(sorry, Cal, you probably hear this stuff every day)
Can't say I hear it every day, but I am familiar with everything you said Joly. Hard not to be if you live in a place for about 50 years. I do take an occasional bath,
but have never taken one of those offered on Bathhouse Row in downtown Hot Springs. Actually, like most people I think that live in a place with a goodly bit of tourism, I tend to avoid downtown Hot Springs altogether. Most of the places I need to go are South of downtown and South of Oaklawn.
This is an interesting place and I know a smattering of its history and I think some books have been written about it. I know that in the 1890s there was a gunfight between the Sheriff of Garland County and the Hot Springs Chief of Police. Don't know who won or what it was about. Also, know that gangsters and celebrities used to frequently come for the baths. Also know that there was illegal casino gambling here until Winthrop Rockefeller came to Arkansas and became the Governor and promptly shut all that down. Oaklawn survived all that since they have been a legal gambling establishment since the early 1900s.