  Nere Member Username: Nere Post Number: 21 Registered: 04-2007 |
On my way to cruise Woodward, I had the sudden urge, so I went to a Burger King on the way. (Was this Detroit or Highland Park?) The women's room was locked, I had to use the men's room. No toilet paper... had to use it standing up because of the tremendous amount of urine on the seat. All in all, it has to be the worst bathroom experiences of my life. The best would probably be Cheli's Chili in Dearborn. Very clean, smelled good... even had a TV in there. A weird question from a weird person: what was the best and worst restroom you've ever had to go in in Metro Detroit? | ||
Genesyxx Member Username: Genesyxx Post Number: 730 Registered: 02-2004 |
HUH??? | ||
Texorama Member Username: Texorama Post Number: 17 Registered: 12-2006 |
Downtown: the casinos are the way to "go." | ||
Jimg Member Username: Jimg Post Number: 845 Registered: 10-2003 |
Thanks for sharing, Nere. | ||
Alexei289 Member Username: Alexei289 Post Number: 1305 Registered: 11-2004 |
tiger's stadium...  | ||
Gotdetroit Member Username: Gotdetroit Post Number: 46 Registered: 12-2005 |
Empty storefront sidewalks. | ||
Spitty Member Username: Spitty Post Number: 570 Registered: 07-2004 |
Worst: Any of the portapotties on Opening Day near Cass and Park. Best: Home sweet home - I don't sit on any other toilets uness I absolutely have to. | ||
The_rock Member Username: The_rock Post Number: 1752 Registered: 11-2003 |
Let's go back a few years in Detroit history. If memory serves me right, Detroit had at least two UNDERGROUND men's rooms--one I recall was at the SE corner of Woodward and E Grand Blvd. Like a subway, you took the stairs down. Another was downtown somewhere, and I think it was the downtown location where Johnny Ray, vocalist ( "The Little White Cloud That Cried"), was arrested one day for a little incident. He was in town for a concert, but the incident is remembered far more than the concert itself. Come on, now, who remembers??? Ray36??(not that you had anything to do with the arrest). | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1666 Registered: 05-2005 |
the men's room in jacoby's is definitely on the "worst" list. the one at the gold dollar was similarly, if not more, terrible. | ||
French777 Member Username: French777 Post Number: 170 Registered: 10-2006 |
The worst I know is that by Grand Circus Park there is a bar by the PM station and you like walk down these stairs and only 1 60 watt bulb like lights up the entire basement and the bathrooms smelled terrible | ||
Gravitymachine Member Username: Gravitymachine Post Number: 1669 Registered: 05-2005 |
oh yeah, the old flame grill right? | ||
Rjk Member Username: Rjk Post Number: 716 Registered: 11-2003 |
Lafayette coney island is a favorite of my kids. Me, not so much. I usually end up whacking my head up against something. | ||
Rjlj Member Username: Rjlj Post Number: 335 Registered: 11-2003 |
Jacoby's is pretty bad. | ||
Jimg Member Username: Jimg Post Number: 846 Registered: 10-2003 |
"I usually end up whacking my head up against something." Uh-oh | ||
Waz Member Username: Waz Post Number: 45 Registered: 11-2006 |
The Hamtramck Pub on Conant a couple of blocks east of I-75 is no longer in operation but ranks (and I do mean rank) right up there. The Men's room was right next to the stage. There was no door on the toilet stall and occasionally when someone opened the bathroom door the crowd would get a shot of a guy taking a dump. Yikes! | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 918 Registered: 07-2004 |
The men's room at the Ford-Wyoming drive in is among the worst, in my recollection. The johns at Honest John's look good in the a.m., but it seems something horrible has happened in the men's room every day before 7 p.m. when I've been there. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 919 Registered: 07-2004 |
Best restrooms: Always Ladies' Rooms. Northern Lights Lounge has a nice one. (Don't ask how I know.) | ||
Nere Member Username: Nere Post Number: 26 Registered: 04-2007 |
"Northern Lights Lounge has a nice one. (Don't ask how I know.)" How do you know? haha The ladies' room at Ford-Wyoming probably isn't any better than the men's room | ||
Wirt Member Username: Wirt Post Number: 55 Registered: 12-2005 |
Lafayette Coney Island is one of the most interesting to get to. Jacoby's does come to mind also - they would also use the ice cube in the urinal trick | ||
Gistok Member Username: Gistok Post Number: 4355 Registered: 08-2004 |
