Week 019: a b and c

Whenever I take the #15 bus at night and get off in front of Smiley's, I'm fascinated by the goings-on within the laundromat. These are a few of the snapshots that I took recently as I was looking in. I'm kind of interested in making a photographic body of work that documents the after-dark activity that takes place at Smiley's, which happens to be open 24-hours a day. Are people there at 3 and 4 in the morning? The people are just doing their laundry, but does their laundry say something about them? What does the laundromat culture say about the larger, neighboring community?

"Smiley's opened sometime in the early '50s, when Colfax was the cultural epicenter of Denver. The only laundromat for miles, Smiley's was expanded to allow hundreds of loads at once, and it wasn't long before doing laundry at Smiley's was kind of a social event. Smiley's has changed right along with the demographics of the area, through the recession in the '80s and the influx of migrant workers to the neighboring apartment houses."

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