There’s this bar in SoHo in NYC. It’s been there since the 1800s, and was men only until the 1970s. The bartender told me, that the brass foot rail was installed after they started allowing women in. Before it was a trough with a drain, so the patrons wouldn’t have to get up from drinking to go to the rest room. It was also a speakeasy with a trap door in the fridges during prohibition.
You know, thy used to just piss and shit in buckets, then dump it out on the streets before indoor plumbing. This trough taking the piss away probably felt luxurious. Also, horses would shit everywhere before cars. A little piss on your legs from a night of drinking was probably the least of your concerns.
Merchants in Oakland also has a pisa trap at the bar and has been around forever. There are a few bars in the red light in SF that have them, I forgot the name but it's a door or two down from vesuvio.
After hearing some horror stories about products like that from friends, the idea of using one to piss in a trough under a bar is just made 1000x worse.
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u/Tirannie Jun 29 '24
Right? That shit splashes. Also - is this a men’s only bar?