The Universal Flush

This is Logan High School, or it was prior to being demolished recently. Many memories were made here by a great number of people. The memory I want to speak of today is one that exists that many LHS graduates may have forgotten.

At two distinct times during every school day, this building, that was erected in 1923, would begin to moan and shake. Something was building pressure was being compounded and something was going to give. And then, as if a dam had burst, water would be released to flush out every toilet in both Logan High School and Central Elementary at the same exact time. It was magical, the synchronized cleansing of the building's urinals. Looking back in retrospect, I suppose the female population of Logan High may have not realized why the building sounded like it was going to explode.

People appreciate the comforts of life, the things you can count on everyday. Knowing the Sun will come up tomorrow, knowing that Spring will follow the cold harsh Winter, and the Universal Flush of Logan High School. The Universal Flush was something that generations of Loganites experienced, appreciated, and eventually took for-granted. I acknowledge the advances in architecture and urinal technology (the auto-sense flush), but part of me remains wistful for the daily magical event that was the Universal Flush.

Conclusion: I become sad to think that as they prepared for the demolition of Logan High School, and turned off the water, that the last ever Universal Flush probably went by with no acknowledgment whatsoever. 85 years of making sure the lavatories were sanitary... releasing the sweet smell of pink urinal cakes into the air for thousands of LHS grads, and it is gone. 10 AM will still come tomorrow, but the Universal Flush of LHS will be nothing but a memory, to those who were impressed enough to take note.