Interior view of New System Laundry machinery and employees located at 1001 NE Flanders Street, circa 1935.
City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2004-002.11084.
NE Flanders Street, circa 1935
Vintage Portland
Interior view of New System Laundry machinery and employees located at 1001 NE Flanders Street, circa 1935.
City of Portland (OR) Archives, A2004-002.11084.
Vintage Portland 
Grim as it is, these women were lucky to have employment during the Great Depression.
Wow, they have been around for quite a while.
Still going strong and if I am not mistaken, the
same location.
The sign on the building says “Since 1917”
Here is the inside today (Thanks to Google)
That is a lot of mangles. It’s easy to see how they inspired the Stephen King short story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mangle_(machine)
Another modern image from inside.
The outside isn’t very interesting.
I wouldn’t want to have worked there then and I wouldn’t want to work there now. But then being retired I really wouldn’t want to work any where now. LOL.