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Looking Back: January 6


Looking Back: January 6
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On Jan. 6, 1985, Ronald McDonald gives thumbs up as mock giant seat belt is linked at the State Motor Vehicle building, on Albany s Pearl Street. (Tom LaPoint/Times Union Archive)Tom LaPoint/Times Union Historic Images
100 Years ago
Sure, let em smoke
Smack dab in the middle of the front page was this headline: “Girls, You May Now Smoke in Albany Hotels Most of You Don’t Want to, Both The Ten Eyck and Hampton Find, but the Privilege Is Yours If You Want to Exercise It.” According to managements at those and other hotels in the city, no woman had thus far “gone quite so ahead or behind as her sisters in London and publicly hit the pipe,” although an occasional woman or girl had smoked a cigarette at both establishments, generally during the after-theater hours. ....

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