Reading this thread I remember being in Bennington, Vermont as a teenager and my Dad telling me it wasn't like California as the "sidewalks were rolled up on Sunday". Most of the stores were closed - those that weren't were in violation of some ordinance, but others just ignored the blue law. It drove my Mom crazy to know that if she ran out of anything she was up a creek without a paddle. My best friend from CA came out to spend a summer with me and she thought she had landed on another planet - the differences were huge compared with Orange County, circa 1970.
I have to agree with the others that maybe...it wasn't such a bad idea?? Simpler times! |
