In Calico, a restored ghost town, there’s a display that looks like a caldron in front of a shack. Painted on the caldron is “Back Scrub 5¢” and “Full Body Scrub 10¢.”
“Wow, not much more to get the full body scrub,” I said, not considering that it’s double the price.
We all have a body. They all need to be cleaned. Why not get into a tub on the street and have someone else do it?
I guess modesty (or self-consciousness) was a luxury few could afford then.
There’s another display on the other side of town, which was apparently the first privately owned bathtub in town. A ten year old child would feel cramped in it, or so I thought. The owner wrote that as a child, she and three of her friends tried to get in at once and displaced all of the water onto the floor.