Solar power runs 'world's largest laundry'

July 30, 2006

(AP) -- One of Tom Benson's claims to fame, proclaimed in five-foot-high letters across his storefront, is that he owns the "WORLD'S LARGEST LAUNDROMAT" - complete with 153 washers, 148 dryers and 15 flat-screen TVs.



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