Editor’s Note:

Portions of an article by Irene Ambler in the March 5, 1981 issue of the Breeze were discussed at the April 27 Upper Vandalia Society meeting. The PWA privies in the article were actually WPA outhouses. There was no PWA. The WPA was the Works Progress Administration which was later renamed as Work
Projects Administration.

Popular nicknames for the structures include the Roosevelt Outhouse, the Roosevelt Room, the White House, the Relief Office,…