Woodside: Memories (and tips) an old laundry Pro

Canada Dry Cleaners in Woodside is a laundry service, but at least for a few minutes in 2011, was also a tailoring service.

Kathleen Hunnicutt, who recently sold his dry-cleaning business after 36 years, remembered a man who ask some thread and home. He had to attend a meeting, he said, and wanted sewn on the shirt, he wore collar button.

Mrs. Hunnicutt said he had what was needed, and offered to sew easily take place. What he did with his shirt, Mrs. Hunnicutt and proceeded to the collar button to sew again observed as two customers.

The complete work, offered the man to pay, but Mrs. Hunnicutt said she refused. The man went, and two customers asked if she was aware that it is worn a T-shirt was repaired by Hall of Fame Corner Ronnie Lott, former San Francisco 49ers football.

They did not know, he said, adding, the almanac, the never heard the end of it with his four brothers.

Lott returned with a gift, a container of bath salts extracted from the Dead Sea. "It is a very nice man, and very grateful," he said.

Wash in cold water

As a professional in the cleaning with her clothes, Mrs. Hunnicutt course brings experience home. When washing clothes, unless they are very dirty, cold water and the disc is used in delicate.

"I think (tender) a great job," he said.

He said he them for not more than five or ten minutes to remove enough moisture into the dryer and not enough to reduce the risk. Air drying is easier on the clothes, she said.

As for the dry cleaning, the people tend to exaggerate, he said. He had customers bring even after use of something. "If you have not be dry cleaned, do not do it," he said.

The new owner Carlos Arias Cleaners Canada is 15 years in staff time to Helen and laundries in Woodside Street in Redwood City, Mrs. Hunnicutt said.

His years behind the counter, Mrs. Hunnicutt, he often said was personal. "So many times (clients) to share the experiences of their lives," he said. "It was not just the clothes. It was a place to visit."

"I want to thank all those who shared their life stories with me," he said in a message to the almanac delivered. "For many of you, I have had the opportunity to see their families grow and see their children grow their own family.

"I'm happy (my company) leave, in experienced hands. I have to see confidence in his work and pleasure, how they work with integrity and care," he said.

Mrs. Hunnicutt lives in Sunnyvale and will study it volunteer at Filoli in Woodside.

red sweater day

Celebrities came Cleaners Canada occasionally, including Joe Montana and Roger Craig, Mrs. Hunnicutt said the two former star with the San Francisco 49ers.

For more than five decades, Woodside home of movie icon and former diplomat Shirley Temple Black, who had made near where she had cleaned her hair her clothes.

"Shirley Temple, a very good customer of mine was," Mrs. Hunnicutt said. "She was a very private person, but it was a great character and very funny. He had these liners".

The preferences of women black for red, Mrs. Hunnicutt said that he offered two of his red sweater once, and Mrs. Black has accepted, and put them on.

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