Why do liquor stores have red dots

Awesome shot as well. Do you teach any photography classes? Mike - Cute! Caroline - Thanks for the tip! I hadn't seen it. Linda, Jacob - I learn things myself when I google around to post a picture.

No, I am not a photographer instructor - still a learner. In the early s you could see stores that had the dots all over them. I used to get excited and cry, "Look, another polka dot store! Commercial signs have come a long way away from the 19th century to the present. Till the last century most of these shops had the simple words "wine shop" or "wine store" or at the most the name of a popular brand.

I lived in a dry county down in Arkansas. That was different.. We'd go over to Texas to get real beer because even tho Oklahoma was closer they only had "near beer. Great post. I grew up in MA where the sale of alcohol was illegal on Sunday, we used to have to drive to a neighboring state. Where I live now, in the Midwest, alcohol can be purchased on Sunday but only after noon. Throwback to puritanical times, I think. Your facts are so much LESS interesting than what was explained to me by some good old boys, way back when.

They told me it was related to the other red light industry- and the use of these products tended to have folks mosey on over to the other one. Darned- another great fairy tale debunked. I had no idea. I don't drink, but I've been in liquor stores because they tend to have convienence items, too. Great place to get ice for those times when the refrigerator is broken. But why did owners start painting those red dots on them in the first place? The amendment allowed each state to determine its own alcohol laws, and only a single Southern state—Louisiana—allowed liquor sales immediately upon repeal.

Legal drinking returned to the rest of the South in fits and starts as each states legalized alcohol in all sorts of patchwork ways. South Carolina allowed the retail sale of liquor to return in , but there were constant political challenges from those who wanted to tightly restrict the industry.

In , the Legislature passed a measure that strictly limited advertising by liquor stores. They could have no neon signs, no price advertising, and no bottles displayed in their front windows. Within a few years, though, people started noticing big red dots painted on the sides of liquor stores around the state.

Instead, its origins trace back to the legal dodges and twists back in the South Carolina Dispensary era. Liquor Expand submenu Liquor Collapse submenu Liquor. Your cart. Close Cart. Where Original Package Stores Started In , the Supreme Court ruled that the government could not confiscate property that was legally imported into any state. Leave a comment Name.