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Norge Village Laundry & Dry Cleaning Signs (page 3)

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Ranburn Laundry & Cleaners
Gary, IN
Ranburn Laundry & Cleaners is a former Norge Village Laundry. This location has both a Norge Village globe sign and panel sign. By 2017, the place had closed. The owner was looking for a buyer for the signs. Later that year, the signs were still there but the left panel of the text sign was missing. In 2019, the building was still vacant. The text panel is gone but the globe is still there. [map]

Jackson's Cleaners [gone]
Gary, IN		 Glen Park Cleaners
Gary, IN		 Hobart Village Cleaners
Hobart, IN
Jackson's Cleaners featured a battered Norge Village globe on the roof. This photo is from 2009. In 2011, the globe was still there minus the band. By 2014, the laundromat and globe were gone.

Glen Park Cleaners's Norge Village globe sign is also installed on the roof. [map]

Hobart Village Cleaners has two Norge Village pole-mounted globe signs with one at each entrance to their lot. I don't know of any other locations that have two of these signs. [map]

Norge Village Laundry [gone]
Vincennes, IN
This Norge Village Laundry opened in 1962. Although there was no Norge Village globe sign here, there were tributes to it on signs inside and outside the store. It's safe to assume there was a Norge Village globe sign here originally. In 2014, a fire gutted the building and destroyed all the signs except for the pole sign. The building and remaining sign are gone now.

former Norgetown
Salina, KS
This Norgetown globe is installed on the roof of the Missing Sock Laundromat. The globe had been repainted by 2008. See the signs below for what would have been the original colors. [map]

former Norgetown [gone]
Louisville, KY		 Norge Laundry & Cleaning Village
Hagerstown, MD
This Norgetown globe sign in Louisville was still there and reads "B. Klean Coin Laundry" although the building had been occupied by Dangerous Minds Tattoo & Barber Shop since around 2010. By 2015, the tattoo shop and the band around the middle of the globe were gone. Around 2018, the globe was gone.

The Hagerstown location has a flat plastic sign. This location has been vacant for many years but the sign remains. [map]

More Kentucky:
Ashland [gone]

KD Sales [gone]
Kalamazoo, MI		 St. Ignace Laundromat
St. Ignace, MI
KD Sales updated this Norge Village sign for their party supplies business. The laundromat left behind a Norge Village clock which has since been removed. The Norge Village globe sign remained in place even when KD Sales had moved across the street by 2012. However, by 2015, the sign was gone.

The St. Ignace Laundromat was no longer a Norge Village but kept the sign. In 2017, the business closed and the new owner was trying to sell or get rid of the sign. However, it looks like the globe might be staying. The building now houses the Boardwalk Coffee & General Store. The text panel was replaced but the globe sign is still there. [map]

former
Norge Village Laundry
Detroit, MI		 Washboard
Coin Laundry
Iron Mountain, MI		 former
Norgetown Cleaners
Allen Park, MI		 Wondermat [gone]
Maplewood, MN		 Holiday
Launderama [gone]
Kansas City, MO
This battered Norge Village Laundry sign in Detroit stands on a vacant lot. [map]

This striped Norgetown globe was installed at the Washboard Coin Laundry when this photo was taken. It is the only Norge Ball that was still lit and spinning. The bearings were replaced around 2007 but it has the original motor. Around 2018, the laundromat closed and U.P. Pawn moved into the building. The globe has been painted with black stripes now and the band reads "Broullire Corner." I don't know if the globe still spins and/or is lit at night. [map]

This Norgetown Cleaners in Allen Park was doing business as Park Place Cleaners when this photo was taken in 2011. The building now houses a bike store but the sign remains. [map]

There was another Norge Village location and sign in Allen Park, MI.

The Wondermat sign and laundry in Maplewood were from 1961. This photo is from around 2001. By 2011, the sign was gone.

The Holiday Launderama probably had a Norge Village globe sign originally. I have not seen a double-decker plastic panel combination like this anywhere else. This photo is from 2010. By 2011, the top panel was missing and the bottom panel was badly broken. They were replaced with a new Holiday Launderama sign by 2013.

More Michigan:
Germfask [gone]
Highland Park [map]

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