It turned out that dry cleaning was going way back in the past that I thought.

Swan Cleaners in the US town of Port Clinton was established in 1938 and is still in business big time. Its owners say them years were busier because everybody used to dress up – ladies and men. It has been going slower during the last decades!!!

In the begining dry cleaners were using naphta, a quite flammable chemmical. All dry cleaners premises had to be outside city limits and were required to have hinges on the roof. I guess that was the Health & Safety at the time.

Swan Cleaners do lots of public service work like dry cleaning Salvation Army clothing donations and dry cleaning American flags. I like the flags bit. Makes you feel proud