Especially here in Pittsburgh- you can go to the Church Brew Works, which is a brewpub in a building that used to be a church (and looks very churchy). I don’t know if they have sermons, though.
Pennsylvania has truly bizarre liquor laws. What I think of people who are in favor of these kind of restrictions on liquor sales, I probably couldn’t say even in the Pit. I can tell you one thing, though- anyone who runs on a platform of changing them has two votes in Pittsburgh, guaranteed (Mr. Neville knows that, if he voted against such a change, I’d make him sleep on the porch). I miss California and being able to buy nice wines in the grocery store.
Colorado used to (maybe still does) have a law that you couldn’t sell/serve alcohol on an election day until the polls closed. I remember playing in a charity golf tournament and coming in to a huge bitch session in the clubhouse because the bar wouldn’t open. The fundraisng auction was to be after the event, but most of the people left because of the booze thing. I’m sure the person who planned the event for that day got fired.
Anyone know if that is still on the books?
P.S. I always thought that was a cool law. Wierd, and kinda silly, but nontheless cool.
I think you misunderstand her. Her mind is so limited, that she believes everyone else thinks the way she does: she’s going to buy liquor and drink her Sundays away, so she thinks everyone else will, too.
We have sensible laws here. You can get beer, wine and liquor at liquor stores, grocery stores, convenience stores, etc. I haven’t seen it recently, but there used to be a store over on Hwy 30 with a sign that said “GUNS KNIVES LIQUOR”.
Well, now those of us who live in Richland County, but not the City of Columbia, can drive to your fancy little jurisdiction and buy up all of your beer and wine on Sundays. I wonder how long it’ll be until the county gets tired of giving all the tax revenue to the city and pass the same law. Or, get rid of the same stupid law.
Seriously, can you believe somebody buying a crapload of beer and Bacardi on Saturday night would give the newspaper a quote about how people aren’t going to go to church on Sunday 'cause they’re all sinning drunks?
Silly me, I thought “voting straight liquor ticket” meant voting for progressive candidates who favored doing away with antiquated blue laws, as opposed to those candidates who want to keep SC in the dark ages.
Rick Yeah, if you can’t find alcohol in Missouri at almost any hour of any day, you aren’t trying hard enough. Just goes to show what successful lobbying by the largest brewer in the world can accomplish.
Camden isn’t only 30 miles from Columbia, it’s also 30 years behind Columbia. And that’s saying something! (I’m mostly kidding, I love Colatown, especially now that we’ve gotten rid of Odom. But you went to school somewhere else, so you probably don’t care about that.)
Well, for the most part around here, that would be the gas stations with on-premises convenience stores, Shell, Chevron, etc. They sell a bit of everything else; soft drinks, snacks, etc., and may also have licenses to sell liquor. Sort of a blurring of the lines between a gas station and a Circle K/7-11.
Here in Nevada you can buy alcohol anywhere, 24/7.
I was always amazed in NYC that they still had those stupid laws…I can remember being at a grocery store to buy beer for a rooftop garden party, but they were not allowed to sell it until noon (I think) on Sunday. It was 11:55AM and I had to stand off to the side of the checkout lane for five minutes before I was allowed to pay and leave.
Then I had to schlep to another store to buy wine, because that couldn’t be sold in a grocery store! I mean, seriously people - you would think wine would be sold at a grocery store and not beer - after all, some people (like myself) never drink wine but use it for cooking.
At any rate, just struck me as odd that NYC had liquor laws that made Mayberry RFD seem liberal in comparison.
BTW, I can remember as a kid in Illinois that they were not allowed to sell any alcohol on election days until after the polls closed! Seems there used to be a problem of politicians going into bars, buying rounds, and then getting the drunks to march over to the polling booth. I always found the idea of herding a bunch of drunks to polling booths a rather funny image.
So what do they think of people in Charleston and Myrtle Beach who’ve had Sunday sales for a decade or so? I guess they’re heathens. THAT explains all the wicker furniture in the Lowcountry: it matches the handbasket they’re all going to hell in.
Don’t give a rat’s ass about the basketball coach my alma mater did have, assuming Agnes Scott had a basketball team, which I honestly don’t know. But Odom was such a nice guy! I mean, jeez, they were mean to him.