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Old laundromat signs that turned up during the search and are not Laundesigns. Kept here so nobody has to find them twice, and because some of them may yet say something about who else was making signs for coin laundries. Seen one that belongs here? Tell me.
The clothes thief, Philco-Bendix
A double-sided masonite sign, about 60 inches tall by 15 wide, per the seller. One side shows a masked thief in a striped shirt and cap, leaning on a street lamp with a towel marked HERS in his hand. The other side carries coin-op machine instructions and refers to Philco-Bendix washers. The seller dated it to the 1950s and noted wear and staining on the thief side. Sale date and price sit behind WorthPoint’s paywall.
Not a Laundesign: different drawing style, different size (the Laundesigns run about 18 by 48 inches) and different board. Inferred: probably a dealer sign supplied with Philco-Bendix equipment. Found on 19 October 2026 through a reverse image search of the HERE’S HOW poster.
Dry cleaner tags, Stry-Lenkoff
Not signs, and not related to Laundesigns, but they turned up in a reverse image search of the reproductions and belong in the same family. Stry-Lenkoff, a Louisville maker of laundry and dry cleaning tags, still sells “hanger button tags” that ride home on the hanger with your shirts: a cartoon man apologizing for a stain he couldn’t get out, or proudly reporting one he did. Same job as the laundromat signs, delivering the bad news with a joke. How old the drawings are is not known.
An open file on the Laundesigns of Schorr Sign Service, Glendale, Queens. Sign images are faithful digital recreations made from photos of the originals; each sign page links to the record. The recreations were generated with Grok, chosen after comparing image quality across several AI models.
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