It just dawned on me that Italian homes in the 1930s did not have showers, only bathtubs. Is that true?
It just dawned on me that Italian homes in the 1930s did not have showers, only bathtubs. Is that true?
Considering most homes in Italy predated modern shower plumbing, there's no reason the average home would have a shower. There were probably some retrofits (modern showers had been around for almost fifty years at that point) but...
Hell, I've been in places built around the 30s, and they only had showers as retrofit items.
My parents house was build in 1856 (Michigan, USA) and when they bought it in 1974 there still was no indoor bathroom (toilet) let alone indoor shower. It did have running water (or so says the ad in the paper) a simple hand pitcher pumps connected to a cistern. In 1951 they installed a 60-amp fuse box to run the lights that where only installed in the dinning room and living room.
My parents house was build in 1856 (Michigan, USA) and when they bought it in 1974 there still was no indoor bathroom (toilet) let alone indoor shower.
There are probably more houses like that in the US today than there were in 1974, since living off-grid has become hip and trendy.
hip and trendy
Yeah some of them make me laugh. I wish them the best but I doubt most will stay at it even for 10 years.
I was specifically asking about houses in Italy in the 1930s-1940s.
I read that in the U.S., showers became more common in the 1950s. My childhood house was built around that time and it had a standalone shower.
But the only thing I found for that time period in Europe was Britain, not Italy. And most of what I found predated 1930. More about the history of showers and showering.
Also, when I say an Italian house, I mean a two-story building where the business is on the ground floor and the living quarters are on the second floor.