Today I walked through a high school hallway, and as I did I drank from every water fountain I could find, just for kicks and nostalgia. And I noticed something I’d forgotten from my youth- public school water fountains have white knobs (used to activate the water) that say (if I remember correctly) E B C D (and have a triangle too, unless I’m mistaken). I’ve googled it, and found nothing but stuff about emergency boot CDs :p. What the hell is EBCD triangle?
If you can answer this question, you get out of detention next saturday.
That sounds vaguely familiar. Wasn’t the triangle one of the letters?
I’m guessing it was just a popular brand at the time, and probably a high end one at that if they’re still around.
I Googled 'EBCD water fountain" and the first hit told me that it’s actually Ebco, which is just a brand name.
I’m guessing it’s defunct at this point because all I can find are Ebco parts but not much about the manufacturer.
My elementary school had one of those fountains! It was an adult-sized fountain near what was originally the junior high wing of the school. I think that school was built in the early 70’s.
And the worst part is, I can’t even come up with a funny back-ronym for what EBCO might stand for in relation to school, except maybe Every Body Craves Out (of school).
The sad thing is that there’s no wikipedia page on this Ebinger fellow. I wonder what he would think if he knew his company was responsible for the watering of millions of public-school mind flowers across the US.
Reminds me of all restaurant drinking glasses in Europe, the brand name debossed in the bottom in mirror image, so the user, looking down through his water glass, would see “Duralex – Made in France”.
