Al Hilde was a young Army recruit stationed at Fort Hood, Texas, back in the late ’50s. Early on, he learned not to like latrines. It wasn’t just an Army issue either. He thought about construction sites where there were no bathrooms. An idea began to take shape in his mind about creating a business to provide private, sanitary bathroom facilities in places where permanent bathrooms were not available. Of course, if he did build a business, it would need a name.
In the fall of 1957, the most newsworthy story was about sputnik, the first ever satellite. Hilde knew he
