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It's changed in recent years. Drive thru daquiri places were popular. Don't laugh these aren't normal daquiris, but super loaded down with hard liquor.
Even the open container law has changed recently. When I lived there you could have an open container as long as the driver wasn't drinking. Then it changed to just those in the backseat, I don't know about now. But in most places you can buy alcohol and walk around with an open container, I never understood places that banned that.

When I was younger you could go to Miss. and get beer out of vending machiens outside of stores at the beach.

Here in TX you can't buy beer and pizza on the same premises but you can buy any alcohol you want at a drive thru only liquor store.

The county I'm in has three small towns. First town can have bars but no stores. Second town can have stores but no bars. Third town has both.

Those knotheads are something else! There's been riots and shootouts and all sorts of "wildwest" type stuff over there. Never seen anything like it anywhere on the continent. You can always tell when it's "injun payday". Hords of them walking down the highway in rush hour traffic, regularly a pretty desolate stretch of road. Each car loaded to the gills with carpoolers. Thousands of dollars worth of beercans in the ditch and a truckload of bottles, a supply re-upped every month. You could make a nice living driving a commuter bus, charge them a 12 pack each for the service cuz they got no money... Park a refigerated box truck on the "free" side of the state line so your bus doesn't fill up with payments received. Better be a retired Brinks or WellsFargo truck though... with armed guards...

It's jsut crazy. Federal "stimulus" money generates much of the local economy on the free side. And on the not free side lies the most poverty stricken and repulsive area I've ever visited. It's gut wrenching.


Never encountered the drive through and buy a drink in open container. Belligerently ridiculous... Wonder how many states still have drive through liquor stores? Just like a drive through bank or drive through choke and puke and it was actually pretty handy on payday. Down on the local gut bomb run all 3 were in the same block. Cash your paycheck at drive through bank, pull into your choice of gut bombs and grab supper, then drive through the liquor stop for beverages of whatever sort and ice. After punching the clock it was only 3 quick stops with no worries about parking, and you're ready to head for the hills for a couple hours booze cruise and watch the sunset.

Bachelor days...

When I was in Oxford, MS going to school at Ole Miss, beer was legal but stores were not permitted to refrigerate it. (I couldn't make this up.!) In the fall and winter, smart store owners would store the beer outside in a locked room and it would be nice and cold. In the summer, you better have a big cooler and lots of ice.

Against the law to drin and drive-- but the bars in Florida used to havr drive thru windows.
Blue law was you couldn't buy alchol before noon on Sunday.

Go Baylor!

Still can't buy "adult beverages" before noon on Sunday here.

Or West Virginia as I recall.

But I think PA's "Separation of Beer and Booze" is still the goofiest. Not as purely evil as no booze at all, but goofy.

Not really a dumb law as much as one of life's little ironies, but as long as I can remember the town where Jack Daniels is produced, Lynchburg, Tenn., is located in a dry county.

In Texas, we could buy beer, but no liquor. We asked where to buy liquor, the answer "at the State Beer Store".

KS had some stupid laws. A friend owned a small liquor store in years past. He couldn't have a beer clock, because it was a "moving sign".

Best Texas funny. Why do you always take two Baptist's fishing with you? If you only take one, he'll drink all your beer.

In Idaho, we can buy beer about anywhere and wine in most grocery stores. Hard stuff has to be sold in state liquor stores. We used to have a drinking age of 19 for beer and 21 for wine and liquor. Carter's illegal highway funding schemes took care of that. Now it's 21 for beer, too.

The needing to be a club member to drink is pretty common in some of the southern states, but in TX - especially West Texas - it's a hoot. Some of the memberships cost a few bucks, others are free. At one the clubs - Loraine I believe - you need a sponsor to obtain membership, and the person charging the admittance fee sponsors you, silly really. I was entertaining customers in Kingsville recently and had to get sponsorships for all of us, no problem, the barmaid obliged.

Did my tech training at Sheppard AFB in Wichita Falls, TX in 1964. Local bars could only sell beer and wine. You could however bring your own booze and they could sell you the set up (Glass/ice/mix). Private clubs were the only place that you could get a mixed drink over the bar.

i'm going to tell my girlfriend that we need to check the lick her laws the next time we hook up

Is it still Beer and Booze up to 12 at night then after 12 only booze, in OK City?

In Texas, alcohol sales are determined by the precinct you live in, which is a subdivision of the county, so depending upon what street you live on, you might have to walk across the street.

In those dry precincts, you can drink at a restaurant if you join the club. Cost to join the club--it's free, and all they do is right down your DL number. You could buy these gold cards that allowed you "drink at will" even in dry precincts. I don't know if those are around anymore.

Beer and wine is sold everywhere, liquor is sold in liquor stores. I guess beer and wine aren't alcohol somehow, and can be bought with your potato chips. You can't buy beer/wine until 12:00PM on Sundays, so stock up before the football games on Sunday. No liquor sales on Sunday, so just go buy then drink beer/wine instead.

In Wyoming we don't have any 3.2 beer, or any beer or alcohol in grocery and convenience stores, but we have drive up windows where you can buy booze from liquor stores without even getting out of you car. It's illegal to open it though, recently we joined the rest of the US in that the passenger can't even open one.

Next door in Nebraska, they don't have the drive ups at liquor stores -- well they do sort of, you can drive up to a door instead of a window and step in and buy something. Or they may step out and see what you want. It's kind of the same thing except for the person handing it to you doesn't get to hand it through a window. They also get booze in the grocery stores over there.

Here in Kingman we have drive thru and there used to have one in "Bullhead City"

Across the "River" Free Beer and Booze 24 7!

When I lived in Houston, TX in 1981, you couldn't have more than one open container in a vehicle per occupant ..... empties had to go out the window. I was shocked when my boss told me that traffice was bad one day, so he was going to pickup a six-pack for the commute home.