Norfolk Lifts 1950s Ban on Tattoo Businesses
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From Times Wire Reports
A 56-year-old ban on tattoo parlors has been lifted in Norfolk.
The City Council approved an ordinance allowing tattoo parlors in the city, home to the world’s largest naval base. The ordinance restricts the businesses to a few industrial zones and downtown.
Sixty years ago, Norfolk’s East Main Street was world famous for its tattoo parlors, taverns and burlesque palaces. In 1950 the City Council banned the parlors. Tattoos were branded unsanitary and vulgar.
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