By Richard Chin
From Star Tribune (Minneapolis)
Minneapolis—Nearly a century ago, a plumber installed a toilet in a bungalow in south Minneapolis.
When the job was done, the workman took a pencil and signed his work on the inside of the toilet tank lid in a flowing cursive hand: “Otto Johnson plumber May 6, 1924.”
And why not? A good craftsman is proud of his work, and indoor plumbing was still kind of a big deal back then.
It may have been the first indoor toilet to have been installed in the 1910 house in the Ericsson neighborhood near Lake Hiawatha, said the current homeowner, Alan Peters. Peters believed the original residents may have been using an outhouse before then….