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They Charge $6 to Clean Your Shirt. They Make 13 Cents on It
- dirtyhippiefree 3y agoThe first African-American patent holder was the inventor of Dry Scouring, the precursor to Dry Cleaning. The Man Who Wasn’t There is just a movie, making the original inventor even more of a Man Who Wasn’t There in popular perception…sadly… https://www.thoughtco.com/thomas-jennings-inventor-1991311 https://www.thoughtco.com/thomas-jennings-inventor-1991311
- unsupp0rted 3y ago> An imported container of hangers, shipped to Kingbridge’s cleaning facility in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, cost about $3,500 in 2019. During the peak of the pandemic, the same container shot up to $22,000. It’s now settled at about $14,000.