Suds and Duds: Olympia's Star Laundry
In the early 20th century, sanitation was a national obsession. “Laundry as sweet and clean as white-topped waves,” as “pure as roses” and “a dream of On Monday, October 31, 1902, the Star Hand Laundry opened under the ownership of J. A. Hunt and a Mr. Johnson at the corner of what is now Capitol Way and State Avenue.
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