Subject: RE: [BoundaryPoint] Coors beer
Date: Mar 18, 2005 @ 19:14
Author: Flynn, Kevin ("Flynn, Kevin" <flynnk@...>)
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kevin Meynell [mailto:knm@...]
> Sent: Friday, March 18, 2005 12:05 PM
> To: BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [BoundaryPoint] Coors beer
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> All,
>
> I recently watched the film 'Smokey and the Bandit' again (after many
> years) and was reminded of the plot which is about a
> supposedly-illegal
> shipment of Coors beer to the Eastern US. Various sources suggest the
> storyline was based on the true fact that Coors was not allowed to be
> distributed in US states east of Mississippi until the late-1970s.
>
> Can anyone shed any light on whether this was a real
> restriction, or a
> figment of popular imagination?
>
> Regards,
>
> Kevin Meynell
>
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