Cultural shifts
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Okay, it's time to do a pass for smoking, and for the minefield that is women's choices of hats (or no hats) in 1949.
Does anyone know:
...whether smoking would have been permitted in a library--in this case an ivy league academic library?
...in bookstores?
My instinct is what the hell are you thinking, but I can only just remember what it was like to have everyone smoking inside in the first place? (It sucked, that's what I remember. But people mostly got used to it.)
Does anyone know:
...whether smoking would have been permitted in a library--in this case an ivy league academic library?
...in bookstores?
My instinct is what the hell are you thinking, but I can only just remember what it was like to have everyone smoking inside in the first place? (It sucked, that's what I remember. But people mostly got used to it.)
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Date: 2014-08-29 01:29 pm (UTC)“'I remember this vague sense of smoke in the building all the time,' she said of Widener Library. 'It’s never really gone.'”: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/5/23/smoking-ban-college/?page=single.
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Date: 2014-08-29 08:10 pm (UTC)Any idea about reading rooms for special collections? That is to say, does the Necronomicon smell like cigarette smoke? What about similar books that are valuable and rare, but not absolutely singular?
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Date: 2014-08-29 08:18 pm (UTC)Alas, good visual references don't entirely help me pick the exact hat for the exceedingly careful social dances some of these characters are stuck with. Oh well, that's what artistic choice is for. And socially sensitive beta readers.
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