Walter spent the whole of his footballing career with his local club, Kaiserslautern, and remained in the town after retirement running, at various times, with his Italian-born wife Italia, a cinema and a laundrette.
A high pitched whine from a carpentry shop almost blocks out the honking war between two SUVs, battling nose-to-nose over who will reverse and who will continue forward on my narrow street.I pass my laundrette, where Yousef, the Pakistani man who recently bleached my pink-collared shirt white, charges about 3 or 4 dirhams (around $1) for each piece of clothing he dry-cleans.
As Cedric had put it, outside the laundrette: "I'm Charlie… we've been Charlie for a long time".
The story goes that Mimi was working in Galifianakis' local laundrette in Santa Monica in the early 1990s, folding clothes for tips.
A laundrette, complete with tumble dryers and washing machines, can be seen in one image but, as with much of the rest of the town, the sheer force of the water that engulfed it has left the area in ruins.
It emerged this week that the bearded American comedian has an unlikely friendship with an elderly former laundrette employee whom he rescued from financial ruin with the help of Renée Zellweger.
She sits in her lint- and fabric-conditioner-scented kingdom surveying CCTV footage of a local OAP who sometimes pops in the laundrette to hoist down her elastic waisted trousers and wee in the waste bin.
I fell slightly in love with People Like Us, an upbeat fly-on-the-wall show about the decidedly poor Harpurhey estate in Manchester, from the moment I met Karen from the Wishy Washy laundrette.
He went to the island with a local Thai man who he met at a laundrette near a hostel he was staying at on the mainland in the resort town of Krabi.
Does this mean the people in the street are less important than those in the shops?" Her defiant message echoed Cedric's, delivered a few hours earlier outside a laundrette as he and Juliette waited for their clothes to dry.
In 1985 Channel Four and Working Title co-produced the film My Beautiful Laundrette.
