Outhouses in the Old West
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- Опубликовано: 2 фев 2018
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My step-dads parents house still had an outhouse up until the late 70s in the middle of town. And I'm surprised you didn't tell the old quarter story!
There were two little boys using the outhouse after church. The shorter of the two was showing off the two shiny quarters he got from his grandmother when he dropped one down the hole. He stood there for a moment and then tossed the other in. "Why did you do that?" asked the taller boy.
"I wasn't gonna reach my arm down that hole for just one quarter"
I heard of a gent who had 2 silver quarters fall from his pocket as he was re-arranging his clothes. You guessed where they went. He promptly opened the door for light and fresh air, pulled a $10 bill from his money clip and sent it to the same place. His Mrs. saw the conclusion of the ten spot toss and gave him "what for!" He replied, as he rolled up his sleeves "you sure don't think I'm gonna go fishing around in there for only 50 cents, do you?!"
She did, didn't she?
I thought Jerry was gonna put your head down the hole. Next week could be “Swirlies In The Old West.” LOL!!
Great video as always!
That's funny. We were thinking of something like that, except there is no hole in that one...it's a passage way to the backstage area. Those Pistolero tricksters!
When I was a kid in Louisiana, we were often scared of the outhouse. It tended to attract rats and snakes.
This was really a good one that made me recall a story from my U.S.M.C. Days.
Out training one week, one of our marines dropped his K-Bar into the latrine but was able to get it out and clean it. Later that day when we were having our mid-day MRE, our Staff Sergeant ask if anyone had a knife (I think you can see where I’m going with this). Well, it was THAT marine who offered him his K-Bar and I asked “was that the knife you dropped in the sh&*#er? Haha 🤣 the tongue lashing he received from the SSGT burned the bark off of every tree in the vicinity. I think those trees are still smoking to this day!! Lol
HAHAHAAH!! Thanks for the great story.
Uncle Dan, that reminds me of a story I heard from an old friend of many years ago (not outhouse related, but thought you might appreciate it) - Don't know the location but it sounded hot, humid and had a beach - anyway they were on the beach, and had stopped. The SSGT had them standing at attention, and a marine swatted a mosquito - The Sergeant was on him and in his face in a heart beat, blistering the air. This was back around Vietnam days so the Sergeants could get pretty aggressive I have heard.... Anyway the Sergeant was yelling at this kid that the mosquito was on USMC property, so he had killed a Marine mosquito! - Anyway they had to fall out, hump back to barracks change into a new uniform, hump back to the beach, find the dead mosquito and bury it with honors.... Ricky wasn't one to make things up.
Cynthia Klenk
Hahaha, I can see that happening! Thanks for sharing a great tale.
That story I first heard in the movie "The D.I." with Jack Webb(who I beleive was a D.I.) except it was a sand flea. "You will find that exact same sand flea and you will bury it!"
I've never heard a marine call a head a latrine before. Interesting. Funny story though.
Outhouses... for some reason I think there really cool
They are. So many people I know used one growing up.
Actually not cool, but butt freezing cold, hotter than hobs, smel't worse than Santee's feet, and shared with skeeters, spiders, hornets, and... more spiders. :-)
Hey! My feet smell like roses!
Not when there's a big spider nesting by your ass.
Santee does foot care every night before he goes to sleep. Using a steel precision file set and a belt sander to get rid of calluses and corns. Followed by foot soak in Epson salt, rose water with potpourri for 10-15 minutes. After drying his feet he finishes off with some shea butter.
I grew up with an outhouse in central Virginia in the 50's. I guess I was 6-7 years old before we got indoor plumbing installed. The outhouse was down in the woods, maybe 30 yards or so from the house as best I remember it, but it was a long time ago and I was just a kid. Even after the indoor plumbing got installed, the old outhouse stayed for years. I suppose it finally just fell down. My grandfather and grandmother had an outhouse long after that. I guess it was late 60's or 70's before they got an indoor bathroom.
Wow!!!
My great grandfather was a carpenter who built and sold outhouses as a specialty in the late 19th century and early 20th. It was said he made really good money at it before central plumbing became popular.
A thing to note about outhouses was figuring out where to place them. Not only did you want them away from (and down stream from) your water source, but you wanted it far enough from the house that the summer winds wouldn't bring in the _hot summer fragrance_ into the home on those hot days when all the house windows were open, but also not so far away as to make it difficult to use in inclement weather.
