Is this type of liquor store just a liquor and lotto store? Is it seedy? I remember when my dad went to the “beverage store” in our town. It was on the main drag between some houses and restaurants and a mechanic’s shop. Granted they did have some candy and gum, and it wasn’t a problem for kids to come in.
There’s a true liquor store in the town next door (just liquor/beer/wine, no candy). It’s between the fire station and McDonald’s. Also not seedy.
But, this is the suburbs. Different town planning.
When I was growing up the local liquor store was a tiny wedge-shaped building, that continued to stand just long enough to show up on Google’s oldest Street View.
NYC has pretty high end liquor stores and even higher end wine stores. The best neighborhoods have liquor stores. Us New Yorkers feel no shame when it comes to acquiring alcohol for our personal consumption. Of course we do have our own seedy, ceiling to floor plexiglass, hole-in-the-walls where winos get their Thunderbird and Night Train, but a liquor store isn’t necessarily or even likely, trashy.
ETA: I first heard about ‘package stores’ when we spent a three day weekend with the kids in Hershey, PA. Locals pointed us to a package store a half an inch out of dry Hershey to find some beer.
Depends on where you are talking about - you’ll find a liquor store in almost any neighborhood in NYC Middle class and wealthy people need their wine and liquor too. Although those stores don’t necessarily have much in common with the places that sell Thunderbird and Mad Dog.
Yeah, from what I understand Sesame Street was specifically not supposed to be the best part of town. When the show was first created in the late 1960s the intent was to appeal to underprivileged inner city kids. The idea was that maybe they could make up for these kids’ lack of other educational opportunities by getting them to watch an educational TV show.
There is no requirement under the ABC Law for alcoholic beverages to be packaged in a bag when they are being taken out of a retail store for off-site consumption.
I’m not sure that had anything to do with alcohol - it was standard practice in NY to bag almost any purchase until fairly recently, The only time I think alcohol made a difference was that one single serving bottle/can of soda wouldn’t normally be bagged if that was your only purchase but one single serving bottle/can of beer would be in a small paper bag. But that was so if you drank it on the street or in the park everyone could pretend they didn’t know it was beer.
Who are the people in your neighborhood? In your neighborhood? In your neigh-bor-hood? Yes, who are the people in your neighborhood? The people that you meet each day?
The pusher always brings the smack (Provided that you have the jack) So if a junkie robs your store, It’s the pusher that the money’s for.
'Cos the pusher is a person in your neighborhood In your neighborhood He’s in your neigh-bor-hood! Yes, the pusher is a person in your neighborhood, He’s a person that ya meet When you’re walking’ down the street He’s a person that you meet each day!
I understand their motivation, but I think it would have worked better to keep the adults not seeing Snuffy. The message then is, sometimes, even if the grown-ups don’t see something, and even sometimes if they don’t believe you, it’s still true and you should still tell them. Best of all, I think, would have been for none of the adults to see him, but some of them to believe Big Bird when he told them about him, and some to remain skeptical.
Sesame Street is low-income but dignified. You’ll find places like that in any city.
That is absolutely not true. Almost every time when I buy a six pack in NYC I walk out just carrying it from the cardboard holder. Especially now that you’re expected to bring your own bag.
They get ticketed for not having a six pack in a bag? I know getting a ticket for an open container happens and I know it happens to black people in circumstances that don’t get white peoples ticketed, but I can’t even imagine what the offense would be if they had a six pack that wasn’t in a bag. I mean , sure the cops could lie and say one of the cans was open but that’s something different.
If the cop you run into is in a mood. My brother-in-law once got ticketed for a pint of Brass Monkey that was visible in his back pocket. He should have gotten the ticket just for buying Brass Monkey in the first place, but that is neither here nor there.
And they closed the package store… 