New Orleans Square/Frontierland:



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Is that a preliminary drawing, or did they re-configure and enlarge the restrooms since? Something's not right.

The corridor to the NOMK elevator and such is there, but the NOS Restrooms don't look right at all. The Ladies might be correct, never been in there myself...

But the Mens Room is not south of the Ladies and east of the corridor, it's on the West side between the corridor and the tracks.

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It's a plot from around 1980-87 (just a guess); whether or not the bathrooms changed or whether or not the drawing is accurate is beyond my knowledge.

In that the railroad is labeled "Santa Fe & Disneyland Railroad", that would put it at pre-1975. (Or possibly soon thereafter, if drawn by someone who wasn't aware that the Santa Fe sponsorship had ended.)

It looks like a drawing that was updated whenever something new was added; Big Thunder Mountain is present on the drawing, but traces of Nature's Wonderland are still there--not quite erased-- indicating that this was an early drawing to begin with that hadn't been modified yet when it came to the station name.

Oh - Well, it's kind of hard to see the BTMRR part, we only got the slice online, not the whole drawing...

That's not too unusual a method - I've used it myself. But those kind of interim drawings are usually reserved for internal use. They do an 'erase and replace' on a copy of the old print to get all the details right even though the linework might be a bit shaky, and send it around for all the approvals - or blue-pencil markup if they spot more changes. Once approved, then the draftsman invests the time to lightbox and trace over it with a drafting machine and the proper inking pens, and complete a finished a new drawing where the revisions were made.

That could be quite a bit after 1975 if they never noticed the name had changed, but I'm guessing it's from before.

And I'm betting that the restrooms were soon judged too small - ref: Google "Potty Parity" - architects and building codes historically never allotted enough ladies' room stalls to older public venues, and the lines formed around the building... So the Mens Room moved to a new space on the west side of the hall next to the tracks later - and the Ladies Room would simply knock down a wall and expand to take all the former Mens space on the east side of that hallway facing Front Street. Change the urinals to a few more stalls and sinks, Done.

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