This will mark the first time in 103 years that alcohol sales have been made legal in Allen County. 60 days following the official result from Allen County Clerk, Sarah Constant, will mark the official end of prohibition for the county.
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Macon County has had one tiny liquor store in Red Boiling Springs for a couple years now, but you couldn't buy anything stronger than beer in Lafayette until a couple months ago when we finally got our own liquor store.
Next thing you know they'll open up a POOL HALL!.
ReplyDeleteThen come the casinos...
DeleteThe slippery slope is, well......slippery. Next thing ya know they'll allow wimmens to go out in public alone.
DeleteThe old order passeth....as was said of scientific progress, it happens one funeral at a time. Eventually, the diehards do die.
ReplyDeleteHell in a handbasket, I tell ya.
ReplyDeleteI lived in the dry county. The liquor stores in the surrounding wet counties would pump a bunch of money into keeping the county dry to protect their sales.
ReplyDeleteI lived in a North Carolina dry county many moons ago. We use to take all the back roads through hollows, around Mountains, etc. to get to a wet Tennessee county. By the time we got back (3 guys) the 12 pack would be empty. Not really drunk, but it was a beautiful ride through God's county.
ReplyDeleteKY has about 120 counties, so it's not much of a drive to get to one that sells liquor.
ReplyDeleteI went to high school in Wayne County, Ky, which borders Tennessee. We would drive to Static, Tennessee on the weekends. They had a package store with a drive-through window right on the state line and they never checked ID on cars with KY tags. I always heard that the combined votes of the Baptists and the bootleggers kept the county dry. My dad was a Baptist preacher, so I knew that was at least half true.
ReplyDeleteI lived in Johnson County KY for a while, which was and may still be dry. We would drive to WV to get 3.2 beer. or go to the bootlegger. They always had cold beer (in the wintertime) and only sold Early Times in pint bottles. I always said that the only thing that got bootleggers and preachers on the same side was a wet/dry election. I went down a rabbit hole looking at Allen County, which led to an article on the Walker Line, which was a boundary dispute between KY and TN. Interesting stuff.
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