Originally Posted by crockett

Ok, I looked it up. I figured for sure it was a health code thing. However it seems No Shirt, No Shoes, No service was in fact started in the 60s as a counter to popular culture being the hippies. It was used in attempt to keep smelly hippies out of their stores..

The reason why health code is thought of as the reason, is that was in fact the myth which was used to exuse the non service to no shoes & shirts..

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