During and after the prohibition, the staff of public saunas had to be inventive in trying to prevent people from taking their own alcoholic beverages to the sauna to prevent the “working man’s Saturday” – which, according to a popular song by Irwin Goodman, meant that you “bathed in the sauna at five and were taken into police custody by six”. Meanwhile, older Helsinki residents remember having lemonade in the sauna, which was sold by sauna cashiers after the wars.
