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[-] Boozilla@sh.itjust.works 82 points 4 days ago

Yeah, it was weird. Most restaurants had a non-smoking section because allowing people to smoke everywhere was the norm. Leaded gasoline. Little kids playing with real fireworks. The 70s and 80s were a wild ride of irresponsibility.

It wasn't all bad, though. It was cool being a kid at times. Playing outside almost every day until dinner time with the other kids in the neighborhood.

[-] Bassman1805@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Non smoking section with like an 18 inch wall separating it from the smoking section. My mom almost got into a fistfight at a couple of restaurants for seating us directly next to the smoking section instead of in the opposite corner with less secondhand smoke.

[-] superkret@feddit.org 19 points 4 days ago

In most restaurants I saw there was no wall in between.

[-] sawdustprophet@midwest.social 9 points 4 days ago

In most restaurants I saw there was no wall in between.

This was my experience as well. I can still see it today in some older restaurants that haven't been renovated in years, where there's an area of the dining room with a much higher ceiling.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

I have never heard of this. And I’m a smoker and I was alive back then. (Though I was a kid.)

Does the higher ceiling go to the smoking section or the non-smoking section?

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 4 points 4 days ago

And it was usually next to the kitchen and the restrooms. Worst tables all around.

[-] ArtieShaw@fedia.io 4 points 4 days ago

No one can win on this one.

Seat the smokers in back and "oh no, I have to sit next to the kitchen and restroom."

Seat the smokers in front and "oh no, I have to walk through the smoking section to get to or from my seat, or go to the restroom."

Or at least that's how Denny's was setup in our town.

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 3 days ago

I don’t know how it was in the U.S., but where I’m from it was like 10% of the seats only, so even if they put it all on good seats, there would still be plenty of good seats for smokers.

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