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From: mcq@drutx.UUCP (McQueerRL)
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Subject: Re: funny alcohol laws.
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Date: Wed, 16-May-84 12:06:20 EDT
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This information goes back many years, and may no longer be true, but
the Province of Ontario did have the "no standing up to drink in a bar"
law.  I recall my father talking about it from when we lived there.  They
thought it helped prevent barroom brawls apparently.  They also had some
odd hours of the day, something like 5:00-7:00, during which bars could not
be open.  Right around dinner time at any rate.  The result was that all
the drunks got kicked out of the bars, wandered around for a couple hours
and went back in.

There was also a time when the Province of Alberta had a rule that a woman
couldn't enter a bar without a male escort.  This was within the memory of
reasonably young people whom I knew in Montana in the mid '70s.  Sure shot
hell out of the idea of ladies nights, besides being chauvinist.

Many Southern states have variations of the "brown bag" idea.  One common
one is that liquor can't be sold by the drink.  You have to buy "package"
liquor, and bars will serve you your mixer along with those little
airline bottles.  I've seen this in South Carolina.

My own original native state of Pennsylvania has (at least as of two years ago)
only State-owned liquor stores and not even beer sales in the supermarkets.
The result was two places you could buy beer - in a bar (bar prices for a
six pack) or at a "beverage distributor" who sold only by the case - you
always bought beer by the case.  The state stores sold only wine and liquor -
exactly the same prices statewide.  I remember "self-service" liquor stores
being a new idea, and existing only on a limited basis - most of the liquor
stores required you to ask the guy behind the counter to go fetch what you
wanted.

				Bob McQueer
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