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Published on 12/11/1995 All articles from this issue

Being taken to the cleaners suits this woman fine

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Town Crier Staff Report

A woman late to the cleaners to pick up her husband's suit for an important business trip got more help than perhaps she initially bargained for on Nov. 21.

The woman, the wife of a chiropractor in town, called Los Altos police frantic that Delia's Cleaners at 201 State St. was closed. Her husband, she told dispatchers, needed a suit at the cleaners for an important business trip the next day. He was due to leave at 5 a.m.

Dispatcher Mary Healy called Los Altos attorney Jim Dozier, who owns the building. Dozier then called Phil Delia, who manages the cleaners. Delia then called for an employee to show up with keys to the cleaners to retrieve the suit. The woman got the suit back around midnight, according to Dozier. All was right with the world again.

"That's what's so nice about a small town like Los Altos," Dozier said. "Can you imagine anything like that happening in San Jose, or even Mountain View or Palo Alto?"