>>Utah has a law that requires restaurants to prevent customers from seeing bartenders make/mix/pour alcohol drinks? I realize that every state has a few really old outdated laws - but this one was voted on this week and passed - 24 to 2? Really?
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>>http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Utah+sticks+with+offbeat+requiring+Zion+curtains+hide+drink/8086989/story.html
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>Some of the worst drunks I have known have been Mormons. Your religion and church may profess one thing but it is up to the individual to embrace its teachings.
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>The first permanent white settlement in what is now Nevada, was Mormon Station, which at the time of its founding in 1850, was part of the Utah Territory. Today it is in a town called Genoa, not far from Minden, Nevada, just below Carson City.
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>Nevada’s oldest bar is located across the street and was built in 1853. They still serve liquor in that bar but I would not drink anything that came from that establishment.
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>When I last saw it the bar it was not in good shape. That was February 1994. The floor was giving in beneath my feet. The glasses looked like the originals and were never cleaned. The people inside were interesting. That is being nice. Just down the road a bit (about three city blocks) there was a pickup truck flying a garrison sized Confederate flag on a pole attached to the truck. A big sign said, “Sign up here for Klu Klux Klan”!
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>I think it is interesting how a bar was established across the street from the Mormon station.

How do the angels get to sleep when the devil leaves his porchlight on. - Tom Waits

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>Getting back to Utah, some of you may have heard of a folk singer/actor named Burl Ives. He was arrested in Utah for singing "Foggy, Foggy Dew". Imagine that!
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>You can travel throughout the United States and sometimes you may think that you may as well be on Mars.
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>Tom