Mississippi knows whats important

[sldi]

I have traveled across hwy 82 thru Greenville, MS many times but today I saw something new. As you travel all over the US you see many roadside markers indicating places of historic importance. At the junction of MS 1 and US 82, I got only a second to see one of those markers with some important info. FIRST - Legal Liquor Store in Mississippi - Greenville, Mississippi - Superlatives on Waymarking.com , the sign looked like it must have only recently been installed. Its great to see such forward thinking community.

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I lived in Columbia MS during that period of time in the Turbulent Sixties!

In those days, prior to the legalization of liquor, Mississippi's average consumption of liquor per person was higher than Alabama, where liquor was legal.
If you wanted to buy booze, all you had to do was look in the phone book under 'Beverages' and if an address appeared to be in a county residential area, and if there was a Coke machine on the front porch of the house...you had found the right place.
Before legalization, the then governor, Ross Barnett I think, was having a state party at the governors mansion in Jackson. I guess the Hinds County Sheriff was not a big fan of the Governor, because he raided the party and confiscated all of the Hooch!!!!
The Jackson TV news a day or two later showed the Sheriff sitting on a street corner in downtown Jackson breaking the bottles open and pouring the booze down gutter drain! (No pollution laws in those days either!!!)
Those Were The Days!!!!!

[Cope]

John, is Ana Casey's restaurant still open?