Keyser Soze wrote:
True North wrote:
When we visited my Cape Breton grandparents all through the '50s and very
early '60s we used an outhouse and water was delivered from a well by a
hand pump mounted at the kitchen sink.


The closest I got to “early” plumbing fixtures was at my grandfather’s
store outside Boston. He had one of those pull chain flush toilets like the
one in Louis Restaurant in The Godfather, the one the noisy revolver was
taped behind...


Mom grew up on a farm near the Wyoming border in Nebraska. Closest to
flush toilet is the outhouse was over an irrigation ditch that went to a
swamp.