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Daily Bread for Whitewater, Wisconsin: 9-8-10

Good morning,

Whitewater’s forecast for today calls for a sunny day with a high temperature of sixty-seven degrees.

There will be a meeting of Whitewater’s Tech Park Board today, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. The thorough, detailed, informative agenda is available online.

The Wisconsin Historical Society recalls the end in 1958 of an odd — very odd — ordinance of Janesville, Wisconsin:

1958 – Janesville Women Belly Up to the Bar
On this date the Janesville city council voted 4-2 to finally end a paternalistic and discriminatory ordinance that prohibited women from drinking at the bar. Since the end of Prohibition in 1933, women had been banned from being served while standing at the bar in Janesville taverns. [Source: Janesville Gazette]

Picasso was decades ahead of Janesville:



Picasso, Two Women at a Bar, 1902

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