Shops Down the Street: Auburn dry cleaner family-owned for 78 years (photos)
Editor's note: This is the first edition of Shops Down the Street, a new gallery series featuring the small neighborhood businesses of Auburn that are often family-owned and have been around for decades. If you have a business to suggest for the series, please call (315) 282-2245 or email citizennews@lee.net.
Nestled between homes on the corner of North Division and Seymour streets on the upper west side of Auburn is Custom听Cleaners & Tailors, which was established in 1947 by听Karl and Natalie Stadniuk.
Custom Cleaners & Tailors owners Thomas and Vachelle Stadniuk have been working together at the Auburn business for the past 43 years.
Vachelle Stadniuk works a steam press at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
Thomas Stadniuk irons and presses trousers at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
Cheryl DeBois locates a customer's dry cleaning at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
John Gillfus presses shirts at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
Delivery driver Tim Jakaub loads the truck for deliveries at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
Thomas and Vachelle Stadniuk have worked side-by-side for the past 43 years at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
Karl Stadniuk, who opened Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn in 1947, is pictured during the '60s.
A young Thomas Stadniuk, left, is pictured with employees at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn in the '60s.
Natalie Stadniuk at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn in the '60s.
Karl and Natalie Stadniuk attend to customers at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn in the '60s.
Lisa Gillfus, right, chats with Vachelle and Thomas Stadniuk while pressing clothes at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
Cheryl DeBois chats with customer Judith Peltz at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
Customer Judith Peltz picks up her dry cleaning at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
Custom Cleaners & Tailors on the corner of North Division and Seymour streets in Auburn in the '60s.
Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
Thomas and Vachelle Stadniuk still make each other laugh at the end of a long day at Custom Cleaners & Tailors in Auburn.
Kevin Rivoli
Photographer
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