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For more information, please contact [email protected]. -. ~ . , " ~ ," j , , ' J '. _ ;....-.J;:.,...\J~ • (•' I w .: I." 2 Magalline 3·4·80 / March, 1980 The best thing next to b9Ie feet- Sunjuns by Bass - at Sailin' Shoes. , Louise Taylor I ' I can only work a I, few hours a t week at her Job at the Wishy Washy La..un · dromat In the Plaza Shopping Center because of the Social Security benefits she receives. But she still finds time ·to do about 100 loads of laundry a day. and with about 150 students bringing their . c1othes to Wishy Washy each week. she keeps busy . v i t 6Hundreds of people watch wrestling at 1 Beech Bend Perk ' each week . ~· SUNJUNS \ -'-fut'd;~~ ~·O", I ( Being10 on this end of the s pring preek rush to Florida is a i ~gettheloob - new experience for former Floridian Good lookl~1: hair That f.!ets n tI ed That', ~ Command Periol1'(lance hmrcut Greg Bilbrey. The A haircut that will hold It.' , hape morc than a few writer considers how A haircut thai w(ln't it 'will feel being try to (nrq: you r referred to as . ,hair Into a ,tyl<' that', " them " instead of n0t n~hl for It . · u~s . ,. We'\1 ,tart wlth:i cnrcful :,tudy of Y(lur'har['; nat­ urnl'mclma!l0 n, O ur prL'Ci,;icln h~lrcune,." notKc everythmg that ·~ · right (a, wdl:l'; every; thing th~l ', wron)!') wit h. Magazine the way 'oor h:lir h:l> a l wt\y~ )..rTo\ n . Editor ..... , . , . .. _. .. .. .. Tim Fish Then thL'V'U give y0U ' (lur preci.'ldWcul. One t h~ t ada[lt,; Sl)'lc . Photo editor .. .. .. ... David Frank you w~nt 10 the han you ha v ,~ I. " u'r prL'<:"' ~') n harrcut rim0nly Imk,; I. .. rc~t the fi rS! day, ManaginQed,i to[ _: ..... __ . Greg Bilbrey : lill h Ip to hold yOt,1f hair in Shape.even as your hair continues to grow. Assistant Photo Editors . .. Roger Sommer And ye u 11 coininue 10 get aU tre !ooks you're looking fo r. Kim Kolarik No appointmt n IJ. hUt>UJr)'. t Vtr. Jus. 11 fur gu)'s and gab. Production staff: CoJl1Jll3Jid Perfonnance· Shelly Barrett, Tom 8ei hear,Roland Over 550 H:lircut'tifll: Smrcs CoaS! to CO:lS! . ~~_-,-- __ r Gibbons, Alan Judd, tdJthy Lam and Harold o G reenwo()d Mall Sinclair. ' . • " Louise Taylor sorts clothes as she removes th~m from a Ulasher.LoJllse doe. 80 to 100 loads a day .. ~ Louise Taylor moved quickly and efficiently, customer brings In hangers, she'll hang them, ,. sorting c1oihes, chatting while she worked. Her too. steady smile and methodical manner was In Because of her social security benefits, Louise contrast with the Impatience of those In the can only work In the laundry 19 hours a week. laundry around her. Her day begins at 7 a .m. and ends between 2 The Wishy Washy Landromat was hard to and 5 p.m., depending on the work load. She move around in . Hyperactive children,· weary does between .80 to lOO loads a day. mothers, slow·movlng housewives and an "It's nerv~us energy," she said. ""ve always occasional stu'clent crowd.ed the laundry In the had it - that's why' had to keep working all Plaza ~hopplng Center that ·Saturday. these years. , like to be Ilround people. I wo~ld oundry A friend walked in and Louise greeted him go crazy around the ho!!se all day ... you look with a warm smile. forward to seeing people. I ' _ ." How are you . young man?" she asked the '" especially love old people and children," ;. bearded man. who looked as if he were in his Louise, who doesn't consider herself old, said. 70s . "I'm goin' to qult'actlng like I know yGlti if " When , meet old people. we just get to you don 't do something -about that face ." talkin' . " He returned her grin. making his cowboy hat Louise also likes the special treatment she ody- recelv02 s from college students. About 150 tip forward above hls.brow. He was used to that treatment. Wishy Washy customers expect that students drop off their lauridry each week.' good· natured ribbIng and hospitality from A foreign college student asked her, "Do you laundry attendant Louise T.,ylor. It's part (If the care If 1 call you mother -I depend. on· you for \ Saturday' laundry riiual. clothes