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first poster here--I know the maid's quarters were downstairs. My point was that they ONLY has 3 bedrooms in such a huge house. How does one have room for maids quarters, but only 2 bedrooms and 1 bathroom for 6 kids? [/quote]

Actually I knew a lot of real actual (not sitcom) families during the Brady Bunch era where the kids shared bedrooms and bathrooms. In fact, in most families I knew, everybody used the same bathroom, including the parents. Though these families did not have live-in housekeepers who wore uniforms.[/quote]

Yeah, I'm wondering how young all the posters marvelling at the kids sharing rooms and bathrooms are.  My dad designed and built our house, and we had 8 kids in 4 bedrooms, and all shared one bathroom.  (My parents did have their own, but it had to be a MAJOR emergency for us to be able to use theirs!  There was a half-bath downstairs for regular emergencies --- or you just barged in on your siblings and told them to hurry the hell up.).

We did not have a maid, nor did anyone I knew.  But I think that live-in help was just a lot cheaper because there weren't that many work options for women.  Alice would have been born in the 1920's or so, right?  So if she did not become a teacher or go to secretarial school, and didn't get married.....her options were pretty limited.  Room, board, some spending money, and an employer that wasn't a total a-hole were probably enough to keep her.  I'm seeing a great TV special with Alice's back story:

Alice dropped out of school early to work in the factories during WWII.  She fell in love with the boy next door, who then went off to the Korean War to fight and die (M.A.S.H. tie-in).  Alice always stayed close to her true love's family, particularly his little brother Mike, who she always treated like her own little brother.  After Mike's wife (Roberta) had Peter, her health suffered due to problems with a difficult delivery.  Alice was sick of factory work (particularly he sexist idiot of a boss--Laverne and Shirly tie-in),  She saw Mike and Roberta were struggling --- they all agreed Alice would move in and help Roberta with the new baby and little Greg.  Sadly, because adequate birth control wasn't available in many states in the '60s, Roberta got pregnant again and did not survive childbirth when Bobby was born.  And that's the story, till the one day that that lady met this fellow....
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