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When I was in TX, the state laws forced everyone to close on Sunday by making a list of items prohibited for sale on consecutive Saturdays and Sundays. They called these the "blue laws", but I think it should have been the "red Laws" Because this reeks of communism as the governemnt was legislating the barriers and workings of business. and who was behind this? The religious institution. After decades of trying, we the people finally got those laws revoked but it was not until the late 1980s. By then I had already finished college and moved far away.
It is not the position of the governement OR the church to tell a store owner when he can or cannot be open. This is Amerca. The land of the free. If A Person wants to work 7 days a week to get ahead, then let him do so.
It worked for me.
[quote=Lamplight;17139325]Here many places are open on Sunday, but most don't open until 11am or later. It's inconvenient for us non-churchgoers, but it's understandable from the business owner's point of view. There likely wouldn't be enough customers in the morning to justify paying two or more employees to be there because most everyone in town is either at church before that, or sleeping in anyway. That makes Sunday morning an excellent time to go for a walk or bike ride, because all the people who would normally yell, honk, or throw things at you are in church.[/quote]
In the West, Saturday and Sunday are holidays becoz that is how the establishment can force the Jewish and Christian sabbath on the populace
And this is not gonna change! And how weird that most of the rest of the world observes this too.
LOL, at "the establishment". Is this 1965?
More likely, rather than trying to force something on anyone, people keeping their sabbaths just didn't open their own businesses because they weren't working that day.
With some exceptions, most stores seem to be open on Saturdays and Sundays now.
More likely, rather than trying to force something on anyone, people keeping their sabbaths just didn't open their own businesses because they weren't working that day.
With some exceptions, most stores seem to be open on Saturdays and Sundays now.
When I was in TX, the state laws forced everyone to close on Sunday by making a list of items prohibited for sale on consecutive Saturdays and Sundays. They called these the "blue laws", but I think it should have been the "red Laws" Because this reeks of communism as the governemnt was legislating the barriers and workings of business. and who was behind this? The religious institution. After decades of trying, we the people finally got those laws revoked but it was not until the late 1980s. By then I had already finished college and moved far away.
It is not the position of the governement OR the church to tell a store owner when he can or cannot be open. This is Amerca. The land of the free. If A Person wants to work 7 days a week to get ahead, then let him do so.
It worked for me.
how dare you to air the historic follies of the Greatest Red state.
I remember when they used to have Sunday Blue Laws in PA. The local drug store was open Sunday, but they wouldn't sell you, for example, a pair of panty hose! Department stores, etc. - all closed on Sunday. The liquor stores still are closed on Sunday (hopefully they'll get those out of state control), but the beer distributors are now open (and doing a booming Sunday business). In my small town, the grocery stores only opened at noon on Sunday, which was inconvenient, but we now have a Super Walmart which is open 24/7.
I don't ever remember stores being closed on Saturday, only Sunday.
Sunday being the Christian Sabbath.
Blue laws were also on Sunday, not Saturday, the Christian Sabbath.
I used to live in a town that was 65% Jewish. There are Orthodox, Conservative and Reformed congregations there.
Some stores were closed on Saturday, simply because the owners were observant.
It was only a problem if I had a hankering for a good sandwich from my favorite kosher deli on Shabbat. There was also a good kosher/vegetarian pizza place in town that would close on Saturday. It was no big deal. They would also close for Jewish holidays.
Every Christmas since I was 16 me and my best friend (who is Jewish) have gone and eaten sushi for lunch at a beautiful place that overlooks the ocean. We spend the morning with family, lunch with each other and then back to family for the rest of the evening.
We really don't have a lot of places that are closed on Sundays where I live...but I think that's because there are Church services constantly happening so nobody 'misses out'. There's no real need to be closed on Sunday because you can go to church Sunday evening, Wednesday afternoon, Thursday morning, Saturday night and everywhere in between.
I used to live in a town that was 65% Jewish. There are Orthodox, Conservative and Reformed congregations there.
Some stores were closed on Saturday, simply because the owners were observant.
It was only a problem if I had a hankering for a good sandwich from my favorite kosher deli on Shabbat. There was also a good kosher/vegetarian pizza place in town that would close on Saturday. It was no big deal. They would also close for Jewish holidays.
I was pretty young when blue laws were in force, and back then I thought they were inforced to some how balance the disparity on the businesses. Jewish businesses were closed on Saturday, and to make it fair gov't would close all the others on Sunday, but couldn't really go that far, so they came up with the blue laws where you could buy nails but you couldn't buy a hammer, because the hammer required work, the nails didn't.
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