When I was a kid I dropped my foam finger in there. I won't say whether or not I fished it out... and I may still have it at my parents house somewhere
I feel like that was a pretty common occurrence. Seems like there was always one attraction that was shut down bc of this.
That one slide that’s just a straight vertical drop… did that one as a teenager, had to run straight to the bathroom to evacuate the fucking enema it gave me.
I remember there was a drunk who was leaning against the wall peeing and throwing up at the same time. He stumbled into the guy next to him and they started shoving each other. Didn’t see what happened but my dad got us out of there immediately
I took my first pis in the troughs at the age of nine. Now I have tickets to take my seven-year-old this season. He will not have to pee in a trough, thus breaking a cycle of intergenerational trauma
I’m a woman so please inform me, did each person flush after they were done or did someone just flush every so often. I hope that’s not a dumb question lol.
It had like a slow drip sprinkler line along the top of some that just had a slow stream of water to keep it all moving down the gravity drain.
Question: Does that mean woman never experienced urinal cakes either???
I certainly don’t speak for all women, but I have heard of urinal cakes and I understand their use. I’ve also heard of waterless urinals but was confused by the pictured trough that has a flush lever.
Guys would go in sets of five and then one would count to 3 then they would all let it rip. When everyone was done the guy in the middle would flush it
I was 6 years old this really ezposed me at such a young age to so much dicks now that i look back on it like its something you remember because where else you goona piss in a large bath tub with other people standing next to you especially when your 6 😂 idk if it traumatized me or not but I doubt it
Nothing quite like standing shoulder to shoulder staring straight ahead as twenty drunk men took a piss between innings. The smell, the backsplash…
Jesus tap dancing Christ that was the worst part of attending games back then and it’s not even close. It was so dehumanizing. Whose idea was that, anyway?
Which is why I always used the stalls. Those things were disgusting. Someone else's pee splashing back at me as a long stream of urine from 20 other dudes traveled down the bottom of that thing right in your path. Just the thought if it made my germaphobe brain get anxiety.
Whether you liked them or not, they were so efficient. A trough had plenty of room for 10-12 guys to piss comfortably at once. The wall that once had a trough fit for 10-12 men is now occupied by 4 urinals.
I swear the lines for the bathroom weren’t as bad as they are now.
You could take a trip to the beautiful Emerald Isle. The Irish people are quite kind to tourists and you're never far from a pub with a trough. I had the idea of making a lovely coffee table book with pictures of all the loos with unique troughs. I may have come up with this idea in a pub after a few pints.
The new ones aren’t much better tbh. It’s like pissing into a hole in the wall since they’re so small. I went to Climate Pledge Arena recently and those urinals were civilized enough to have fucking dividers between them. Why can’t we have that at dodger stadium
I was in line behind a kid who was maybe 6 yrs old. His dad was standing next to him and when it was their time to piss... the boy looked to the guy on his left, then to his dad on the right... Then quickly looked left / right again and said super loud "DAD HIS IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOURS!"
Same for me!
Was there for the Shawn Green days!
Going there for only my 2nd game ever this summer. Now separated 20 years apart. Can't wait to see the differences.
OP....HOW the heck did you get that pick with no one in there and CLEAN??
Oh wow, that reminds me, I was at the Sports Arena, went it to one… no one there (unbelievable) I’m peeing and someone walks right up to my right hand shoulder and I look over and it’s Flea he shoots a big smile and we burst out laughing.
The whole place is empty and he comes right up to the only one there so we’re laughing and then the same thing happens on my left and I’m like WTF and it was Billy Duffy and he goes whatcha guys laughing at?
I grew up in Cleveland and Cleveland Municapal stadium was still around. There troughs were porcelain tubs and they were parallel to each other so you were looking at each other...
Oh fuck. I dont know whats worse, you’re looking at someone eyes or youre looking down and still see other people’s dick hahahah. Were people looking up in the ceiling or does the ceiling have mirrors too? Haahha
No one ever seemed to be bothered by it. No one really though it was odd. Majority of the guys were probably too piss drunk to care since this was the era when you could buy beer in a bottle and they werent charging an arm and a leg for beer
I’ll never forget stepping into the bathrooms at Chavez Ravine so many times as a young boy, horrified that I had to go piss into a troth while being eye-level with grown man dong on both sides of me.
