Many of my Aunts and Uncles were kids in Iowa farm country c. 1905.  They
always called privies "outhouses."   In fact, listening to their stories, it
always seemed to me that they had built an entire culture around "outhouse"
pranks and other 4th grade humor that involved human excrement.  There were
never any treats on Halloween, but many a trick that involved pulling
outhouses down the main street of town, or relocating them to the top of a
water tower.  

All I can say, is that it must get very boring in the off-season on the
plains!


Linda Derry
Site Director
Old Cahawba Archaeological Site
719 Tremont Street
Selma, AL 36701-5446
334/875-2529
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> From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On 
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> Subject: Re: Privies in 1905
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> In Texas some people called them "drylanders".
> 
> carol
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cathy Spude" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 07, 2004 9:53 AM
> Subject: Privies in 1905
> 
> 
> > Histarchers:
> >
> > Since you have all been so helpful with whiskey and cigars, 
> I thought 
> > I'd ask another question dear to everyone's heart.
> >
> > What did they call the little house out back in 1905. I mean in 
> > colloquial terms? Not what the polite people called it, but 
> what the 
> > guys would call it in the saloon? I call it the privy. The Sanborne 
> > map people called it the privy. The newspaper man found all 
> sorts of 
> > clever ways to get around it whenever he had to refer to it all.
> >
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Cathy
> >
> >
> > Catherine Holder Spude ¨ Archeologist ¨ Cultural Resources 
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