Chapter Six. The Popcorn. The Movie. The Idea. We bought the largest Diet Coke and bucket of popcorn we could buy. Sat near the front. It was fun to watch this movie in the town where it was filmed. You could hear farmers in overalls saying "Hey, there's Ben's dog!" Janice liked the movie. She cried. A lot.

As we filed out of the movie theater, we stopped to take one last restroom break before hitting the road to my mother's. We walked out into a nice Iowa summer night. Holding hands.


Epilogue I. As we drove away from Winterset, Janice pointed out how we'd actually visited more bathrooms than bridges in Madison County. "Hey," she said, "that would make a cool book...." or website.

Epilogue II.  This website, The Bathrooms of Madison County, was launched on February 14, 1996.  It won numerous awards and recognitions during the early days of the world wide web.

Epilogue III. Janice Putman and Allen Bukoff were married on February 4, 1998, and are living happily ever after with a house full of cats in Birmingham, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. What have we been up to? Viewing our digital Christmas cards will give you an idea.

The end.



Filmed entirely on location in Madison County, Iowa.
All photographs and text by Allen Bukoff and Janice Putman.
Contact us at allen & janice


Honored, proud, thrilled, and flattered to be

Netscape Gold Rush Contest

Web Design
Honorable Mention
May 7, 1996
Site du Jour of the Day
May 27, 1997

Cool Site
of the Hour
as well as having received many other now-defunct awards & recognitions



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