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From: andrew@inmet.UUCP
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Subject: Re: funny alcohol laws. - (nf)
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Date: Sat, 19-May-84 00:39:13 EDT
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inmet!andrew    May 17 13:15:00 1984

> There was also a time when the Province of Alberta had a rule that a woman
> couldn't enter a bar without a male escort.  This was within the memory of
> reasonably young people whom I knew in Montana in the mid '70s.  Sure shot
> hell out of the idea of ladies nights, besides being chauvinist.

Well, I don't know of any such laws currently in force, but I also don't 
know of any state laws *forbidding* any bar, etc. from enforcing such a
policy.  As recently as 1978, the Berkshire Hilton in Pittsfield, MA would
not allow unescorted women to enter the bar.  The local GE divisions had
a hard time convincing female applicants to accept job offers after being
treated in this manner, and finally had to threaten to lodge applicants
(of both sexes) elsewhere.
 
Andrew W. Rogers, Intermetrics   ...{harpo|ihnp4|ima|esquire}!inmet!andrew