Gillespie's Cleaners / Burnette's Cleaners, 5213 Trenholm Road: June 2022 (Moved) 1 comment
Posted at 11:46 pm in closing
This building, next door to the Forest Acres City Hall, was a dry-cleaner for many years, starting as Gillespie's and then as Burnette's. For many of those years, the right-hand side of the building had a coin laundromat though that closed some time before Burnette's left for Forest Park, a block or so away.
The building sat empty for several years, until demolition started in late June of 2022. The building is now completely razed, which, with the old Russell & Jeffcoat lot adjacent to it also now bare gives a surprising amount of open space in central Forest Acres for new construction.
(Hat tip to my sister)
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Tom
1 Jul 22 at 11:41 am
That building dates to at least the early 1960s or late 1950s. It used to have a sign out front with a spinning globe advertising that the coin laundry used Norge brand machines.