On Mon, 07 Jul 2014 10:45:55 -0400, Gary > wrote:

> 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.
>
When I was back in HS, I recall a friend visiting her grandmother in
the PI (Philippine Islands). She was amazed that her grandmother
lived in what we would consider a hut, with a dirt floor that had a
central fire for cooking purposes and a hole in the roof where the
smoke escaped.

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