State College Beer Distributors Serve a Desperate Thirst - But Not Well Enough

In a small community nestled in the center ofthey are still only allowed to be open from Noon until
Pennsylvania, there lies a town where the partying5:00 PM, and that's if they've paid for a
never seems to cease. Home of the Penn StateSunday-Sales-Permit.
Nittany Lions, State College, PA has climbed theSo maybe it's no surprise that while several of the
charts the last few years to become the numberdistributors in State College, PA are some of the
one party town in all of America.larger businesses in the entire county, they choose
With so much partying, you'd probably expect to findto remain closed on Sundays and lock up early most
a greater amount of beer distributors around, but inother nights.
fact there are just a handful of them. What's evenIn fact, there is only one beer distributor in all of
stranger about this "party school" town is that theState College that stays open until the
majority of these beer selling places are only openlegally-imposed limit of 11:00 PM every night, and that
until about 7:00 PM daily.seems partially due to the fact that they are the
Much of this odd trend can be attributed to the "Bluenewest of all the beer stores in the area.
Laws" that are still left in the state of Pennsylvania.So while Penn State may have the biggest party
These laws were put in place during the 1800's inschool in all of America, you may want to plan ahead
order to establish some type of moral policy on theif you are figuring on getting some drinks in this
citizens of these states in terms of respecting theantiquated drinking town. Then again, maybe the
holy days of the local religions. For instance, it wasn'treason the parties are so wild is because they have
until just a few years ago that beer distributors wereto start so early.
allowed to operate and sell on Sundays. Even now