Gary: I think the outhouse has been gone for some time, but don't you go knocking outhouses. Have you ever tried to use one of those modern day plastic outhouses they use around construction sites, fairs, etc. At least the old wooden outhouse builders knew how much elbo room was required. Not much fun having to come outside for the elbo room, especially in high density people area.
I never had the pleasure of using an outhouse on a regular basis. My grandfather was in Boston back in the 1920s, saw flush toilets and decided he was going to have one back home on the farm. He installed it in 1932, 2 years before he had electricity. He pumped water by hand to a tank on the third floor, which graviety fed back to toilet. The septic tank was 12' deep and 12' across and his weeping bed took in most of a 5 acre pasture. Over the years that system never had to be opened, not once. The house burnt around 97, and the county wouldn't allow the new owner to hook onto that system with his new house.
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