Remember the Swastika Laundry Van In Ballsbridge Post Yesterday?

It looked like it was picking up Adolf”s schmutzige wäsche?

Turns out the van was a prop from the 1980s RTE/Channel 4 series ‘Caught In A Free State‘ and not from the Swastika Laundry in Dublin 4.

Doh.

This was how their vans actually looked:

Glad we’ve cleared that up.

Swastika Laundry 1912-1987  (Come Here To Me)

Thanks S Daedalus, John and RJ Hartley

Meanwhile, James M Chimney sent us a photo from his childhood entitled ‘Summer on Dollymount Strand’.

Long before he got into the Photoshopping

6 thoughts on “Remember the Swastika Laundry Van In Ballsbridge Post Yesterday?”

  4. Wow, cool red car for a hipster! Hindu symbol on the side, powered by lecky battery and all. Dylan Hasksins would look good in that outside the Bernard Shaw pub. Where can we get those retro vehicles today*? Cue article in Irish Times weekend mag.

    (*From Eoin O’Duffy Motors)