On 11/20/2011 9:57 PM, gregz wrote:
Watching show. They laughed at toilet in basement with no walls. They
actually removed it. I didn't really think nothing of it being from
Pittsburgh.

Pittsburgh toilet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_toilet

That was a standard thing in our post-WWII Minnesota neighborhood. As
a kid I thought an open toilet (well, usually screened with a shower
curtain) was weird, but then I figured, how often are people using a
basement?

Years later I toured a Frank Lloyd Wright mansion (the Dana-Thomas
House in Illinois). Although it was a mansion, it had only two
bathrooms, one of which was in the master bedroom area. Neither the
bedroom nor the bathroom had doors, but the open, doorless feature was
a characteristic of that home's design. Lots of smallish rooms, few
doors. It was hard to imagine the wealthy woman who'd owned it
throwing such huge parties (she had her own railroad siding for the
convenience of her equally wealthy guests), when the rooms were so
small and the whole place had only two biffies.