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Recursion

(56,582 posts) Thu Jan 9, 2014, 07:40 AM Jan 2014

How Mumbai gets its laundry done, and some other pictures

So here is what laundry looks like in Mumbai:

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How Mumbai gets its laundry done, and some other pictures (Original Post) Recursion Jan 2014 OP

There's nothing like solar power! nt LiberalEsto Jan 2014 #1

I'll never complain again. nt zanana1 Jan 2014 #2

My great grandparents lived in San Francisco. hunter Jan 2014 #3

LiberalEsto

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1. There's nothing like solar power! nt

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Thu Jan 9, 2014, 10:35 AM

Jan 2014

zanana1

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2. I'll never complain again. nt

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Thu Jan 9, 2014, 10:38 AM

Jan 2014

hunter

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3. My great grandparents lived in San Francisco.

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Thu Jan 9, 2014, 03:01 PM

Jan 2014

My great aunt told stories about her family's Chinese laundryman. (San Francisco was a very apartheid community then, and the Chinese were excluded from many sorts of work.) The laundryman used to give her and my grandma candy so they were always happy to see him.

I imagine the Chinese communities of San Francisco looked similar to your pictures then, with much commercial laundry hanging out to dry.

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