His father, Morris, who had a business running coin-operated washing machines in apartment buildings, and his mother, Gilda, were immigrants from Eastern Europe.
The Coinmach Laundry Corporation, the nation's largest provider of coin-operated laundry machines to apartment buildings and dormitories, said yesterday that it had agreed to be bought by the privately held investment firm GTCR Golden Rauner L.L.C. for $14.25 a share, a total of $188 million.
Last year I installed a washing machine in my apartment without the knowledge of my landlord.
Hammer has a reel-to-reel telephone answering machine in his apartment.
She began writing songs and recording them with a Crestwood 404 tape-recording machine in her apartment.
One of the rent-controlled tenants in the building has had a washing machine in her apartment since she moved in.
They were to meet the next week, but on the morning of that planned first date, Mr. Silverstein left a message on her answering machine saying his apartment building had caught fire, rendering it unlivable.
But earlier this year Mr. Levin received a message from First Union on the answering machine at his apartment in Annandale, N.J., alerting him that he could get a better return on his money.
Furnished with little more than a bed and a telephone answering machine, Claire's apartment in an anonymous Manhattan high-rise mirrors the minimalism of the offices she visits.
She told me that when she picked up messages on the answering machine in the apartment she shared with her boyfriend (and Valentine date), one was from a friend of her boyfriend outlining a blind date that had been arranged for him with a tall, intelligent, beautiful woman.
