white, and neutrals."  Sounds pretty lofty for photos taken at Bud's Laundromat in Hale Center, Texas!.

Opening receptions: December 4 and January 1, during the First Friday Art Trail 6 – 9 pm 

Exhibition dates: December 4, 2015 – January 23, 2016
Helen DeVitt Jones Studio Gallery 

ten-hut

 

Twenty-four washing machines stand at attention -- although dented and battered -- ready to wash your clothes.  Laundromats have been around since about the 1920s, first with attendants, then coin-operated and like Bud's in Hale Center "stand alone."  In Texas we often refer to these places as "wash-a-terias."  The first washateria so named was opened in 1936 in Fort Worth.  We even had a washateria in New Deal.  It was housed in the former Baptist church.  I remember, as a child, going with Mother and her friend Ruby.  It was my first experience, literally, with bluing! Laundromats may be a dying (not drying) industry due to high rents, water mitigation fees and home machines.  However, if you need to do a few loads, there doesn't appear to be any waiting at Bud's.

 

Bud's Laundry

164 W. Stevenson

Hale Center, Texas

bud's laundry 

English Nursery Rhyme, 1849

They that wash on Monday
Have all the week to dry;
They that wash on Tuesday
They have pretty nigh;
They that wash on Wednesday
Have half the week past;
They that wash on Thursday
Are very near the last;
They that wash on Friday
Wash for need;
They that wash on Saturday
Are sluts indeed.       

Most of my adult life, I've done laundry on Saturday -- because that seemed to be the most convenient time for a working gal.  Little did I know that I thus labeled myself!

 

There was no one washing nor drying at Bud's Laundry on Friday, so nobody must have been in need. One probably must be really in need to frequent this establishment-- the Coke machine was the newest piece of machinery in there!

Bud's Laundry
164 W. Stevenson
Hale Center, Texas

July 3, 2013

hev e. load and the spin cycles

 

Connell's Laundromat is all washed up.  Even an attraction like Hev E. Load and the Spin Cycles didn't help.  Or maybe it was the 25 cent dryer loads that hung it out to dry.

 

Connell's Laundromat

Main Street in Denver City, Texas

6.22.2013