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Years ago I babysat for a family who lived on the
east side of 45th Street between Larchwood & Baltimore Ave.
They proudly showed me their shed that they said
had been converted from an outhouse. I'm sure there are other sheds in the
neighborhood that were used in the same way.
Marianne Das
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill
Sanderson
Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 12:47 PM
Subject: Re: [UC] Another idea (from California) whose time has
come? Wow--talk about true preservationist ethos--Let's
bring back outhouses and be truly historically correct! (Actually, as near
as I can tell indoor plumbing, or at least off the back porch, has been the case
since our house was built.) This can't have been the case for the whole
neighborhood, I suspect though.
So--here's a case where probably everybody will
agree that we don't want to roll back the years--bringing that function indoors
was one of the great battles of my fathers generation of urban planners in
Baltimore, and I haven't seen a lot of nostalgia around what was
lost.
Hope you can see the :) in this message--but I
couldn't resist.
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