A Reuters report from Los Angeles, April 22, 1994:

A nightclub has been ordered to close down its main attraction, a shower enclosure where nude dancers cavort for male customers, because the enclosure has no wheelchair access.

Los Angeles officials said the club discriminates against wheelchair-bound people because of lack of access to the shower, denying them an equal opportunity to work as nude dancers.

Ron Shigeta, head of the Disabled Access Division of the city's Department of Building and Safety, said the law is the law, no matter how ridiculous it might seem to some people.

"I can't argue one way or the other whether a disabled person would want to be up there performing. But if an able-bodied person could have been up there doing it, a disabled person should have been able to, also," Shigeta told the Los Angeles Daily News.

He said the shower was considered a stage, and a stage had to be accessible to the handicapped.

"They built something that the physically disabled cannot use. The law doesn't allow you to discriminate, and that's what it comes down to, you're denying people the opportunity," he added.

Before the attraction was shut down patrons at the Odd Ball Cabaret paid $20 to sit inside a frosted glass enclosure and watch a nude dancer bump and grind under a shower for about five minutes.

Other patrons, who only paid the $5 entry fee, merely saw the shadow of the dancer through the glass.

Shigeta could not be reached for comment Thursday but a spokesman for the Department of Building and Safety confirmed that the shower attraction had been closed down.

An employee at the nightclub said the club had no comment on the matter.

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