I just couldn’t quite remember. It was a long time ago.
I know the first night we were in a temporary or processing barracks and that one probably had no stalls. But I was in a daze that first night. My first time flying getting there and a very cold bus trip to the base.
^^I remember waiting for the TI to show up at the airport [he was running late] to get us on the bus, and I was still playing a video game. Needless to say–we started off on the wrong foot!
During my father’s WWII service (if I understood correctly), his barracks was the former civilian changing rooms on a beach in California. I never asked where the head was and what it was like
The pit toilets in some Boy Scout camps (like Philmont) were primitive two-seaters. They were called “pilot and co-pilot”. We kept looking for the mythical “pilot and bombardier” two-seater.
There was a mall in the Champaign-Urbana (Illinois) area that had half-high toilet dividers. The walls were about 40 inches tall, so you could easily converse with your neighbor without seeing their private parts. At least, until they stood up. (To stop drug deals, of course.)
While it’s been steadily on the decline for the last 50ish years, it’s always seemed like the gym class syllabus had an extra item just for the boys. That they have to all be naked in the same room, at the same time, at least once during each class. Whether it was swimming naked in the 60s or being required to shower, and shower naked, in the 70’s or not having doors on the bathroom stalls [whenever that was, sounds 80s-90s-ish].
Back in 1989 mrAru and I visited Eugene Oregon via whichever route went through Idaho, and one of the rest areas on that route [and it was a major route was a 2 seater, and if you wanted to wash your hands you had to jump a fence to a cow trough. Looking at a map, Rt 20 I am pretty sure.
I lived in a dormitory my first year away at college. Shortly after move-in, we had a floor meeting which covered some new rules. The two showers (per bathroom, two bathrooms per floor) were laid out such that they were adjacent to each other with a wall between but no doors or curtains. A new rule was to only let one bathroom’s shower be used at a time. I’m not sure what had happened the year before to have this put into place.
Another rule, possibly related, explicitly banned masturbating in the showers. The RA said something like “We may never know if it was shampoo or jizz.”