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Every place a Laundesigns sign has been seen, in a photograph or a listing. Eight places so far, from Bensonhurst and Park Slope in Brooklyn to Felton, California. The Bensonhurst pin is a childhood memory from the early 1990s, the one that started this file. Trade magazine ads are left off the map; they are on each sign’s page.
Pins sit on the exact address where one is known; otherwise on the town, neighborhood or state named in the source. Blue pin: where the signs were made. Orange pin: remembered, not photographed.
The survivor list
“Seen” is the date of the photo or listing, not proof the sign is still there. Nobody has gone back to check most of these. If you can, report what you find, even if the wall is empty now.
| Where | Signs | Series | Seen | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8015 20th Avenue, Bensonhurst, Brooklyn (a self-service laundry since 1953; now Lucky 99 Laundromat) | A farmer with a pitchfork, an undertaker, an angel with a harp, read off the walls by a six year old while his mom folded laundry. The angel matches BE AN ANGEL and the farmer matches HOWDY, NEIGHBOR. Inferred | Not recorded | Early 1990s | Vlad’s childhood memory, the sighting that started this file. Not photographed. Memory |
| Rob’s Stop ‘N’ Wash, 54 Fifth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn | BE AN ANGEL, DID YOU SAY CHANGE?, DON’T DYE HERE, THIS COULD BE YOU, HOWDY, NEIGHBOR, WE’RE NOT RESPONSIBLE, CAREFUL NOW! | Yellow | 2008 | Photo posted 1 January 2008 by amarilla, Museum of Laundry blog |
| Laundromat, Long Island City, Queens | WE’RE NOT RESPONSIBLE | Yellow | 2009 | Flickr, Jason Eppink |
| Laundromat, Trumansburg, New York | WE’RE SORRY, HOWDY, NEIGHBOR | Yellow | 2011 | Flickr, finitor |
| Laundromat, Felton, California | DON’T DYE HERE, HOWDY, NEIGHBOR | Yellow | 2013 | Felton Homes and History blog |
| Laundromat, Rensselaer, New York | WE’RE NOT RESPONSIBLE, BE AN ANGEL, DON’T DYE HERE | Yellow | n.d. | Pinterest (no date recorded) |
| Home laundry room, Alabama (town not recorded) | BE AN ANGEL, DON’T DYE HERE, WE’RE NOT RESPONSIBLE, DRY? (poster), HERE’S HOW (poster) | Blue | 2023 | Public Facebook group post |
| For sale, Philadelphia area | THIS COULD BE YOU, THINKING OF YOU, ALWAYS, DON’T BE BASHFUL | Blue framed | 2026 | Facebook Marketplace listing |
Have one of these signs, or know a wall where one hangs? Report a sign and it goes on the map.
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.