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	Public bathing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bath houses were sometimes legitimate, and sometimes quasi-legitimate, conjoined with the offices of a brothel, hosting rooms for entertaining, banqueting, and purchasing and enjoying sexual services.
		Bath houses were known as 'stews', a word that then remained associated with all brothels, even those not in baths.
		In Japan, nude communal bathing for men, women and children at the local public bath, or sento, was a daily fact of life until the mid-1800s and an increase in Western influences.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bath_house (1421 words)

	The Shvitz: The Three Third Ward Bath Houses that Served Newark's Jewish Community in the 1920s/1930s
		Bath houses are mentioned frequently in the Talmud, the religious authority for traditional Judaism.
		The Charlton Street bath house was unique among the three Third Ward shvitz's because of a special addition: It was the only one of the three that had a Mikvah.
		The Mercer Baths was a typical shvitz, similar to its two competitors, the Charlton and Howard baths, with wet and dry steam, the masseurs, and all the health treatments that the typical shvitz of the 1920s era offered.
	newarkmemories.com /memories/583.php (2159 words)

	Roman Baths
		The universal acceptance of bathing as a central event in daily life belongs to the Roman world and it is hardly an exaggeration to say that at the height of the empire, the baths embodied the ideal Roman way of urban life.
		Although wealthy Romans might set up a bath in their town houses or especially in their country villas, heating a series of rooms or even a separate building especially for this purpose, even they often frequented the numerous public bathhouses in the cities and towns throughout the empire.
		Republican bathhouses often had separate bathing facilities for women and men, but by the empire the custom was to open the bathhouses to women during the early part of the day and reserve it for men from 2:00 pm until closing time (usually sundown, though we occasionally hear of a bath being used at night).
	www.vroma.org /~bmcmanus/baths.html (1222 words)

	Bath's Lost Era
		Bath was soon building lodging houses fit for the noblest in the land.
		Houses around the baths were much sought after by Elizabethan physicians competing for wealthy patients.
		It was so badly hit in the Bath Blitz that the whole west front is a post-war restoration, but the great chamber of his house is still there, with its Elizabethan panelling and elaborate chimney-piece.
	www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Bath/Tudor/LostEra.htm (889 words)

	Macomb County, Michigan Genealogy-Bath City
		The first bath house in Mt. Clemens, called the ORIGINAL, was constructed in 1873 and marked the beginning of the city's fabulous bath era, the city later to become known as the "Bath City of America," and famous around the world.
		The bath section was equipped with solid porcelain tubs of large size, the bath rooms partitioned with white Italian marble, the floors of vitreous tiling, all offering a high degree of beauty and sanitation.
		A steam laundry was included, as most bath houses found it necessary to run their own laundries to wash the vast number of towels and blankets used by the bathers.
	www.ole.net /~maggie/macomb/baths.htm (2033 words)

	channel4.com - Time Team - Roman bath houses
		The most spectacular developments in the Roman bath house, however, took place after the first imperial baths were built during the reign of Augustus by his general Marcus Agrippa.
		Indeed, the fact that the empire was so well-provided with bath houses, together with the social nature of bathing in Roman society, meant that some wealthy citizens didn't feel the need to build private baths in their own homes at all.
		The baths were also open to both men and women, although respectable Roman women would not have attended the mixed sessions that were popular for a period in Rome.
	www.channel4.com /history/timeteam/snapshot_rom_bath.html (752 words)

	Sentō - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Traditionally these bath houses have been quite utilitarian, with one large room separating the sexes by a tall barrier, and on both sides, usually a minimum of lined up faucets and a single large bath for the already washed bathers to sit in among others.
		While initially these baths were only used by priests, sick people gradually also gained access, until in the Kamakura period (1185 to 1333) sick people were routinely allowed access to the bath house.
		The narrow entrance to the bathing area was widened considerably to a regular-sized sliding door, the bathtubs were sunk partially in the floor so that they can be entered easier, and the height of the ceiling of the bath house was nothing less than doubled.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sento (4594 words)

