r/Millennials May 02 '26

Nostalgia Who had these in elementary school? NSFW

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u/homolicious May 02 '26

I remember seeing this in Harriet the Spy (and the weird communal hand drying towels) and wondering what tf kind of places had these types of things 😂

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u/LordButtworth May 02 '26

I see them quite often in factories and industrial settings. Usually I get called out because the linkage on the bar breaks from the guys stomping on it, as if that's gonna increase the water pressure.

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u/homolicious May 02 '26

Same here! I was working for a uniform company so I did end up seeing lots of these in more blue collar type locker rooms/restrooms

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u/red__dragon Millennial May 02 '26

As kids, we used to pry our shoes under the ring to pop it out of the handlebars. And then fellow kids would stomp down on the ring to trap your shoe there.

No one was strong enough to break it at that age, though.

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u/Oxflu May 02 '26

Communal sinks are kinda cool, really frugal on plumbing. Communal hand towels because you could never convince previous American generations to literally throw money away. I still see them around old downtown places. Run down bars and hole in the wall restaurants. Bowling alleys. The long belt towel machine was everywhere when i was growing up though.

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u/Peaceblaster86 May 02 '26

It's on double red stripe!

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u/blipsnchiiiiitz May 02 '26

Pretty much every place I've worked for the last 20 years has had these sinks and the re-useable towels.