Sears Robuck Library as a whole not thumbnail

[who_dat73]

just trying things out here sorry for the repost




I think this is the full size image you want, just copy and paste the code under your gallery image into the body of your post

[Pol]

Re: Sears Robuck Library as a whole not thumbnail

There's also a 'User Test Forum' HERE so anyone can try out forum tools, linking pictures etc as often and for as long as they wish and until they feel more confident with the various ways of doing things.

A question for who-dat73 (I love that nickname)

Is that a picture of a straw toilet? The farm opposite my childhood home had two of those in the farmyard but I haven't seen one for decades.

Pol

[who_dat73]

Re: Sears Robuck Library as a whole not thumbnail

There's also a 'User Test Forum' HERE so anyone can try out forum tools, linking pictures etc as often and for as long as they wish and until they feel more confident with the various ways of doing things.

A question for who-dat73 (I love that nickname)

Is that a picture of a straw toilet? The farm opposite my childhood home had two of those in the farmyard but I haven't seen one for decades.

Pol

by the way what is a straw toilet??

[Pol]

Re: Sears Robuck Library as a whole not thumbnail

by the way what is a straw toilet??

It's a basic sort of lavatory where you sit over that hole in the boards and dump into the straw which is in the boxed up area beneath ........

Pol

[who_dat73]

Re: Sears Robuck Library as a whole not thumbnail

OHH ok yea pretty much the same idea cept you dig a big hole in the ground and build the house over it!! In the States here they are called a out house since they were located out back of the house or Privy since you do the private stuff in there..
For the most part they havn't been used in years and to find one still standing is usally hard to find..
They used to call it the library also because in the old days you could find a old Sears Robuck catalog hanging in there for a paper supply

[Stephen]

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Thanks for the explanation, I have to confess I did wonder

[Jocelyn Walker]

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Where I come from, it was a stinky ol' long drop......& nightsoil collectors would take the waste away, years prior to my conception! Its amazing how well things grew around them!

[Pol]

Re: Sears Robuck Library as a whole not thumbnail

OHH ok yea pretty much the same idea cept you dig a big hole in the ground and build the house over it!! In the States here they are called a out house since they were located out back of the house or Privy since you do the private stuff in there..
For the most part they havn't been used in years and to find one still standing is usally hard to find..
They used to call it the library also because in the old days you could find a old Sears Robuck catalog hanging in there for a paper supply

Pretty much the same as the ones they had on the farm. Nothing as fancy as a catalogue in theirs though .. just old newspapers.

There are 'Eco Toliets' being developed now, a beach project somewhere in the UK I think but I'm not sure of all the details. I read that it would be having sawdust for flush.

There are also "Compost Toilets" available for homes. They have holding tanks instead of holes in the ground. Two tanks - swapped over annually - one in use, the other composting.

Progress, eh!

Pol