like I do my mother." Louise's bustling flve·foot-two·.lnch frame has ' WIt.h four children, Louise already has a frequented Wishy Washy since November family of her own, but all are grown and· 197'7, and her cordial personality has draWl) married. quite a foll.owlng. Her family 15 .now· limited to herself and her Protas by Some customers have been brlngjng their husband, Ray .. laundry \0 her . for six 'years, following her to Ray, who has been dlsaDled with arthritis Kim Kolarik Wishy Washy after she left Easy Wash In 1977. since 1962, enjoys d.rlvlng his _.wlfe to the ' "Ilike~veryone who comes In," Louise said. Laundrom.at In his '69 Cl)evy van. "I stili don't know- all the names, but , "I can't let her drive herself," Ray said with. <Story by remember the fac.es." ~~ twinkle In his eye. "She might not come For an average cost of $2 .90 a load, Lo.ulse· will home." Carol .,Sheets wa$h, dry and fold the laundry, and If the The . Taylors make an interesting' couple: . - . , • • •• I .. .. ... .... A •• t •• / '.' Above, Louise folds ci~thes from one of the 'many loads of laundry she does every day. " I think thot when you enjoy something, It makes it so much better. I enjoy doing this. " Louise said. , , Left, Pie rce Whites , a Bowling Green freshman , piCks up laundry from " Louise. Whites sold he always takes his laundry to Louise. Louise is the talkative Jokester and Ray Is the when it "began to get on my nerves. straight man In what sometimes seems to be a After that she worked at Union Underwear Corp. comedy' team. until August 1974. She Is as lively and gregarious as he Is calm and "I spent 43 years on those two jobs," Louise said . straightforward. " . It'§ hard to believe I spent all that time in those But through their differences, the Taylors said they two places." have built a good marriage, which is In its 45th year. "It's eventlard to believe she stayed with one man Louis.e believes that permanence is the key to a good for 43 years." Ray added . marriage. Lo~ise enjoys simple pleasures. She hasn't traveled " Gundry : 'The grass might look greener somewhere else, outside Warren County, except to visit her children but by the time you get there, someone's cut it in Kansas and Maryland .. She doesn't even have a · :' down ." desire to go to Florida . She has applied the same principle to jobs. She " She knows that if I get her down there I won 't sticks with them . bring her back," said Ray . When she wI's old enough to work. she began Louise said she do ~sn 't want to leave Bowling tending the vegetable garden and ' helping grow Green . " You get attached to people." she said . ti.~ ody_ "Llk'e it 's your family -there aren't 'any strangers at ).' tobacco and'corn on the family farm near Hiseville in ;. the laundromat . ,., Barren County. '" She didn't mind the hard work of .sawing wood and " I try to 'be jolly ," Louise said . Her attitude is '.' ~. plowing. " Whatever a m<!n could do, I did ." evident to Wishy Washy customers. Louise worked o'ri her father's farm until 1933, One of those customers, Bruce Miller , said, " [ when she moved to Bowling Green. While walking don't think you'll find anyone with a better .' past a s.ewer construction site- in downtown Bowling personality than Louise has. She' ll dg anything for t~ Green on a hot July afternoon, she met her future you ... and she says what she thinks." • J ·husband . A friend said Louise's smile " puts the 'day right." r.:·. Ray Taylor was taking a break when he noticed four Louise was smiling as she worked to the loud hum I'0J:.. girls strolling by, two of whom were Louise and her of the washer. A honky-tonk tune, "The Power of ;-;:1 sister Myrtle. As soon as he saw them, Ray said h~ Positive Drinking," faintly drifted through the roo'm . ,. thought, "One of those girls Is going to be my IMlfe." from the, corner jukebox . People were t< Ray began going out with Myrtle, but he soon preoccupied - popping their gum . started dating Louise because she' was dQser to his On the wall aboye Louise's head hung a calendar age. After dating 11/2 years, they got married.