The history of first wave feminism is so rich with wildly exotic stuff. I mean, I know it’s it’s borne out of struggle, but shit. Can you imagine being in your early 30s, hosting who-knows-what kind of hijinks in your little tea and cake shop? Surrounded by kindred spirits? I’d do that job today. When women get together they know how to have a good time. ❤️
I'm not talented in this realim, but I would love it if someone would open the 21st-century version of the old-school radical tea room. : ) I s'pose it would look a bit different, though. Someone on Twitter was talking about a place called the Beehive Tea House in SLC, which sounded like a pretty close echo to this. They shuttered in 2013, which is super sad. And yes! First wave feminism is super wild. I feel like there's a huge repository of material that's not out there yet, because a lot of it had to be done sub-rosa, and a lot of it looked a lot tamer than it actually was!
Yes the Beehive sounded cool. I think there was also a Queens Tea Room at one time. I don’t know if you recall but downtown State street used to have psychic shops. Women would stand next to a window that was painted with a phrenologic map of the head and make mysterious gestures to passersby. Dad and I would walk past them after picking up a New Yorker at the magazine shop. Not to stare, exactly, but to watch and wonder about. :)
Ah! I didn't know about Queens Tea Room. I vaguely remember psychic shops on State (I defnitely remember the magazine shop). There was also a fortunte telling storefront in Sugar House at some point, next to the barber shop, back in the days before it was fancy and still had that crazy Sputnik sign on the corner.
The history of first wave feminism is so rich with wildly exotic stuff. I mean, I know it’s it’s borne out of struggle, but shit. Can you imagine being in your early 30s, hosting who-knows-what kind of hijinks in your little tea and cake shop? Surrounded by kindred spirits? I’d do that job today. When women get together they know how to have a good time. ❤️
I'm not talented in this realim, but I would love it if someone would open the 21st-century version of the old-school radical tea room. : ) I s'pose it would look a bit different, though. Someone on Twitter was talking about a place called the Beehive Tea House in SLC, which sounded like a pretty close echo to this. They shuttered in 2013, which is super sad. And yes! First wave feminism is super wild. I feel like there's a huge repository of material that's not out there yet, because a lot of it had to be done sub-rosa, and a lot of it looked a lot tamer than it actually was!
Yes the Beehive sounded cool. I think there was also a Queens Tea Room at one time. I don’t know if you recall but downtown State street used to have psychic shops. Women would stand next to a window that was painted with a phrenologic map of the head and make mysterious gestures to passersby. Dad and I would walk past them after picking up a New Yorker at the magazine shop. Not to stare, exactly, but to watch and wonder about. :)
Ah! I didn't know about Queens Tea Room. I vaguely remember psychic shops on State (I defnitely remember the magazine shop). There was also a fortunte telling storefront in Sugar House at some point, next to the barber shop, back in the days before it was fancy and still had that crazy Sputnik sign on the corner.
And as my personal psychic Lilli deCair put it: "It's all bullshit."
😂