re: What was the Louisiana Drinking Age loophole until the mid-90's?

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I think it was you could buy it at a store at 21, but drink it at 18 at bars, because they were private establishments. (I maybe wrong)

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It was odd, it was illegal for those 18-20 to buy alcohol but it was not illegal to sale to them... go figure this ended in maybe 1995.

When I used to come to Mardi Gras in college, on my schools dime no less*, in the late 80s we had no issues buying alcohol prior to being 21.


* I shot 3 position smallbore on my college team and Nicholls State had a huge rife match the week before Fat Tuesday. Our coach would always register us to shoot on Thursday then we would party in NOLA until Sunday morning when they had the awards lunch and then head back home. They gave us some amount of per diem for meals and we just sweet talked a waitress at a small restaurant into giving us a ticket book and we "ate" there all week and one guy wrote out the tickets for our whole time there so we drank on the college. It worked all 4 years I went, no one noticed the tickets from all 4 years were consecutive and the coaches didn't care.