ALBEMARLE, N.C. (QUEEN CITY NEWS) — From the roaring twenties to World War II, to the dot-com boom, one family business has seen it all. And they’re still up and running.
“Well, this is what my family does,” said Benton Dry. “This is what my family does.”
There’s steam, starch, and shirts that all line a complicated labyrinth that’s unsolvable to most unless you’re family.
“Every time we letter a truck or do something, we put on since 1922 because there are not many businesses that have made it that long,” said Mark Dry.
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Mark and Benton Dry are brothers.
“You would get that over the years,” laughed Benton. “Well, you’re the ‘dry’ cleaning business. Yeah, we are.”
It’s a joke the Dry brothers have never, ever, ever heard before. That, of course, their family business…