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Whatever Happened to the Paper Towels?
I remember, years ago, when all public restrooms had the same towels. They were on a roll, in a dispenser, with a little handle on the right side that, when cranked, produced a never ending loop of blue cloth towel material. Eventually, paper rolls replaced cloth. I think this happened because most of us wondered how the dispenser knew where the dirty towels stopped, and the clean towels began. Next came folded paper towels in recessed dispensers and vertical rolls of paper towels that when dispensed produced a paper towel “rope”. After that came the electric hand dryer that was to replace paper forever and be environmentally friendly. Now we’ve…