California Laundry, Commercial laundry service in Los Angeles, United States.

California Laundry was a laundry plant at 284 feet of frontage on Vine Street, just south of Santa Monica Boulevard in Hollywood. The one-story reinforced concrete building measured 110 by 150 feet, had a 37-foot ceiling, a mezzanine on three sides, and an all-white exterior with a 110-foot pergola leading to Romaine Street.

Founded in 1921 at a cost of $225,000, the California Laundry was directed by Henry Newby, a former chairman of the National Bank of Pasadena, and D. N. Childers, who had managed the Hotel Alexandria's laundry. Its machinery, bought for $126,000, was the largest single shipment of laundry apparatus ever sent to the Pacific coast. The plant employed 70 people initially, working without phone connections for the first three months.

The plant ran on a rotary system: 26 truck drivers dropped bundles into bins, and silks, woolens and fancy pieces were pulled out for hand washing. One employee was dedicated to placing new satin ribbon in ladies' garments and tying blankets with ribbon bows. Two 1,400-gallon soap tanks lasted at most two days.

The plant stood on the west side of Vine Street just south of Santa Monica Boulevard, with 284 feet of frontage and parking on Vine Street and Eleanor Avenue. A 110-foot pergola ran from the building's south end to Romaine Street, serving as the employees' dining area. The one-story reinforced concrete building had a mezzanine on three sides and a 37-foot ceiling.

The plant had no overhead belts or shafts: every machine ran on its own motor, so one breakdown could not stop the whole works. Its equipment arrived as the largest single shipment of laundry apparatus ever sent to the Pacific coast, bought for $126,000, boilers and water-heating controls excluded.