Olena Gitlesen established the town's first bathhouse in 1873. The bathhouse was located at the end of Søragadå. Olena could offer both cold and hot sea baths and was listed as a "bathing wife". She was popularly known as "Bade-Olena".

There were both cold and warm sea baths. For cold sea baths, there were large wooden boxes that could be hoisted directly into the sea. Hot sea baths were available in an extension towards the mountain.

The water was heated in a large pot on a primitive stove that had to be fired up for each bather. The water had to be pumped up from the sea with a hand pump. Bade-Olena had a small room to herself where she made sure that everyone wrote their name in the protocol and paid for the bath. A hot sea bath cost 50 øre in 1904. ... The shower was a barrel on a stand under the ceiling. When you pulled a rope, the barrel tilted and through a strainer came the shower. From "House and inhabitants"