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Thread #108910 Message #2271725
Posted By: Charley Noble
25-Feb-08 - 08:58 AM
Thread Name: BS: White House Plumbing
Subject: RE: BS: White House Plumbing
According to the article above, President Andrew Jackson had a tub that was plumbed-in, while the rest of the household made do with metal tubs that were filled from kettles of hot water.
When I was growing up on the family farm in Maine in the 1940's, we still did our baths in a tub in the kitchen. There was also a hand-powered butter churn that we had to wait our turn to churn! And there were oil lamps that the adults would carry from room to room in the evening; I'm not sure why they wouldn't let a three-year old carry one. The "bathroom" was an outhouse some 50 yards from the kitchen back door, a three-holer, but with nice murals including a sailor with a concertina and a dancing yellar girl.