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Gun Control & RKBA

Eleanors38

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12. In Alachua Co. (Gainesville), it was Ruby's Steakhouse, just over into Marion Co.

Reply to friendly_iconoclast (Reply #11)

Fri Sep 25, 2015, 03:42 PM

Sep 2015

(Ocala) where you could get liquor. Can you believe that hard liquor sales were verbotten in the county for the University of Florida until 1961? The mind reels.
When hard liquor went legal by vote, Ruby's (and others) went under.

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I know of three liquor stores situated just as you mentioned... friendly_iconoclast Sep 2015 #11

In Alachua Co. (Gainesville), it was Ruby's Steakhouse, just over into Marion Co. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #12

No doubt UF was a bastion of sobriety and clean living before that friendly_iconoclast Sep 2015 #13

Yes, I contributed 4 yrs to that legacy. Eleanors38 Sep 2015 #16

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