Two passing observations may be of interest. Apparently, the finance people of the
1940s in San Francisco were still riding cable cars, rather than driving their own cars
(“The Saturday afternoon exodus from the financial district was in full blast, and he
had to squeeze to find standing room on the step that ran the length of the open car”,
p. 18), and there were “lady accountants” at CPA conventions (more on this matter in
Kirkham and Loft, 1993).