Posted on 10/02/2006 12:28:59 PM PDT by weegee
I heard awhile back one of the last dry counties in Kansas was actually allowing restaurants to serve liquor! The travesty.
Actually, the dry/wet elections are by precincts.
Littering is not manly..so Hold muh beer bottle till you get home then recycle!!!
Does this mean the end of the "private club" ripoff at the bars, to make a few extra bucks and circumvent the liquor laws?
Of course, your average New Orleanian is on a first-name basis with at least half a dozen bartenders by the time s/he turns 21, or in some cases 18, but y'know...
Good. I hate the nanny-state.
There are even some dry blocks in Houston (the Historic Heights) but in and around Dallas I found alcohol sales to be spotty.
When Lollapalooza played there in the late 1990s (final Ramones tour, and that was the only act I went to see and about the only I remember besides the Shaolin monks exhibition), they played a field near Dallas in a dry county. Anyone who wanted to buy a beer had to buy a "membership" to drink. Why it couldn't have been included WITH the ticket purchase, I don't know (then again, I didn't buy a ticket, I got on the list).
We still have to make some Sunday beer runs to the Ohio border here in Indiana.
Bans on alcohol sales on Sundays (partial or total) are commonly accepted. Even 2am-7am bans are accepted.
When will the government restrict the hours of tobacco sales?
That's right.
I live in a county in West TX that is 'wet' but our precinct is dry.
It's a 30-mile round trip to the nearest available beer/wine store.
I personally don't mind, as I drink very little, but I wonder if it came up for a vote if things would change.
Here in Dallas the "private club" thing is widely flouted and costs nothing.
I always viewed dry laws as favoring those businesses which set up their drive-through liquor sales just outside dry counties. I imagine they are the ones who most strongly favor the status quo.
There might be a restriction on selling the "membership" with the ticket because of the way the private club exception works. You may not be able to bundle the membership with anything else, such as permission to enter the event. I don't know for sure, though.
Impact and Abilene...best Texas example.
The reason for the separation is because the "membership" must be a completely separate item. It can not be sold with any other item. Liquor laws in Texas are some real doozies so I got out of the business.
Wet street, dry areas, license for beer, or drinks, or midnight, 2 oclock blah blah
In La., the grocery stores have liquor isles and no restrictions on Sunday purchases.
In Tx., liguor is sold by liguor stores, closed on Sundays.
In Tx., beer & wine sold in grocery stores and can be sold after 12:00pm on Sunday.
It used to be that Baptist sent their children to Hardin Simmons University in Abiline because the nearest known sin (a wet precinct) was 60 miles away.
The article mentions that sellers in Arkansas were among those supporting the ban.
I was trying to find a wine for my ex in Salt Lake and found to my amusement that the liquor sales in Utah are handled by state agents. All liquor in Utah is under state control
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