Wednesday, July 15, 2015

Toilet Replacement Lids and Seats - Potsdam, NY gets a new toilet garden - This Old Toilet 800-658-4521



Drivers in Potsdam, N.Y., have another yard-full of old toilets to rubberneck at today.
Hank Robar’s toilet gardens are a protest that date back more than a decade. It all started with a village zoning ruling that denied Robar a permit for a donut shop on a property he owns on Market St.
There is now an installation there, on Route 11 across from the entrance to Clarkson University, and as of Thursday afternoon a new one, on Pierrepont Avenue across from SUNY Potsdam.
Hank Robar working on his latest installation.
Hank Robar working on his latest installation.
We sent our intern Bobby Baird to check it out.
Bobby: Can you just describe what I’m looking at?
Pam: Ok, We have an empty lot, where a house was torn down, and there is an installation of toilets with poles behind them, with multicolored tape on the poles. And I’m assuming that he’ll also fill the toilets with flowers, as he has in his other lots.
Hank's Helpers, Travis and Joe, secure a toilet.
Hank's Helpers, Travis and Joe, secure a toilet.
The toilet gardens have their fans and their detractors. From the NCPR Facebook page:
“He needs to grow up and figure out another way to maturely settle his dispute with the village.”
Or:
“Lol, I like it. People need to "loosen" up a little. Flush the negative down the drain. Find some humor in this.....PLeasE!”
This doesn’t seem like it’s such a big deal to Hank.
Hank: Really, I have two other places in town, and I had to tear the house down, so I decided to do this. And I pay taxes on the stuff so I decided to do it.
Bobby: What’s unique about this installation?
Hank: I don’t know, nothing really. I know it’s in the paper, but I’ve got em’ all over town.
It’s true. Hank Robar’s latest toilet garden is much like the others, with additional security:  wooden posts and steel wiring to secure the toilets. Robar said he’s had trouble with vandals.

The "toilet garden."
The "toilet garden."
source:http://www.northcountrypublicradio.org/news/story/28915/20150713/potsdam-gets-a-new-toilet-garden
by Robert Baird & Martha Foley

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