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Morning Roundup: The Ugly Truth Edition
Photo by Sommer Mathis
GA Cleaners, also known as Georgia Avenue Cleaners and commonly referred to as Q Street Cleaners, located at the corner of 14th and Q Streets NW, will close for good this Saturday.
Signs in the store's windows state that the dry cleaner has been in operation for over 30 years. The business was a popular one in the neighborhood, offering flat-rate, low cost dry cleaning on an up-front, cash-only basis. But the Logan Circle area has changed dramatically over the last 10 years, now populated largely by high income condo dwellers who can afford to pay more.
The last day of business for the cleaner will be Saturday, June 13. Customers who are not able to pick up their clothing by that evening should check back at the store after Saturday, where subsequent instructions on how to retrieve garments at another nearby cleaner will be posted. GA is calling its customers today to let them know what's happening.
A clerk at GA Cleaners was reluctant to speak with a reporter, stating only that she had worked there for three years and hadn't been told anything about why the business was closing. She declined to give the name of the store's owner.
GA Cleaners/Q Street Cleaners is located at 1601 14th Street NW. (202) 462-9556.
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It is such a dreary day, can't we get Matt Dunn cheesecake shot to brighten our day?
Thirty years of drycleaning eh? The EPA should declare it a Superfunds site. Maybe!
That place was open? Maybe they could have done more business if it didn't look like it had been closed for 10 years.
...the only customers I have ever seen in there are 8 pound rats.
I wondered the same thing. I've walked by there dozens of times and it always looked closed to me.
I wondered the same thing. I've walked by there dozens of times and it always looked closed to me.
Yeah, organized crime families never launder money through drycleaning establishments or carryouts. That's just an urban legend, like the fabled 8-pound rats of Logan Circle.
They're actually closed to the circle at Montana Avenue.
uh, sorry for the double post. I don't think I hit the button twice.
good riddance. I've been their neighbor for years, and have interacted with one of the managers/owners. They are horrible neighbors and not very friendly.
I hope it becomes a pancake restaurant or something else we don't have yet.
Too late.
I hope it becomes a place where one can get a $13 glass of pinot gris. I can't find an expensive glass of wine to save my life in that neighborhood. Let me scan my Latin-English Dictionary for a name idea...
Yeah, all the good wine bar names are taken. Vinoteca. Cork. Veritas. Enology.
I suggest they go with something simple and monosyllabic, like "Whine."
They should also offer an assortment of these new "small plates" that everyone is talking about. And their happy hour special should include sticking customers' wangs in a bear trap, which would be in keeping with the name of the establishment.
Top that, Junkpunchers!
Or we can do our normal "DC is five years behind NYC fads" thing and give it a cute name based on its exact location. 14Q? LogCirWhine? 160114NW?
I'll have the ahi tartare w/ wasabi foam cupcake and a glass of pinotage, please.
Don't suffer the heartache of LogCirWhine for another moment! I had the exact same problem, until I replaced the busted flush valve on my low-flow toilet with a high-velocity ballcock assembly. Now my commode is more than a match for even my morbidly obese friends. And just in time for jabanero chili tasting night! Thank you, Toiletology.com! You really saved my ass!
kev29: places like pho 14 and the soon to open masa 14 are already jumping on the bandwagon of that NYC meme. like how we try to rename neighborhoods. so i guess 14q wouldn't be that novel...
Pho establishments have been named for their street for decades in Virginia. Pho 50, etc.
14q wouldn't be that novel...
Then it's perfect!
we could just call the new bar "the cleaners" because they clean out your wallet.
wocka wocka wocka!
we need another high end art furniture store. now! right there on 14th st!
i've always wondered how that building had managed to miss out on the redevelopment wave of 14th street. i'd wager anything that the building is torn down and replaced with something larger, which i would fully approve. one story buildings on major commercial stretches are a waste of good density.
Did they lose a judge's favorite pants?
he said ballcock
can we get another gay sauna? I'm tired of Crew Club.
Well, there's always Steaming Teabags. It's nextdoor to Spongebob Saunapants, just before you get to Gloryholeyrollers.
It's in the gay sauna district.
Maybe it has to do with the fact there is a dry cleaner for every tenth person in the Logan/Dupont area. I can't understand how any of those places does enough business to survive.
"A clerk at GA Cleaners was reluctant to speak with a reporter"
Who told you this? A reporter?
No, I was the reporter. I guess I could have said "was reluctant to talk with me." Either way.
Full disclosure here, please. You've had an axe to grind with these guys ever since they put too much starch in your wimple.
Sommer is getting all AP style on us.
I hate the cutesy names---with the exception of "Happy Ending" in NYC. (former massage parlor, of course). Come on, you have to admit that is good.
Not as good as that colonic hydrotherapy clinic called, "Crappy Ending." I think I still have one of their "Poo-4-1" coupon booklets.
I don't think the area needs more dry cleaners (although I'm only aware of one that has decent hours, actually staying open until 7:00 and staying open for a full day on Saturdays). But wasn't GA just about the only laundromat in the area? There are still lots of apartments in brownstones that don't have their own laundry -- what options are available for them now?
I am not aware of GA being a laundromat, I believe is was solely a cleaners. There are actually two nearby. One is on the west side of 14th, maybe at Q or R? And there is one at 11th and Rhode Island.
i believe you're thinking of the laundromat up at 14th and swann.
Ah, thanks. I had only a vague memor of the businesses in that stretch.
Damn -- "memory."
I've used them. They were nice enough to me. I'm serious about the coffee shop. That was the word on the street a year ago or so.
bravo to virginia then. boo to us in DC, because it still means we're copycatting.
damnit, that was supposed to be a reply to doug up above, but the commenting system was being wonky.
There is some interest in the space for a bar called Longfellows with a Saint-Ex style basement dance floor space called Puss N' Boots...
he said puss