EXTRA: Back Of The Laundromat

StoryCorps

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Society & Culture

4.5 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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On this short Labor Day episode, we'll hear from sisters Suzi and Donna Wong about growing up in the back of their parents' laundry business in Hollywood, CA.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Dave Isay founder of StoryCore.
0:03.0	Support for our podcast and the following message comes from Morgan Stanley,
0:07.0	a proud sponsor of StoryCore.
0:09.0	Morgan Stanley is committed to giving back
0:11.0	and to fostering meaningful dialogue among people and communities.
0:15.0	Morgan Stanley.com.
0:22.0	It's the StoryCore podcast from NPR. I'm Camille Kachani.
0:26.0	On this Labor Day, we wanted to bring you another short episode
0:29.0	about a family business in Los Angeles.
0:31.0	Sisters Suzy and Donna Wong grew up just minutes
0:34.0	from all the big movie studios,
0:36.0	but they were really a world away.
0:39.0	The Camille StoryCore, to remember their dad, Frank,
0:41.0	who came to the US from China
0:43.0	and the laundry business that he opened on Melrose Avenue in 1949.
0:47.0	We lived in the back of the laundry in Hollywood.
0:50.0	It wasn't your typical home, but it was a home for us.
0:54.0	There was a simple plywood wall
0:56.0	that just kind of hid our living area from the customers.
1:00.0	As kids, we carved a little keyhole.
1:03.0	Yes.
1:04.0	So we could peek out and see which customer had come in.
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