Ben Franklin, font of aphorisms, once warned against placing too much permanence in the new U.S. Constitution. “In this world nothing can be said to be certain,” Franklin said, ” Except death and taxes.”
There’s one unescapable reality Franklin seems to have missed: laundry. Here’s a video journal from North Oakland’s Piedmont neighborhood, chronicling the local institution that brings so many of us serendipitously together: the laundromat.
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I love this! Once, all my underwear was stolen from a load of laundry while I wasn’t looking. Personal, indeed!