Blue laws began in Texas in 1863 and were still being passed in 1961. Many states prohibited the selling of alcoholic beverages on and off premises in one form or another on Sundays, or at restricted times. Also, blue laws of Texas did not prohibit most businesses being open on Sundays, but all of the restrictions made it impractical to open. Can anyone imagine when some Sunday shopping was a crime? If this blue law was still in effect today, we would all go to jail and cause a Jailhouse Rock with an 8.6 magnitude on the musical Richter scale like Elvis did back in his heyday.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Blue laws began in Texas in 1863 and were still being passed in 1961. Many states prohibited the selling of alcoholic beverages on and off premises in one form or another on Sundays, or at restricted times. Also, blue laws of Texas did not prohibit most businesses being open on Sundays, but all of the restrictions made it impractical to open. Can anyone imagine when some Sunday shopping was a crime? If this blue law was still in effect today, we would all go to jail and cause a Jailhouse Rock with an 8.6 magnitude on the musical Richter scale like Elvis did back in his heyday." in the context of "African American columnist Chris Tyson, as published in an article entitled "Never on Sundays", and published in the Huntsville Item, on 24 September 2016." to mean that wisdom is timeless.