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	Name:	architect -
	Subject:	Actually had one.
	Date:	3/24/2013 9:32:02 AM (updated 3/24/2013 10:08:32 AM)

Well into the 70's my grandmother's outhouse still stood at the far end of the backyard of the house she moved into when she married in 1903 (she lived there until she went to the nursing home in 1980). Her sons had built her a "modern" bathroom at the same time they put an electric pump on the well just before WW II, but it opened off the back porch. It was pretty rough running across the open back porch at 7:00 on a 20 degree January morning. I can't imagine highsteppin it all the way across the back-yard to get to the privy in such conditions. I remember my grandmother continued to have a chamber-pot, or "slop-jar" as she called them, under every bed even after she had a true indoor bath built by enclosing one end of the back porch in the late 60's. As kids growing up and spending summer weekends at "Grandma's" it was always an adventure to go to the outhouse instead of having to come to the house to take a pee. We did stop the practice for a few weeks once when a cousin, on one of his outhouse visits, stumbled on a large black snake seeking refuge in the privy! My aunts and uncles informed us that such events were not uncommon in there days of growing up in a tiny country town.

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Anybody old enough to remember outhouses? - architect - 3/23/2013 3:10:47 PM

Actually had one. - muddauber - 3/23/2013 5:58:27 PM

Actually had one. - architect - 3/24/2013 9:32:02 AM

Actually had one. - muddauber - 3/24/2013 10:53:45 AM

Anybody old enough to remember outhouses? - Old Diver - 3/24/2013 1:05:53 PM

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