One thing that almost everyone did was stack their firewood between the house and the outhouse. That way whenever anyone went out to conduct their business they would also bring a small armful of wood, just a few sticks would do, back in with them to feed the fire, in that way the firewood in the house never ran down and no one person was stuck always bringing in wood for the fire. And that meant _everyone_ no matter didn't matter if you were a bank president or a three year old child, if you used the facility you brought back a few sticks. My grandfather used to claim going to the outhouse and NOT bringing back a few sticks was nearly a whoopin' offense, and folks would be shamed into going back out to get those few sticks. They used to call bringing the wood back from going to the bathroom _paying the toll._
They often referred to the outhouse building as _The Toll-house._
Makes you think twice about those cookies, huh?
LOL! Great info!
@@ArizonaGhostriders thanks, that was all in New England but much of that was probably true out west as well.
@@sailorbychoice1 I'm sure!
It looks like a movie! Good job Arizona!
That brought back memories. When I was in the Army. A troop dropped his M16 down the hole of the out house. The drill Sgt made him get it and well clean it. That’s the poop on my true story.
HA! Nice.
Legend has it that Billy the Kid tried looking for that quarter and ran into Santee’s great great great grandfather , and got scared and fell in!
LOL!
You host a very entertaining and informing channel. Best western channel iv ever seen.
Wow! That is a terrific comment. Thank you so much!
Arizona Ghostriders yes sir! I absolutely love my western history. You make it much more interesting to learn from.
That is my goal. Happy that you're watching!
This segment gave just what I needed -- a good laugh! Keep up the good work, guys.
Thank You!
I am 83 and lived in a few places with outhouses. Also some tarpaper homes. Yeah, we were poor. I remember when the fire went out at nights, laundry hanged in the house was frozen solid.
Wow!
As a kid my great grand parents had one Sears catalog inside and had some of the best fishing worms around back LoL 😂🤣🤣
LOL
I almost died from laughter watching this. 😆
in some places historic building foundations were found thanks to the placement of outhouses…35 years ago an unintentional time capsule was found thanks to the privy of one of the buildings burned due to the Battle of Bunker Hill was unearthed during the huge Boston tunnel project. it had artifacts dating to the founding of the colony 😎
Yes! I love that.
I grew up with an outhouse! We also indoor facilities as well! Cool video
Nice!
Well well well at 252 mins seems to be a AGR logo as a cleaning solution to an everyday situation, liked and well placed older video butt still enjoy revisits!!!
Now that was a really smelly predicament that you got yourself in to. Great vid!
LOL! Thanks.
When I was a kid in Taos, NM, back in the forties, we used outhouses. Always checked where the black widow spider was waiting. If you didn't, you might get a tickle down under. Cured constipation.
When I was a kid we had a three seater. Nearly 60 years ago
This is a deep subject Santee and dropping that quarter moon in is a star!
LOL!
I was born in the Ozarks in 1962, and we had an outhouse until we moved when I was in second grade. Then we lived in a house with a toilet, but it was in a separate building, so you still had to go outside to do your business!
That's great history! I mean, it probably wasn't fun at the time, but it's still great.
Well, when you don't any different, you don't think about it! It's just the way it was, just like how we drew water from a cistern from a hand pump under the sink. Most folks around here lived that way and so we didn't know any different. I feel lucky to have been born in a time when primitive living was still a thing. Now, as I sit here on my computer, just a few hundred feet from the original homestead, I marvel at how much things have changed, but when I walked out my front door and stepped in a cow patty the other day, I realize how some things never change!
HA! Well, that's funny....but also ranch life, right?
Had a outhouse at place we lived in Oregon. Got a toilet after we put in a septic tank. Had a old kerosene heater in it for winter.
Ahhh, memories.
Wow! Never knew there was so much to outhouses! Two-story outhouses?? That's amazing! Would love to see one of those!
They have 30 story ones in Manhattan....wait...no they don't. My mistake!
Awesome video and very informative. Thanks guys. 😃👌
"THE JAKES IS OCCUPIED !" - Rooster Cockburn.
LOL!
Hilarious Video!
Reminds me of a joke.
