A bathtub in the kitchen. Why?

There is a bath tub in the kitchen in "Beaches" as well, and I've seen an apartment in Paris that also had a tub in the kitchen.
I know when I visited the Tenement Museum the only "Plumbing" was the sink in the kitchen and one "water closet" per floor.
The only thing I can think of is most hot water had to be boiled on the stove so it would make sense that the tub would be as close the the hot water as possible to keep it(the h20) hot.

Doesn't it have something to do with all of the hot water plumbing pieces being piped near each other?

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Pipes.

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As sabrelady says, they go back to a time when water had to be heated on a stove. It was easier and made more sense to heat the water in a large pot and then empty it directly into the tub. It took quite a few of these pots to fill the tub and carrying it back and forth to another room would just cause it to cool faster. (Not to mention all the extra work!)

I remember my mom telling me that they didn't have a tub in the wc when she was little. The tub was hung up on a nail in the basement stairway and they would bring it into the kitchen at bath time. This was in Ohio so I think it was common in the old days.

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Updated On: 1/19/09 at 11:37 PM

hahaha, SNAFU, you wrote "viola."

It's funny because it makes me think of string instruments. :)

Why does noone use happy faces on here by the way?

That makes sense that the water had to be boiled on the stove. So much for the good old days, that I wished I lived in.

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And there were pipes there!

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