Anaheim : Bar to Renew Plea for Entertainment Permit

A bar owner will get a second chance to ask for city permission to hire bikini-clad dancing barmaids.

City Council members Tuesday voted 4 to 1 to reconsider on Feb. 4 a request for an entertainment permit from Franceska Honigmann, owner of the Alibi, 2230 W. Colchester Drive. Karl Honigmann, the owner’s husband, said he and his wife were not notified of the November meeting at which the council denied the request and would like a chance to present their case.

Honigmann told the council that since the couple took over the Alibi last April, the establishment is no longer a “drug haven.”

“We’ve gotten rid of the drug pushers,” he said. “We no longer have prostitution or pickups in the bar.”

The request to allow two to three bikini-clad dancers, one at a time, from noon to 2 a.m., will allow the bar to eventually bring in exotic dancers, who would probably wear more than bikinis, he said.

Mayor Pro Tem Irv Pickler, who voted against reconsidering the request, said that “it generally goes the other way. It goes from bikini-clad to the unclad.”

“How does a bikini-clad girl make it a family bar?” Pickler asked in response to Honigmann’s remark that the Alibi’s clientele is now 50% couples.