gam@proper.UUCP (Gordon Moffett) (04/12/84)
@ My friend and I (he also a biker) just came back from a restaurant in Santa Clara, Won-Sing & Larry's Cantina (formerly El Torito), on Lakeside Drive, not far from Marriott's Great America (and a lot of other places ...). At the reception podium there was affixed to the front a smallish (6x8inch) pseudo-brass plaque, listing certain rules for `proper decorum' (no shorts, cut-offs, tee shirts, etc...); among those listed were `no motorcycle leathers ... or knifes on belts.' [!] As I was wearing both (leather jacket and knife-on-belt), this bothered me, but no one said anything and we were seated though not at a very good table and served reasonably well. (The Cantina is not exactly a formal dining establishment. Waiters wear aprons with arrays of buttons (of the advertizing/witty/political type) and embarrass people who are so foolish as to announce it is their birthday by loudly singing `Happy Birthday' to the tune of Rossini's Overture to William Tell (`The Lone Ranger' theme).) The rule is apparently not enforced, but clearly shows that (at least at one time) motorcyclists were implicitly discouraged from dining there.