Subject: Divided building<br/>
Date: Oct 30, 2003 @ 22:02<br/>
Author: Lowell G. McManus (&quot;Lowell G. McManus&quot; &lt;mcmanus71496@msn.com&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-927284460">Attached (and also at www.mexlist.com/bp/tavern.jpg ) is a photo of the State<br/>
Line Tavern on US 59/270 in the Ouachita Mountains.  The boundary is half way<br/>
between the two doors on the front of the building.  The left door is in Polk<br/>
County, Arkansas, and the right door is in Le Flore County, Oklahoma.<br/>
<br/>
Polk County, Arkansas, is &quot;dry&quot; (meaning that the sale of alcoholic beverages is<br/>
prohibited).  Le Flore County, Oklahoma, now allows the sale and serving of beer<br/>
and wine (only), but when this building was built, the only legal sale was at<br/>
&quot;package stores&quot; where beer was sold for off-premises consumption only.  It<br/>
could be sold but not served.<br/>
<br/>
This establishment was a licensed Oklahoma package store.  Beer was sold in the<br/>
Oklahoma side of the building for &quot;off-premises&quot; consumption, but the customer<br/>
could take it to the Arkansas side and drink it.  No law was broken, so long as<br/>
no sale took place in Arkansas, nor any consumption in Oklahoma.  As a whole,<br/>
the building functioned as a saloon--something that existed nowhere else in the<br/>
two counties.  The boundary made the divided building greater than the sum of<br/>
its parts!<br/>
<br/>
Lowell G. McManus<br/>
Leesville, Louisiana, USA</div>