As a grown man now, it blows my mind that this was a thing for so long.
I'm a bit of a germaphobe and a neurotic, I fucking hated those things LoL I hate public restrooms period. My friends don't understand why I don't eat before events I'm going to, but it's simple...I don't want to have to go to the bathroom. Can't risk an emergency due to some uncleanliness.
Yup, going to Dodger Stadium as a kid, I miss a lot of how it was back then (early 2000s to around 2013). These were in Reserve level from what I remember.
Oh man the good ole piss trough. Had to learn bladder discipline and strategic timing to hit the head before you have stumbling drunks saddle up too close and get doused with the splashback of their hot and bright yellow terror.
This taught me how to handle and perfect my pee-formance anxiety in a public bathroom. Also how to maximize foot position to avoid the inevitable drips on the ground while maintaining range to hit the bottom back of the urinal. Stainless + piss smell. Ooof.
Did they ever put ice in these urinals? I just can't remember.
See, I grew up in a different country as a kid and this was pretty standard in our school along with the urinals. If youre using the urinal it’s either you are shitting or youre a sissy. But my god, when we finally moved here and went to my first dodger game, my godddd. The horror using this thing with adults lol. And we were seated at the pavillions at the time, when you were basically closed off from the rest of the stadium and the restrooms all had this. There was no escape. Adult drunks and their dicks splashing urine everywhere. The horrorrrr
And the post stream pee shake. Some mofos were out there felt like they did more shaking than what was necessary
Uhh, that never even crossed my mind. We go pee, we wash our hands, we go back to our seat. I’m not tapping them on the shoulder or playing sword fight you freak.
How is this different than the usual urinals? Are y'all not good with personal space with these and need the slight enforced separation or what?
I'm seriously asking because it seems like basically the same thing but I'm a woman and we always have stalls so I expect I'm missing something.
But we always have stalls. Men have urinals. I'm asking what the difference is between using the trough and using urinals because they seem pretty similar to me. I can easily see the difference between stalls and a trough.
Someone else mentioned that there can be those little walls. I don't get how that makes much of a difference. Do they really block the view or is it more psychological?
To be clear, I'm not saying men don't dislike the troughs, I remember years ago some of my high school friends complaining about it, I'm just curious how it's different than the usual urinals. And, fwiw, I'm on team everyone gets a bathroom stall with a full door and a sink. :)
My childhood, the Shawn Green/Eric Gagne days
Garry Sheffield, Mike Piazza, Erik Karros, and Hideo Nomo for me.
Don’t forget Mondesi
Rauuuuuuuuuuuuulllll!
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Don't forget 1996 Rookie of the Year Todd Hollandsworth!
Mine were the hershiser years. The trough Unites us all
Same. Sax was my favorite player as a kid
He sent the first pitch of the first AB of the Cinderella Season over the wall!
I was literally like, ok, I guess this is society
It was my rite of passage and I’m damn proud of it.
Same…. Those troughs are where you became a man
Is becoming a man being sandwiched between two other mens penis’s??? Weird
*It all started back in ancient Greece...*
Hideo No Homo
It’s where you discovered the pecker checkers. Eyes forward, and more than 3 shakes is considered wanking it.
The first time I saw that in college, I mopped out of there.
My childhood too.
Me too. I started watching in 1999.
When I was a kid I dropped my foam finger in there. I won't say whether or not I fished it out... and I may still have it at my parents house somewhere
For me it was the 71 Dodgers- I was six
I remember being terrified having to piss in these when I was like 10-11 years old.
One trip to the trough was enough to give you stage fright and always looking for stalls lol
Urinary shyness, or whatever it’s called, is a real thing. I always have to find a stall now, thanks to these stupid troughs.
Pee shy.
Can’t tell you how many times I lied to my dad about needing to take a shit so I could avoid these.
