City Wide Beer Ban Lifted......
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01-13-2006, 03:11 PM
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City Wide Beer Ban Lifted......
Heya Fellow FTE'rs. 
I was surprised to see this article for one the cities in Ohio. Apparently, there was a beer ban in effect for a long time.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/13/beer.ban.ap/index.html
I wonder if anyone here is from that city? I thought we had it rough in Oklahoma with watered down 3 point beer. I guess no beer would be worse off.
I was surprised to see this article for one the cities in Ohio. Apparently, there was a beer ban in effect for a long time. http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/01/13/beer.ban.ap/index.html
I wonder if anyone here is from that city? I thought we had it rough in Oklahoma with watered down 3 point beer. I guess no beer would be worse off.
#2
01-13-2006, 03:44 PM
Wow I did not think there were any dry towns in Ohio, heres acopy of the article from the link
Folks toast lifting of alcohol ban after 131 years
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Friday, January 13, 2006; Posted: 2:43 p.m. EST (19:43 GMT)
Bill Morgan paid $150 to be the first customer to legally have a beer at an uptown restaurant since 1875.
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- The central Ohio city of Westerville, once known as the "dry capital of the world," is dry no more.
A pizza parlor on Thursday became the first establishment in Westerville's uptown business district to legally serve a beer since 1875.
"Here's to a new tradition in Westerville," local jeweler Bill Morgan said as he raised his plastic cup of Budweiser at Michael's Pizza.
Westerville's temperance history dates back 131 years, when the town's saloon was blown up during what's known as the "Whiskey Wars."
The Anti-Saloon League moved its headquarters to Westerville in 1909, and the city became known as the "dry capital of the world."
Business and city leaders pushed for the serving of alcohol in uptown establishments as a way to compete with restaurants and bars at two new retail developments near the Columbus suburb.
Voters on November 8 approved licenses for beer and wine to be sold at Michael's Pizza and Pasquale's Pizza & Pasta, whose owner plans to start serving libations February 1.
The night of the election, Michael's Pizza owner Michael Evans said he would auction off the first beer, with the proceeds going to a local ministry.
Morgan, whose family has lived in Westerville for four generations, topped five other bidders to win the beer for $150.
"My dad said it would never happen," Morgan, 51, said as he prepared to drink the beer.
Voters in a portion of Westerville approved licenses to sell alcohol in 1998, but uptown had remained dry.
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Friday, January 13, 2006; Posted: 2:43 p.m. EST (19:43 GMT)
Bill Morgan paid $150 to be the first customer to legally have a beer at an uptown restaurant since 1875.
WESTERVILLE, Ohio (AP) -- The central Ohio city of Westerville, once known as the "dry capital of the world," is dry no more.
A pizza parlor on Thursday became the first establishment in Westerville's uptown business district to legally serve a beer since 1875.
"Here's to a new tradition in Westerville," local jeweler Bill Morgan said as he raised his plastic cup of Budweiser at Michael's Pizza.
Westerville's temperance history dates back 131 years, when the town's saloon was blown up during what's known as the "Whiskey Wars."
The Anti-Saloon League moved its headquarters to Westerville in 1909, and the city became known as the "dry capital of the world."
Business and city leaders pushed for the serving of alcohol in uptown establishments as a way to compete with restaurants and bars at two new retail developments near the Columbus suburb.
Voters on November 8 approved licenses for beer and wine to be sold at Michael's Pizza and Pasquale's Pizza & Pasta, whose owner plans to start serving libations February 1.
The night of the election, Michael's Pizza owner Michael Evans said he would auction off the first beer, with the proceeds going to a local ministry.
Morgan, whose family has lived in Westerville for four generations, topped five other bidders to win the beer for $150.
"My dad said it would never happen," Morgan, 51, said as he prepared to drink the beer.
Voters in a portion of Westerville approved licenses to sell alcohol in 1998, but uptown had remained dry.
#3
03-11-2006, 10:58 AM
I moved to Westerville my senior year of high school 1968 and trust me while it was dry no one was. It's where the Temperence League started and it even had a Temperence League Library there. It was kind'a neat. But at that time there were only 6k people leaving there. When I moved back there in 1989 it had over 30k people and was still growing but still dry. I moved from there in 1998 and was sad to hear it's no longer dry, it gave it a certain something no one else had.
