During my childhood, houses didn’t have bathrooms, hot water, or sometimes any water. So we showered at public bath houses. Then, the capitalism came, brought hot water and took away the public bath houses one by one, replaced them with banks, hotels, and museums. The one we used the most is in the process of renovation right now to become a medical center.
Except some baths here and there that survived. According to the Internet, despite the abysmal conditions, the one below still works, and is kept like that due to a series of absurds.
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That’s such a different world than where I grew up. Maggie
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It’s difficult to imagine, I agree. Visiting a public bath also greatly restricts the frequency of the visits 🙂
On the other hand, you could pay an extra ticket for a telyak to scrub your back. You can’t do that at home.
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😂
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I was born in two rented rooms, no bathroom, shared kitchen, outside toilet – five of us. After the second world war there was a housing shortage – my father was away in the war for five years, my mother moved out of London from an area that was bombed in the blitz & the only accomodation was rented rooms. My father came home to a home for heroes! But we moved on and survived tough times.
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Never experienced a public bath!
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So interesting. You seem too young to have had that experience.
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We had communism until 1989. Communists didn’t allow my parents to live in the city so they lived in a village outside, in a house with dirt floors and an outside toilet with a hole in the ground.
I only have good memories from these times. I understand it was all wrong but didn’t know any better at the time.
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Wow interesting story
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This was interesting…what a contrast between then and now.
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Which reminds me, exiting the hot bath to the lockers area during winter was pretty shocking. The lockers area was not heated.
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Wow!
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Another piece of history destroyed, replaced. Should’ve kept some.
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Wow, I can’t imagine a house without a bathroom.
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it’s only bad if you know any better
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Hard to believe now, but there were still public baths in England in the 1970s. I used one for a period when as a young woman, I lived in a shared house where the ‘bathroom’ had no bath!
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