When I moved to Missouri in 1979, we still had state wide "blue" laws. Most retail businesses by law were closed on Sundays and even grocery stores were prohibited from selling things like cook wear or baby diapers on Sunday. We even had a state wide rerferendum on the topic and a big majority of voters, like 2 to 1, chose to retain the blue laws. Within a year, however, our all wise State Legislature banned the Blue Laws.
Bicycling on Sundays was much more pleasant in the days of the blue laws. The big organized rides routinely started at the empty shopping center parking lots.
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My greatest fear is all of my kids standing around my coffin and talking about "how sensible" dad was.