Some years back, while working in the late summer for the B&O RR, I had a
conversation with an older fellow gandydancer about privies.  While
everyone in his neighborhood had embraced indoor plumbing for decades, he
simply could not bring himself to "s--- and eat in the same house!"
 
 
 
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Patrick E. Martin, Associate Professor of Archaeology
Director of Graduate Studies in Industrial Archaeology
Editor of IA, the Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology
Department of Social Sciences, Michigan Technological University
1400 Townsend Drive, Houghton, Michigan 49931-1295 USA
Telephone (906) 487-2070   Fax  (906) 487-2468   Internet  [log in to unmask]
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