Santa Clara County Biographies


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G. LACOSTE
Palo Alto's French Laundry
 
A welcome addition to the business circles of Palo Alto is found in G. Lacoste, 
the genial and enterprising proprietor of the French Laundry, located at 642 
Ramona Street, Palo Alto, Cal., where he does fine work and is giving the best 
of satisfaction to his large patronage. He was born in France near Massous, 
Hautes Pyrenees, on September 14, 1886. His father Peter Lacoste , was a 
carpenter by occupation in France and served his country as a soldier in the war 
of 1871; he became well-to-do and owned a number of houses in Massous and about 
fifty acres of land. His father passed away in France in December, 1921, at the 
age of eighty-two years, abut his mother, Mary Lacoste, is still living there.

G. Lacoste attended the public schools in France and there learned the laundry 
business. In 1906 he set sail for New York and then crossed the country to San 
Francisco during the same year. He had no trouble in finding employment in a 
laundry in San Francisco and continued until the recent war, when he worked as a 
machinist, continuing for two years. Then he was a proprietor of a laundry in 
San Francisco. In 1921 he removed to Palo Alto and purchased this business and 
is succeeding even beyond his expectations.

On May 1, 1921, Mr. Lacoste was married; to Miss Louise Lanassus, a native of 
France, and together they are making a splendid success of the laundry 
business,. Mr. Lacoste keeps a well-lighted, well-ventilated, clean and sanitary 
laundry and employs three men and four women. He is public-spirited and is 
taking his place among the business men of his locality.

Transcribed by Carolyn Feroben, from Eugene T. Sawyers' History of Santa Clara 
County, California, published by Historic Record Co. , 1922. page 1493