LAT: Strip Club Forced Into a Pole Dance With Its Sign

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Strip Club Forced Into a Pole Dance With Its Sign
By Bob Pool
Times Staff Writer

August 6, 2005

A bright-red sign near the entrance to Los Angeles International Airport on Friday turned out to be inflammatory in more ways than one.

Tourists' jaws dropped and community leaders fumed when the 18-foot sign screaming "Vagina's R' Us" was unveiled in front of a Century Boulevard strip club.

Los Angeles city officials couldn't demand that the sign come down because of its content. So they ordered it removed because of its material.

Building and Safety inspectors ruled that the banner-like sign violated the city's municipal code for pole-mounted signs because it was printed on combustible plastic vinyl.

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[getmeouttahere]

1. Did it have a PICTURE of a vagina? What's the big deal???

I drive by there quite often and obviously missed it.

It's not even laughable anymore how puritan this country is!

[mongo]

2. Blatent apostrophy abuse

It just sickens me...

[Spinzonner]

3. Been there (on Century Blvd), seen that

I guess the old Live Nudes sign just didn't make it with todays cu*t-throat competition for the sex-dollar.

[Merlot]

5. "Live Nudes" was around for about 20 years...

and always made me wonder what other kind of nudes there might be...or live nude what?

[unrepuke]

4. This was on TV news yesterday. One of the talking head ladies said

it would be more accurate to say "Vulvas" rather than "Vaginas".

I should like to point out if they did it that way people hereabouts would think it was a car dealership.

:7

[Spinzonner]

6. Is this turning into a Seinfeld script ...

[Fridays Child]

7. I guess a "Splenic Flexures R Us" sign is out of the question...

...for my colonoscopy business. Damn.

[Spinzonner]

8. Nah, there's always room for another a**hole in LA

[lunchtime]

9. I'd find that sign to be pretty offensive, I guess.

And I'm not even a Puritan.

[Ian David]

10. I understand how they feel

In my neighborhood we have a "Boobs, Butts and Beyond".

In the next town over there's a "Labias 'n' Things" across from "Genital Nutrition Center."

[Generic Other]

11. There's a Genital Nutrition Center?

Just what do they sell?

[Tux]

12. I love that sign

We need pics. "Vaginas R Us"....genius.