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It originated between 1945 and 1950 as a self service laundry having coin operated washers and driers. The origin seems to come from either Britain, Canada, the US or New Zealand as a 'trade mark'

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It comes from the early 1940's as a name created by Westinghouse to advertise an automatic washing machine. An earlier word from the 1930's was Washeteria

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