Santa Fe Living Treasures – Elder Stories
 Dorathea | Dorathea DunakinDorathea Dunakin arrived in Santa Fe in 1912. She came, with her mother and brother, to join her father. "We came on the Santa Fe (Railway) to Lamy," she recalled. "Then we came on from Lamy, which was the only way to get to Santa Fe, unless you came by horse and buggy." She was born in Pueblo, Colorado in 1900. Dorothea's father, Adolph Koch, worked for American Laundry Machinery. He had traveled to Santa Fe to install equipment for a laundry owned by La Fonda Hotel. Back then, "Men wore these thick collars, and to get them done up, you had to mail them to Albuquerque," Dorathea said. "At that time, the D&R Chief came by on what is now Guadalupe Street, and that made it very easy to get heavy machinery shipped down." When the hotel decided not to keep the laundry, Adolph purchased it, kept it for a short time, and then opened the Santa Fe Electric Laundry. Located at the corner of Washington and Guadalupe streets, it was so named because electrical equipment was used to run the washing machines.
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