The Region - News from July 29, 1985

Posters showing a scantily clad prostitute--with a diagonal slash in a circle, the international symbol for “no,” superimposed--are displayed prominently in shop windows along Bakersfield’s Union Avenue. The anti-prostitution posters were prepared by Kern County Supervisor Mary K. Shell’s staff to give businesses a new weapon in a continuing effort to keep hookers off Union Avenue, a popular spot for prostitution ever since it was part of the main north-south route through central California. But have the posters convinced the hookers to go home or ply their trade elsewhere? “Some people think there is a little less visibility of ladies of the evening on Union Avenue,” Shell said.