Hanging out in the laundromat with Leonard Cohen
A LAUNDROMAT on Seymour Street was visited many years ago — maybe 25 or so — by a man who could have been anyone with some dirty socks and underwear that needed washing.
He was an entertainer, passing through town with his band on the way to someplace else. Acting on a tip, a young Kamloops Daily News reporter approached him and asked if he was willing to talk for a few minutes. Today, she remembers him as a pleasant man, who chatted amiably with her as he folded his laundry.
They continued chatting as she walked back toward the newspaper office and he hung a left up 4th Avenue and returned to his hotel with his bag of clean clothes.
The hotel, which was then the Canadian Inn, is now the Hilton DoubleTree, and the reporter’s name was Sydney Jones.