Buddy Bear Car Wash celebrating 50 years of giving back to community

CHICAGO — Fifty a long time in small business is a very long time. Buddy Bear Car Wash is celebrating its golden anniversary.

The small business begun on the West Facet in 1972 and distribute to the South Aspect and some suburbs with its other spots.

For lots of, Buddy Bear Car Clean has been much more than just a car clean but an avenue of hope and possibility and a legitimate staple in for the group.

Operator Phil Degeratto is celebrating the business’ success and freshly renovated car clean at its unique spot. The renovation price tag fifty percent a million pounds and up to date the tunnel.

“50 yrs at this original place,” he mentioned. “My father had me here when I was a kid when it was below building.”

Numerous nearby and condition dignitaries stopped by the primary Buddy Bear Car Wash web-site at Washington Boulevard and Pulaski Street Friday to celebrate its progress and favourable effects.

Congressman Danny Davis was amongst them.

“Phil and his family members have been a mainstay in our group in which we have lived,” he explained. “Hundreds of folks have experienced positions and lifted their family members … and establish alternatives.”

Because its debut, Buddy Bear Car Clean has expanded to 16 spots.

“Phil carries on to employ people from the group,” 2^nd District Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer stated. “That is a blessing due to the fact he is in the neighborhood and of the local community and producing guaranteed that people today that dwell there can make a residing.”

“We’re listed here 50 several years and we’re not likely wherever,” Degeratto claimed.

In honor of Buddy Dear’s anniversary, the business is featuring 10,000 cost-free car washes.