Some helpful hints for tourists visiting the city in 1920, courtesy of Valentine’s City of New York: A Guide Book, a popular travel handbook covering where to go and what to do in Gotham in the early 20th century:
The most interesting “don’t” farther down on the list concerns female smoking, a new social scourge hitting big cities around the time the book was published:
Tags: female smoking, New York in the 1920s, traveling to New York City, Valentine's New York City Guidebook
November 3, 2008 at 2:41 pm |
Nice to see that some things never change! Almost all of the above still apply. Funny, there was finally a moratorium on gawking at women smokers, but the gawking is now back with a vengence. This time men are the victims as well.
November 3, 2008 at 5:41 pm |
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January 4, 2010 at 5:21 am |
found this out http://www.actlikeanewyorker.com