Back in the day, the Women's Lounge haven must have seemed like heaven, with its elegant proportions and ornate architectural detail, not to mention 12 telephone booths, paid showers and an adjacent beauty parlor. Yet by the time the station opened, flappers with boyish "bob" haircuts were challenging old norms and the women's lounge was already on its way to becoming obsolete. Only a few years ago, long after the room had been closed to the public, Amtrak used it as a storage spot for train schedules, brochures and other paper goods. A dropped ceiling concealed its big spaces and fine-grained decoration.