I mean, it's only a 20 minute drive. But I live pretty close. There's been times I've had a 35-40 minute drive. But, it's the principal. I'm an atheist. Why do I have to make adjustments for your religion?

Good news indeed. I had the same thing in Joplin MO decades ago where we went over into either Oklahoma or Kansas to get around the blue laws (prohibits sale of alcohol Sundays).

They had them when I lived there in the 80s, in fact the most restrictive alcohol laws of any place I've lived.

Blue laws aren't (or weren't) exclusive to red states either. When I moved to Mass. in the 90s, they had them too. The secret there was NH (the live free or die state). Then I moved to CO, and they only got rid of them a few years ago.

Beer:
3.2% beer could be sold from convenience stores, chilled.
Over 3.2% beer could be sold only from liquor stores and only warm.
If a particular brand of beer (say Coors or Miller, etc) was sold in convenience stores, it could not be sold in a liquor store. And vice-versa. Therefor, only kinda not-so-popular-brands like (Fosters Lager or Mickeys Big Mouths for example) were sold in liquor stores.

Bars and restaurants:
No liquor by the drink. You would bring your own bottle to the bartender. He would put your name on the bottle and you would pay for a set-up (the mixer, a glass, ice etc)that cost as much as a drink elsewhere. Of course, there were LOTS of bottles marked "Smith" or "Jones" in a LOT of the bars and you could just go buy a drink like anywhere else. But I was in more than one "raid" where they shut the place down for that and arrested the bartender.

When I was pre-18 yrs old, females could buy beer/liquor at 18, men only at 21. Females were considered more responsible. When I turned 18, the law changed to both sexes could buy beer/liquor at 18. When I turned 21 the law changed to both sexes had to be 21.

I never had any trouble buying liquor or strong beer from the liquor store as young as 16. It was harder for me to get 3.2% beer from a convenience store. Go figure.

As an aside, I was also never required to register for the draft. Yes, I'm male. From the above information you could probably stand a good chance of deducing my birthday.

But, yep, everything you say sounds familiar.

You couldn't dance in a beer bar. We had to hide in the back where no one could see us.

Could only drink hard liquor in private clubs. But you could dance there.

Everyone used to drive to Caney. Ks to party.

I was in Bartlesville until 87.

I was only there for 1 summer. Then I came up to KC to find work. Been here ever since.

My dad worked for Phillips. He was transferred from Spokane to Salt Lake to LA and then to Bartlesville. I stayed in Salt Lake to go to U of U.

So many kids got killed on that windy road to Caney, Ks. We used to play pool and drink beer in a cowboy bar there.

In July 2017, liquor stores were allowed to sell alcohol on Sunday for the first time

Interestingly, we were the last or close to the last state to change the DWI threshold from 0.10 to 0.08.

Go figure.

We did a casino gig in Connecticut and last call was early! And they told us the liquor stores closed at like 9? It's been a few years, I might be off....

if you wanted your drink on Sunday you had to remember to buy that bottle of booze or wine by Saturday...my wine store here in New Haven has limited hours on Sunday but I get them to deliver it and I get two cases (Chardonnay and Cab/Merlot blend) for a delivery fee of $10.

but the hours are odd, I can never remember, something like 1PM-8PM. I always try to get what I might need, I really don't drink enough to think about it much, before Sunday rolls around though.

Even though there is not a trace of THC in it and it comes from hemp since pot seems like demon weed here still. They still tried to take it away even though it is not trippy and the synthetic they tried to hoist on us was making people sick.

This state is nuts. Simply full of the need to punish someone who is not you. KWIM? Verne Miller, remember him?

n/t

The little store just over the county line was packed on Sunday. Sometimes the small lot was so full you had to park in the dry county. We nicknamed the store Tijuana.

That rule changed around 1980. Glad you are catching up.

And typical of Indiana it only took 20 years into the 21St century to get there....

from favoring Sunday sobriety to favoring increased revenues.

Being a very Republican county, it made sure the rule was changed to benefit the few. In a rapidly growing county the new rules also prohibited any NEW alcohol sales licenses within several miles of a church, school and a long list of additional establishments. The R's of course held all these licenses. I think it took 20 years to loosen those regulations.

The preacher-bootlegger alliance must have lost its grip in Indiana. That was usually the alliance that kept counties dry back home in the '50s.

