Bathrooms in Pahoa Town

[missydog1]

here's a story from the bad old days ...
when my ex and I moved to Taos, back in 1969, most of the businesses had signs that said hippies couldn't use the restrooms EVEN IF YOU WERE A PAYING CUSTOMER. My first experience in town was having driven all the way from California, getting gas, asking for the restroom key and being refused. Welcome to New Mexico.

Just saying, I've seen worse than requiring you be a customer!

The lumber yard had a sign saying they would refuse service to anyone they considered a health menace. This meant hippies ... not even allowed to buy lumber!

I definitely support having public restrooms ... I do know what it's like to feel shut out ...
ever since those days, though, just for myself as a point of pride, I almost never use a restroom unless I'm a customer.

Some places I buy enough stuff over all that I consider myself a good customer even if I'm not buying that day. But I won't ask a restaurant unless I'm ordering something. I will buy something ... a legacy of being treated like a leech just based on how I looked and dressed.

[Guest]

Businesses create jobs and they create a conduit for their customers money to be funneled into the city, state and federal coffers. Businesses have to deal with labor cost, waste, Rent, Electricity, Gas and onerous government regulation, why should they have to let strangers (non-customers) use their head?

What if people started showing up at your house asking to use you bathroom?

A business is a private enterprise just like your home.

I bet no one here would put up with having to clean up feces and broken crack pipes in their own home, why would you expect a poor business owner to.

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I dropped by the council meeting today. I found it very ironic on our own council doors at the front entrance there was a sign that said "No Public Restrooms".

Then you go up the stairs and there are restrooms right there.

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This is a problem. I think any public funded buildings that are not secure should allow citizens to use the bathroom.

I bet if a bunch of dirigigoo players showed up every day crapping all over the city hall bathroom, all of the sudden public restrooms would be at the top of the agenda. ha ha

[EightFingers]

"dirigigoo players "

What are those? Sounds Australian <wink>

[mella l]

At Highway 11 and Keeau, there are lovely restrooms for public use. There has been some grafitti and they of course need cleaning and such. In an emergency they are just fine and have that open air appeal! Perhaps a park in Pahoa might consider such a solution, is there a public park there?

mella l

"Resolve to be tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant with the weak and wrong....because sometime in your life you will have been all of these."

[leilaniguy]

We do have a park,but that's where the pool is. So I guess any new public restrooms would be right next to the "private" pool restrooms.

[Rob Tucker]

There is some potential for public restrooms in Pahoa. If the money canbe found to construct them I believe the land could be available for a nominal cost. Public restrooms would be instrumental for tour buses to visit Pahoa Village so the benefits to the village would be broad.

[Guest]

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Originally posted by Rob Tucker

...Public restrooms would be instrumental for tour buses to visit...

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I can see the gift shop title now...

"Pahoa Piss and Packages"[]

Emily did mention bringing tourists into Pahoa on small tour buses previously. I believe one of the concerns then, was that there was no place to relieve themselves.


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[oink]

The public restrooms should be a totally different topic from public showers. For the restrooms to be an asset for tourism, they need to be properly located and well patrolled. Due to some elements the showers would naturally bring, they should be located elsewhere. Where the pool is might work if the public part of the showers is placed outside of the fence for the public pool and not interconnected.

Pua`a
S. FL
Big Islander to be.

[Devany]

TOUR Busses? Yikes! As much as I know tourism is important in Hawaii, I am not sure I like the idea of big busses coming through...even though I do not live in Pahoa and what exactly would they be "touring" in Pahoa? Driving down the Red Road, there are public restrooms at the state beaches.

I thought they had restrooms on board anyway. The large busses I have been on before do.

Aloha au i Hawai`i,
devany

Devany Vickery-Davidson
East Bay Potters
www.eastbaypotters.com

[Rob Tucker]

Tour buses like and need destinations. The lava flow is happening and a place to stop and visit a "quaint" town and have lunch, with a variety of choices is desirable. The shop owners in Pahoa Village wouldn't complain if several dozen wallets and purses appeared in town at semi regular intervals.

I'm not sure what there is to be offended about regarding tour buses.