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the last honest business open at 9pm, selling courage by the bottle.

means a retail shop licensed to sell packaged alcoholic beverages for consumption off the premises.

from post-prohibition america, 1933 onward, when states scrambled to license somewhere other than a saloon to sell whiskey again, birthing the plexiglass-and-neon storefront we know today.

for instance

bevmo californialaunched 1994, grew to over 160 stores before folding into total wine

the party sourcekentucky megastore near cincinnati, famous for bourbon allocation drops

astor wines nycmanhattan fixture since 1979, 8000 bottles under one roof

garcia's liquorschicago corner stores that became citywide fixtures of black-owned retail

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