Long before Amazon’s parodied coverage of this year’s Rose Parade featuring Will Ferrell and Molly Shannon went down the toilet, one contractor had the massive challenge of placing 1,100 portable restrooms along the parade route. The goal is always to have restroom access every half a block of the parade route. The locations are listed on a 20-page spreadsheet and plotted on a 4-foot map. Read more about the job here.A portable restroom in Downers Grove, Illinois, had no ties to World War II or the Soviet Union, yet it became the unlikely target of a makeshift Molotov cocktail shortly
