By Leah Rose, KALW Crosscurrents
The Jane Warner Plaza, on the corner of Castro and Market streets in San Francisco, is better known, locally, as the Buff Stop. That’s because of the nudists who can be found letting it all hang out on sunny days. Earlier this year, they caused so much controversy with area businesses and residents that Supervisor Scott Wiener penned and passed an ordinance, in February, ordering nudists to cover their private parts in public. But that hasn’t necessarily made much difference.
I meet a 57-year-old Buff Stop regular named Woody Miller at the plaza on a weekday afternoon. After about 10 minutes, I see Miller standing casually surveying the scene. Except for a pair of pink high top Converse and a small black sack that covers his man parts, Miller is standing completely naked while 15 or so people sit drinking coffee and talking at the red metal tables scattered around the plaza.
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