Are you this old?

[SARG]

I have vague memories of blowing up the milk box on the front porch with an "ash can".

 

[2LaneCruzer]

What happened to all those curls 2Lane?

 

[Oaktree]

We had the blue laws in Texas. I can remember when the Dallas Area only had two "malls" and of course they were closed up on Sundays.

When the Mall of N.H. in Manchester opened in 1977 (?), local Sunday closings were a thing of the past. However, a couple of the anchor stores (Filenes, and Lechmere as I recall) were headquartered in Mass. which did not allow Sunday sales, and their N.H. stores were closed as well. This didn't last long, apparently there was a clause in the lease that stated that if the mall was open, all stores had to be open too.
There was a bank that had a branch in that mall, and while they were able to hold off for a while longer they too ended up being open Sundays, albeit with shorter hours.

I live in a dry County. It's the biggest joke though since you can get booze at the majority of restaraunts in town as well as the couple bars, VFW, and moose lodge.

Never understood the aversion to alcohol in the Bible belt, the Bible is full of references to drinking wine.

 

[Dftodd]

When the Mall of N.H. in Manchester opened in 1977 (?), local Sunday closings were a thing of the past. However, a couple of the anchor stores (Filenes, and Lechmere as I recall) were headquartered in Mass. which did not allow Sunday sales, and their N.H. stores were closed as well. This didn't last long, apparently there was a clause in the lease that stated that if the mall was open, all stores had to be open too.
There was a bank that had a branch in that mall, and while they were able to hold off for a while longer they too ended up being open Sundays, albeit with shorter hours.

Never understood the aversion to alcohol in the Bible belt, the Bible is full of references to drinking wine.

I had a discussion with a lady over the recent vote a couple years ago on whether to make our county wet.

Ladies one focus was how it kept booze out of kids hands

I asked how many of her kids are grown? She replied that two are in college!!!

I asked "Do they drink??"

She said yes, her oldest drinks now since she is 21!!

I asked "Did she drink before turning 21??" She said "nope, it was illegal for her to drink!!!!"

I said "She was drinking before turning 21!!! She just hid it well!!!".

She said she couldn't have been drinking because we live in a dry County!!!

I asked if her daughter ever went to Morrilton or maumelle, maybe cabot???? What about Little Rock, or North Little Rock????

She said yes, she has friends in those areas!!!!

I asked her " are those areas wet or dry????"

I was then told I was gonna burn in h**l for wanting our county to be wet

 

[JethroB]

I had a discussion with a lady over the recent vote a couple years ago on whether to make our county wet.

Ladies one focus was how it kept booze out of kids hands

I asked how many of her kids are grown? She replied that two are in college!!!

I asked "Do they drink??"

She said yes, her oldest drinks now since she is 21!!

I asked "Did she drink before turning 21??" She said "nope, it was illegal for her to drink!!!!"

I said "She was drinking before turning 21!!! She just hid it well!!!".

She said she couldn't have been drinking because we live in a dry County!!!

I asked if her daughter ever went to Morrilton or maumelle, maybe cabot???? What about Little Rock, or North Little Rock????

She said yes, she has friends in those areas!!!!

I asked her " are those areas wet or dry????"

I was then told I was gonna burn in h**l for wanting our county to be wet

I use to use a similar tact on my mom when I was underage and drinking. “But mom it’s Sunday, you can’t buy beer on Sundays”.

We lived about an hour’s drive from the Florida line, so if you forgot to stock up on Saturday for Sunday it was an excuse for a road trip. And beer was cheap in Florida back then.

 

[Dftodd]

I use to use a similar tact on my mom when I was underage and drinking. “But mom it’s Sunday, you can’t buy beer on Sundays”.

We lived about an hour’s drive from the Florida line, so if you forgot to stock up on Saturday for Sunday it was an excuse for a road trip. And beer was cheap in Florida back then.

Nearest place i listed off to her that sold booze was 10 miles away from where we were standing. Come to find out she lived about 5 miles from the closest wet area. Do you honestly think 5 miles is gonna be a deterent for a kid ???

 

[Oaktree]

I use to use a similar tact on my mom when I was underage and drinking. “But mom it’s Sunday, you can’t buy beer on Sundays”.

We lived about an hour’s drive from the Florida line, so if you forgot to stock up on Saturday for Sunday it was an excuse for a road trip. And beer was cheap in Florida back then.

When I was a teen back in the 60s, most states' drinking age was 21, but it was 18 in N.Y. It was a bit of a drive, but a lot of kids would go over there Saturday nights, there were a couple dive bars just over the state line and probably 2/3 of the clientele were from N.H. or Vt.
Most of the clubs only looked at the year on your license when they'd card you at the door. My birthday's in December, so I had little trouble getting in when I was 20. Funny thing, about 2 weeks before my birthday the bouncer at a place I'd often go looked at the actual date and noticed I wasn't quite 21 yet. Since I was enough of a regular that he recognized me, he just said "be careful" and let me in. Imagine that happening today!

Figures, N.H. dropped it's drinking age to 18 a couple months after I turned 21. Not that I was ever a big drinker/partier, but that's kinda what you did then.

 

[Pixguy]

When I grew up in Mass they raised the age a year for three years. Luckily for me my birthday was such I was always ahead of the date it was changed by but my buddy could legally drink for 2 weeks and then not for 50. Back in the 70's, the cops would just take the booze from ya if they caught you with it in your car. One dumped it out in front of us and another took a case of beer but we could go get it with our parents at the station. I'm sure they got a lot of free booze that way.

 

[Pixguy]

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Great shot! SJ should trade you in!

That was 8 yrs ago. Still have them curls? btw, you had more hair then than I do at 60.

 

[tallyho8]

I remember when it was illegal to sell alcohol on voting day here until after the polls closed. Now you can buy alcohol here 24/7 at any gas station, bar, grocery, pharmacy or drive through Daiquiri shop.

My input on dry counties: I've driven through many dry counties in Arkansas over the years, with most of them being in fairly rural areas and noticed that when you see slums, they are usually in areas that are not dry. It seems like some of these types of people don't want to live in dry counties. Of course, there are exceptions.

In Louisiana the drinking age was 18 and it was not illegal to drink while driving until 1984 when the National Minimum Drinking Age Act was passed.