The Feminist History Behind the Ladies’ Entrance

Photo caption: A bar in Philadelphia that still keeps its “Ladies Entrance” sign. Photo credit:  JON12 / Stockimo / Alamy Stock Photo. Article by Diana Hubbell. Atlas Obscura – March 13, 2023.

In the 1970s, Shirley MacLaine strode up to the bar at Farrell’s Bar & Grill in Windsor Terrace, Brooklyn, and demanded a drink. The other patrons paused to stare—not so much because she was a famous actress, but because she was a woman. From 1933 up until that point, the bar had a strict policy against “unchaperoned ladies.” […]

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