Blue is the color

Seems to be abit of a gloomy Month in the Coffee House!

Imagine dat ee!

Blue laws prohibit selling anything that is blue on Sunday.  Or that gives you the blues.  

Nah
It is a set of laws regulating what can be sold on religious days - Sunday being the main culprit.  

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_law

to my knowledge - blue laws haven't been "recognized" since I was a kid.  even then they were not "enforced" - but they were observed.  when I was a kid there was almost no stores open on Sundays (a few resteraunts were, but a lot of them weren't).  then the convenient stores started popping up and they were open on Sunday.

I'm thinking that by the time I graduated high school ('81) there wasn't any more "blue law" type activity.  some stores still closed on Sundays, but by that time it wasn't necessarily because of "blue laws" but because they were specialty stores which didn't do much business on Sundays anyway (like appliance stores, furniture stores).  of course, that's all completely changed today.  almost all stores HAVE to be open on Sunday to be able to be competitive.

even most Walmarts are open on Thanskgiving and Christmas Day now.

space_cowboy


Beagle when I moved to Dallas in 1980 there were tons of items that were taped off in grocery stores - tools and the likes... But yeah somewhere in the 80s they stopped enforcing them.  

My memory might not be 100%, but as you say, sometime in the 80's sounds right.

Beagle It could well have been 81 when they stopped paying attention to them.  I was just amazed at what they could not sell in a grocery store on Sundays when I moved to Dallas in mid 80.  

I thought you could only paly the Blues on certain days.

What do I know?

Beagle

bapu


I thought you could only paly the Blues on certain days.

What do I know?

from what I hear, not much....
 

You're too kind.


Most say, not a thing.

I know.

I know.

And I got a 23 on the color test to boot.

Here in NC.... not sure if this is still the law or not, but it used to be that you could not buy alcohol from 1AM Sunday morning until 1PM on Sunday afternoon.... a 12 hour period. 

That kept all the people from buying beer on the way to church and allowed them to buy it on the way home.

There is of course a perfectly logical reason for that....

First, if you wanted a drink, you had to go to church and hope they were having communion and used real wine.... of course not many churches round here use real wine..... it's grape juice, regardless of the bible saying it was wine that Jesus made and drank.  (side note: churches in Argentina used real wine)

Second.... if you could buy beer on the way to church it would set in your car and be too hot to drink when you got out so by restricting the sales to after church..... it was guaranteed to be nice and cool when you got it home.

Third..... all the tee-totaling ladies and gents in church didn't want anyone to have a good time while they were listening to the sermon..... (see reason # 2...I think it applies here too) basically.... no fair you getting a head start on me,  kinda thing going on....

It's still the law in Wake county where my Walmart* is that no alcohol can be sold before noon on Sunday.
You will usually see a passel of men with their beer waiting patiently near the registers every Sunday before noon.

In Ohio, as late as 1995 (when I graduated from College), you could NOT buy beer or wine or liquor on a Sunday. Period.  All day.  In fact, in High School, I worked at a Supermarket (Big Bear, if anyone remembers those) and we had to pull down barriers at midnight on Saturday and they didn't go up again until midnight on Monday.  Made for some very looong Sundays in College if you were a poor planner, I tell you what...

I was just in Ohio a few weeks ago, and I think that someone said that very recently that had been lifted for beer and wine, but I'm not sure about liquor....