Cultural shifts

[ashnistrike]

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.)

Comments

[savvyfan.livejournal.com]

Libraries, grocery stores, doctors' offices, hospitals, yes, yes, yes, yes.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

All the others, I remembered, but libraries, gah.