Sometimes I can’t believe just how backward Pennsylvania is. As And on the 7th day, State Stores opened points out, Pennsylvania has state-run liquor stores, and they’re just now — in 2003 — being allowed to sell on Sundays:
Pennsylvania’s age-old blue laws, it seems, are finally fading away.Yesterday, for the first Sunday ever, state liquor shops were open and doing a fairly brisk business. Not since Prohibition began in 1919 have state residents been legally able to buy vodka for a Sunday Bloody Mary or champagne for a late weekend brunch.