Tag Archives: Lynn Garden Drive

50 Minute Cleaners

“50” Minute Cleaners or Fifty Minute Cleaners, 900 Lynn Garden Drive (it’s now the low, red-roofed building next to the log house). As far as I can tell from available sources, it was in business from the late 60s to the very early 70s. It faced heavy competition from One Hour Martinizing with seven locations around town.
These are fake poufs for the left outpocket on a sport coat. You could also, I suppose, stash one in the back pocket of your jeans…

Plaza Say Gone

As you know, they’ve torn down
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This was one of our first strip malls, on Lynn Garden Drive, when it was still the main way to Gate City.  Had a Grant’s…had a Kroger…had my stepbrother’s barbershop.  It even had a decent common area:

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Those trees in back, striving for the sunlight, survived, I hope.  Probably just bulldozed over, though.  All compound things are impermanent.