Newspaper Article

What goes around comes around at MB laundry

GROSSBERG

2002

Overview

The Thoroughbred 400 is the fanciest washing machine at the Whale and Wash coin-operated laundry on Manhattan Avenue. In fact, there is a line of them beckoning customers hoping to get the grime and sweat out of their clothes. The machines are a relatively new addition to the small shop, but what they do is the same thing washing machines have been doing here for decades: fill with water and spin around in circles. For those who don't want to deal with the hassle, for a fee, [George Birnbaum] will do the laundry. The shop also boasts a cleaners and does alterations. And probably alone among laundries anywhere, there are locked post office boxes into which Birnbaum patiently delivers mail into the appropriate slots every day. The 1933 relic has been in several shops around town until finally arriving here a few years ago. 1 pic; [Nicolas Giraudo] tosses clothing to his mother, [Patricia Giraudo], as it comes out of a washer at the Whale and Wash laundry in Manhattan Beach, turning the chore into more of a game.; Credit: STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER -- BRAD GRAVERSON

• Publisher: Los Angeles Newspaper Group
• Subject: Birnbaum, George / Martin, Danny