Steamed Muscles

In 1902, Turkish and Russian steam baths on York Street dispensed post-inebriation sauna-style relief to hard-partying post-Labor Day celebrants. Welcome to This Day In Getting Steamed History as your host Allan Appel and the New Haven Museum’s Jason Bischoff-Wurstle take you back.


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