No Parking for Purgatory

No parking for Purgatory, Bettendorf, IA

You’ve got to applaud yankee ingenuity. I noticed a chain of laundromats with liquor licenses along the Mississippi River in Iowa called “Scrub Pub.” The premise is amazingly simple—either drop your clothes off and drink while someone else does them, or have a drink and do them yourself. Much of the drag of doing laundry in public revolves around the pesky screaming children; having a bar at the laundromat would certainly solve that problem. Purgatory, of course, is right next door.

June 3, 2006 12:45 AM