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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
We still have at least one that I have noticed in New Mexico: no alcohol sales on Sunday until noon sharp. The grocery stores are equipped with various screens, chains and ropes to keep the people away from the beer, wine and devilish spirits until the sun is directly overhead on the first day of the week. I am confident this accomplishes a great deal of good.

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Texas probably has the most convoluted set of liquor laws in the US. Because each county and "municipality" can pretty much vote in any buy/sell regulations they think their citizens would like. It has been a long practice of local churches and their ministers to rant and rave about the evils of alcohol from the pulpit while piling into their cars to fast track to the nearest legal sales after the service is over. Luckily with modern information services, that tradition is mostly being voted out and even small towns, like DeKalb, now can sell package beer and wine. AFAICT none of the much publicized and dreaded results have come about as a result of legalization. Drunks are still drunks, lowlifes still beat their wives, etc. etc.

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Originally posted by Bill/Oregon:
Well, Ram, I guess I had better not try spitting on the sidewalk lest I find myself chastised by local law enforcement.
This kind of thing always reminds me of my dear old Texas Methodist grandmother, God rest her soul, who said of one of my cousins: "He takes that awful beer."

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Originally posted by Kensco:
CHC

From Wikipedia -

History of Impact

The area that became known as Impact began as a 20-acre poultry farm owned by advertising businessman Dallas Perkins. Prior to 1960, liquor sales were prohibited in all cities and counties surrounding Abilene. The prohibition of legal liquor sales encouraged bootleggers to produce illegal liquor commonly called "moonshine".

Perkins capitalized on the potential market for legal liquor among the wets by purchasing 27 acres of land adjacent to his farm on the outskirts of Abilene and then pushing for its incorporation. Calling the village "Impact" after his advertising business, 29 signatures of local residents were collected and it was incorporated in 1960.

Soon after, the village's citizens - consisting mostly of Perkins' family and friends - voted 18 to 2 to permit liquor sales. Abilene lawyers immediately filed motions to oppose the town's incorporation, but a Texas Supreme Court ruling in 1963 upheld Impact's incorporation and its right to sell liquor.

Two liquor stores opened in Impact in 1963. The first month's sales were $463,000 (equivalent to roughly $3.5 million in 2012). With the newfound revenues, the village's roads were paved and lighted, garbage pickup was introduced, and a policeman was hired. One of the liquor stores was Pinky's, which was owned by Perkins and his associates and used a logo of a pink elephant, thus the name.

Impact remained the only wholly wet municipality in Taylor County until 1978, when Abilene voters narrowly legalized (by a 131-vote margin) liquor sales in the city. With that vote, Impact lost its reason for being. The liquor stores in Impact soon dried up and closed and the community became just another suburb of Abilene.

Impact has been and still is one of the smallest incorporated communities in Texas. Its population peaked at 61 in 1970 and had declined to 39 by 2000.

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In the 80’s we could not buy pots and pans on a Sunday!

We could buy everything else, but nothing to cook it in cuckoo