History of urban nightlife in America
September 29, 2016 10:42 AM   Subscribe

Here are 12 interesting facts about urban nightlife from Peter C. Baldwin’s article for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History, which shows how times have greatly changed and, remarkably, how some things have remained the same.
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Theater audiences used to talk amongst themselves much of the time during performances. With the house lights kept up, audiences paid as much attention to socializing and people-watching as to the performance.

So not so very different from today, then.
posted by Kitteh at 10:56 AM on September 29, 2016 [2 favorites]


But the lighting of oil lamps to enable texting was a greater fire hazard.
posted by GenjiandProust at 12:36 PM on September 29, 2016 [2 favorites]


10. The invention of television...

11. In the late 1940s and 1950s young hipsters at the time listened to bebop jazz, ...

12. Rock concerts in Boston were banned at one point. .


As a list, these don't hold together very well, and the items contain a lot of generalizations. More Buzzfeed than Oxford. Oxfeed?
posted by QuietDesperation at 2:43 PM on September 29, 2016


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