Looking Back: Jan. 7 FacebookTwitterEmail Republican New York State Sen. Earl Brydges, seen on June 23, 1969 (Bob Paley/Times Union Archive)Bob Paley/Times Union Historic Images 100 Years ago Albany men 'too busy' for makeup “Albany is a man’s town — a 100 per cent masculine Burg. There are no lounge lizards, no whiskered vampirinos here. This has been proved by an investigation made to-day by a reporter for the Times-Union, who visited all of the beautifying parlors and the “make-up” shops. Other cities may stand for this sort of thing, and some of them do, but this grand old Dutch burg won’t have it.