Topic: "Uptown" Westerville No Longer Dry

[noozer]

Beer finally downed in Uptown Westerville
Teetotaling tradition comes to colorful end with $150 cup of brew
Friday, January 13, 2006
Jim Woods
THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
 
Patrons watched beer pour from a longneck Budweiser into a plastic cup. The tab? $150. Bill Morgan didn’t mind.
He raised the cup with this toast: "Here’s to a new tradition in Westerville."

Yesterday afternoon in Michael’s Pizza, Morgan bought the first legal beer in Uptown Westerville since 1875.

More at:
http://www.dispatch.com/news-story.php?story=dispatch/2006/01/13/20060113-A1-01.html

[mrnyc]

oh...my...gawd. so it finally came to pass.

i worked in westerville for years and loved that history and tradition. sad, but as you can see in the article the people spoke and it finally fell to market pressures. that is truly a shame. ah well, now that they just dynamited their one big historical quirk westerville is even more just like everyplace else.

otoh, it is remarkable they hung on to staying dry for as long as they did.

[Magyar]

oh...my...gawd. so it finally came to pass.

i worked in westerville for years and loved that history and tradition. sad, but as you can see in the article the people spoke and it finally fell to market pressures. that is truly a shame. ah well, now that they just dynamited their one big historical quirk westerville is even more just like everyplace else.

otoh, it is remarkable they hung on to staying dry for as long as they did.

You know, we need someplace to replace New Orleans for the drinking capital of the US (if not the world).  Maybe Westerville should go to the other extreme.

[mrnyc]

wouldn't that be the sh!te? since they have so little experience with legal alcohol you never know they might go bar building crazy and turn into a town of raucous, crazed drunks-- lol!

ps--i dont think one strip made nola the "drinking capital of the us," but bourbon is a hell of a crazy street no doubt.

[Magyar]

wouldn't that be the sh!te? since they have so little experience with legal alcohol you never know they might go bar building crazy and turn into a town of raucous, crazed drunks-- lol!

ps--i dont think one strip made nola the "drinking capital of the us," but bourbon is a hell of a crazy street no doubt.

Not one strip, street, or city.  Not sure how the culture came to be down here.  Though I do think religion has something to do with it.

[Cincinnatus]

I had no idea Ohio had a dry town?

Anyway, I wouldn't consider it the dry capitol of the world. That honor would probably go to some city in Mississippi. Even Starkville, MS, a large university town has weird alcohol laws like keeping it our of the coolers so that they don't promote drinking and driving, etc..

[mrnyc]

oh come on magyar you cannot tell me there is (ok was--for the time being) more per capita drinking in nola or la than nyc. not a chance. there is certainly a drinking culture up north here too you know. every bar or club oriented street in this city is raucous, even post 4am closing. no province can touch the massive total scale of that nonsense. nor anyplace in the world i would say.

cincy-rise westerville was most certainly and without question the "dry capital of the world" because unlike other dry areas the history of the ladies anti-saloon league is directly what prompted prohibition.

[Magyar]

oh come on magyar you cannot tell me there is (ok was--for the time being) more per capita drinking in nola or la than nyc. not a chance. there is certainly a drinking culture up north here too you know. every bar or club oriented street in this city is raucous, even post 4am closing. no province can touch the massive total scale of that nonsense. nor anyplace in the world i would say.

cincy-rise westerville was most certainly and without question the "dry capital of the world" because unlike other dry areas the history of the ladies anti-saloon league is directly what prompted prohibition.

Which state more recently lowered their drinking age from 21 to 18?  New York or Louisiana
Which state has drive through Daiquari Bars? New York or Louisiana
Which city has the Drinking Museum? New York or New Orleans
I could probally find more published accounts about alcohol in NOLA than you could about NYC.

All I need to do page New Orleans Lady.

[PigBoy]

Which state more recently lowered their drinking age from 21 to 18?  New York or Louisiana

Since when does the federal government let anyone get away with a lower drinking age?  Or do you mean more recently raised to 21 from 18 (i.e., held out longer)?

[X]

Being dry doesn't seem like all that much of a big deal for a suburb.  It's not as if people in Westerville couldn't just go to the next town over and drink.  It would be different if Westerville was isolated.  Then that would indicate something about the lifestyle there.

[mrnyc]

Which state more recently lowered their drinking age from 21 to 18?  New York or Louisiana

if that is true, louisiana can kiss it's fed highway money goodbye -- that was what promoted evryone to go to age 21 for drinking in the first place. that would be an awful costly and dum move, esp today post-hurricane.

Which state has drive through Daiquari Bars? New York or Louisiana

whats a drive through? is that like a drive-by? heh. daiquiris? great 70's drink for the ladies. no thx, we have to-go containers from our bars.

Which city has the Drinking Museum? New York or New Orleans

we have a real drinking museum, its called mcsorleys, but some might find the museum of sex here more interesting.

I could probally find more published accounts about alcohol in NOLA than you could about NYC.

that mardi gras thing is just river ave any game day or the meatpacking on weekends or heck the irish riviera any day. also, you do realize ya'll have a quite a few degrees of magnitude fewer drinking establishments down there than up here in yankeeville? bzzzt.

[buildingcincinnati]

From Westerville News and Public Opinion, 9/27/06:

Another round of liquor options
Two supermarkets, another Uptown eatery and two gas stations seek beer and wine sales on the Nov. 7 ballot.
By ANGIE SCHMITT 
 
It's pouring liquor options again in what used to be "dry" Westerville

Voters in five precincts will decide separate site-specific proposals for Westerville businesses to add alcohol to their inventories.

The businesses asking voters to approve liquor options allowing weekday and Sunday alcohol sales Nov. 7 are:

More at:
 
http://www.snponline.com/NEWS9-27/9-27_weliquor.html

[buildingcincinnati]

From ThisWeek Westerville, 11/9/06:

Definitely 'dry' no more
Westerville voters approve 7 liquor options
Thursday, November 9, 2006
By LIN RICE
ThisWeek Staff Writer

Westerville voters moved the city further away from its "dry" status on Nov. 7 by saying "yes" to seven liquor options.

Two liquor options were rejected and the vote was tied on one.

Marc's Westerville, 111 Huber Village Blvd.; Kroger, 55 W. Schrock Road; Bope Sunoco, 150 S. State St.; and Tirado's Bakery and Cafe, 74 N. State St.; were seeking C-1 and C-2 permits, which allow the sale of beer carryout and the sale of low-proof mixed beverages, respectively. Mixed beverages are defined as being no more than 21 percent alcohol by volume.

More at:

http://www.thisweeknews.com/index.php?sec=westerville&story=sites/thisweeknews/110906/Westerville/News/110906-News-258092.html