It is lawful for the 19- and 20-year-old exotic dancers to strip for customers, but a new Atlanta ordinance forbids persons their age to set foot in places selling alcoholic beverages, so they cannot legally enter their workplace, the Cheetah Lounge. [AP/WBBM]
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I’ve “heard” about facilities in Ohio getting around such ordinances by not actually selling alcohol – customers bring their own beverages and the establishment merely stores it for the customer in a cooler. The customer is provided tickets which he then exchanges for individual beverages. Of course I have no way of knowing if this is true.
Rather a different situation in Arizona, which of course has a history of resenting federal interference. At an Arizona bar a few years ago, the bartender looked so young, I asked his age. He was 19, and told me that when Arizona had raised the legal drinking age under duress from the feds, the state chose not to raise the legal bartending age. So, at the age of 19, you can serve alcohol in a bar, and even inhale the fumes, so long as you don’t drink it.