"Terry Pulliam Burd" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:34:52 -0700, Dan Abel > wrote:
>
>>The last time I was there (a long time ago, and it's changed since
>>then), the bars didn't sell booze! It was BYOB. Each bar had a liquor
>>store next door, and you'd stop and buy some little bottles before going
>>in the bar. The bars only sold "setups".
>
> Texas did the same thing back in the 70s that I know about. You had to
> be a "member" of the bar, as well, IIRC.
>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

I lived there in 1973 or so when they changed. Worked as a bartender during
the "private club" days. After that, owned part of a corporation that had
six bars. It went wild after opening up the laws.

Talk about stupid laws ......... while driving through Kansas, I stopped at
a very rural steak house. On the road like the Bates Motel. Law was that
there had to be a separation between the drinking area and the eating area.
The separation was a bead curtain, each string spaced 6" apart.

In Muskogee, Oklahoma, there was a building. Two doors on the front. One
door, IIRC, you could buy liquor and warm beer. The other you could buy
cold beer and wine. Down the center was a 4 foot high wall, so you could
throw a football from one side of the store to the other, but not walk
through.

I'm glad we have legislators to protect us from ourselves.

Steve