Two guys were in a two holer out house. One guy gets done and stands up. A sandwich falls out of his pocket and into the hole. He takes out his wallet, gets a five dollar bill out and tosses it into the hole. The other guy says 'What the hell you doing?' and the first guy replies 'You don't think I'm going down there just for a sandwich do ya?'
Ok, one more and leave.
Two guys are in a restroom in adjacent stalls. One guy's done and realizes there's no paper. He asks the second for any extra paper. The second guy says 'Sorry, just enough for me. There's a pause. The first guy asks, almost panicking, 'Got a credit card, or anything?' The first guy says 'Forget it!'
Then there's a long pause and the first guy asks 'Got two fives for a ten?'
my friend, Tom, digs old holes and the stuff he finds is amazing
Moon for ladies and star for gents. This one's more informative than you'd think.
I know.
Learned something today, two story, um, wouldn’t want to make the mistake and be on the first floor one 😂😜🤣😂🤠
yeah!
probably where the term shithead came to be...
my grandma had one in the early 2000s i was always scared i was going to get bitten by a spider,i once looked in it and one of the beams had chicken eggs on it lol
HAHA! Well...I can guess what those eggs may have tasted like!
@@ArizonaGhostriders thats if anybody was brave enough to stick their hand in there lol
@@philthethotdestroyer4194 LOL!!!
Ahhh... what a relief! (The latest episode of Arizona Ghostriders, that is).
FYI, Jacksonville, Oregon has an outhouse race too.
The Pacific NW is plumb crazy with them! I found another one while searching. Goodness...
great video guys, always enjoy learning about the old west and also like ya'll senses of humor. keep em comin' and I'll keep on watchin'. Happy trails
I appreciate that Turbo
Very interesting as always.....Ron
Thanks, Ron!
I love you guys I'm a horse trainer and I love the old west era and being one with the horses that kind of feel like I was born in the wrong time so I love seeing everything that you guys put thanks so much
You're welcome! We appreciate you!
My pa told me in the 80s his grandma only had an old outhouse she didn't have a flush able toilet her house was built by either my 1st or 2nd great grandpa somewhere around the 1920s
Neat history!
@@ArizonaGhostriders my family has a lot of neat history and heck I love telling it not many people I know like history like I do though
In the 1950's, we only had an outhouse on our mtn property. A shack with no electricity until 1957.
Wow!
Not sure how the 2 story outhouse works. Sounds like you would want to be on the top story. Anyway I remember during Halloween they would move them backwards so people would fall in. Sounds like something Bill Brazelton would do.
I think the top one was offset. I mean...otherwise you are right about being on the top story.
It did not have to be offset. They built a baffle that redirected the flow
on its way down so that it passed behind the occupant on the ground.
They had to halt building the bond fire at Texas A&M one year, because
some old lady recognized her outhouse resting on top.
Outhouses were the favorite haunts of dirt daubers and black widow spiders.
You had to be careful, even in there.
I once knew a man, who as a boy, convinced a friend to stand in an outhouse and fire a shotgun down
the outhouse hole. Forget the later accomplishments of Wernher van Braun. That
outhouse flew.
My father growing up in Oklahoma remembers using outhouses at his grandparents home as late as the 1950's.
A friend of mine told me one day that when he was a kid growing up in rural Arkansas they didn't have electricity or indoor plumbing in his house till he as a Sr in High School, he was born in 1944, so they didn't get electricity or indoor plumbing till about 1961 or 1962. I'm sure glad I didn't have to put up with that.
My grandmother in the 1950's had an outhouse on her farm.
Neat history. Bet she was surprised the first time she used an indoor toilet.
Outhouses are still a daily item on the reservation, still use them when i need them
Didn't know that! Thanks for the info.
This was great im always learning something new from you guys not only are your videos educational but also so much fun to watch
I appreciate the good comments, Michigander Man!
We have one in our garden in Germany.
I' ve read about a man in Oregon. Everytime his outhouse is full, he removes it some yards away over new digged hole and plants an appletree into the old one.
Now he has a nice applegarden.
THat works!
@@ArizonaGhostriders May i ask a question?
What did Natives, Soldiers and Cowboys out in the range (perhaps even the deserts) use for cleaning their backside?
@@utej.k.bemsel4777 Cactus. NO, seriously, they might just use a handful of dry grass or broken up twigs.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Ouch! That sounds rather hard!
@@utej.k.bemsel4777 Well, they also used grass and animal skins for diapers. So...I guess you get used to it!
