I'm going for the low hanging fruit of a First to Review and I gotta slap QCL with a non-inspired 2 Stars. It's not a bad laundry per se, but it's definitely got that run down, depressing feel to it.
I don't know what this joint is like during non-insomniac hours. I've only been here twice round about Vampire Thirty. The coin acceptors on the machines are blissfully non-fussy. Many of the coin slots I encounter at other laundromats are more like coin rejectors. There's picnic tables inside to chill at but they also double as the only good places to lay out and fold your clothes. Not a problem if the place is late night desolate- my first visit there was only a couple other customers and this last time I had the joint all to myself- but that real estate is probably heavily in demand if it ever gets busy in here. There's a candy machine I haven't used and a soda machine that's exiled to the outside.
Brightly lit up, ceiling fans spinning, WNIC playing soft rock, Quick Clean Laundry isn't too different from Uptown up the road. Well, they have WCSX instead, I think. Probably why I gave em three stars.
A beat up car always stands sentry out front between the building and Gratiot. I assume it belongs to whomever lives upstairs who I imagine is in charge of making sure this place earns the Clean in its name. That seems to be the way it goes at Halfway over in Eastpointe. Yeah, I know all the depressing, all night laundromats up and down Gratiot. It probably says more about me than these dumpy laundromats that I keep coming back. Maybe they'll play Simply Red's Holding Back the Years on WNIC. read more