Television was once banned on Sunday

[MarcB]

In Connecticut it's only been within the past 5 years that they changed the law so liquor stores can be open on Sundays and grocery stores can sell beer on Sundays. It's also limited hours. 10AM-6PM. During the week its 8AM-10PM.

Some places in New Jersey (Paramus among other places) stores aren't allowed to be open on Sundays.

Some states such as Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Maine (I think) it is illegal for stores to be open on holidays.

 

[Mr Tony]

Cant buy a vehicle from any car dealership (new or used) in MN on Sundays
Cant buy good alcohol on Sundays. Liquor stores are closed and all you can buy at the gas station is 3.2 beer

Thats why Wisco has such good sales on Sunday near the MN border

 

[hamster]

In Richmond, VA in the 70's you could not buy any type of liquor, pet food or lawn furniture on Sundays. Those stores that did open opened late and closed early. TV was filled with electronic preachers. You could not pick up any sort of alcoholic drink and move to another table. You had to get the wait staff to move it for you. Clubs were all "private" but whites could buy a "membership" for $5 so long as you brought your own liquor and bought setups (at inflated prices). You could not buy items such as beach towels with alcohol brands printed on them. No browsing in state-run liquor stores either. You had to request, by exact name and size, what you wanted and the stores were open very short hours.

Back in the day Virginia had quite a few bizarre blue laws whether state wide or limited to a certain area of the "commonwealth" enough so one could write a book about it. So many stories from the past...."..I can't buy baby food on Sunday but I can buy a pack of Marlboro cigarettes !!'...."I was in Vietnam and fought for my country but I can't get health insurance in Virginia because I am a single man !!".."...so many stories !!

One blue law Virginia still has is the "independent city" rule which can make life..."interesting" since cities and counties are separated. Here in Denver the metro area's bus and light rail is served by RTD. If I want to hop on the train in Aurora and go to downtown Denver I can do that without any trouble even though both Aurora and Denver are in separate counties. Meanwhile Norfolk and Virginia Beach their buses are part of Hampton Roads Transit. So far so good BUT say I live in downtown Norfolk and wanted to take the bus to the oceanfront in Virginia Beach once the bus approaches the Norfolk/Virginia Beach line which BTW is nowhere near the oceanfront I have to get off the bus in Norfolk and actually walk into Virginia Beach and catch a bus there since even though the same company runs the buses in those two cities from what I saw in the past they can't connect meaning one can't take the bus in one city only for the route to end in another city and one stays on the bus for the whole time. Crazy !! This is one reason why North Carolina has seen so much growth in recent years while Virginia is..well Virginia. Northern Virginia is the exception to this but even there Falls Church has their own bus service but they are also served by Washington DC's METRO too.

 

[landtuna]

Happiest day of my life was seeing Virginia in my rear view mirror.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Tennessee recently started allowing wine sales in grocery stores, but they can only do it from 8 AM to 11 PM Mon.-Sat., and not at all on Sunday, like older beer and liquor laws, even in larger cites where beer and liquor (I think) sales are now legal all through the week.

 

[Radio-X]

Happiest day of my life was seeing Virginia in my rear view mirror.

I've been spending more than my fair share of time out in VA...I get culture shock every time I get off the SEA-DCA flight to do work out here...Costco sells no liquor here, public transportation is a joke beyond the general Metro service area, and...for the love of Pete...no pot stores!

...On the flip side, no judgement when I'm caught less than 25 ft from any "door, window, or air vent" with a stogie in my hand. Plus, not difficult to go to the pawn shop and pick out your selection of weaponry out here.

Radio-X

 

[CTListener]

I've been spending more than my fair share of time out in VA...I get culture shock every time I get off the SEA-DCA flight to do work out here...Costco sells no liquor here, public transportation is a joke beyond the general Metro service area, and...for the love of Pete...no pot stores!

...On the flip side, no judgement when I'm caught less than 25 ft from any "door, window, or air vent" with a stogie in my hand. Plus, not difficult to go to the pawn shop and pick out your selection of weaponry out here.

Radio-X

I lived in Arkansas for three years about 35 years ago. I used to pick up six-packs at the DRIVE-THRU WINDOW of the liquor store down the street from where I worked! Now that's something you'll never see in Connecticut. Wonder if they still have them there or elsewhere in the South.

 

[landtuna]

I lived in Arkansas for three years about 35 years ago. I used to pick up six-packs at the DRIVE-THRU WINDOW of the liquor store down the street from where I worked! Now that's something you'll never see in Connecticut. Wonder if they still have them there or elsewhere in the South.

We had a full blown liquor store (spirits, wine and beer) with a drive through until about 6 months ago here in Tempe ('burb of Phoenix). It was there for many years before going out of business.

 

[bm10k]

Here in North Dakota, There are Blue Laws still in effect. stores like Walmart close at midnight Saturday night and don't reopen until Noon Sunday
same goes for Liquor stores, restaurants serving liquor, and most department stores

 

[firepoint525]

Much the same thing was true of AM radio in Tucson in the 50's. I think I remember "church music or actual services" being broadcast until around noon on Sundays.

Stations near me still do that. Some here (on this board) refer to that as "dollar a holler." One station near me has religious programming all day on Sunday, and apparently makes enough $$ on Sunday to be automated for the rest of the week and still pay its bills.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Stations near me still do that. Some here (on this board) refer to that as "dollar a holler." One station near me has religious programming all day on Sunday, and apparently makes enough $$ on Sunday to be automated for the rest of the week and still pay its bills.

I figure some stations see their Sunday religious programming as a service to their community, but I don't doubt that some do it simply as another way to make a buck.

 

[FreddyE1977]

Generally the live remote of Sunday morning services from a local church are public service.
The preacher shows we are talking about here are all pay-to-play.

 

[hamster]

Stations near me still do that. Some here (on this board) refer to that as "dollar a holler." One station near me has religious programming all day on Sunday, and apparently makes enough $$ on Sunday to be automated for the rest of the week and still pay its bills.

The last radio station I had worked at did this. Their reasoning was that the money the preachers paid was enough to pay for the weekend part-timers on all three stations. Today its a bit different considering that the only live announcer all three stations have is a woman who works there 6 days a week but is still considered to be part-time. Outside of that there is nobody else locally.

 

[anotherguyTN]

Generally the live remote of Sunday morning services from a local church are public service.
The preacher shows we are talking about here are all pay-to-play.

I'll agree with that for the most part. But even the live services can be to make a buck more than a public service depending on the station ownership.

 

[danderson6500]

The NBA's Utah Jazz do not play regular season home games on Sunday. However, they have allowed some home playoff games to be played on Sunday.

They *have* played a few Sunday home games during the regular season, at NBC's request...

 

[hamster]

About the Utah Jazz I think there was a time when bands couldn't play their arena on Sundays. Back in the late 80s the band AC/DC was on tour and they were supposed to play Denver on Saturday and Salt Lake City on Sunday, I remember getting tickets for that however a few weeks before the shows the dates were switched with AC/DC playing Salt Lake City on Saturday and Denver on Sunday. Since I had to work on Sunday and couldn't get the time off I couldn't go.

 

[danderson6500]

I now remember a Jazz home game on a Sunday in 1997 against the Sonics that was on NBC. It was a regional game along with the Knicks-Lakers game. I still had my dish at the time, I remember seeing it. It went to overtime, and so did the Knicks-Lakers game.