The Indian Dhoby – from which Dhoby Ghaut derives its name – refers to the Indian laundrymen from old Singapore. Nowadays, we don’t see such laundry services because the washing machine has become quite pervasive in every household, so much so that laundromats are quite few and far between (there are more dry cleaners now, which seem to me to provide more specialised laundry services). So what about the dhobies? yg has an interesting post about his memories of the dhobies.
a number of indian dhoby men operated a laundry business in the neighbourhood that i lived when i was a young boy. then i was living at upper dickson road in the serangoon area. the white sheets, towels and clothings would be hanging on clothes lines strung between poles in the open field by the side of weld road.
Read more about the Dhobies in ygblog.
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