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I tell you Roger,

this world is a changin' .........................and it's the Debbils doin'.

Ain't like the good ol' days when the sheriff had to get his beer from the lady's back porch so's he didn't have to drive two towns over on a work night.

lol The first time I got locked up was there, got drunk on a bottle of JD and blacked out, sideswiped 3 cars on the main drag then hit a fence, in my grandmother's brand new Buick Lesabre. woke up in jail and this old black man asked me, first time? I said yeah and he said it won't be the last. Later that day the Sherif talked to me, said your name Roger Hunter, I said yes sir then he asked is your Dad Roger Hunter, yes sir. He lol and said I had your Dad in here when he wasn't much older than you for bootlegging, I was 17. That is how I learned about the only time my Dad ever got arrested.

Did you fix all the cars you fugked up?

Better not dawdle serving that drink. Good way to get slapped with a pistol.

NO has had drive thru daiquiris for decades.

When living in Abilene back in time watching folks go to Impact was a hoot.

There was a lot of traffic every day but the weekends was special.

Jeez.

All over the State now?

Makes me wonder, are places like Impact TX still a going concern. Only place in the Abilene area for miles around to get booze back in the 70's. Well, maybe out the back of some bootleggers house if you knew one.

Went there to Abilene to visit a friend, 1975 or so. Drove all the way from SoCal, Meet him at the edge of town, drive to his house, say hi to his wife and ask, How about a pizza and beer for dinner? Reply was "No problem on the pizza but we're going to have to drive for the beer."

Being from SoCal where you could buy anything just about anywhere, 6AM-2AM I said "you're kidding me, a town this big is dry" He said, "there's 3 big Christian colleges here".

So out to Impact we go. What a hoot, a few trailer houses, I seem to recall a gas station maybe, and a package store for buying booze. And it was kinda busy.

WA and OR and PA were damn near as bad for awhile. No real booze except at State stores and so on.

You'd think it was marijuana or something.

Abilene went “wet” in 1978. The “Sale of Alcohol” in Abilene only passed by 70 votes. In a town with a population of over 100K back then. The year I graduated from HS there. Impact has been a ghost town for YEARS now.
And the drinking age back in 1978 was still 18.
It changed to 21 3 years later. The year I turned 21.

But Impact wasn’t the only place you could buy beer back then. The little town of Buffalo Gap, 11 miles south of Abilene was the only place you could buy COLD beer. At a little joint called the BBQ Barn. It’s still there. Impact’s beer wasn’t cold. They didn’t have refrigerative beer coolers there. But they sold lots of styrofoam coolers and bags of ice. The Pinkie’s Liquor Stores in Impact made a FORTUNE back then. They were reportedly “Mob” owned.

When living in Abilene back in time watching folks go to Impact was a hoot.

There was a lot of traffic every day but the weekends was special.

Never heard of the Mob being involved, but it wouldn't surprise me.

I looked into the history of Impact once, quite the story. Apparently pissed off the good leaders of Abilene some, as Impact figured out they could incorporate as a "town" or "city" and make their own rules outside of the big city and county laws.

Sad to here it's a ghost town now.