LMAO.... after RJK's head whacking incident and JIMG's reply... sometimes we have to be more careful in "phrase-eology"! | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 1477 Registered: 01-2005 |
"Come on, now, who remembers??? Ray36??(not that you had anything to do with the arrest)." I remember the incident, Rock, and I think I'd date it about 1961 or 1962. There was another "Accosting and Soliciting" arrest around that time involving a guy named Prophet Jones. He was found not guilty in court, though, and the joke going around was that he beat the case by swallowing the evidence. Others words, not mine. | ||
Spaceboykelly Member Username: Spaceboykelly Post Number: 232 Registered: 04-2005 |
Worst rest room: City Club's men's room Best rest room: Compuware [please forumers, don't go and mess it up!] (Message edited by spaceboykelly on May 21, 2007) | ||
Iddude313 Member Username: Iddude313 Post Number: 79 Registered: 07-2005 |
Twingo's and Slow's have nice bathrooms. At least visually if you don't look for too long before you remember it's still a bathroom. As for the worst. Hmmm...the Old Miami come to mind. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 4438 Registered: 10-2003 |
Tequila Rain in Novi had to have had the dirtiest bathrooms I have been in. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 920 Registered: 07-2004 |
OK, heh, I only looked because a (female) friend was so impressed with it. And when I looked in, another guy was inside admiring it. That's just how good it is! | ||
Beatsworking Member Username: Beatsworking Post Number: 68 Registered: 08-2004 |
I'll second Northern Lights for the best (women's) restroom. My wife gave me the full tour shortly after they opened. The Bronx ranks up there in the worst category, although I love the lightbox thingy in front of the mens urinal. | ||
Tielerh11 Member Username: Tielerh11 Post Number: 65 Registered: 10-2003 |
The bathrooms at Laurel Park Mall in Livonia are amazing. This reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld when George knew where the best bathrooms were. | ||
Tetsua Member Username: Tetsua Post Number: 1192 Registered: 01-2004 |
Worst: Belle Isle, or Hart Plaza restrooms | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 507 Registered: 06-2005 |
In her May 1, 2007 column in the NYT, Jane Brody discusses this very question. She gives a link to http://www.thebathroomdiaries. com/ where public bathrooms. worldwide, are rated. The ony Detroit ones noted are Ford Field (excellent) and Avalon Bakery (very good). | ||
Rrl Member Username: Rrl Post Number: 824 Registered: 12-2003 |
I actually have a quirky hobby of photographing bathrooms, especially the unusual. Can anyone ID the location of the detroit bathroom below? I admire it's prison-like appearance.  (Message edited by rrl on May 21, 2007) | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 921 Registered: 07-2004 |
An entirely different kind of "movement" festival | ||
Spiritofdetroit Member Username: Spiritofdetroit Post Number: 485 Registered: 11-2006 |
creep | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1683 Registered: 10-2003 |
"the downtown location where Johnny Ray, vocalist ('The Little White Cloud That Cried'), was arrested one day for a little incident." I found a reference to a 1959 incident at the Brass Rail in Detroit, where Johnnie Ray was arrested for soliciting an undercover police officer. Ray was acquitted by a jury; evidently the jurors felt that Ray had been entrapped. Ray never set foot in Detroit again after that. | ||
Jjw Member Username: Jjw Post Number: 314 Registered: 10-2005 |
Best--Mexican Village Restaurant on Bagley. I walked in and asked if I could use it even though I wasn't dining there. They said yes, and when I finished, they gave me a free huge to go cup of Coke. My dad was with me and they gave him one too. Very nice people in there. Worst---There is a McDonalds up Vernor near Grand Blvd. I won't even begin to describe what was in there; only saying that I think someone died in there. It was all over the room. | ||
Norwalk Member Username: Norwalk Post Number: 79 Registered: 11-2006 |
The Best (Men and Womens) are at The Ivanhoe (Polish Yacht Club} | ||
Michigan Member Username: Michigan Post Number: 305 Registered: 04-2007 |
Please no more pics! I could see this deteriorationg quickly | ||
Jams Member Username: Jams Post Number: 5053 Registered: 10-2003 |
quote:} Are we discussing the trough on the front of the bar? | ||
Vas Member Username: Vas Post Number: 716 Registered: 01-2004 |