	The Official Roman Baths Museum Web Site in the City of Bath
		From the roman britain, bath pump room earliest Roman use of Bath's natural hot the roman baths and pump room, city of bath waters to the fashionable 18th century elegance of venue hire bath, sacred spring uk the Georgian Pump Room.
		The very roman baths museum, world heritage city powerful central image of the Gorgon’s head glowered the roman baths and pump room, city of bath down from a height of 15 metres venue hire bath, sacred spring uk on all who approached the temple.
		Above all this, in the the roman baths and pump room, city of bath apex of the pediment, is a star.
	www.romanbaths.co.uk (655 words)

	Architecture Tombs
		Bath houses (called "hamam" in Turkey) had both cold and hot water baths.
		Most bath houses were public, but some were private.
		Public bath houses were always separated between men and women, either with separate facilities, or by time of day.
	www.sfusd.k12.ca.us /schwww/sch618/Architecture/Architecture_Tombs.html (577 words)

	Yonkers and the Public Bath Movement Page 4 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Both bath houses, like others erected throughout the country, featured a first floor divided into compartments, each of which had a dressing room fitted up with a rain bath (shower) supplied with hot and cold water.
		Although the city’s earliest public bath houses had answered the reformers’ calls for an easily reproducible building type that could economically provide large numbers of people with sanitary facilities, later bath houses became increasingly luxurious, at least outwardly, as the City Beautiful movement made itself felt upon the architectural fabric of municipalities throughout the country.
		However, by the beginning of the twentieth century, pools in bath houses became increasingly common as the “play movement” of the 1880s and 1890s began to exert its influence on their design.
	www.philipsemanorfriends.org /baths4.htm (536 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In 1873 the original bath house was built.
		The fountain bath house was the third bath house ever made.
		The only remaining bath house in Mt.Clemens was built by the Sisters of Charity of St.Joseph.
	www.macomb.k12.mi.us /wq/projects97/mitchell/hometown/tenn/bath.htm (147 words)

	Bath City Bistro
		Bath City Bistro provides a unique dining and diversion experience for the Metro Detroit area, centered on the Belgian sport of trough bowling.
		Bath City Bistro features three lanes of trough bowling, a Belgian sport that could be described as a cross between bocci ball and shuffleboard.
		It is played using wooden discs or balls that resemble a wheel of cheese and are rolled from one end of an trough shaped lane to the other, with the object being to land the balls closest to a feather "planted" at each end of the lane.
	www.bathcitybistro.com (316 words)

	The Georgian Times on the Web: Comprehensive news site, daily international, national and local news coverage , ...
		Bath houses have been used in Georgia for their therapeutic qualities since olden days.
		The bath house’s function was sanitary, medical and hygienic.
		The baths are filled with the natural sulphur water, which is diluted.
	www.geotimes.ge /index.php?m=home&newsid=898 (768 words)

	Roman Baths and Bathing (FalcoPhiles) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Bathing features quite a bit in the Falco novels, most notably The Body in the Bath House (2001).
		Bathing was not just a function of cleanliness to the Romans, it was a social entertainment and a way to "network" with business associates - much like a modern leisure centre.
		This bath house was in use for 300 years until the invading Goths destroyed the plumbing.
	www.falcophiles.co.uk /facts/romanbathing.html (751 words)

	Oldfields Hotel Bed and Breakfast Accommodation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		This large, elegant Victorian hotel is typical of many Bath houses - superbly positioned and built of the honey-coloured stone for which the city is famous.
		The house is beautifully furnished with modern features, yet still retains its original character with elaborate cornices and paint effects.
		Bath is also a perfect centre from which to tour the area, where you can find some of the most outstanding places of interest in England - north into the Cotswolds, south to Glastonbury and Wells Cathedral, east to Stonehenge and Salisbury, west to Bristol and South Wales
	www.oldfields.co.uk (518 words)

