Museum Offers Straight Poop About T.P. History

Museum Offers Straight Poop About T.P. History

GREEN BAY, Wis. (Wireless Flash) – The history of toilet paper usually gets the bum’s rush, and one researcher thinks that’s crappy. Michael Telzrow is the curator of “Privy To The Past: Inside America’s Most Private Room,” an exhibit dedicated to the toilet that opens April 27 at the Neville Museum in Green Bay, Wisconsin. Telzrow calls toilet paper one of the greatest developments of the 20th century and a vast improvement over the corn cobs and newspapers used in the past. Green Bay’s Northern Paper Mill is credited with creating modern toilet paper in 1902, but the stuff felt like sandpaper. In fact, it wasn’t until 1935 that toilet paper was advertised as “splinter-free.” Although Telzrow is flushed with excitement over the T.P. exhibit now, he admits he thought the idea “stunk” at first.

Thu 04-18-02