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Yeah, yeah. In the past number of months there have been continuing complaints from some citizens about certain of the acts that have taken place in san Francisco having to do with the nudity and other things. Now it's interesting that in the matter of a few weeks

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uh that broadway hit called Care will be playing at the Geary Theatre. And so whatever legislation is drafted is going to have to be very, very circumspect and very careful because to a certain extent we will be uh then going into a realm of constitutional law

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as to the fact and they have decided that nudity in and of itself is not necessarily a bad or wrong and it's all in the way that it is presented. Now, we're in an area of a very fine legal points and I would expect that the

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supervisors will not rush into something like this. I think at least personally I will want to hear from the community and from the people in san Francisco to get a feeling about what should we as a local body allowed to take place in our city. It

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all began on this street Almost overnight, SAn Francisco became the topless capital of the world and the nightclubs featuring various Topless act started springing up along broadway and columbus. First, it was limited to one or two entertainers per show, but the business eventually grew to include

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waitresses and now the advertising says Bottomless has been added to the repertoire. Then, in April 1965, the city made an effort to shut the clubs down with a series of raids reminiscent the prohibition era of the 1920s, two of the clubs were brought to trial, but

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the cases were thrown out for insufficient evidence. Since then, with the exception of some isolated arrests of specific acts, the city has avoided any action involving the club's chiefly because it was ruled the area of regulation had been preempted by the state. Now the legislature has

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passed, and the governor says he will sign a bill giving regulatory rights to the local communities here, Ali Oto, at a morning news conference, made his position very clear. Let me put it this way. If the board of supervisors sends an ordinance to me banning Topless,

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I would sign it. The mayor added, however, that he could not understand why the Legislature was so anxious to give the local communities control over the topless acts, while at the same time seeming to want to take away their right to register guns. There are others

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who feel that the initial shock of the topless acts as long since worn off and that if they are just left alone, attrition or bankruptcy will take care of most of them. Rollin post for eyewitness news in North Beach.