Your Time: The Laundry Club, Amherst
Nhan Rem of Amherst.
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KEVIN GUTTING Purchase photo reprints »UMass junior Andy Youssef.
KEVIN GUTTING Purchase photo reprints »UMass sophomore Alex Joseph.
KEVIN GUTTING Purchase photo reprints »UMass graduate student Evan Ross, left, and senior Brian Gomola.
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KEVIN GUTTING Purchase photo reprints »UMass seniors Eric Brown, left, and Korey Rousseau.
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Lost socks and lost time aside, laundry is one chore that will never be outsourced — and so it seems that laundromats are here to stay. Last weekend at one Amherst laundromat, the Laundry Club, people from many walks of life were biding their time, though the great majority were University of Massachusetts students who live off campus.
”It’s very peaceful,” said sophomore Alex Joseph as he used the solitary setting Sunday evening to catch up on homework. Daytime can be quite a bit busier, with a larger crowd waiting on the hum and whir of dozens of washers and dryers. Coffee, TV, wireless Internet and even a pool table can help relieve the boredom, but as musician Joe Walsh so wryly put it, “If you wear clothes, you gotta pay the dues.”
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