Current Position: James “Clark” Sowers is the owner of Sowers and Son Dirty Laundry in Rapid City, South Dakota. This month marks a milestone for Sowers. He has been a business owner for fifty years, the last twenty-five in the garment care industry. The Genesis: March 6, 1976, was supposed to be just that, a […]
Month: March 2026
Wakefield Publishing Co. and Cleaner & Launderer…
New Ownership as of March 1, 2026 March 2026 – Sixty-six years on. Having been published monthly from October 1960 to date, there have been just two publishers of Cleaner & Launderer. Mr. Wally Urquhart of La Canada, California as the first. The mid eighties began a new era when, in honor to their parents […]


