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The witty phrases and photos on the fliers provide a laugh for the bathrooms' users.
"This is my favorite bathroom in Lawrence," Emily Patrick, Lenexa senior, says. "Where else can you read 'Press here for bacon' inside of a stall?"
The Jackpot Music Hall topped our list for most readable bathroom. Every inch of the walls, including inside the stalls, are sheathed with promotional fliers for bands. Bartender Caleb Kelley says the owners have been collecting the fliers from booking agents since the bar opened in 2005 and every year the old fliers are peeled off and new ones are applied.
Madeline Hyden
words of wisdom from downtown bathroom stalls
The Replay Lounge's bathrooms are a color explosion. From floor to ceiling, swirls of faces, limbs and words decorate the very small quarters. The women's bathroom boasts a Charlie's Angels painting and the Replay definitely wins for the most writing on the walls. Mostly about sex and relationships, the quotes give bathroom users something entertaining to look at. Replay bartender Shawn Lamoreaux says the bathrooms offer a unique viewing experience.
"I like to be occupied when I'm chuckin' a deuce," he says. "The fouler the stuff on the wall, the better."
Madeline Hyden
Ross Stewart
— Madeline Hyden
Not-so-surprisingly, the bathrooms have a marine-aquatic theme at The Sandbar. Upon entering the men's room, take a look up at the ceiling. There's a painting of a little boy playing pocket pool. He looks content. It takes you by surprise and it should. It's just plain funny.
The painting was once hung on the wall by the urinal, but eventually was moved. "It was a little awkward to urinate with a little boy staring at you," says Sandbar bartender John.
On top of a painting of a little boy with a hand stuffed in his pants the bathrooms have an ocean-scene theme, which is fitting. The only detail that would make these bathrooms better is if the men's room door was ever closed.
"God gave us life, Lucifer gave us choice."
"Heather, I fucked your boyfriend last year, sorry. XOXO, Ericka."
"God gives head in heaven."
"Claire, you're a sexy bitch. I hope you don't mind the HPV I gave you."
"Champagne for my real friends and real pain for my sham friends."
"Abandon all love, ye all who pee here."
At the Jazzhaus, the bathrooms look as if they were stolen from The Sandbar. On the door of the men's bathroom is an interpretation of "The Son of Man," a surrealist painting by René Magritte, in which a man in a suit's face is hidden by a green apple.
This establishment sports not one but two women's rooms, which is practical with the often-long lines for women at bars.
All of the bathrooms are covered in paintings of sea creatures, toopless mermaids, turtles and an octopus with what looks like a drug and alcohol problem (it holds five drinks and a spliff in its tentacles).
— Ross Stewart
March 5,2009
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