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_Silver_Engineer_ t1_isvmaxw wrote

Was that because WWII had destroyed the infrastructure or indoor plumbing just hadn't caught on before the war?

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sektabox t1_isvsw9a wrote

Nope. That's just how it was.

There was one bathroom per floor for 3 apartments where I visited. Not the most comfortable experience.

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Randomly_Cromulent t1_isxtvhq wrote

I was there several years and was looking for hotels. Somebody online recommended one because of its location and it was close to a subway station. I immediately dismissed that one because it had a shared bathroom.

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fuckthewholeroster t1_iszxmr0 wrote

My dad remembers 1-3 communal toilets for an entire street and he’s 63. Europe didn’t evolve much beyond the late medieval periods for a very long time.

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refugefirstmate t1_it8ksfr wrote

Hence the development of the bidet (not the recent bidet attachment; the fixture that looks like a mashup of a toilet and a sink) - it took less room than a bathtub and used a lot less water, so you'd straddle it to wash your naughty bits in between your weekly bath.

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goug t1_it0c0b3 wrote

I don't know, wasn't Europe like just a couple of decades behind urban America?

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fuckthewholeroster t1_it1nqwn wrote

The European landscape was dominated by farms, horse carriages and cobblestone roads for a very long time. The America of the 50s looked like a space age civilization compared to my own country back then lol.

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