	Taliban Rulers Close Bath Houses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The 30 bath houses, where dozens of men would wash together, closed last week following an edict from the hard-line Muslim Taliban's religious police.
		Public baths for women were closed in 1996, when the Taliban took over Kabul.
		Mohammed Zahir, a university teacher, lamented the loss of the bath houses.
	www.rawa.org /bath.htm (371 words)

	Coffee-Houses in Bath
		In 1720-1 Thomas Sheyler gave a fresh fillip to Bath's fashionable quarter near Gravel Walks, the future Orange Grove, by opening a coffee-house on a strategic corner site at the exit of an intended pedestrian way (Wade's Passage) from Abbey Churchyard.
		The majority of subscribers would be visiting gentry, for the coffee-house offered a temporary headquarters, acceptable company, and certain basic facilities - such as a place to eat breakfast for those staying in lodgings.
		In the upper town the provision of a coffee room at the new York House hotel in 1769 was followed in 1771 by another at the Upper Assembly Rooms, which was capped within a year by the decision to build on an annexe coffee room beside the front entrance to the Rooms.
	www.building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Bath/Georgian/Coffeehouses.htm (803 words)

	Inside Japan's Bath Houses
		Here in the world's second richest nation, nearly everyone has a bath or a shower installed at home nowadays, but that doesn't stop this elderly woman and her pals from carting their towels, soap and scrub brushes to pass a leisurely hour.
		Mixed bathing used to be common several generations ago, but nowadays men and women part at the door to disrobe in separate changing alcoves.
		The bathing area itself is a spacious tiled room filled with steam.
	savvytraveler.publicradio.org /show/features/2000/20001117/bath.shtml (691 words)

	The Victoria Art Gallery, bath artists, georgian bath, portraits, thomas rowlandson
		To bath artists, georgian bath celebrate Queen Victoria's sixty years on the throne, it was decided to name the Gallery after her.
		A year later, a monumental statue of the Queen bath, victoria art gallery was placed in a niche above the Bridge Street entrance, paid for from funds walter sickert, thomas barker raised by the bath artists, georgian bath women of Bath.
		Some of the bath, victoria art gallery greatest caricaturists of the Georgian period came to Bath to create paintings and prints based on their observations of society at play in the Pump Room, Assembly Rooms, and out walter sickert, thomas barker and about in the city’s streets.
	www.victoriagal.org.uk (686 words)

	Coffee-Houses in Bath
		Bath certainly had one by 1679, probably at the sign of the Turk's Head in the Marketplace.
		At Bath, with far fewer such institutions, all parties mingled.
		In the 1760s and 1770s it was on the opposite side, next-but-one to the Pump Room.
	building-history.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /Bath/Georgian/Coffeehouses.htm (803 words)

	Chapter 5.92 PUBLIC BATH HOUSES, BODY SHAMPOO PARLORS AND TATTOO PARLORS
		(1) All applications for either a public bath house, body shampoo parlor or tattoo parlor license shall be submitted to the clerk in the name of the person or entity proposing to conduct said business and shall be signed by such person and certified as true under penalty of perjury.
		(6) The public bath house, body shampoo parlor or tattoo parlor license, if granted, shall state on its face the name of the person or persons to whom it is issued, the expiration date, the doing-business-as name and the address of the licensed public bath house, body shampoo parlor or tattoo parlor.
		The status quo shall be maintained and the clerk’s determination of revocation or suspension shall not be effective until a final judicial determination on the merits affirming the suspension/revocation is rendered.
	www.mrsc.org /mc/marysville/Marysv05/Marysv0592.htm (4860 words)

	Bath-houses, Products (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		If it is a small family bath-house, we suggest that it be build of small-diameter logs, whereas in case of a large bath-house with halls and bedrooms larger-diameter longs should be used.
		The production and construction of bath-houses is similar to that of dwelling houses and garden / rest houses.
		The inside of the sauna is additionally heat-insulated with rock wool, and the walls are covered with broad-leaved finishing boards.
	www.konvesta.lt /?en=1142402922 (104 words)

