In 1929, at just twenty-two, Adele Bartos began working in the statistics department at the very elegant Continental and Commercial National Bank and Trust Company on LaSalle Street, 19th floor. [...]
In the novel, A Girl Like You, Henrietta Von Harmon at one point decides to leave her job as a 26 girl to become a taxi dancer at the Promenade Club, hoping to make more money. While the [...]
In the opening chapter of A Girl Like You, young Henrietta Von Harmon works as a “26 Girl” at a corner tavern, Poor Pete’s. Though virtually unknown in any other part of the country, 26 was once [...]
