Re: Thoughts on the Missing for Ten Years case

On Fri, 24 Mar 2006 19:19:09 GMT, "PattyC" <pattycnospam4303@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


"Threnody" <dovea71@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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So... a son was involved, and only one bathroom in the basement? What
kind of hous is this?

That's not atypical in the Pittsburgh area. McKeesport and other sections
of the area have turn of the century houses, usually brown brick, and most
likely consisting of three floors (the basement is half-sunk because
everything seems to be on a hillside). It's not unlike some of the houses
you see in areas of Boston, especially the Cambridge area.

A good number of the homes in Pittsburgh I've been in (I lived there for 8
years) had one bathroom in the basement that was added on sometime in the
'20s or '30s, and generally one upstairs near the bedrooms that was added
anytime after 1950. But even still, there were homes where you had to go
all the way to the basement for the bathroom because it was the only
installed. Those homes, especially, were close to McKeesport.

--Threnody


I've lived in Pittsburgh all my life and have only been in 1 house that had
a bathroom only in the basement.

I grew up in Jerome (halfway between Somerset and Johnstown about 80 or so miles
south of Pittsburgh) which has the same hillside-thang going where most of the
basements are semi-sunken. I don't recall ever having been in a house that only
had a bathroom in the basement, but a lot of homes in that area did have that at
one time. Many of them still have the basement bathrooms, but they've been
relegated to secondary toilets or just aren't used at all any more. But since
the subject's come up, I do have to wonder why they used to put the bathrooms
down there. It seems from a plumbing angle that it would be better to have the
toilets higher up. I don't know if it has to do with the fact that they had
septic tanks or that the homes were all built by coal mining companies. :-?
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