My first blast from the past post might be a bit uncouth, especially for members of the opposite sex.
Took an opportunity to snap a picture of a metal urinal at an office building in downtown KL.
Such things are now a thing of the past in Singapore. Remaining examples are fortunate remnants. Even at old shopping centres like Pearl Center, Rochor Centre, etc or in Chinatown, I don’t quite remember seeing these metal pee-walls.
Compared to their ceramic successors, what they sacrifice in privacy they make up with lack of splashback. That’s good for hygiene-obsessed me. But I use the cubicles anyway for convenience.
Oh well,, before I get carried off in providing too much detail, I believe these urinals, complete with a single overhead pull-string-to-flush water closet, are every bit retro. If I renovated an old building, say a shophouse, I’d seriously consider installing on in a loo replete with the trappings of posh – marble, sandblasted granite, frosted glass, louvred cubicle doors, rectangular ceramic blocks for basins but with seperate traditional hot/cold taps, et cetera. And there, the stainless pee-wall would be.
I’m getting ahead of myself…
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