FRANCE
OUTMODED
3/24/61

The modern world inevitably got around to attacking the most comforting, if not the most beautiful, of Parisian landmarks: the public urinals, or vespasiennes, a quaint sight for tourists and a source of endless jokes. Once they were a sign of social progress and masculine democracy; now the Paris municipal council heartlessly ruled that the pissoirs were outmoded. The last one would be razed by 1963.