"Lou Decruss" > wrote in message
...
> On Thu, 9 Oct 2008 12:29:55 -0400, "jmcquown" >
> wrote:
>
>>Dan Abel wrote:
>>> In article >,
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Dan Abel wrote:
>>>
>>>>> Every
>>>>> grocery store here sells beer, wine and distilled spirits. Even the
>>>>> little convenience store near me, which has an extremely limited
>>>>> selection of food, has beer, wine and distilled spirits.
>>>
>>>> No offense Dand but California is one of those states where they sell
>>>> everything everywhere
>>>
>>> No offense. Laws are weird in the US. I understand that in some
>>> countries in Europe you can beer at McDonalds. Other countries, you
>>> can't buy any booze of any kind anywhere.
>>>
>>It always tickles me there are such things as "dry" counties. I've gone
>>to
>>Jonesboro Arkansas a couple of times and you can buy memberships at
>>restaurants for $5 a year and drink like a fish if you so desire.
>
> Yes, liquor laws can be rather silly. Chicago has little ethnic
> "clubs" scattered around in older neighborhoods. They are exempt from
> liquor laws and can serve 24/7. The ones I know of are Italian and
> supported mainly by gambling. They move around a lot because they get
> busted for the gambling and the machines get confiscated. You can't
> just walk in off the street. You must me a member or a guest. It's
> an interesting lifestyle. The guy I know who makes part of his living
> running clubs has been in jail several times. Liquor is never an
> issue. It's just the gambling. When he gets busted the outfit takes
> care of things and he's up and running in a new place in a month or
> so. I haven't seen him in a few years but I think he went back to
> Italy to retire. He owned a nice home there too thanks to the money
> he made here.
>
>>And the
>>hotels have bars that are allowed to sell booze. Yet you can't buy so
>>much
>>as a beer in any store. Drive 20 miles across the county line and the
>>first
>>thing you encounter (before there's even a gas station) is a liquor store.
>>LOL
>>
>>One place John and I went (I think it was in Illinois but I'm not sure
>>now)
>>there was a restaurant where they could sell drinks on one side of it but
>>not on the other side. It was built straddling a county line. Go figure.
>
> I've never heard of that in Illinois but it could be. 30 years ago
> when things were wild and crazy my group of friends found a few places
> in unincorporated Cook County that had 6am to 5am licenses. A few
> minutes before 5am drinks were collected. At 5am the doors were
> locked and you couldn't leave. Joints were smoked and lines of coke
> were snorted freely at the bar. And of course drinks were served. At
> 6am there was an announcement, doors were opened and things were back
> to "normal."
>
> If you go one county west, even to this day one city has a one per
> person drink limit. So if you want a shot and a beer you have to
> drink the shot and return the glass before you can have the beer.
>
> Lou

Lou: Vermont is like that. You have to give the shot glass back to get the
beer.
South Carolina has a 'bottle bill' law. ONLY airline bottles in bars. NO
liquor on Sundays, UNLESS the restaurant or bar has a special liquor
license-which they all do.
New York-no liquor stores open on Sundays-UNLESS it was jewish owned and
they were closed on Saturdays (recently repealed).