Life sure has changed in this country since I was young. When I was in my teens/early 20s Massachusetts was subject to "blue laws". That meant no stores were open on Sunday and no liquor sales except in bars and restaurants. Between 10:45 and 11:00 p.m. open Saturday nights package stores were slammed with business as we all bought "Sunday beers" for the next day to avoid the 100 mile round trip drive to New Hampshire to buy them on Sunday. Of course most of the time we ended up doing the drive because once you're drunk, the idea of saving beers for the next day seemed stupid. Do you recall Sunday beers? Anything similar?
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When I moved from California to Georgia in 1987 I had to face a lot of blue laws. The town that I live in now was dry back then but thing gradually changed over the years. we now have 4 liquor stores that are open on Sunday. I can remember going to a restaurant in Griffin GA and on the menu it stated a maximum of 2 drinks.
I had to do that in Arizona if we planned an early Sunday morning activity where we wanted beer. While it wasn't closed all Sunday, you couldn't purchase alcohol before noon on Sunday.
The first time I went to Tampa, I went to a sports bar on Sunday morning to watch football. They didn't serve there until noon. That only happened a couple of times in the early 2000's, haven't seen anything like that since.
Still run into no alcohol at gas station convenience stores in various states. Last I remember was Texas and Utah.
Imagine not being able to buy alcohol from 11:00 p.m. Saturday to noon Monday in a state that has a package store (liquor store in America) on every corner.
I have a condo in a “dry” Jersey Shore town. No alcohol sales at all. They even prohibit Byobs. Every summer night there’s a traffic jam of people going over the bridge to go out to eat, drink and buy booze on the mainland. Ridiculous. Also, somehow the recycle cans on the beach are full of beer cans at the end of the day.
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