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  1. A machine-operated self-service laundry. The
  2. first was opened in New York in 1945; the
  3. first British laundrette opened in Queensway,
  4. London, in 1949. Coin-operated laundrettes,
  5. without attendants, followed during the
  6. 1950s; other refinements included the tumble
  7. drier (UK 1959), and automatic dry cleaning
  8. (1964 in the UK).
  9.