[HN Gopher] Carl Bohland's Auto Wash Bowl (2015)
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       Carl Bohland's Auto Wash Bowl (2015)
        
       (https://www.vintag.es/2019/12/the-auto-wash-bowl.html is blogspam
       of OP but adds some interesting images)
        
       Author : thunderbong
       Score  : 13 points
       Date   : 2025-10-27 17:51 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (news.wttw.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (news.wttw.com)
        
       | duxup wrote:
       | > The problem, however, was that his technique only really
       | cleaned the underside of the cars. This was useful back in the
       | days when many roads were still unpaved and their undersides
       | constantly got filthy.
       | 
       | I know a guy who dropped out of high school and started his own
       | logistics company for moving specialized equipment. He then also
       | built a business of semi-trailer truck washes in rural areas
       | where they would pick up LOTS of dirt and mud on unpaved roads.
       | 
       | As someone who lives in a state that uses road salt I wouldn't
       | mind such an undercarriage wash option I could quick driver over,
       | but those are typically bundled into a typical car wash.
        
       | dang wrote:
       | Url changed from
       | https://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/carl_bohlands_au...,
       | which points to this.
       | 
       | Edit: changed from https://www.vintag.es/2019/12/the-auto-wash-
       | bowl.html to original source; see below.
        
         | SirFatty wrote:
         | Vintage.es copies pictures and stories from other sites, whole
         | cloth, and passes it off as their own. Search for any story
         | they post and you can easily find the original author.
        
           | dang wrote:
           | Ok, let's see what we can find...
           | 
           | Edit: indeed, the odds of this text having been appeared
           | independently in two sources do appear rather small:
           | 
           | > _A fun note: The architect on the job, William C. Presto,
           | was a former employee of Louis Sullivan's who later gained
           | fame for giving the destitute Sullivan his last commission,
           | designing the facade of the Krause Music Store in Lincoln
           | Square and the lavishly decorated Art Deco building at 6424
           | N. Western._
           | 
           | We've changed the URL to what appears to be the original
           | source and banned vintage.es as blogspam. Thanks!
        
             | camtarn wrote:
             | Unfortunately, vintag.es does seem to have done some work
             | here - while they copied the text, they also added several
             | more images to the single image in the original post.
        
               | dang wrote:
               | Good point. I've added a note about that to the toptext.
        
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