Cultural shifts
Aug. 29th, 2014 08:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ashnistrikeOkay, 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 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?