Home to world's largest naval base lifts 56-year-old ban on tattoo parlours

[RedHot25]

The end of the posting hattrick for me - 3 in a row...

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/060920/K092010U.html

NORFOLK, Va. (AP) - A 56-year-old ban on tattoo parlours has been lifted in this navy town. City council approved an ordinance Tuesday allowing tattoo parlours in certain parts of the city, home to the world's largest naval base. The ordinance restricts parlours to a few industrial zones and downtown.

[Ironhorse]

Makes you wonder why they banned tattoo parlours in the first place...

Edit: never mind:

Tattoos were branded unsanitary, vulgar, even "cannibalistic."

Tattoos and sailors...