City Drunk (Sixth in series)
posted by on September 10 at 9:53 AM
Water Fountain outside the gym at Shoreline Community College.
Temperature: Finally! Cold, cold, cold. 10
Stream: Steady, high arc, but on the thin side. 6
Taste: No trace of bathroom pipe flavor. Cold water. Nothing tastes better. 10
Hum: Bona fide rumble. Although, it didn’t have much of a rhythm. 7
Style: The next-best-thing to the full-stand water fountains you can find in government office buildings and old gyms? The mid-size. As opposed to the half-assed minis that jut out from the wall, the mid-size commands a hefty chunk of real estate. And the textured facing is a delight when compared to the plain silver front you get with most minis these days. 8
Make: I was full on expecting this to be the classic fantastic Halsey Taylor or at least an Oasis or Elkay, but it wasn’t. The brand name was faded out, but it was not a Halsey Taylor.
Comments: This fountain was hidden around the corner from the gym in a dark hallway. Perfect touch: The exposed electric wiring.
Final Score: 8.2
Previously in the Drunk Series.
You go to a lot of community college gyms.....
The drinking fountain at the Northgate Target makes going there bearable and even a little fun!
Srsly what is with all of the community colleges?
Next fountain will not be from a community college.
when i was a kid I had a paper route that took me through various parts of the small city I lived in. (it was an out-of-town newspaper.) I always had a dream of compiling a database of all the public water fountains in the city. sadly, there was no web then and i'm even sure i knew what a database was.
please review at least 100 fountains.
take you own cup - then all is well
a few years back downtown had all these gushing very cold fountains - now none of them even work
sad
Awesome! The art of the water fountain: not dead.
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