	Yonkers and the Public Bath Movement Page 5
		The publicly–sponsored pools in bath houses fulfilled both the bath house advocates program as well as the “play” leaders’ demands for supervised, year-round recreational facilities.
		Continuing the precedent established by Bath House #3, it forsakes the simple, unadorned facades of early bath houses and instead employs a number of decorative details that articulate and embellish the structure.
		Gette’s use of colored stucco surfaces and red tiled parapets may have been influenced by Bath House #4’s proximity to the Fermi Middle School (G. Howard Chamberlin, arch.; 1925)—a large Spanish Mission style school building located across the street from the bath house.
	www.philipsemanorfriends.org /baths5.htm (184 words)

	Picture index for September 2001 - San Francisco Bath Houses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first part was a full day of sight seeing and exploration, first to the early 1900 collapsed bath houses of San Francisco, and then to Angel Island via ferry for a bike ride around the island.
		Picture of the main (collapsed) bath house structure from the cliffs.
		As I understand it, the houses were destroyed by an earthquake.
	www.darkridge.com /~jpr5/pics/adventures/bath (249 words)

	BBC - h2g2 - Japanese Public Bath Houses: an Eye-Witness Account
		All along two walls was a tiled trough of hot rinse water, and close to a hundred washing stations, consisting of a plastic stool, a plastic bucket, a faucet, and a variety of soaps and shampoos: visitors sit on the stool and fill the bucket to douse themselves with.
		The baths were like shallow hot tubs, with fountainheads shaped like lions and such, with lots of moving water; it was pretty hot.
		The bath was a sulphur-smelling bath, and very hot, and to the side of this bath were two lap-deep pools separated by bamboo screens that had high-pressure downspouts of water coming down from the ceiling.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/h2g2/A147999 (1063 words)

	Roman Bath Houses
		Under the Republic, bathing became more of a luxurious art and a considerable number of elaborate bathhouses were erected.
		Many of the Thermae around the Empire were typically built with towering columns of marble on slabs of granite, skylights to let in the warm sun and twinkling stars, great fountains, the glitzy splendor of gilded bronze, statues, walls and ceilings with mosaics, marble and colored glass.
		The central unit of the baths was the warm room or great hall of the tepidarium around which all other halls and rooms were grouped.
	latter-rain.com /ltrain/bath.htm (454 words)

	Property For Sale in Bath - Bath property and Bath houses.
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	houses.forsaleinbath.co.uk (320 words)

	Bath, IL Houses, Apartments, Cars, Mortgage Status, and Residents Info
		Back to: Bath main page, Illinois, Illinois smaller cities, Illinois small towns, All US cities.
		Housing units in Bath with a mortgage: 35 (0 second mortgage, 0 home equity loan, 0 both second mortgage and home equity loan)
		This housing and residents data has been compiled from multiple government and commercial sources.
	www.city-data.com /housing/houses-Bath-Illinois.html (338 words)

	THE CONTINENTAL BATHS -- gay baths saunas gay gloryholes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Famous for its lavish accommodations, the Continental Baths was advertised as being reminiscent of "the glory of ancient Rome." The impressive features of this bathhouse included a disco dance floor, a cabaret lounge, sauna rooms, an "Olympia blue" swimming pool, and clean, spacious facilities that could serve nearly 1,000 men, 24 hours a day.
		It's an original Continental Baths towel, which was issued by Bloomingdale's Department Store for a 1973 Metropolitan Opera House Special ‘Elenor Steiber Live at the Bath house’ recorded by RCA Victor.
		The Baths were not only an expression of sexual liberation, but also heralded in a rebirth of Cabaret in the city of New York.
	www.gaytubs.com /more.htm (1646 words)

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