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From: gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett)
Newsgroups: net.cycle
Subject: Prejudice against bikers
Message-ID: <1135@proper.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Apr-84 02:23:57 EST
Article-I.D.: proper.1135
Posted: Thu Apr 12 02:23:57 1984
Date-Received: Sun, 15-Apr-84 06:20:05 EST
Organization: Proper UNIX, Oakland, CA
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Keywords: motorcyclists,leathers,restaurants,knifes,prejudice

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My friend and I (he also a biker) just came back from a restaurant
in Santa Clara, Won-Sing & Larry's Cantina (formerly El Torito),
on Lakeside Drive, not far from Marriott's Great America (and a lot of
other places ...).

At the reception podium there was affixed to the front a smallish
(6x8inch) pseudo-brass plaque, listing certain rules for `proper
decorum' (no shorts, cut-offs, tee shirts, etc...); among those
listed were `no motorcycle leathers ... or knifes on belts.' [!]

As I was wearing both (leather jacket and knife-on-belt), this bothered
me, but no one said anything and we were seated though not at a
very good table and served reasonably well.

(The Cantina is not exactly a formal dining establishment.  Waiters
wear aprons with arrays of buttons (of the advertizing/witty/political
type) and embarrass people who are so foolish as to announce it is
their birthday by loudly singing `Happy Birthday' to the tune of
Rossini's Overture to William Tell (`The Lone Ranger' theme).)

The rule is apparently not enforced, but clearly shows that (at least
at one time) motorcyclists were implicitly discouraged from dining
there.