The Old Miami has a wretched bathroom it beats out Jacobys in every way. | ||
Smogboy Member Username: Smogboy Post Number: 5167 Registered: 11-2004 |
The micro trough at the Cadieux Cafe's men's room has always been a hoot. Last time I was there, there was a huge mound of ice in it and it was "melt the glacier" time. It wasn't seedy or anything but was kinda quirky. | ||
French777 Member Username: French777 Post Number: 171 Registered: 10-2006 |
Compuware has great ones. REN CEN does too has great bathrooms | ||
Gianni Member Username: Gianni Post Number: 290 Registered: 05-2004 |
In the basement of what is now DaEduardo next to the Fox is or was the best men's bathroom. Haven't been there under the new name but this place has had several iterations now. It used to be a Jimmy Schmidt restaurant, can't remember the name right now. But the bathroom was so cool I always recommended people check it out. There is a stainless steel chic modern floor to ceiling urinal among other things. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 929 Registered: 07-2004 |
Was there a Detroit moviehouse that had two corkscrew staircases in the lobby leading down to the basement facilities? That was definitely the coolest bathroom I ever saw, impossible in these wheelchair-conscious days. If I remember correctly, I was there in 1990 for an erotic, all-night moviefest, including Clockwork Orange and Last Tango in Paris. | ||
Yaktown Member Username: Yaktown Post Number: 167 Registered: 02-2006 |
Harpo's is the most god-awful restroom I've ever been to. Absolutely no doors on the stalls, urine and crap all over the place, people doing drugs and having sex. It's places like this that keep me pee-shy. | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 9248 Registered: 12-2003 |
Y'all should see Urban Scrawls, a documentary on bathroom graffiti. One of the stars is Baretta from the Old Miami, rest his soul. They contrast an actual graffiti artist with a Wayne State Psych Professor, it is absolutely a must-own DVD! Cheers. | ||
Nere Member Username: Nere Post Number: 27 Registered: 04-2007 |
"This reminds me of an episode of Seinfeld when George knew where the best bathrooms were." Ha, I started thinking about that yesterday!!! Another bad one: Columbo's Coney Island on W.Vernor. Graffiti everywhere. Ughhhh... | ||
Softailrider Member Username: Softailrider Post Number: 43 Registered: 02-2007 |
Absolute worst bathroom of all time was Samual Brothers at the Eastern Market , of course they tore the place down about 20 years ago . I've seen a few that came close , but that one is etched in my memory . | ||
Neilr Member Username: Neilr Post Number: 508 Registered: 06-2005 |
quote: WHERE TO GO, A Guide to Manhattan's Toilets (Vicki Rovere, 1991) is a field guide to bathrooms throughout Manhattan. Ms Rovere gives precise directions to over 450 bathrooms. eg: UN Plaza Hotel E. 44th St. (1-2 Aves.) Go R, down the corridor to the elevators. Take one to the 2nd floor. Go L off the elevators; WR on L, MR on R. This guidebook was particularly important in the era before there were Starbucks and MacDonalds, with their easily accessable bathrooms, on almost every other corner. | ||
Waxx Member Username: Waxx Post Number: 165 Registered: 09-2006 |
BORDERS BOOKS AND MUSIC HAS (ONE OF)THE WORST MEN'S ROOM!!!!!! And this is in the suburbs! It's 2 graphic 2 describe so I'll stop right here. Only a few of them have clean ones. Barnes & Noble, on the other hand, has decent ones. And of course DPS tops the list of the worst restrooms ever. And the teachers are worse than the students. | ||
Detroitteacher Member Username: Detroitteacher Post Number: 1051 Registered: 06-2006 |
Hey now Waxx...the teacher's bathrooms at Cooley are in pretty good shape (we even got new break in proof toilet paper roll thingys for the industrial sized roll). The student bathrooms, though, are sickening. | ||
Pythonmaster Member Username: Pythonmaster Post Number: 41 Registered: 12-2006 |
Fondest memories of the downstairs "restrooms" at Bookies and Lily's. | ||
East_detroit Member Username: East_detroit Post Number: 1085 Registered: 11-2003 |
Best: Compuware Worst: Troughs at Joe Louis | ||
E_hemingway Member Username: E_hemingway Post Number: 1190 Registered: 11-2004 |
Worst: Larger House and Harpos. Those places were beyond disgusting. Best: Slows (although it's starting to show a little wear and tear), Centaur (although I haven't been in there in a while) and Cheli's Chili in Detroit. | ||
Urbanize Member Username: Urbanize Post Number: 1256 Registered: 02-2007 |