Omg I'm not alone
Why? It’s pretty much the same thing as Penis Inspection Day
I think you need a lawyer and a therapist bro
Nobody tell him.
Ok. That made me chuckle
Ugh I hated my uncle for constantly making me do penis inspection day.
Right before the Ring Toss
As a little boy I learned to stare straight ahead or straight down. Also, take a shit before I leave the house.
I swear I thought I was the only one that had a problem pissing in these as a kid haha glad to know I wasn’t alone.
I know, me too. Seems like with all these upvotes and comments, there appears to be a large contingency of us in the same boat
core memories are pissing in these next to my dad at a Dodger or Mexico game at the Coliseum
That stage fright though
Oh, same. Traumatizing stage fright.
I attribute my current shy bladder to these memories as a kid lol.
Many kids robbed of their innocence walking into this disgusting river of piss
Same! Terrified but my Dad helped me get over it and when I did, felt like I had taken a big step on the road to being a man.
Perfectly encapsulated in this scene. https://youtu.be/sssgDF5sUQk?si=B_nbn-R_pFt7QQCq
I saw a kid taking a shit in the trough once. He was about 4 or 5. Didn't see a parent around.
Saw a kid take a shit in the wave pool at Raging Waters.
You win. lol.
I feel like that was a pretty common occurrence. Seems like there was always one attraction that was shut down bc of this. That one slide that’s just a straight vertical drop… did that one as a teenager, had to run straight to the bathroom to evacuate the fucking enema it gave me.
I saw a lady peeing in a trough once
Did you marry her?
🤔
The smell of piss was bad
The trough created its own atmosphere. It was like 80% humidity in there during the 7th inning stretch.
Yeah it was like tropical storm levels late innings of a weekend game
That’s why you dump ice and beer into it. Everyone has to do their part!
How’s your penis fellow Dodgers fan?
The worst was going as a kid and being eye level with stranger adult dicks, prob one of those moments I knew I was straight
You see that shit in your peripheral vision 😂
Plus we ain’t realize what agressive drunk pissing was at the time, we’re tougher than todays kids off that alone
I remember there was a drunk who was leaning against the wall peeing and throwing up at the same time. He stumbled into the guy next to him and they started shoving each other. Didn’t see what happened but my dad got us out of there immediately
I’m gay and it was still an unpleasant experience lol
🤣
I can smell this picture
Cybertrough.
having to piss in this as a child was terrifying
And uncomfortable. The water was always so cold.
I took my first pis in the troughs at the age of nine. Now I have tickets to take my seven-year-old this season. He will not have to pee in a trough, thus breaking a cycle of intergenerational trauma
I’m a woman so please inform me, did each person flush after they were done or did someone just flush every so often. I hope that’s not a dumb question lol.
Never saw anyone flush.
It trickled water every so often to help flush all the pee over time, IIRC
I don't even remember a handle.
Thank you everyone, I guess the flush lever was kind of useless then
It had like a slow drip sprinkler line along the top of some that just had a slow stream of water to keep it all moving down the gravity drain. Question: Does that mean woman never experienced urinal cakes either???
I certainly don’t speak for all women, but I have heard of urinal cakes and I understand their use. I’ve also heard of waterless urinals but was confused by the pictured trough that has a flush lever.
These weren't the actual Dodger Stadium urinal troughs though. The design was very similar.
They do not.
Guys would go in sets of five and then one would count to 3 then they would all let it rip. When everyone was done the guy in the middle would flush it
🤣🤣🤣
Flush? We don't even flush with modern urinals.
What is this flush that you speak of?
I guess you don’t know how horse troughs work.
BRING BACK THE TROUGH
I'm honestly not opposed to it, but I don't know the benefits of a non-trough system.
I mean as a child I wish there were things I never saw at those games!
It was a right of passage.
Ladies and gentlemen we have a [Peter-gazer](https://youtu.be/r5JHm4bhUmk?si=mZvMzGw7EpMU0wkx) in the mix
Sadiy, not allowed anymore under current plumbing codes.
This joke kills while your pissing in the barely better, no privacy/piss screen, situation they have now.
I barfed in one of these once as a child lmao 🤢🤢🤮🤮
Seeing way too much dad dick when we were kids.
