Caribbean Toilets — Trinidad
This is the shared toilet at Pearl's Guest House, a great place to stay in Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
Pearl's
3-4 Victoria Square East
Port of Spain
+1-868-625-2158
The bathtub looks really funky because it has been lined with small ceramic tiles!
The shower head has an in-line electric water heater.
There is no large reservoir tank of hot water — the
water is immediately heated as it passes through this
combination heater and sprinkler head.
This is another shot from
the shared bathroom at Pearl's Guest House,
Port of Spain, Trinidad & Tobago.
A lot of the bars in Trinidad feature enormous tank-like urinals.
There's just that trough, the sink, and nothing more, so it's pretty obvious that it's the urinal. But still, it seems like you're doing something you probably shouldn't...
This one seen here at the 52 Bar along the Western Main Road in Port of Spain.
Click here to see many pictures and stories from my trip to Trinidad.
Also see the toiletological signage page for some toiletological signs from Trinidad.
Also see my non-toiletological pictures from Trinidad.
Rose George's The Big Necessity: The Unmentionable World of Human Waste and Why It Matters is a fascinating description of sanitation conditions around the world. "2.6 billion people don't have sanitation. [....] Four in ten people have no access to any latrine, toilet, bucket, or box."
In September 2009, Morna Gregory and Sian James published a book titled Toilets of the World. It's pretty much the same theme that you find here — photographs and commentary on other people's plumbing.
The Porcelain God: A Social History of the Toilet, by Julie Horan, contends that civilization began with the toilet.
Toilet: Public Restrooms and the Politics of Sharing, edited by Laura Noren and Harvey Molotch, has essays by anthropologists, sociologists, and architects on the importance of the toilet, especially for urban dwellers.
Latrinae Et Foricae: Toilets in the Roman World describes the toilets of the Roman Empire from Iberia to Syria, and from North Africa to Hadrian's Wall in Britannia.
Toilets, Bathtubs, Sinks, and Sewers: A History of the Bathroom, explains the history of personal cleanliness and hygiene to children in grades 5-8.
| A Sani-Flush blue border indicates a toilet that I've used. |
How long have my Toilets of the World pages been around? I'm not exactly sure, although they started in the mid 1990s as a single page on a Purdue University server. The Internet Archive Wayback Machine lets you see what that looked like as far back as January 17, 1999.
My cromwell-intl.com domain appeared in September, 2001, although the Wayback Machine didn't notice its one enormous Toilet of the World page until January 17, 2002. Some time soon after that I split it into categories, and the collection has grown ever since.
In December, 2010 I registered the toilet-guru.com domain and moved the pages to a dedicated server.
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