Jesus Christ. I thought Jokelahoma (where I unfortunately reside) was bad.
Clubs and bars close at 2 (there are a few all night places but they can't serve booze period.)
Grocery stores/gas stations can sell low point/church beer (3.2%) 7 days a week, but not before 6AM and not after 2AM. No wine/liquor sales.
Liquor stores can't open till 10AM and close at 9PM. They sell liquor, wine, and beer. It's high point 6-8%, but can't be chilled. Also your typical domestics (Bud, Miller, Coors, etc) aren't sold whatsoever in high point here.
At the merging of the Oklahoma Territory and Indian Territory into inception of statehood (1907) there was a local prohibition law put into place for 21 years thanks to our first Governor Charles Haskell. However there was a "dispensary" system put into place which let people get a prescription from their doctor. That system fell into shambles by the 1930s due to everyone just getting bootleg liquor. Even after the 21st Amendment passed there was still heavy prohibition on a state level.
Finally by 1959 Oklahoma had repealed its state law on the sale of liquor, there are still some dry counties, just as there are in Texas and many other states with completely warped grip on reality.
1959.... Kennedy and Nixon were prepping to duke it out for the Presidency when Oklahoma allowed the sale of liquor. And even then it didn't permit liquor by the drink. That provision in the law didn't change until Ronald Regan was threatening the USSR from the White House in his fancy Stetson hat in 1984.
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