Cheerful, hard-working people cycle through 24-hour coin laundry
For customers with two jobs, a split shift or graveyard duty, doing wash in the middle of the night in L.A.'s Westlake district is just part of the routine. Sometimes it can even seem like a party.
The bootleg DVD hawkers, the panhandlers and the pregnant women with toddlers pulling on their arms had all gone home. The TV went off, and it was just me, the attendant and a young man with a duffel bag full of clothes.