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Message:: [QUOTE="LA_Geezer, post: 3306094, member: 89393"]The sentiment in this thread doesn't seem to understand that Blue Laws were local, not some sort of national thing. And, as they were local, they varied from place to place. As an 11 year old boy in Boalsburg PA in 1955, the Blue Laws had all but disappeared, but when Dad was transferred back to the Pentagon in 1957, there still were some laws still in place in the Virginia suburbs. Maryland had already all but done away with them by then. When I moved to Memphis in 1974, I was shocked to see that Blue Laws were still in place, as they were here in Louisiana when I moved here in 1980. Here in Baton Rouge in 1980, grocery stores were open, but hardware stores and barber shops had to stay closed. So, if you needed a hardware item, you either waited for Monday OR you checked out your local Winn-Dixie or Albertson's which sold a limited selection of such items. By the time that Home Depots and Lowes started showing up here, the Blue Laws were all but gone...except for beer and wine sales which could not happen until church was over at 12:30.[/QUOTE]