I'm raising a cleaning alert:
If craving a nicely cleaned shirt,
Try using "Amazing"
Whose prowess I'm praising.
My shirts are well-pressed and unhurt!
(And that counts for a lot)
This dry cleaner has been run by a very pleasant lady, Olinda, for 15 years under a variety of names. The latest is "Amazing Dry Cleaners" (I'm currently trying to get this Yelp entry to reflect that fact). It can be found in a strip mall on the Northwest corner of Memorial and Kirkwood behind the Shell station.
My wife has been dropping my shirts off there for years and I have been very happy with the results. Olinda currently charges me $1.20/shirt and I feel I'm getting ample value for money. My wife recently asked that I start dropping off and picking up my own shirts which seemed like a very reasonable request. I arrived with a bagful of shirts yesterday for the first time. As I laid them onto the counter, Olinda came out to greet me. She took one look at the coral-colored shirt on the top of the pile and said, "You're Mr. W!" I asked her, "How on earth do you know that?" She smiled and told me she recognized my shirt. Today, when I picked up the shirts I had dropped off, she welcomed me with a, "Hello, Mr. W!"
Amazing!
I was very impressed. Anyone who pays that much attention to her trade and her customers deserves your business. The only reason I'm not giving five stars is that this place suffers from a small case of the ubiquitous phenomenon known as "button cracking". In 25 years of sending shirts to cleaners, I've never found one who doesn't crack buttons when pressing shirts. Amazing does it occasionally, but usually replaces the button when they do. A sign on the storefront claims that they perform alterations and shoe repairs too. read more