By the early 1960s, news reports highlighted the fact that calling a bubbler a bubbler was the sure sign of being a Milwaukeean. "Why Milwaukee uses this term … is hard to say.

Inexplicably, public water fountains here are called bubblers and pretty much only here. There are some in Rhode Island, for some reason, but the vast, vast majority of the nation adopted ...

Drinking taps, water fountains or bubblers; whatever you call them, there is a divide within the community over how hygienic they are to use. Anna-Marie Shew told ABC Radio Melbourne that, while ...

“From this water bubbler [at Olin Park] until around Olbrich Park, there’s like six or seven bubblers,” he said, “and then from Olbrich Park to here, there’s one. ...