That's not my quarter LOL . . . awesome scoop on the poop LOL!
During the phase 3 FTX part of basic training, somebody threw a can of bug spray down the port a potty. No one would admit to it so the drill sergeants made us line up and one by one, pull it out then put it back in. Fortunatly, somebody fessed up before it got to be my turn.
HAHA! Well, that's good! That's some story great story.
"It's a dirty job, but somebody has to do it."
There is a two story outhouse in Heritage Park in Calgary. It’s attached to the remake of the Wainwright Hotel.....
CooL!
Great video. And not a moment was wasted! Good educational stuff and no crap.
Awwww, I'm flush with embarrassment!
Outhouses,.. No Matter What, "You Can't Live without them''! Great video..I always wondered how did they ''Take a Dump' on Bonanza, The Rifleman, Cheyenne, and During the Wild West!
They never went to the bathroom and they only had one set of clothes. Hollywood...don't ya love it?
My dad told me that when you went to the outhouse in the winter there might be a raccoon or a possum in it sheltering from the elements.
That's true. You learned to give it a WACK on the side first.
Hahaaa! Such a funny video again! We still have outhouses in Finland in some old summer cottages and man I used to and I still do hate them from the bottom of my heart😖😖😖
HAHA! I don't blame you. They are nasty
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Just stumbled into this one & see I gave you a thumbs up but didn't comment ????? Musta been back when I first discovered your website from "Lionquest". ...Anyhow, thanks for all the good poop about outhouses in the old West !
Thanks much!
My friend made the mistake of storing his deer feed in his two holer. He left the door unlocked and and one night encountered a bear coming out, when he was entering at 3:00am. He forgot why he was there and so did the bear! 🤣
WOW!
I quit using old out houses. Last time out in Arizona, after sitting down, looked up to see a snake over a rafter. Was a very quick trip... lol.
I'd say!
You got to soak the corncobs till they swell then dry them so they get kinda spongy. Keep your white cobs separate, you use a couple red cobs then check to see if your done with a white one.
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Great video as always!
Thank you!
Hey Great Video on the Old Out House LOL ☺️
Thank you!
Thank you Santee, very informative and funny 💜
Glad you enjoyed it!
It's all in a Book called the Specialist by Charles Chic Sale 1921.
About a man who made a living building outhouse
That is a stand-up comedy act, but still a very good read.
I’ll just hold it.
HA!
Ash from the woodstove or fireplace works good on scent control also. Fresh shucked corncobs are the best. Remember don't use the glossy catalogs, they smear.
HAHAAHAH!!!
Good one
Thanks
I remember living with my grandparents back in the sixties.they had one and I was always scared to death that I would fall in! That and the those big green headed flies ! Sears and Roebuck catalog were the TP of the day !!! UGH!!!
Great memories to share with us. Not so great to relive, I imagine!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Nope still got splinters!!! Keep up the good work ! Just found yall last week so I subscribed and been binge watching ! Have a great day !!!
@@TheDwarf1962 Thank you, Bryan. You as well.
Great video
Thanks, Led!
Good video thumbs up
A friend of mine had an outhouse just 10 years or so ago. Was at a part time business. One summer the flies and bugs were terrible, and someone told him to put some used motor oil in to control them. He did. One day a squirrel fell in. The outhouse had oil and pooh everywhere. He apparrently was slick after falling in and went berserk when he finally got out of the pit and into the outhouse. Maybe he couldn't see?
Wow, what a story!
Reminds me of vault toilets and all the crazy things that end up in there
Back then, if you dropped a watch in there...you didn't go get it. HA!
@@ArizonaGhostriders even today, if it goes down the hole I guess I just didnt need it.
I went to a one room school and it had one outhouse for boys and one for girls.the outhouses were about 50 yards from the school so you had to run like hell when it rained
Nice memory!
Amazing video as always :^)
Why, thank you!
We had a 2 seater on my aunts' farm in Wva
I had an Uncle who was a farmer who had an outhouse and huge well at his farm. He refused to put modern conveniences but keep his home as it was when he first move into the area. I don't know which scared me more falling into the hole of the outhouse or falling into a well so big that if the well was horizontal you could drive a bus through it like a tunnel.
The outhouse is a great invention possibly one the greatest ever. I hope that was a good sandwich.