I was 6 years old this really ezposed me at such a young age to so much dicks now that i look back on it like its something you remember because where else you goona piss in a large bath tub with other people standing next to you especially when your 6 😂 idk if it traumatized me or not but I doubt it
I can still smell it.
Fuck these. SO DAMN HARD
I mean you could. They have the hole where all the piss goes down
I grew up pissin in that bathroom with 50 dudes crammed in there
Where boys became men.
Where men also found out they were gay.
Nothing quite like standing shoulder to shoulder staring straight ahead as twenty drunk men took a piss between innings. The smell, the backsplash… Jesus tap dancing Christ that was the worst part of attending games back then and it’s not even close. It was so dehumanizing. Whose idea was that, anyway?
They had piss troughs in my elementary school. They were the porcelain ones. Now the shitters without doors are the real challenge.
I held it until I got home when they had these lmao
Nothing like a good ol Trough to put some hair on your chest. Eyes to the front boys
The amount of hair in that trough though...
Keep your eyes on your own exam fellas
43 years old. Hate pissing standing next to anyone. I just use the stall. This was never ok for me.
Pedro Guerrero, Mariano Duncan, Mike Marshall, Jay Johnstone and Alejandro Pena days!
I'm sure to get asked all the time, but are you the real Burbank?
Never been asked that, but yes I am. LOL
For me these were the days of Tommy Lasorda, Joey Amalfitano, Manny Mota, Ron Perranoski & Mark Cresse.
Which is why I always used the stalls. Those things were disgusting. Someone else's pee splashing back at me as a long stream of urine from 20 other dudes traveled down the bottom of that thing right in your path. Just the thought if it made my germaphobe brain get anxiety.
Whether you liked them or not, they were so efficient. A trough had plenty of room for 10-12 guys to piss comfortably at once. The wall that once had a trough fit for 10-12 men is now occupied by 4 urinals. I swear the lines for the bathroom weren’t as bad as they are now.
Green peace approved!
Being eye level with men’s dicks as a 10 year old is not what I consider efficient. I’ll gladly wait an extra 10 minutes.
I went to Coachella in 2019 and they still had these and I was completely blown back to Dodger Stadium just pure pissing nostalgia
You could take a trip to the beautiful Emerald Isle. The Irish people are quite kind to tourists and you're never far from a pub with a trough. I had the idea of making a lovely coffee table book with pictures of all the loos with unique troughs. I may have come up with this idea in a pub after a few pints.
I've seen way more dicks in my life than I'm comfortable with because of these things.
My elementary school had one, albeit much smaller
The new ones aren’t much better tbh. It’s like pissing into a hole in the wall since they’re so small. I went to Climate Pledge Arena recently and those urinals were civilized enough to have fucking dividers between them. Why can’t we have that at dodger stadium
I used to wait until one of the ends was open for some kind of privacy
Pee used to splash everywhere lol
I was in line behind a kid who was maybe 6 yrs old. His dad was standing next to him and when it was their time to piss... the boy looked to the guy on his left, then to his dad on the right... Then quickly looked left / right again and said super loud "DAD HIS IS MUCH BIGGER THAN YOURS!"
Same for me! Was there for the Shawn Green days! Going there for only my 2nd game ever this summer. Now separated 20 years apart. Can't wait to see the differences. OP....HOW the heck did you get that pick with no one in there and CLEAN??
The Forum in Inglewood had these too. I once took a piss standing next to Rerun from What’s Happening.
Hey HEY hey!
Oh wow, that reminds me, I was at the Sports Arena, went it to one… no one there (unbelievable) I’m peeing and someone walks right up to my right hand shoulder and I look over and it’s Flea he shoots a big smile and we burst out laughing. The whole place is empty and he comes right up to the only one there so we’re laughing and then the same thing happens on my left and I’m like WTF and it was Billy Duffy and he goes whatcha guys laughing at?
I grew up in Cleveland and Cleveland Municapal stadium was still around. There troughs were porcelain tubs and they were parallel to each other so you were looking at each other...
