These pictures were snapped in the public restroom in the park in Marysville, Kansas. To the uninitiated, Marysville is home of the black squirrels. These little black critters are relatively rare, and certainly in this part of the country. They are all over this park. Urban legend has it that they appeared sometime early in the 20th century as escapees from a traveling circus.
But their story is irrelevant to this restroom. What struck me was the sheer practical economy of the place. The set up reminds me of something that my uncles might rig in the back of their machine shed. Actually there was a full bathroom in Uncle Martin's machine shed, but that is a whole other story.
The stalls do not have doors, but practical washable shower curtains. The faucet is a bit, um, unhandy. There is no handle. You have to hold the knob in to turn it on; release it and it turns off. So you can only wash one hand at a time.
The only spendthrift feature of the restroom are the toilets. The water pressure must be unreliable so for the sake of good hygiene, the user is asked to "Please flush twice!" Note the Please and exclamation point. It should be pretty easy since they are fairly 'flush' push buttons.
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