Car wash

A car wash (also written as "carwash") or auto wash is a facility used to clean the exterior and, in some cases, the interior of motor vehicles. Car washes can be self-serve, fully automated, or full-service with attendants who wash the vehicle.

In 2013, there were approximately 113,000 car washes in the United States.

History

With the modern convenience of touchless automatic car washes, it may be difficult to remember that the industry was not always so high-tech. Though, other commercial car washes came before it, the first semi-automatic car wash in the United States made its debut in 1946, and from there, the industry has grown in both size and sophistication.

1946

The start of the history of car washing dated back into 1914. People used manpower to push or move the cars through stages of the process. Eventually, manual car wash operations peaked at 32 drive-through facilities in the United States. Prior to this time, the evolution of car washing was just at the beginning, and that the automatic car washing was born. The first semi-automatic car wash was active for the first time in Detroit, Michigan using automatic pulley systems and manual brushing.

Car wash (disambiguation)

A car wash is a facility for cleaning automobiles. It may also refer to:

  • Car Wash (film), a 1976 film
  • Car Wash: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack, a soundtrack album to the film
    • "Car Wash" (song), a song by Rose Royce from the soundtrack, later covered by Christina Aguilera & Missy Elliott
  • "Car Wash" (song), a song by Rose Royce from the soundtrack, later covered by Christina Aguilera & Missy Elliott
  • "Car Wash", a song by Bruce Springsteen of his rarities collection Tracks
  • Car Wash, a character in the BBC television series Willo the Wisp
  • Car Wash, a skit on the 2010 Rob Schneider comedy album Registered Offender
  • Operação Lava Jato, "Operation Car Wash" in English - an anti-corruption investigation in Brazil
  • Television

  • "Car Wash", 2005 episode of MTV's The 70s House
  • "Car Wash", 2001 episode of The Geena Davis Show
  • Car Wash (song)

    "Car Wash" is a hit R&B song performed by Rose Royce and written and produced by Norman Whitfield. It was the group's debut single and one of the most notable successes of the disco era. Written and produced by the band's main producer Norman Whitfield, "Car Wash", the theme of the 1976 film Car Wash, was Rose Royce's most successful hit single and the lead single from their first album, the Car Wash soundtrack. Reaching number one in the United States on the Billboard pop and R&B charts, "Car Wash" also peaked at number three on the disco charts and reached number nine in the UK singles chart in February 1977. The song was later covered in 2004 by Christina Aguilera and Missy Elliott, who released their version as the single for the Shark Tale soundtrack.

    Background

    Former Motown Records producer Norman Whitfield had been commissioned to record the soundtrack album for Car Wash by director Michael Schultz. Although Whitfield did not want to assume the project, he decided to do so, both for financial incentives as well as the chance to give Rose Royce, a disco/funk backing band that Whitfield signed to his own label in 1975, the exposure they needed to become mainstream. Unable to develop a theme song for the film, inspiration finally struck Whitfield while playing a game of basketball, and he allegedly wrote his first draft of "Car Wash" on a paper bag from a fried chicken eatery.

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    Car Wash

    by: Christina Aguilera

    Y'all small tuna fish, I'm one big catch
    (This is a Shark Tale exclusive)
    Y'all small tuna fish, I'm one big catch
    (Here we go again)
    Y'all small tuna fish, I'm one big catch
    (Say what, say what, yeah)
    Y'all small tuna fish, I'm one big catch
    Ooh, do do do do do do do
    Car wash, car wash
    Ooh, do do do do do do do
    Car wash, car wash
    (Yeah, let's drop it on 'em like this)
    Ooh, do do do do do do, na na na ah, ooh
    Ooh, do do do do do do, na na na ah, ooh
    You might not ever get rich, ha
    Let me tell you it's better than digging a ditch
    There ain't no telling who you might meet
    A movie star or maybe a common thief
    Working at the car wash (oh oh, yeah yeah)
    At the car wash, yeah (ooh, yeah yeah)
    At the car wash (sing it with me now)
    Working at the car wash, yeah
    (Oh, oh)
    Come summer the work gets kind of hard
    This ain't no place to be if you're planning on being a star
    Let me tell you it's always cool
    And the boss don't mind sometimes if you're acting like a fool
    Working at the car wash (oh oh, yeah yeah)
    At the car wash, yeah (ooh ooh ooh)
    At the car wash (ow said, now come and work it with me now, yeah)
    Working at the car wash, yeah
    Said, said, said, sing
    (Work and work)
    Well those cars never stop coming
    (Work and work)
    Keep those rags and machines humming
    (Work and work)
    My fingers to the bone
    (Work and work)
    Keep on and can't wait till it's time to go home
    Hey, get your car washed today
    Fill up and you don't have to pay
    Hey, get your car washed today
    Fill it up, right away
    Work at the, car wash
    Sharks in the water make they jaws lock
    When I swim through the grim, I'm too hot
    Y'all can make y'all bets
    Y'all small tuna fish, I'm one big catch
    Shark slayer, bow down playa
    'Cause this right here will be your worst nightmare (nightmare)
    Work that, work that, pop back, hurt that
    Turn this up and bang it all up in the surface
    (Work and work)
    9 to 5 I got to keep that fat stack coming
    (Work and work)
    No matter how big the shark is, the right keep running
    (Work and work)
    Washing cars ain't no place to be a superstar man
    (Work and work)
    That's why I work, and work
    Working at the car wash (ohhh, yeah)
    At the car wash, yeah (come on work, baby work it, say now)
    At the car wash (ahh)
    Working at the car wash, yeah
    So come on, come on, come on, come on, come on
    Ooh, do do do do do do, na na na ah, ooh
    (Now keep it coming)
    Ooh, do do do do do do (woo, so), na na na ah, ooh
    (You may not ever get rich, but hey)
    Hey, get your car washed today (hey)
    Hey, get your car washed today




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