After we toured The Flying Pig Studio, Eric met us at Bowl Plaza in Lucas. He told us that Lucas tries to take advantage of any grants that they can get. They needed a public restroom for tourists in town and there wasn't any funding available for that. However, they could get a grant for a restroom facility that was artistic and a piece of art by itself and that is what they did. It wasn't finished when we were there but what was done was fantastic! We would love to stop by in a year or so and see it done. The picture above is Eric opening the door to the rest room facility. The door is part of the seat of the large toilet bowl. The walls inside and out were done in mosaic tiles by people in the town. You can see one of them working in the picture below.
The women's restroom was done in things that interest women while the mosaics in the men's room were done in things that would interest men, like cars!
The sidewalk around the toilet bowl is a large roll of toilet paper! The building the restrooms are in is shaped like a toilet tank and the benches in front of the building are curved like a toilet seat. They had their grand opening or "First Flush" on June 2nd, 2012 so we were a bit to early to see it, however, it was fun to see the construction of it.
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