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“Why can’t going to the outhouse be more fun?”

Marvin, being very musical, finally found his answer

For over twenty years Jammin’ Johns has made

going to the bathroom a pure joy!

It all started as a boyhood dream of Marvin Maxwell, the chief inventor and ‘visionary’ of Jammin’ Johns.  Growing up in a rural farming community in southern Indiana in the 1940s, young Marvin would gaze at the stars in the night sky and wonder, “Why can’t going to the outhouse be more fun?”

True, that was a simple request, for which since the beginning of time, mankind has searched for an answer.  Previously, many things had been tried.  The Sears catalog craze of the 1920s, the advent of ‘flow through’ ventilation (aka “crescent moon”) in the 1930s, but still, something was missing.

As the 1950s arrived and popular music took hold, we started to see and hear ‘The Great Ones’,  Jerry Lee Lewis and Elvis Presley.  Marvin, being very musical, finally found his answer.  But it would take time and courage to execute his ‘plan’.

Fast forward to the early 1990s.

The second millennium was rapidly ending.  There was already talk and fear about what would happen when the clocks ticked that last ‘tock’ on December 31st, 1999.  Would the planes fall from the skies?  But Marvin wasn’t worried.  He was prepared.  He had been planning.

In his workshop he worked tirelessly perfecting his design.  Measurements had been made. Dimensions had been taken.  Tall, short, wide, and narrow, he knew everyone could now be ‘satisfied’.

After the original ‘masters’ were made, the first units arrived from their artisan’s workbenches. Now there was nothing to do but ‘hang on”.

It was non-stop barrage of phone calls, television appearances, radio interviews, magazine articles and the like.  Marvin’s Jammin’ Johns had taken off and he hardly had time to catch his breath!

Jump to today.

Jammin’ Johns has set the new standard for toilet ‘etiquette’.  Their research labs continue to strive for improvement but it’s awfully hard to improve on what is essentially so ‘perfect’.