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0 pointsthrowaway20372y ago0 comments

My parents lived in New York City during the early 1970s, a time of serious decay. The "free" car window washers was a thing. You would stop in traffic (Manhattan) usually, then someone would start to clean your front window with a dirty squeegee, then come to your driver side window and ask for a tip (payment).

By the time it started showing up in 1980s comedy films, it was mostly gone in real life. I am surprised to see an Ozzie referring to this. Or is he referring to something tlese?

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defrost2y ago

He's referring to car window washers at traffic lights.

Maybe in Australia which has had them at various location in capital cities in the 80s, 90s, 10s by my recall. Maybe in other countries as while Troy is Australian he's moved about a bit ... but probably Sydney - it's one of those modern clean yet dirty cities with a bit of everything.

EDIT: The quote doesn't come from Troy, it's sourced from a twitter reply he received from "John" @j3g

blincoln2y ago

FWIW, it was pretty common in Vancouver, BC when I lived there in the late 90s.

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