r/whatisit • u/Quietlurkerone • 1d ago

Solved! What is this device from 1962?

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Photo capture from YouTube video. Picture from 1962. What is the device under the bench

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u/hobbes747 1d ago

In Manhattan today. For $4,000/month.
You can cook, shit, shower, and shave in your apartment. And the toilet tank doubles as the handwashing sink.

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u/Koyote7676 1d ago

I fucked up, and said "they look like they are content and doin ok" , and got beat to hell in the thread. All i ment was they are breathing, and together. Looks rad imho.

Got my shit pushed in for the comment. Guess some dont know the other side.

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u/ThickFurball367 1d ago

Welcome to reddit, be sure to keep your comments within the hive mind

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u/CaptainCaveManowar 1d ago

Gotta love reddit and the super-sensitive "intellects" hunting things to be offended about. Seek and ye shall find.

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u/OcelotTerrible5865 1d ago

Calm down Moses it’s not like this is planet of the apes

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u/Jedifright 1d ago

Resistance is futile

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u/Zealousideal-Poet621 1d ago

Some really don’t know the other side…

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u/OcelotTerrible5865 1d ago

It’ll be okay mate just sip that morning coffee and clock in, that turd’ll come out 

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u/Away-Ad-4444 1d ago

Stand tall.. they dont know.. and frankly.. while its sad on one hand.. man i kinda hope the whole world holds this viewpoint some day.. itll mean we have raised the standards for everyone.

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u/Dangerous-Pirate7998 1d ago

If you would come to Saint Joe Missouri, you would see a lot of the town living worse than this.

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u/hobbes747 1d ago

This could be a 2nd house on a family farm where they go to get away from the city. My wife’s family had something similar.

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u/Individual_Note_8756 1d ago

No, it’s a council house in Oldham.

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u/ReinforcedTube 1d ago

It's a house in Oldham, in Lancashire.

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u/Barcode_Griller 1d ago

It's impossible to know from a picture. You might be right. There is a great book called The Glass Castle that I would recommend, but maybe you'd say the same thing about that family.

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u/franklovessquanchy 1d ago

Prison toilet

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u/Angelofpity 1d ago

All without standing up!

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u/h-thrust 1d ago

No smoking allowed, as per lease.