PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — Say bye bye to the Benson Bubblers — just for a while. The Portland Water Bureau began shutting of the city’s iconic drinking fountains on Tuesday as cold ...

RANDY RASMUSSEN/THE OREGONIAN If you were hoping to take a gulp of icy water from a Benson Bubbler, you'll have to wait until the cold snap ends. By the end of today, the Portland Water Bureau ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Most of the famed Benson Bubblers will be turned off as the cold weather comes pouring in. Officials with the Portland Water Bureau say for those who rely on the fountains for ...

"We have 700 gallons of refrigerated, nice cold water," she says. "There's taps on the side; there's six taps actually, and four water bubblers on the side." ...

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.

I’d never heard of a bubbler before I came to the University of Massachusetts. In New Jersey, we say water fountain. There’s no debate whatsoever. So when someone down the hall from me said “I like it ...

As part of The Providence Journal’s “What and Why RI” series, we set out to answer why Rhode Islanders stubbornly call it a bubbler, while most of the country calls it a water fountain or ...

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 ...