16 April 2009

Feces collector


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

1 comment:

  1. Rough translation:
    "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.

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