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Who blanked out the words "nude" etc. on the strip club signs? Binksternet (talk) 08:52, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

It was done by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. They passed a sign ordinance in 1973. A Google search turned up this journal.[1]

"Doda's likeness, depicted on a forty-foot sign complete with red, illuminated ... mate” sex-related businesses like strip clubs and massage parlors encouraged ...... lobbied successfully in 1973 for an ordinance forbidding the display of signs .... pornography zoning ordinance in San Francisco. ..."

http://juh.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/32/3/355

Excavating the Postwar Sex District in San Francisco

Josh Sides

California State University, Northridge

Journal of Urban History, Vol. 32, No. 3, 355-379 (2006)

DOI: 10.1177/0096144205282713

-- Swtpc6800 (talk) 17:54, 25 April 2009 (UTC)