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Soapsuds row

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nickname of the row of lodgings in which the company laundresses, and enlisted men married to them, lived. Sometimes abbreviated to "suds row." At the Presidio these buildings stood where the brick barracks, 101-105, on Montgomery Street now stand. Others stood near Fort Point.


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