Vintage cleaners

Some business models are a safer bet than others.  Video stores, record stores, arcades, these kinds of businesses are lost to time and technology.  Others, such as barber shops and good restaurants, are a safer bet, since they provide goods and services that generally will always be in demand.  Also successful in the long-term are laundromats and drycleaners.  And inevitably, many stay open for decades without the need for fancy updated signage.  People know where to go to wash their clothes.  Here is a sampling of local cleaners who have kept their vintage signs intact, attracting people like me (even though I may not actually use the service).  It reminds me that as times change for the better or worse, some things just always stay the same.

reflections

No photo editing here.  I just placed my camera on top of my car to photograph the sunset and this is the result.  Between classes at NEIU.

Chris's Billiards

This shark has got the longest fingers relative to hand size I've ever seen.  Chris's is a local landmark.

ClearChannel Wolf

Irony:  A wolf that appears to be wearing a Little Red Riding Hood...hood.  Yes, I am afraid of the Big Red Wolf.

Where's Waldo?

Chauliognathus pensylvanicus - Goldenrod Soldier Beetle.  Glenview, IL.