PUBLIC DECENCY

OWELL BEACH BUST
circa 1930. Daring Santa Cruz women used to roll down their swim suit tops to avoid "tan lines". The police and city council didn't approve. They held this risqué demonstration to help draft new laws to keep the decency intact. The muscle guy is Hal Stuart, a lifeguard. The cop with cap, between the two bathing beauties, is Chief of Santa Cruz Police William Walker, who was later busted for accepting bribes from bootleggers and served time in San Quentin.

Moral police have been a part of society forever, in all times throughout history there have allways been someone who had as theire mission in life to define the fluxtuating word MORAL and thus creating a hierarchy were they put theire seemingly high standards above the standards of the others.