Word: washrooms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIRST spawned in the ghetto, drug addiction quickly spread to the middle-class suburbs, colleges and high schools. Now, in corporations across the country, the cloying whiff of marijuana in the stairwell and the hastily dumped syringe in the washroom attest to the rapid growth of on-the-job drug users...
...citizens turned the two-night extravaganza into a community project. The Minsky show was staged in the nearby Shubert Theater, and post-performance parties were thrown at the Gayety. Some 100 lady volunteers scrubbed away part of the Gayety's grime and even painted over the most unsavory washroom graffiti. Sixty years of libidinous musk was impossible to eradicate, however; before the opening-night party, Flit guns filled with Nettie Rosenstein perfume were distributed among the ladies...