sf wrote:
>
> There were still people in the Appalachians who didn't have indoor
> plumbing in the '60s.

That would be my grandparents on my mother's side. I visited them and
stayed for longer in the summers when I was really young. Back in the
beginning, they had an outhouse in the back yard. At night, they put
a porcelin pot in the upstairs hallway. If you had to "go" at night,
you opened your bedroom door, took in the pot and did your business,
then put the lid on and set it back out for others to use.

Back then too...no running water. The kitchen sink had a hand pump to
pump in water from the well.

Each morning, some poor soul had the job of emptying in into the
outhouse pit and cleaning it out.

When they finally got their first bathroom inside with a flushing
toilet, they would show you the new bathroom first thing when you came
to visit.

G.