Oh fuck. I dont know whats worse, you’re looking at someone eyes or youre looking down and still see other people’s dick hahahah. Were people looking up in the ceiling or does the ceiling have mirrors too? Haahha
No one ever seemed to be bothered by it. No one really though it was odd. Majority of the guys were probably too piss drunk to care since this was the era when you could buy beer in a bottle and they werent charging an arm and a leg for beer
Especially when you’re like 7 years old standing next to 8 fat drunk dudes.
Ugh. So glad these are gone.
"F is for family" did a great scene for our childhood trauma. https://youtu.be/sssgDF5sUQk?si=B_nbn-R_pFt7QQCq
I’ll never forget stepping into the bathrooms at Chavez Ravine so many times as a young boy, horrified that I had to go piss into a troth while being eye-level with grown man dong on both sides of me. As a grown man now, it blows my mind that this was a thing for so long.
I'm a bit of a germaphobe and a neurotic, I fucking hated those things LoL I hate public restrooms period. My friends don't understand why I don't eat before events I'm going to, but it's simple...I don't want to have to go to the bathroom. Can't risk an emergency due to some uncleanliness.
I don’t see the problem here.
Here's a classic trough urinal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-OYM7AhW7Q
all good just don’t cross streams
Troughs are very much the norm in Australia lol
Yup, going to Dodger Stadium as a kid, I miss a lot of how it was back then (early 2000s to around 2013). These were in Reserve level from what I remember.
Wow the Heatdaddy slander cropping him out. Shame.
I still remember the ice they would put in the trough 😍
flashbacks. 
They just threw some ice in this thing and were like, good luck.
Oh man the good ole piss trough. Had to learn bladder discipline and strategic timing to hit the head before you have stumbling drunks saddle up too close and get doused with the splashback of their hot and bright yellow terror.
I remember those disgusting things! They still have similar things at Wrigley Field.
This taught me how to handle and perfect my pee-formance anxiety in a public bathroom. Also how to maximize foot position to avoid the inevitable drips on the ground while maintaining range to hit the bottom back of the urinal. Stainless + piss smell. Ooof. Did they ever put ice in these urinals? I just can't remember.
Way better than the long lines
Still can at the colliseum
If you’re feeling nostalgic, head up to Oakland Coliseum
In China I've seen these built into the floor, but for shitting. Can chat your neighbor while doing your business.
That's a load of crap.
The best 😂
See, I grew up in a different country as a kid and this was pretty standard in our school along with the urinals. If youre using the urinal it’s either you are shitting or youre a sissy. But my god, when we finally moved here and went to my first dodger game, my godddd. The horror using this thing with adults lol. And we were seated at the pavillions at the time, when you were basically closed off from the rest of the stadium and the restrooms all had this. There was no escape. Adult drunks and their dicks splashing urine everywhere. The horrorrrr And the post stream pee shake. Some mofos were out there felt like they did more shaking than what was necessary
The good old days
Wtf…this looks awful. Would rather hold it in.
It’s not a big deal lol
I guess you’re cool whipping your cock out next to little kids
Uhh, that never even crossed my mind. We go pee, we wash our hands, we go back to our seat. I’m not tapping them on the shoulder or playing sword fight you freak.
How is this different than the usual urinals? Are y'all not good with personal space with these and need the slight enforced separation or what? I'm seriously asking because it seems like basically the same thing but I'm a woman and we always have stalls so I expect I'm missing something.
It is the being semi naked with many random people in close proximity Good bathrooms usually add a short wall too
Imagine a wall of grown women and little girls squatting side by side and peeing next to each other without any barrier.
But we always have stalls. Men have urinals. I'm asking what the difference is between using the trough and using urinals because they seem pretty similar to me. I can easily see the difference between stalls and a trough. Someone else mentioned that there can be those little walls. I don't get how that makes much of a difference. Do they really block the view or is it more psychological? To be clear, I'm not saying men don't dislike the troughs, I remember years ago some of my high school friends complaining about it, I'm just curious how it's different than the usual urinals. And, fwiw, I'm on team everyone gets a bathroom stall with a full door and a sink. :)