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The past 10 months have been a most difficult cycle for laundry. Just ask dry cleaners. Two area long-time, dry cleaning businessâ have seen significant drops in the past year, and both continue to fight for survival. âWeâre down about 40% compared with the previous year,â said Sam Veltri, owner of Veltri Cleaners on Jefferson Avenue in Washington. âIâm fine, I feel for some of our customers. Some have lost jobs. Some have never slowed down. Others who brought many shirts and pants at a time, now bring maybe one shirt and one pair of pants.â While dry cleaners are not alone in struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic, the future appears a little better for the airlines and restaurants as eventually business should rebound as vaccines make traveling and going out to lunch or dinner less worrisome or troublesome for customers. ....
- ADVERTISEMENT - Hoping to help keep people bundled with winter essentials is the Los Angeles-based, non-profit Pauly’s Project that recently teamed up with local family-owned dry cleaning chain, National Cleaners & Laundry. The business will have bins outside two of their storefronts, one near Signal Hill (3304 Cherry Ave), the other in North Long Beach (6620 Cherry Ave), accepting winter coat/jacket donations through the end of the month. “The more [coats] the merrier,” Paul Avila, founder of Pauly’s Project, said. During the chilly months, winter coats are typically the most sought-after type of clothing donation because of their utility, Avila said. They’re also the most expensive type of clothing purchase, which means demand is high, but stock is low. So, when Dora Quinones, the daughter of the family-owned dry cleaning chain, reached out to Avila with an idea for a coat drive, he was appreciative. In her Instagram message to Avila, Quinones explained t ....