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At a time when jeans were a luxury, the footballers’ mullet was the height of fashion, the phrase “brotherhood and unity” an ideal, and smoking in restaurants a normal occurrence, summer holidays looked very different from today. For one thing, you didn’t need to take out a loan to travel to beautiful blue Adriatic: there was something called a workers’ holiday resort! The idea that a company could have a union and even take care to ensure its workers had a chance to rest as cheaply as possible sounds like science fiction today. Back then, however, it was common practice. “The wonderful coast of our Dalmatia offers opportunities to strengthen the health of the working masses of all the peoples of Yugoslavia. There we must create convalescent homes and sanatoriums, so that everyone who works and contributes to the community can restore their health there and then return to work with even greater zeal,” said Josip Broz back in 1946. About ten years later, his words were put into practice: workers’ holiday resorts sprang up along the coast like mushrooms after the rain. Tourism thus ceased to be reserved for the upper classes! There were several models for organizing workers’ holiday resorts: building new facilities, using existing nationalized properties, and accommodation in camps. The better companies provided decent accommodation for their workers and their families, but in most cases these were aesthetically dubious prefabricated cottages and bungalows. A typical cheap resort consisted of small pavilions with a single room, set in a park with walkways and a larger building that housed a canteen and a hall for dances. The lack of comfort did not mean a lack of fun – on holiday, comrades let their inhibitions slip, and many summer romances were born to the sound of music and dancing. During the privatization process, workers’ holiday resorts were sold off for next to nothing, and the idea of an inexpensive holiday for workers disappeared under a veil of oblivion. ​(Lucija Kapural, Povijest.hr)