Where Service To Motorist Rules
Photo from the Border Cities Star -Saturday, April 27, 1929
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The new plant of Spee-Dee Auto Wash Limited, on Langlois avenue at Wyandotte street, which is equipped and staffed to give a complete car wash in nine minutes, and is also authorized Simoniz and Alemite service station.
I wish I could get a 9 minute car wash for a $1.25. 🙂
Today that won’t even begin to cover your Enwin sewer surcharges. Times sure have changed.
I’m not sure exactly where this was at Langlois & Wyandotte. However there is still a car was on Langlois, just south of Wyandotte. I wonder if this was on the same site?
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This has got bo the most in depth conversation about a car wash I've ever seen! You guys are awesome.
And there's even more to the Spedee story as My family home was right next door to Greg, my son and he were playmates so that makes me really old. And what's that got to do with carwashes?
Here's the newspaper article covering the blaze in 1979.
http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=QVU_AAAAIBAJ&sjid=mVIMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1554,2431254&dq=fire+station+langlois+avenue&hl=en