Here's my issue, y'all want to complain about my Grammar, but you people at the same time are discussing with all the thinking power in the world about places someone urinates and bowels. What's that about? | ||
Quozl Member Username: Quozl Post Number: 688 Registered: 07-2005 |
quote: It has to do with your unremitting discharge of misinformation, cop-outs and useless excuses, that is what it is all about. Again you hijack yet ANOTHER thread with the "poor, woe is me, everybody is ganging up on neglected Urbanize" garbage instead of making a positive contribution. The original question was Urbanize: "what was the best and worst restroom you've ever had to go in in Metro Detroit?" I am quite certain you have MANY locations, since you are so full of baloney you probably make "head calls" all over Wayne County. In the unlikely event you do not have some you would like to share with all of us, go find another thread to whine in like "Word Association" or "This or That". (Message edited by quozl on May 22, 2007) | ||
Fury13 Member Username: Fury13 Post Number: 1687 Registered: 10-2003 |
Urbanize: one doesn't "bowel." One relieves their bowels. Are you 14? | ||
Quozl Member Username: Quozl Post Number: 689 Registered: 07-2005 |
Fury13, I think he meant to type defecates, something he does all over this forum, except that is a three syllable word and has a higher probability to be misspelled. Thanks Gannon! (Message edited by quozl on May 22, 2007) | ||
Gannon Member Username: Gannon Post Number: 9258 Registered: 12-2003 |
I think that would be a greater propensity, but a higher probability. | ||
Detroitnerd Member Username: Detroitnerd Post Number: 930 Registered: 07-2004 |
Is that a picture of the toilet at Lager House? | ||
Leoqueen Member Username: Leoqueen Post Number: 1572 Registered: 07-2004 |
Twingos has a nice bathroom | ||
Spacemonkey Member Username: Spacemonkey Post Number: 198 Registered: 03-2006 |
St. Andrew's Hall always had shitty bathrooms. What was the name of the bar in detroit where the actual bar where you sit had a gutter on a horizontal angle attached to it that men peed in as they sat and drank without getting up to go to any restroom. When I saw it, it was no longer being used, but was still there. Was it that Traffic Jam place? | ||
Waxx Member Username: Waxx Post Number: 169 Registered: 09-2006 |
Detroitteacher, I'll take back what I said about the teachers seeing that I've never worked @ Cooley before. AND I heard that Mumford-Jerry Bruckheimer's Alma Matter-is the (stuff). But I will stand by this, some schools I've worked in, the teachers are just as bad as the students-SOME of them. Maybe I overlooked this thread, but has anyone mentioned JLA as well as the (outhouses) on Belle Isle? Some of the restrooms there STILL have troughs! Unbelievable! Best-Fishbone's downtown/St. Clair Shores The Beach Grill/Aqua Room The Compuware Bldg. Sears (Lakeside, Eastland) Macy's (Somerset, Lakeside, Oakland Mall, Chicago, Ill.) Barnes and Noble Worst-Borders (most locations) Some DPS buildings I've worked in over the last 12 years (2 many 2 name) Burger King Some Coney Island restaurants Some gas stations (did I have 2 mention THIS one?!?) Hey, some schools I've worked in, if the restrooms were heavily damaged, we'd condemn it 4 the rest of the semester. You'll be surprised which one(s) of these schools that shockingly never made the list. | ||
Frank_c Member Username: Frank_c Post Number: 1035 Registered: 10-2003 |
I find it very disturbing that DPS would have bathrooms in such a condition. When I was growing up they were pretty pristine and kept that way. If they were messed to badly there would be hell to pay. | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 4448 Registered: 10-2003 |
I take my first post back....Macomb Community College Library's basement was the worst bathroom in the area. None of the stalls have doors, and there are gloryholoes in the side dividers. Fucking disgusting!! I had a computer class in the basement and went to take a leak. I walk in and sure enough there are two dudes ….ahem…one pleasuring the other. It was the sickest most wrong thing I have ever seen. My memory has been scarred for life. | ||
Waxx Member Username: Waxx Post Number: 177 Registered: 09-2006 |
DAMN, dude. Sodom and Gomorrah. It's like that it here @ Henry Ford HS as well as other buildings I've worked in. Seeing ANYTHING like that in public will traumatize anyone. I'm sorry that you even stumbled across that, I'd be mentally scarred 4 life myself. |
