Why Mom Bailed on That Mad Men Era Gig

Nashville writer Carrington Fox reminds that in those halcyon Madison Avenue days, it paid to be male.

For Nashville-based writer Carrington Fox, each viewing of Mad Men comes with a delicious bonus. The live and-or relayed observations of her mother Sandra, who worked back in the 1960s at the New York offices of J. Walter Thompson.

Fox, who writes restaurant and food reviews for The Nashville Scene, today in that same publication shares some tales from mom’s earliest career days. Sandra vouches for many of the AMC series details, but says she never saw the booze flowing at her real-life end the way the show portrays it.

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