Riolering vroeger. Een stronttonnetjesschepper met twee emmers vol uitwerpselen uit een huis in de Jordaan in Amsterdam op weg naar de boldootkar van de gemeentereiniging. 13 september 1953.From a time before the advent of semi-automated "honey wagons," a feces collector in Amsterdam. Note this is not "ancient history" - this was in 1953.
Photo credit: Nationaal Archiv, Spaarnestad Photo, SFA001003739
Rough translation:
ReplyDelete"Septic systems in earlier times. A faeces-drum-scooper with two buckets of excrement from a house in the Jordaan district in Amsterdam on the way to the Boldoot-van belonging to council sanitation department. 13 September 1953".
NB#1: Re the term 'Boldoot-van' for the truck that collected excrement: Boldoot is an eau-de-cologne!
NB#2: I lived in the Jordaan in the early 1980s, in a house that had no hot running water (and no shower/bath). I resorted to the communal bath-house, where for 2 guilders I could have a hot, deep bath and was supplied with 2 fresh clean towels and a bar of soap. It was a popular, friendly place. In the 1990s I lived in a street called "Badhuislaan" or bath-house-lane. The original bath house itself had burned down, unfortunately. But, by then the house that I lived in had a shower and hot running water.