![]() ![]() The Unsinkable Molly Brown moved in bringing a touch of Titanic fame. 700 small rooms were available over a lobby beyond which men could not go. In 1927 the problem was solved when the Barbizon Hotel was built as a women’s only hotel and adventuresome females found it to be the answer to safety and opportunity which would be their ticket out of town. ![]() However, many families of young girls who came from California, the Midwest and across the USA did not feel their daughters would be safe and able to survive life alone in the Big City. ![]() Careers in business, the arts, medicine, the politics, were there for the pursuing. The Barbizon is written by Paulina Bren, a noted historian and teacher of international, gender and media studies at Vassar College and everything in it really happened.The bustling 1920s brought an itching to many bright, ambitious young women who wanted to experience the exciting lives that men found between wars and The Depression. ANSWER: When that hotel is located in New York City and spans 70 years of pre-flapper days until its closing on Valentine’s Day, 1981. ![]()
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