It smelled kinda bad.
Fun fact: Thomas Crapper was the inventor of the first flushing toilet.
Actually, the first patent went to Alexander Cumming in 1775.
This popped up in my recommendations as I was sitting down on my....outhouse, haha. God is good
Dad, did they have litter boxes?
I don't think so, pal.
good question though
Grandpa used ashes from the wood stove for stench control.
Hmmm....good idea.
wow u absolutely rock
Thank you!
In other words, absolutely nothing has changed.
HA! Well, if one can sit on a heated toilet seat in the winter while watching television....things have definitely changed.
Lol, only talking about outhouses......at least I am. You don't have tv and heated seats in your outhouse, do you?!😲
Now we know where the phrase "rough as a cob..." came from.... The Crapper...
My grandma had an outhouse that I had to use when I went to see her. The winters were okay but the summer was use it fast.
HAHA! Right???
I wish I knew you were doing this show on Out Houses. I have a picture of me in an Out House being pulled by a "Bagger" sitting in the House at the Illinois ABATE yearly weekend camp out in Peoria, IL.
What the heck?? I kind of have to see that now. santee2171@gmail.com
+Arizona Ghostriders I'll look through my photo albums when I get home and send a photo of the photo.
Funny vid this morning Cheese !!!!! ha ha ha ha.... guess where I watched it :-)
AAAARRRGGHHHH!!! NO!!!!!
Rockstar gave y'all guys a new base of viewers... Nice vids
Thanks. Rockstar got people interested in the Old West...so they are winners in my book!
@@ArizonaGhostriders keep up the good work partners. I enjoy all the topics and have learned a lot
Interesting, i never seen one with the star. Its always the cresent moon. So ive only seen the womans room lol
Great video as always and im honored for the follow on instagram yesterday
Thank you and I'm sorry it took me so long...Instagram is kind of new to me.
we had outhouse until I was 13 y.o. married @ 19 y.o. and in-laws still had outhouse. co-worker family had outhouse until 2007. but I never seen actual two-story outhouse until this vid. now I feel sadly, down in the dumps!
Too funny!
That was some pretty stinky business 😂
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Santee do one on grocery shopping in the old west and what kind of products they would buy
Yes, on the list!
@@ArizonaGhostriders also remember in Red Dead Redemption 2 where you going to like the General Store and yes can you do something tied to that as well
Snakes love em dammit
HA!
got two of them on the family ranch
Nice!
I always thought the two-story outhouse was a joke.
Apparently not.
My girlfriend drop her phone in the portapotty. Said it's insured someone stole it lol
Permanent poop emoji
Any time to you movie to an old house from the time period dig up the far corners of the yards. I used to live in a frointeer town founded in 1852, that's where the privy would be.
Awesome info, Shaddy! Thanks!
Arizona Ghostriders
You'll be suprised whay you'll find. They were in common use up through very recently. A history teacher I used to have found a members coin for the old CCC thing FDR started for public works.
Nice!
Well that's a crappy situation
HAHAHAAH!!
Chances are someone was having a poo while watching this.
Most certainly. I was having one while making it (Just kidding)!
What!!😨 people actually did in old outhouses, learn something everyday. Lol As always another great vid.✌
The skit with the quarter rings true for me. Old West outhouses and Army field latrines are fairly similar in both design and function. After a field exercise I was put on police detail to clean the area up and it was discovered that some blue falcon had tossed a bunch of live ammunition into one of the latrines and we had to fish every round out of there. Oh yeah, it had been around -20 below for the entire time so all of the "class I download" was frozen solid. Good times . . .
When I was very young my Aunt still had an Outhouse or Dunny as we call them in Australia in her back yard but it was cleared once a month sort of like pumping a septic. I hated the thing as there was a famous Australian song "There was a Red Back on the toilet seat" a red back is sort of like a black widow one of the many and varied types of poisonous spiders.
There use of News paper sheets was actually bad for you as the print contained small amounts of lead.
My father grew up on a farm with no running water or electricity and had to use a Dunny one of his favourite sayings was to describe something as "Flat as a shit carters hat" that being the man that cleared the Dunny. My father went on to be a Plumer and Drainer hooking up sewers and toilets to peoples homes
Thanks for the info!
...or for a fun practical joke, use the top outhouse while your friend is in the lower. :-)
Yep!