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Stay tuned for the next post where I share a little bit about the birth of our sister company Today Cleaners.What began as a solo house cleaning operation under the business name Sparkle and Shine Cleaning Services in 2018 has since grown into a professional house cleaning service known as Sparkle Squad Cleaning Services LLC, as of January 2020. Sparkle will celebrate its 67 th year in business this November. We continue to grow in the uniform and linen rental services we started nearly 43 years ago. Today, Sparkle Uniform & Linen Rental services roughly 1000 customers in the greater Bakersfield area and the surrounding communities.
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By 1980, Sparkle had 4 full time rental routes. The hospital’s laundry needs exceeded 10,000 pounds of dirty laundry every week! This venture allowed Sparkle to branch out to other customers that needed rental services for uniforms, linens, mops, mats, and other items. This was no small amount of laundry either. Jeff saw the opportunity to partner with the hospital and sprang into action. The laundry in the basement of the hospital had broken down and the hospital needed the bed sheets, towels, pillow cases, blankets, curtains, etc. on a Saturday night in desperate need of a laundry service. True story: The linen rental business began when local health care facility called Jeff Newman Sr. The home delivery business was scaled back to grow this section of the Sparkle business. took over the company in the late 1960’s and in 1973 Sparkle entered into the linen & uniform rental business. Our slogan at the time was “We’re everywhere”. At one-time Sparkle had a total of 18 stores in Kern County. The company continued to expand with retail store fronts offering customers convenient nearby drop off service for their laundry and dry cleaning needs. In 1959 Stubby pioneered the “Drive Thru” car hop service available at the Monterey street location. Sparkle was trusted to clean expensive fur coats and hold these valuable items of the day in the on-site fur vault. Everything down to socks and diapers were brought in for cleaning.
Sparkle was a full service laundry handling all types of household goods from curtains to dresses, suits and kid’s clothes. Once the cleaning, pressing, folding and bundling of the family garments was complete, the assembled orders were delivered back to the homes and a new load of dirty goods was picked up for cleaning and the cycle repeated itself. The route reps would bring the dirty laundry to the Monterey plant for either laundering or dry cleaning services. Route representatives would pick up dirty laundry from households all around Bakersfield and the surrounding rural communities. In these days Sparkle was known for home laundry and dry cleaning services. The original concept art for Sparkle (Water color) Next to the newspaper article is a framed watercolor depiction of the original concept art for the Monterey location. This was before highway 178 was even built. It announces the opening of the Bakersfield location at 121 Monterey Street and a scheduled live radio broadcast for that day, November 10 th 1950 on am 550. Unfortunately, I was never able to meet the man as I came to Sparkle in 1999, shortly after Stubby had passed away.Ī newspaper article that hangs in my office reads “Grand opening of Sparkle Cleaners in Bakersfield”. There are many great stories about how Stubby started the business and how it grew over the years. Sparkle was originally incorporated in Taft, CA back in 1949 by Richard K.
I won’t go into every detail, but to fully appreciate where we are going, you have to first know where we came from.
It seems only fitting that we start at the beginning and share a little history about how Sparkle was born in Kern County.
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