The bootleggers and moonshiners in my area of the county had mostly aged out of the profession by then.

in almost every state

In April 1979,[60] McCain met Cindy Lou Hensley, a teacher from Phoenix, Arizona, whose father had founded a large beer distributorship.[65]

...

McCain set his sights on becoming a congressman because he was interested in current events, was ready for a new challenge, and had developed political ambitions during his time as Senate liaison.[65][74][75] Living in Phoenix, he went to work for Hensley & Co., his new father-in-law Jim Hensley's large Anheuser-Busch beer distributorship.[65] As vice president of public relations at the distributorship, he gained political support among the local business community, meeting powerful figures such as banker Charles Keating Jr., real estate developer Fife Symington III and newspaper publisher Darrow "Duke" Tully.[66][76]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McCain

Wealthy AND powerful

has been a big positive for Ind.

I joked that Trump really was making America great again. Pence was out! That joke bit me in the ass didn't it?

Now, if they'd just let people shop for cars on Sunday, too. Oh, well, clearly Jesus doesn't want you to buy a car on that day.

I wasn't aware of that. Could bars and restaurants serve alcohol?

Bars had to serve food however. And I don't know how long that's been in effect. In the last few years, they started allowing some carryout on Sundays due to the explosion of micro breweries. But it's all legal now, or on 3-4-18 anyway!

"Tax cuts for the rich are Shari'a law!"

"Attacking public sector unions is imposing Shari'a law!"

and so on.

That was mine. But good idea!

Booze and pot regulation means $$$$$.

We'll just have to see about pot revenue.... My hopes are pretty low. And I can't partake until it's the law of the land + a couple court cases affirming the right (due to job).

If you just have to have a drink on Sunday,
shop on Saturday.

Or someone comes into town unexpectedly. Or you get bad news and need a drink, or good news and want to celebrate. There's a myriad of reasons the least of which being someone else's religion dictating my behavior. I'm sure you can grasp that concept, no?

Alcohol is not an essential part of my life.

And if someone just has to have it,
there may be a problem.

My behavior shouldn't be dictated by someone else's religious beliefs. Period. Whether it be abortion, gay marriage, or even buying alcohol on Sunday. If you can't grasp that concept, I got nothing for ya.

Plan ahead.

Bye

If you want to be gay married forget about it. If you don't want prayer in public schools tough shit. If you don't want the ten commandments at your courthouse or state Capitol screw you. Yeah I got where you're coming from. Allow religioun based laws to your hearts content, just plan ahead.... Not really left of center are you?

My "beer league" games were on Sundays and on teams where there was a clear rotation of beer duty, the Sunday sales prohibition was not considered a valid excuse for leaving the team high and dry.

I don't drink anyway so it didn't matter to me, but it did matter to others

Not just that Michigan was subjected to blue laws, but that most of the counties in here in my Buybull Belt state ended them years before Michigan did. Perhaps even the whole state.

Indiana.

I'm an 62 year hippie Dad who lives in Southwest Florida . God I miss having some weed. I was never a heavy smoker but I could make a joint last the whole weekend.
Booze does not do it for me.

He said this passed b/c the Chamber of Commerce and lobbyists wanted it to pass and gave big time $$$ to politicians to make it happen. Dont get it twisted, IN is still in the deeeeep red when it comes to politics. Why for instance, talking to the same guy, he told me there's been a bill pass the state senate THAT REQUIRES PARENTS TO OPT IN FOR ANY TOPIC IN SCHOOLS THAT IS SEX OR SEXUALITY RELATED as opposed to what it is now when you have to opt your child out of it.

I'm not fooling myself. But I'll still take the downfall of a religion based law as a win. As new ones pop up, we've got to get them struck down too.

I live in Missouri, which is a REALLY wet state. I live next to a grocery store, and can just go over and buy any kind of alcohol I want any time I want, provided the store is open for business. There used to be alcohol blue laws in Missouri, and there are probably still some at the local level in some places, but not in my town, or state-wide.

As a victim of an alcoholic family I find no joy in the alcohol industry making more money off of people's misery.

It's about religion based laws interfering with others liberty.

You are no different then a NRA member that believes all teenagers should have a gun in the classroom.

I'm out. I don't do crazy.

Simple and stylish as hell! Bonus points for making you laugh!

I'm here all week! Try the veal!